28 March 2012

KKSblog.com - A reflection of our consciousness

KKSblog.com - A reflection of our consciousness

A reflection of our consciousness

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:56 PM PDT

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22


Make your house a holy place! I once visited someone who had painted all the walls black, and the door blood red! It was intense. If you live in a place like that then what will happen to you? I was wondering that:

‘What would happen to you if you live in a room where everything is black and the doors are red?’

You feel like dressing up as Dracula! So a room has an influence on the consciousness. What goes on your wall goes in your head, and in your heart, since it affects your consciousness. Then you have all the hocus pocus, and you have to put the water pot in the north east corner of the room. But that also improves the atmosphere of the house. So living in a house is not just about:

'Well, okay I have got to put my shoes somewhere. We need a bed and a table.'

No, the house is a reflection of our consciousness and it also affects our consciousness…If we put all transcendental things in the house then we start to feel transcendental! And not just in our house but also in our life. So in this way we build a spiritual life.


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Do it for Krishna!

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 02:24 PM PDT

(H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, Prague, Czech Republic, 15th March 2012) Lecture: CC. Adi-lila 17.22


Umapati was one of Prabhupada's disciples and he asked Prabhupada:

'What comes from this chanting?'

Prabhupada said:

'From chanting comes more chanting!'

So it is like that, from, chanting comes more chanting! One simply feels that:

'Yes we must do this again!'

When we get absorbed in chanting then we forget everything. Well maybe not everything, but it is sort of during the chanting usually it's okay. Afterwards the harsh reality returns, but still we think:

'That chanting did give me a boost!'

So we must do it again, and that is the nature of chanting. Yes the chanting is non-different from Krishna. So we are meeting with Krishna, but our senses are just dull, they are not awakened. Therefore we have no taste!

So spiritual life is about turning to Krishna, and we can take material things and use them for Krishna! And all these material things become spiritualised – whatever it is. So we can do ordinary work for Krishna! Whatever it is, if you like to fix cars, fix Krishna's cars! If you like to grow potatoes, grow potatoes for Krishna. If you like to make money, make money for Krishna. Or if you just have to suffer because of your karma then suffer for Krishna! So somehow or other whatever it is, do it for Krishna, so that we live in the material world in that way. But that's not everything, since then there are times when we spend directly with Krishna by chanting Krishna's name and by hearing about Him, and these two things are very important!


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