The real celebration of Diwali is for us to go into our hearts and pray to Krsna to further ourselves in KC and also exchanges between devotees as Srila Rupa Gosvami has mentioned in NOI. When you pray to Krsna, all the thousands of Lakshmi's (Goddesses of fortune) are also worshiping him. If our rituals have Krsna in the center then all these rituals will bring us closer to Krsna, but if Krsna isn't there then these rituals will just become a matter to doing it. It won't bring any transformation of heart. It is hence very important to reflect on what Srila Prabhupada has given us.
One of the most important days in our vedic tradition. It is because Lord Rama came back to Ayodhya. In the old days people were so KC and Ram Conscious, everybody in every house would celebrate it. This is actually KC, celebrate auspicious days and commemorating the appearance and pastimes of the Lord. These festivals are the mothers of devotion and they nurture our bhakti and they help us to remember Krsna. He takes inauspicious days like amavaysa (no moon day) and he makes it Diwali. The Lord shows when someone is inauspicious but when he does something on that day it becomes auspicious. His activities and pastimes creates auspiciousness. He came back after 18 years. Let us understand what did the residents of Ayodhya were feeling.
If we love our parents a lot and we haven't seen our parents for 14 years, when we are going back after so long, imagine how happy parents are or how happy we feel going to India. We decorate, we celebrate and we make the coming of this person very special. When we love somebody, we do some much preparation for this person to come. When Bharat came to know about Ram was exiled, he said he wanted to live in the forest with Krsna, so after 14 years of separations, imagine how everybody was feeling. They were longing and meditating on the lotus feet of Sri Rama. They were feelings of pure love, that is the understanding. On Diwali day, their emotions were at the peak and they welcome Sri Rama back to Ayodya.
Acaryas say how our life if bereft of Krsna is so tasteless and no fulfillment of the heart if Krsna is not in the center. Krsna is like the sun and Maya is like the darkness. If Krsna isn't in our lives, there is darkness and hence we need to invite Krsna,Ram in our hearts and our lives will become joyful. We have all banished Krsna to the forest and we have told Krsna we don't need you and there are more things important than you and we don't care for you and now by the mercy of pure devotees like SP we are given a chance to bring back the lord. The demons who are keeping us away from the Lord like Ravana and we pray on Diwali our Lord Krsna and Rama kill the demons in our heart and invite him to come back into our heart. We pray, we offer to Krsna - lamps, prasad. These lamps signify knowledge, the importance of spiritual knowledge and taking shelter of Krsna that is the true Diwali. That is true Diwali by celebrating the return of Rama into our hearts by taking to KC wholeheartedly and removing the darkness of our hearts. On this day Krsna also kills Narkasura and it is the broadcast that Krsna on this day kills all the demons. Krsna set free the 16,000 princesses and marries them. Saying the same thing. Our heart has so many coverings and this is keeping us from Krsna. But just by our heart, we can break all these coverings and come to Krsna. We can't even chant properly because of these layers. Krsna can kill all these demons, cut these layers so we can come closer to Krsna. Intelligence is material at the moment and it is dirty. When the soul is covered over, the heart has so many layers it is considered the covering of the soul. Mind and intelligence are part of the same thing. When the covering is there on the heart, it is reflect by the dirty mind and intelligence.
Also same day when Mother Yashoda bound Krsna. Krsna is showing that he is bound by the love of his devotees. Just simple unalloyed Love. If we understand Krsna loves us at every moment of our life, then everyday can be Diwali.
JAPA is the only way - If our Japa is good then nothing can stop us to get to Krsna. Quality and Quantity is important. The more we chant quality rounds, the faster we will have purification of the heart and the faster we will get to Krsna. It is like when you go for war, you need to refill your ammunition and next day you are again ready. So same way we need to refill ourselves everyday by chanting 16 rounds so we won't be beaten by maya and slowly we will also be able to get rid of all the coverings we have for the million of years. But if we don't chant properly then we are in illusion that we have good bullets, but actually they are all duds and we can fall prey to the war of maya. Hence very important to chant very properly so all our bullets are sharp to fight the war of maya and we are ready to fight maya - but these bullets needs to be very very sharp and hence our japa should be very sincere and refill ourselves with these bullets. There is no limit to devotional service. SP has been very merciful to say that in this Kali yuga especially in this age do at least 16 rounds so that we have our ammunition to fight maya. Holy name and Hari Katha are what is the most most most important so at every step we need to give this to all our family members this.
One of the most important days in our vedic tradition. It is because Lord Rama came back to Ayodhya. In the old days people were so KC and Ram Conscious, everybody in every house would celebrate it. This is actually KC, celebrate auspicious days and commemorating the appearance and pastimes of the Lord. These festivals are the mothers of devotion and they nurture our bhakti and they help us to remember Krsna. He takes inauspicious days like amavaysa (no moon day) and he makes it Diwali. The Lord shows when someone is inauspicious but when he does something on that day it becomes auspicious. His activities and pastimes creates auspiciousness. He came back after 18 years. Let us understand what did the residents of Ayodhya were feeling.
If we love our parents a lot and we haven't seen our parents for 14 years, when we are going back after so long, imagine how happy parents are or how happy we feel going to India. We decorate, we celebrate and we make the coming of this person very special. When we love somebody, we do some much preparation for this person to come. When Bharat came to know about Ram was exiled, he said he wanted to live in the forest with Krsna, so after 14 years of separations, imagine how everybody was feeling. They were longing and meditating on the lotus feet of Sri Rama. They were feelings of pure love, that is the understanding. On Diwali day, their emotions were at the peak and they welcome Sri Rama back to Ayodya.
Acaryas say how our life if bereft of Krsna is so tasteless and no fulfillment of the heart if Krsna is not in the center. Krsna is like the sun and Maya is like the darkness. If Krsna isn't in our lives, there is darkness and hence we need to invite Krsna,Ram in our hearts and our lives will become joyful. We have all banished Krsna to the forest and we have told Krsna we don't need you and there are more things important than you and we don't care for you and now by the mercy of pure devotees like SP we are given a chance to bring back the lord. The demons who are keeping us away from the Lord like Ravana and we pray on Diwali our Lord Krsna and Rama kill the demons in our heart and invite him to come back into our heart. We pray, we offer to Krsna - lamps, prasad. These lamps signify knowledge, the importance of spiritual knowledge and taking shelter of Krsna that is the true Diwali. That is true Diwali by celebrating the return of Rama into our hearts by taking to KC wholeheartedly and removing the darkness of our hearts. On this day Krsna also kills Narkasura and it is the broadcast that Krsna on this day kills all the demons. Krsna set free the 16,000 princesses and marries them. Saying the same thing. Our heart has so many coverings and this is keeping us from Krsna. But just by our heart, we can break all these coverings and come to Krsna. We can't even chant properly because of these layers. Krsna can kill all these demons, cut these layers so we can come closer to Krsna. Intelligence is material at the moment and it is dirty. When the soul is covered over, the heart has so many layers it is considered the covering of the soul. Mind and intelligence are part of the same thing. When the covering is there on the heart, it is reflect by the dirty mind and intelligence.
Also same day when Mother Yashoda bound Krsna. Krsna is showing that he is bound by the love of his devotees. Just simple unalloyed Love. If we understand Krsna loves us at every moment of our life, then everyday can be Diwali.
JAPA is the only way - If our Japa is good then nothing can stop us to get to Krsna. Quality and Quantity is important. The more we chant quality rounds, the faster we will have purification of the heart and the faster we will get to Krsna. It is like when you go for war, you need to refill your ammunition and next day you are again ready. So same way we need to refill ourselves everyday by chanting 16 rounds so we won't be beaten by maya and slowly we will also be able to get rid of all the coverings we have for the million of years. But if we don't chant properly then we are in illusion that we have good bullets, but actually they are all duds and we can fall prey to the war of maya. Hence very important to chant very properly so all our bullets are sharp to fight the war of maya and we are ready to fight maya - but these bullets needs to be very very sharp and hence our japa should be very sincere and refill ourselves with these bullets. There is no limit to devotional service. SP has been very merciful to say that in this Kali yuga especially in this age do at least 16 rounds so that we have our ammunition to fight maya. Holy name and Hari Katha are what is the most most most important so at every step we need to give this to all our family members this.
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