01 December 2011

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KKSblog.com - There is no life without the Bhagavatam

There is no life without the Bhagavatam

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 02:52 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, 2011) Lecture – C.c Adi 7.20-21


There is absorption in chanting and hearing Srimad Bhagavatam. If we have not read the Srimad Bhagavatam (there are many devotees in our movement who have not read the Srimad Bhagavatam) then that means that you have given up the fight! It also means that you have not fulfilled your duty….that means that you are below the minimum. Sometimes they speak about being below the poverty level. You are below the poverty level….not even the minimum.

Without the Bhagavatam, you cannot live; without the Bhagavatam you are dead; without the Bhagavatam you are a ghost. It's like that, because the Bhagavatam is the very foundation of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement!

We see the evidence in the Caitanya-caritamrta, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu presents the principle evidence which is also in the Bhagavatam….all in his preaching, and we see that the whole lifestyle that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was teaching is found in the Srimad Bhagavatam. Without Srimad Bhagavatam one cannot live! It is like that, what is there without it?

Just preach!

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 02:19 PM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, 2011) Lecture – C.c Adi 7.20-21

Our security is our purity! That is our security. That is what we have. If the purity is there, then don't worry since it will be taken care of….devotees will take care of anyone who has security. We don't need to worry. Now is the era where people are afraid.

The other day, I spoke to a young grhastha who was getting ready for a professional career in the world. And I said:

"It's not the only way! Actually there is another way and it's very simple. You just go to some city and, you rent a house and open a preaching centre! Just preach and you live from preaching……it's very simple. You don't have to work! Why do you want to work? Just preach! You just live simple in the temple and everything will be fine. Why do you want a professional career? It's not necessary, just preach".

He said:

"My faith is not strong enough, that Krishna will provide".

So it is a time when somehow or other we have lost faith collectively, because this spirit has died! And it works, I guarantee you. The only thing is purity. If one is a householder and goes out to preach, then one has to be renounced, since one cannot live it up at public expense. One has to make a sacrifice to live simple and to preach, but if we do, then everything will come, and then one can make an advancement so quickly!

So it's an option…I'm only offering it as an option for those who are interested. It's not like:

"Okay, all of us are giving up our jobs tomorrow, and that's it……now only preaching centres".

I won't be so demanding, but there is so much to do….so much to do all over the world! There is no lack of opportunities, and Krishna will provide, undoubtedly and purity is the force!

The danger of aparadhas (offenses)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 02:21 AM PST

(Kadamba Kanana Swami) Lecture – Seminar 'Getting inspiration from Sri Caitanya-caritamrta'

In the process of devotional service, it has been said:

“anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje,” (SB 1.7.6),

that devotional service can destroy the seeds in the heart of all these material anarthas (unwanted desires) and contaminations. They will be destroyed from the heart by this process of devotional service. But, it is explained that in the course of devotional service, there are two types of offenses:

One is nama-aparadha and the other one is seva-aparadha. They are included in the sixty four aspects of devotional service, because these sixty four aspects of devotional service include both positive activities and prohibitions. Now, there are thirty two offenses that can be made in the cause of serving the deity, seva-aparadha. It's said that if one commits seva-aparadha, as Srila Vishvanatha Cakravarti Thakura explains, then one’s reactions will only cause suffering during the devotional service. It will not contaminate the heart with new anarthas. But nama-aparadha actually contaminates the heart and creates new anarthas within the heart.

If we purposely, consciously commit seva-aparadha… Let’s say one thinks:

‘Bowing down again?? I just did it!’

You know, you’re in the temple, you go out for one minute, and you’re coming back thinking like that. So you just fold your hands… That’s seva-aparadha becoming nama-aparadha, because one is consciously ignoring the prescribed rule. But if one somehow or other forgets certain details in the course of service, and not purposely, but accidentally breaks these rules of prescribed behaviour towards the deity, then it is seva-aparadha and reactions come in the cause of one’s service, and they don’t contaminate the heart.

Contamination of the heart, as we can see means planting seeds in our hearts, and these seeds are fructifying in big creepers. So these seeds are there and later on again other similar opportunities come, and we find that we become less serious and less careful. So this is very very dangerous!

 

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