In this month of Gita Jayanti we should try to distribute as many books of Gita as we can so SP and all the acaryas can be pleased.
Detachment - SP gives an excellent solution and definition of detachment. If we understand this topic well, we can immediately get liberated. When wife, children are favorable, then we become favorable, if they aren't congenial or favorable, then family life should be abandoned. First lets understand how to make family life favorable? What this means is - we don't become hard hearted. Bhakti is actually to become soft hearted. When others are suffering devotee feels pain. If other living entities are suffering then he also feels pain. Like Arjuna, he was feeling compassionate for them, he was feeling pain for them. That is a true devotee. A devotee who has true feeling. Not having compassion for his family is hard heartedeness. We need to hence Krishnize his family life and then that is affection in the proper sense. If we don't Krishnize our family life then the affection is actually in the material platform. The goal is to how to come out of material bondage. How?
1. Chanting of Hare Krsna mantra vibration in the house
2. Everything should be offered to Krsna. Without this principle, in the name of good health some people take meat saying they want more proteins. Actually we have never heard that someone has died due to no protein, but due to excess of proteins they have heart attack etc.
3. Discussion of books like BG and SB - regular reading of BG and SB is very important for all family life. SB is so powerful that simply by the presence of this book someone can feel the shakti in the house. SB will actually drive our life. This book has transcendental sound vibration and when they are kept, they have tremendous power on all the family members.
4. Engage in deity worship. We bring deities of Radha Krsna and Gaura Nitai in our house and we take care of them completely. We need to feel, that this is their house and we are just their servants. We are their servants and we are only eating their remnants. If we are traveling, then we take them with us so we can take care of them. Deity worship brings the entire family together so the whole family comes together and prays to Krsna.
When the family comes together and does these 4 things together such a family there is no reason to renounce such a family. We should train the family members in this way. Hence, we need to become more serious in these 4 aspects everday and make it very important.
If family members are not favorable what do we do? We shouldn't abandon our family. Ex - SP's wife wasn;t favorable. He continued his spiritual life but still continued to take care of his family. That is what is meant by abandoning our family. We continue with more seriousness so we can set a great example for everyone and when they see us sincere, they will start automatically become soft. And at the same time serve the family to the best of your ability that kind of abandonment is what SP practiced and wants us to practice.
This material life is dukhalyam asaswatam - there is misery at every step of our lives and hence there is no moment to lose of this most valuable life. Follow the 4 reg principles and chant 16 rounds to the fullest. If we follow these principles, then we are truly following the right KC principles and then automatically we become equipoised and become happy internally and these small things won't agitate us. To reach that stage is unalloyed devotional service - NO MATTER WHAT, Follow your daily schedule to perform unalloyed dev service - pleasant or unpleasant, summer or winter we are still goin about what we need to do to serve Krsna continuously - think about them 24 hours a day - how are they doing, how can you take care of them, what is their mood currently. Bhakti to Krsna without any motivation, do devotional service without any personal motivation. Whether you feel good or not, you continue to keep doing your devotional service. Solitary place means - a place where Krsna Katha is going on in the association of devotees. Birth after birth, just continuously try to engage me in the service of Krsna all other work is just a ROYAL WASTE OF TIME.
As devotees we must also take this responsibility to encourage the KC and Krsna Katha. We should be detached from the general population of people - just disengage ourselves from the mundance conversation - it's just like croaking of a frog. But by the mercy of our Gurudeva, we go back to those general populace of people and give them the message of Krishna!
Detachment - SP gives an excellent solution and definition of detachment. If we understand this topic well, we can immediately get liberated. When wife, children are favorable, then we become favorable, if they aren't congenial or favorable, then family life should be abandoned. First lets understand how to make family life favorable? What this means is - we don't become hard hearted. Bhakti is actually to become soft hearted. When others are suffering devotee feels pain. If other living entities are suffering then he also feels pain. Like Arjuna, he was feeling compassionate for them, he was feeling pain for them. That is a true devotee. A devotee who has true feeling. Not having compassion for his family is hard heartedeness. We need to hence Krishnize his family life and then that is affection in the proper sense. If we don't Krishnize our family life then the affection is actually in the material platform. The goal is to how to come out of material bondage. How?
1. Chanting of Hare Krsna mantra vibration in the house
2. Everything should be offered to Krsna. Without this principle, in the name of good health some people take meat saying they want more proteins. Actually we have never heard that someone has died due to no protein, but due to excess of proteins they have heart attack etc.
3. Discussion of books like BG and SB - regular reading of BG and SB is very important for all family life. SB is so powerful that simply by the presence of this book someone can feel the shakti in the house. SB will actually drive our life. This book has transcendental sound vibration and when they are kept, they have tremendous power on all the family members.
4. Engage in deity worship. We bring deities of Radha Krsna and Gaura Nitai in our house and we take care of them completely. We need to feel, that this is their house and we are just their servants. We are their servants and we are only eating their remnants. If we are traveling, then we take them with us so we can take care of them. Deity worship brings the entire family together so the whole family comes together and prays to Krsna.
When the family comes together and does these 4 things together such a family there is no reason to renounce such a family. We should train the family members in this way. Hence, we need to become more serious in these 4 aspects everday and make it very important.
If family members are not favorable what do we do? We shouldn't abandon our family. Ex - SP's wife wasn;t favorable. He continued his spiritual life but still continued to take care of his family. That is what is meant by abandoning our family. We continue with more seriousness so we can set a great example for everyone and when they see us sincere, they will start automatically become soft. And at the same time serve the family to the best of your ability that kind of abandonment is what SP practiced and wants us to practice.
This material life is dukhalyam asaswatam - there is misery at every step of our lives and hence there is no moment to lose of this most valuable life. Follow the 4 reg principles and chant 16 rounds to the fullest. If we follow these principles, then we are truly following the right KC principles and then automatically we become equipoised and become happy internally and these small things won't agitate us. To reach that stage is unalloyed devotional service - NO MATTER WHAT, Follow your daily schedule to perform unalloyed dev service - pleasant or unpleasant, summer or winter we are still goin about what we need to do to serve Krsna continuously - think about them 24 hours a day - how are they doing, how can you take care of them, what is their mood currently. Bhakti to Krsna without any motivation, do devotional service without any personal motivation. Whether you feel good or not, you continue to keep doing your devotional service. Solitary place means - a place where Krsna Katha is going on in the association of devotees. Birth after birth, just continuously try to engage me in the service of Krsna all other work is just a ROYAL WASTE OF TIME.
As devotees we must also take this responsibility to encourage the KC and Krsna Katha. We should be detached from the general population of people - just disengage ourselves from the mundance conversation - it's just like croaking of a frog. But by the mercy of our Gurudeva, we go back to those general populace of people and give them the message of Krishna!
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