The purpose of Krishna coming to this material world is to come and help us get out of this material ocean of neissance. His apperance is actually is meant to take us out. We are all suffering. How Krsna is coming to end this for us - Shravana, smarana, - HEARING, REMEMBERING AND WORSHIPING.
So Krsna, the great acharyas are saying, came to rejuvinate our dev service. Through this dev service of hearing, remembering and worshiping Krsna, one can become free from this material world. The conditioned mind is the store house of material suffering. It makes us feel that this is special, which is ordinary. That is the cause of our material suffering. But the appearance of Krsna is to rejuvinate our devotional service. The mood of the brajvasis is to be in constant service to Krsna. The various talk of gopis are about Krsna, what did he do yesterday, how beautiful he is, what dress did Yashoda put on Krsna - talks are just about Krsna. They are doing Kirtan of Krsna and always remembering Krsna. Those you are with Krsna are serving him, those not, by remembering they are thinking about Krsna.
Braja means, everything about Krsna. They have given everything as an offering to Krsna and the Brajavasis have purchased him and he allows to be purchased by their dev service.
The highest level of bhakti, Krsna gave the example of the brajavasis. How we must become KC in this material world. That is the brajavasis. How to become Krsna concious. In Vrindavan, which is the sweetest of all the holy places, he made braja.
There every deamon would come to attack. why is it significant, because bhakti doesn;t mean we will be free from all problem. Bhakti means how in the face of challenges, we will take shelter of Krsna. How will we take and display our faith in Krsna. This material world is a challenge everyday, deamons will come everyday. These are the deamons. They will put obstacles everyday. They will come as anarthas, as material desires, as anything and everything. It will be challenges to us everyday. In the face of these challenges, what did the brajavasis do - they will just take the shelter of Krsna. And Krsna in his mysterious way will kill the deamon without even changing his form. That is the braja leela, he never wanted his brajavasis get confused.
This is the sun and substance of our spiritual life. Will we look to Krsna when we are in trouble. Will we be able to chant the holy name during this troubling times. The 10th offense.
The pastimes of Krsna - Kaliya damana - imp lessons - Kaliya was envious of Krsna and his devotees so much so that he didn't want anybody to enter the lake he was living. This is the nature of envy, we don't let anybody come into our boundary because we get insecure. Kaliya became insecure because he was so envious. But the wife of Kaliya were devotees had faith that one day Krsna will have his mercy and make their husband a devotee. He took this desire very seriously and he jumped into the river and danced on Kaliya. Wives were saying that what punya karma has the kaliya performed that Krsna's lotus feet touched him. He is so fortunate the nag patnis are praying like that. But actually it was because of them that Krsna put his foot on them. They are praying that my dear lord, as you are dancing on him, he has become humble. And hence we are puting our request to Guru. That is the sincerity, WHEN Guru sees something very small, he prays for us so we can have KC mercy.
Same way SP, gave us our qualification by praying for us to become KC. Due to those positive attributes, Guru takes these qualities and prays to Krsna, My dear lord my disciple is sincere please take his case. Same way, wives of Kaliya are praying to Krsna. And when he comes in contact with Krsna, his poison is thrown out and he becomes a devotee of Krsna. Without the mercy of Guru and Vaishnavas, we can't make progress in spiritual life.
Only by chanting the holy name, the poison will come out and then we will have the +ve attributes of Krsna, the more we hear, discuss, read and talk about Krsna will we have attraction for Krsna and will decrease our attraction to material things. That is the purpose of arrival of Krsna to rejuvinate our hearing, remembering and worshiping of Krsna. In order to enhance the dev service, Krsna has sent his very pure devotee SP. It's only by the mercy of SP, that we have any hope to go back home. He has given us a big task in North America - it was his heart desire that we do preaching and the only way to do it by cleaning our anarthas and go out preaching and be serious about our duty to Guru and SP.
SP, has given us everything - holy name, dev association, deity worship, reading books, preaching to everybody - hence we should take this opportunity very seriously and serve our Guru and SP.
So Krsna, the great acharyas are saying, came to rejuvinate our dev service. Through this dev service of hearing, remembering and worshiping Krsna, one can become free from this material world. The conditioned mind is the store house of material suffering. It makes us feel that this is special, which is ordinary. That is the cause of our material suffering. But the appearance of Krsna is to rejuvinate our devotional service. The mood of the brajvasis is to be in constant service to Krsna. The various talk of gopis are about Krsna, what did he do yesterday, how beautiful he is, what dress did Yashoda put on Krsna - talks are just about Krsna. They are doing Kirtan of Krsna and always remembering Krsna. Those you are with Krsna are serving him, those not, by remembering they are thinking about Krsna.
Braja means, everything about Krsna. They have given everything as an offering to Krsna and the Brajavasis have purchased him and he allows to be purchased by their dev service.
The highest level of bhakti, Krsna gave the example of the brajavasis. How we must become KC in this material world. That is the brajavasis. How to become Krsna concious. In Vrindavan, which is the sweetest of all the holy places, he made braja.
There every deamon would come to attack. why is it significant, because bhakti doesn;t mean we will be free from all problem. Bhakti means how in the face of challenges, we will take shelter of Krsna. How will we take and display our faith in Krsna. This material world is a challenge everyday, deamons will come everyday. These are the deamons. They will put obstacles everyday. They will come as anarthas, as material desires, as anything and everything. It will be challenges to us everyday. In the face of these challenges, what did the brajavasis do - they will just take the shelter of Krsna. And Krsna in his mysterious way will kill the deamon without even changing his form. That is the braja leela, he never wanted his brajavasis get confused.
This is the sun and substance of our spiritual life. Will we look to Krsna when we are in trouble. Will we be able to chant the holy name during this troubling times. The 10th offense.
The pastimes of Krsna - Kaliya damana - imp lessons - Kaliya was envious of Krsna and his devotees so much so that he didn't want anybody to enter the lake he was living. This is the nature of envy, we don't let anybody come into our boundary because we get insecure. Kaliya became insecure because he was so envious. But the wife of Kaliya were devotees had faith that one day Krsna will have his mercy and make their husband a devotee. He took this desire very seriously and he jumped into the river and danced on Kaliya. Wives were saying that what punya karma has the kaliya performed that Krsna's lotus feet touched him. He is so fortunate the nag patnis are praying like that. But actually it was because of them that Krsna put his foot on them. They are praying that my dear lord, as you are dancing on him, he has become humble. And hence we are puting our request to Guru. That is the sincerity, WHEN Guru sees something very small, he prays for us so we can have KC mercy.
Same way SP, gave us our qualification by praying for us to become KC. Due to those positive attributes, Guru takes these qualities and prays to Krsna, My dear lord my disciple is sincere please take his case. Same way, wives of Kaliya are praying to Krsna. And when he comes in contact with Krsna, his poison is thrown out and he becomes a devotee of Krsna. Without the mercy of Guru and Vaishnavas, we can't make progress in spiritual life.
Only by chanting the holy name, the poison will come out and then we will have the +ve attributes of Krsna, the more we hear, discuss, read and talk about Krsna will we have attraction for Krsna and will decrease our attraction to material things. That is the purpose of arrival of Krsna to rejuvinate our hearing, remembering and worshiping of Krsna. In order to enhance the dev service, Krsna has sent his very pure devotee SP. It's only by the mercy of SP, that we have any hope to go back home. He has given us a big task in North America - it was his heart desire that we do preaching and the only way to do it by cleaning our anarthas and go out preaching and be serious about our duty to Guru and SP.
SP, has given us everything - holy name, dev association, deity worship, reading books, preaching to everybody - hence we should take this opportunity very seriously and serve our Guru and SP.
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