18 May 2012

KKSblog.com - Is it better to play safe?

KKSblog.com - Is it better to play safe?

Is it better to play safe?

Posted: 17 May 2012 02:33 PM PDT

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, 11th May 2012)

(Transcribed by Smita Krishna Devi Dasi)

We begin to develop a little bit of faith. It might be true, it's logical and we begin to deposit some of our faith in spiritual knowledge but at the same time not fully, because after all what if it's not true? What if we miss out in the meanwhile? Imagine you are putting your faith in this spiritual knowledge, and in your whole life you just start to give up material enjoyment and then at the end that was not at all true. Imagine that, that might happen, the risk is too great. Therefore better we play safe and hold on to the material energy tightly. Alright give up a few things, the outright sinful things but hold on to as much material enjoyment as it's possible and then experiment with the spiritual things and see what happens. This is the safe platform.

In this way, even in spiritual life we are very careful and we have some experiences. Oh, yes there is some taste, some higher taste until we come to the point where yes we are attracted to both the spirit and to matter, then we are caught in a situation which is kind of catch 22, so to speak. So you can't really be satisfied with just material things any more. Not possible, it must also be spiritual things at the same time but you also can't just be satisfied with spiritual things alone, since there must also be material things. In this way, we are caught between the two worlds, and that is what we find in ourselves.

So in that situation one can remain for a considerable amount of time. What to do from there? It depends where we invest the most. We invest the most on the spiritual side, the natural spiritual side such as Krishna and Krishna's paraphernalia. There is Krishna directly and Krishna's abode, Vrindavan Goloka; there are kamadhenus – wish fulfilling desire cows and there are desire trees also; there are bodies of water and these are conscious and also devotees.

So in the spiritual world we find not only Krishna being attractive but the spiritual world is also attractive. So there are the expansions of Krishna. So we can appreciate Krishna and his expanded spiritual energy and then what happens is one associates either with Krishna or his expanded spiritual energy. We become purified and gradually our attachment for matter decreases and gradually our attachment to the spiritual things increases and that is what we call spiritual advancement, which seems to be most sole process, because our identification with matter is very strong because our faith is there!


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True satisfaction is found in the spiritual world

Posted: 17 May 2012 01:56 PM PDT

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, 11th May 2012)

(Transcribed by Smita Krishna Devi Dasi)

Everything is connected to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, sound, touch, form, taste and smell – the five sense objects, so we can relate to them. We have senses by which we can perceive and we have senses by which we can also act upon, such as the tongue, ears, eyes, nose and so on. The skin are those senses of touch and there is another list given – hands, legs, genitals and mouth which are the working senses.

Then we get involved with the material energy, and that is when these five varieties come in. We are just trying to test the various sound, smell and touch. So like that in material world we are spending our time, which is natural because the soul on the spiritual platform is also enjoying these different tastes and these different experiences. The spiritual body also has its senses. However, the spiritual experiences are the opposite of material experiences. It is said that material experiences are frustrating because the desire is greater than the result, and that is the nature in the material world.

The desire always exceeds. Although sometimes we think:

'Oh no, it's happening, but for how long?'

After a while one finds that it's not happening. As Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura describes that:

'When one meets a new person and thinks that this person is like an ocean of qualities and after some time one circumbulates the boundaries of those qualities and realises that it's no greater then a pond and after that one never vows to look again at that person.'

This is sort of summing up falling in and out of love in the material world. So material experiences they sometimes appear to be exactly fulfilling our dreams but actually they don't. The reason why they seem to be fulfilling our dreams is because our desires are so strong. How can we live in this world in the knowledge that it is all frustration? It's impossible! Our hopes are too strong! So we desire:

'Yes it's working, confirmed, yes it's great.'

It's not all great to be real – it's nice to say so but it is a great pain also. That is the nature of the material world. It's not like that there are dualities. Sometimes it's not terribly bad. Sometimes it is just outright worn, not great, not fantastic, not miserable just somewhere in between grey. So there are so many shades that are in this material world. So where will we find our true satisfaction? It is only on the spiritual platform. We can theoretically hear that again and again and little by little we think we make sense. They say that the material world is not satisfying because it's like only a shadow reflection of the original spiritual world. Well that makes sense. It says therefore in the material world that shadow can never fully satisfy. Just as shadow lacks the entire colour, it also lacks all the smells and the taste that the original shadow has. It may be a beautiful shadow but it is limited. So in this way, the true satisfaction is found in the spiritual world!


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