Conference.
My dear devotees
Accept my love from Mexico
Today I want to talk about the importance of Bhakti Yoga above any
process.
For a person who is just approaching these transcendental concepts,
the science of astrology can help you greatly, for it seeks to decipher the
karma of the people, confirming that there is reincarnation and that every
action we take has an effect.
The level of detail that can be achieved with astrology is
impressive, one can know up to the last point of life. So astrology,
cosmology,seeks to interpret mathematically each tone that moves in the
universe. It may seem as an exaggeration, but in quantum physics one is led to
the same absolute conclusion of the cosmos, so scientists can not deny that all
that they monitor and analyze of situations have an origin that goes far beyond
this small birth we have. Everything has a reason and influence. If you are
Mexican or Guatemalan, if you're rich or poor. All this has a reason and
influence.
In the way that karma works in this world is very difficult to
understand, but the fact that it works and the understanding of the natural law
of karma gives us faith in the Infinite. If this knowledge is not enough for
someone to develop faith in the Infinite, then that person does not deserve
such faith. That vision of faith is not cheap. It is the spiritual vision
which can help one understand the mysticism of existence. If we want to
root it from a materialistic point of view, we can focus from the quantum
physics aspect, from cosmological analysis and it becomes very interesting that
rational science and mysticism meet and are able to give explanations to each
other. It is a paradigm that has emerged in recent times and has not yet been
acknowledged openly. Why?:
-Because the materialists have a hard time admitting to mistake
and change, it means recognizing that they have been wrong and that is not
allowed by their false ego which covers everything. We do not want to accept
that we were wrong or that materialistic teachings are wrong. Materialism wants
to ensure happiness, but it only sells illusion. However it is so simple to
check one's very experience to the extent that one becomes spiritualized since
life becomes happier, but materialistic life materializes suffering only.
The Ashram life of Bhakti Yoga is wonderful. It is an
example of spiritualization and happiness. It is very beautiful, full of
discipline and smiles because people feel happy. It is an unparalleled
happiness which is obtained only by the infinite mercy that allows us to
recognize our true identity. This happiness to recognize our true identity can
be illustrated as follows: Imagine that you are very, very poor, have no money,
no possessions but a small lottery to live off of. So crying is there, having
nothing to eat, and one day you start to dig in the ground and find a wonderful
treasure filled with gold and precious stones ... immediately you are overcome
with joy, no more need or suffering from hunger, and you want to dance out of
so much joy. Of course, the joy of knowing our true identity is much deeper,
but it's like finding a wonderful treasure. The treasure that you have been
looking for all your life.
The Vaishnavas who follow the process of bhakti-yoga come to the
Ashrams to come together in their practice of sadhana-bhakti and are very
happy. They discover that the gift they have received is more valuable than all
the gold and precious stones in the world. That knowing their spiritual
identity is the real treasure, which goes beyond any material treasure. Well,
material treasures really do not exist since there are only illusions. Why?
-Because if you have a material treasure you have two permanent
problems: you're always in anxiety over the fear of losing your wealth
and there is always very envious people around you. That is not happiness. It's
just happiness in illusion and in reality it is suffering.
Our eternal nature is the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is the
intrinsic nature of the soul, but because of the material conditioning, we
forget it and look in the wrong places.
Some think that they will find happiness in material possessions.
Others become intoxicated to "get happy", but again, they only engage
in more and more suffering ... becoming increasingly despondent, becoming
addicted to substances that take away the memory, will, and only cause
depression. Alcohol and drugs are the main causes of depression, not happiness.
Illicit sex does not give happiness. People are guided by the gratification of
the senses, they become enthusiastic to satisfy them so they work in order to
indulge themselves. They base their human relations in the gratification they
can obtain from others and thus this gives rise to their minds so that they do
everything they can think of. But what can you expect from a lustful mind?
Nothing good comes of it.
Someone has a girlfriend who appreciates and rewards her to the
extent that she allows you to do everything you want. And worse, you are proud
of your girlfriend and the gratification that comes. But sex is not a permanent
happiness it is only temporary pleasure and then comes the account of that
pleasure. The girlfriend who has been gratifying you now really wants marriage
and then want to control the man and not only him, but also his economy. So
then they want a credit card, buy them "stuff", etc.., Etc.., Etc..
A lustful mind is not happy, rather they only receive a greater
nature of exploitation and seek it at a higher luxury. The alleged "sex
brings happiness" at the end leaves you without economic freedom. It is a
real fraud. The opposite of illicit sex is spiritual family. That means that,
despite a couple having material bodies, all they do is run to the center, to
God, and together they work to raise a family which is offered to God. A
spiritual family has protected children which are led to happiness by their
parents like real gurus. That's very nice, that's happiness.
I can give more examples of false happiness of materialism:
-The capitalist mafia industries have organized everything so well
in order to exploit the poor in the best way. So the rich with anonymous
consortia do not have to pay taxes, while the poor are exploited to pay. But
that does not give happiness. The world of betrayal and exploitation can not
give happiness. It's just a temporary illusion. That is the material world ...
The prison of the material world. But you can get out of here
following trusting people and you becoming a trust worthy person as well.
What God gives is linked to happiness, it belongs to all and for all and
confidence emerges naturally from it. But when it is something material it will
only deliver suffering, and generates betrayal and distrust. The material world
can not give happiness, it is a hell, there is nothing further from happiness
than material illusion. Fortunately there are spiritual sanctuaries within the
material world. Places where we can become trusted people working for a common
good. Sites where we work together for maintenance and of which everyone can
take part in, without exception, a house with the door open to all who wish to
serve and strive for the welfare of all souls.
In the Ashram there is no illicit enrichment, all that is there in
the temple belongs to everyone and to Krsna. If you are devoted then you become
responsible for taking care of things and if you are not a devotee of Krsna,
then you will become one, for we are here to make devotees. Devotees do not
seek illicit enrichment, like Pariksit prabhu who has been here in Mexico with me for 20 years and never sought
illicit enrichment, he came from Costa Rica
A few days ago in Bolivia Bolivia
Devotees give everything of what they get, because they know that
we are all children of God and that the last owner of all is God Himself. And
rather the child should behave in such a manner that he or she honors and
satisfies their father. True happiness is God's side, you want to be happy you
must go to God. Lord Krsna says very clearly that from the highest planet in
the material world to the lowest there is only misery. But with God there is
never misery, there is only happiness and love. The devotees, servants of God
provide links to eternity. Real links. The spiritual world to which the soul belongs
to is beyond karmic constellations. If you want to get to that spiritual
world you have to start acting like if you're a member of that world.
Devotion to God, bhakti-yoga is the process in which one
subscribes to the transcendental cosmic amnesty to the absolute mercy. The
material world causes such a tremendous addiction to illusion that it is almost
impossible to get out of it, only those who take refuge in God can escape this
world of organized fraud. Man must honor their special gift of life and develop
spiritual discernment, the knowledge of the true spiritual identity which we
have lost conscious awareness of due to contact with the material world. So our
spiritual side is anesthetized, but we must work to revive that dormant state.
Karmic life has no happiness, it's just mathematical logic: everything you do
you will receive it back, period.
Everything that happens is because it has to happen, because there
is a reason behind it. So there is nothing to fear, the negative that has come
is there because it is part of the law of action and reaction. But the
important thing is to that we do not live only for the astrological details of
our past, no. The important thing is the goal, the goal that we are walking
towards. That is essential and our goal is to awaken our true spiritual
identity, back to our origin. That is the lesson that my dear Srila Prabhupada
gave us in detail.
And today, this morning we have only reviewed the abc's of that
divine transcendental teaching. That's my message for today, I thank each of
you for joining me for another day and the nice service that you all do in the
family of Srila Prabhupada.
I leave you with my love from Mexico
The land
of Radha Madhava
Jay Srila Prabhupada!
Your always well wisher,
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti.
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