Mini report
Dear spiritual brothers
and sisters, please accept my obeisances.
Srila Guru Maharaj ki
jay, Srila Atulananda Acarya ki jay, Sunday Meeting of Vrinda Family
ki jay.
The economic miracle.
So ws named by Srila Guru Maharaj a meditation after the false
economic development the world has called growth or development.
GM: In the past people
could keep some savings, today the system has taking care to steal
from the people everything they need, not to take away their
properties, but their freedom of choice. Today large corporations has
taken away our will to decide, we are now customers. This is the
proposal of materialism. This proposal of atheism, of secular
education, the same ones that promotes abortion and intoxication. Do
you still belive this is something dignified to you?
Conference from Punta
Del Este
The sea was lovely. 4
meters high waves and a wind 40km per hour speed, which meant that
the water was warmer inside than outside. The retreat is at a club
facing a beautiful view of Punta Del Este. At night we had a nice
kirtan, sang a cappella, the mantra on the same rhythm I heard the
first time. We sang in a beautiful cave.
Here we see the
development of an Yoga Inbound School well leaded by mother Om Shanti
under the guidance of Goswami Maharaj. Most of the students are
housewives and professionals, and due to the great spiritual
association that has been given to them, they are ready to be
initiated into the beautiful Vaisnava school. Therefore the House of
Wisdom must exist. You cannot appear on a dothi singing at the
street, the social pressure is different in a big city. For this
reason, the organization with a good system in HOUSE (House of
Wisdom) is an emergency that becomes clear each day. When Krishna
consciousness grows, it becomes more part of society. You must offer
activities that are consistent with the Vaisnava purity but also to
be seen by society as a nice contribution. And we must preach at more
and more sites. Even at many sites that do not have buses for
Sankirtan. We must also improve the personalized sankirtan. This
sankirtan reached a very good level of practicatily where each
sankirtanner is basically an ecological messenger, a messenger of
wisdom, a messenger of vegetarianism, a messenger of good health and
responsibility.
And all this is done
instantly by delivering a small awareness pamphlet of our campaign
called "Seeding Consciousness". And soon you convince the
person to accept this brochure that simultaneously contains an
invitation to our temple-ministry of the "Spoon Revolution"
with three different events to be held in each temple religiously
without fail, which are:
1. One night a week:
a vegetarian event organized by the Revolution which presents the
ministries, the procedures, and where there obviously is prasadam.
Also where there are vegetarian cooking courses and wherw all the
material of the Revolution is presented... better said, a party
atmosphere.
2. Another night a
week: an event for the environmental awareness. Iintroduction the
"Eco YogaVillages", the organic agriculture, the "Inbound
Tours", voluntary work, etc.
3. And a third night:
which presents a free introductory yoga class to "Yoga Inbound
School", the "Vaishnava Academy", educational tours,
etc. These three schedules must exist at all temples, because the
OKis invite them by havig their address on it. This ensures a
substantial increase in visits to the temple. And people who see the
poster have three different options that can motivate them to visit
a temple; apart from the visiting groups that come to the Sunday's
party anyways.
In accordance with my
traditional system, medium and large temples must have a simultaneous
introductory conference on bhakti yoga for those seeking to
understand the Vedic philosophy and another for more advanced
students. Do not forget my dear Brahamanas "who does not preach
atrophies". Water that does not move, rots. Thus, the
distribution of posters of Seeding Consciousness must circulate in
large amounts and varieties. They do not offend but are sympathetic
to people. We try to be nice.
And right after the
person has received the pamphlet, you can offer the "Yoga Eco
Village" DVD, which coincides totally with the consistent of the
pamphlet, or the new Hip Hop of Bhakti Rasa prabhu, an excellent
production of "The Spoon Revolution” in Buenos Aires. You can
also offer a magazine, book, a conference of your spiritual master or
DVD on why being vegetarian. We have enough material.
Another thing, every
person who donates a sum of two dollars for a cd, etc. should receive
the one page Seva's catalog. In addition, you must get their email
address and they must get your phone number and email address too. At
the same time as that happens there will be born the personalized
sankirtan. And so we leave the dark age, the indifference of the
individuals, well, we leave some indifference other wise we would not
be here but we would not know who they were, how to contact them
because they may receive an invitation from the temple but we had no
knowledge that you had a chance to connect with these people of
Prabhupada, potential savior of humanity. How about getting to know a
savior and not being able to contact him? Therefore, I, Swami B.A.
Paramadvaiti declare that today is born the ecstasy of Sankirtan.
Our task is to make
friends. To behave so specially that people that know us will become
crazy about reading Prabhupada's books, crazy to hear a spiritual
masters lecture, become crazy to know these friendly people. They
will be happy to receive a newsletter via email and eager to be
invited to attend a Mela. That's preaching, unlimited preaching. We
are preaching by the lotus feet of Prabhupada. Sure, there are books
or sheets of Srila Prabhupada's books that can be sold but while
people have no desire on reading this nectar, we have not completed
the entire task of the sankirtaneer. It is NOT enough for the
sankirtaneer to take some money and the person does not know what it
is about. While that is good as was done in the past, speaking inside
the buses of internal powers that one discovers by reading a book or
other karma kandicas meditations that people have when they buy an
incense.
The brochures of the
campaign "Seeding Consciousness" are far superior. Because
at once they establish a relationship of solidarity with something
nice such as Mother Earth, animals, wisdom, and foremost of all, it
makes possible for you to launch friendship with people and
friendship is the essential. People return to a restaurant because
they were well treated. Also they return to a temple when they had
good prasadam, ecstatics lessons, unforgettable kirtans or
somethings like that. The meeting with the devotee should be equally
enjoyable. I live for Sankirtan. They sent me to sankirtan the first
day I lived in the temple.
We were all saved by
this program of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur and Srila
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. And today we have so many farms and
temples, it is our duty to fill them with many devotees full with
desire to go on sankirtan and not hide in the kitchen or in any other
corner of the temple for being afraid to go out and to represent the
monastic ideals. On behalf of mother earth anyone should be available
to serve and to sacrifice themself for their spiritual homeland. Just
like each country educates its children to go to war defend their
homeland, which is called military service.
To no one is allowed
the whim to doubt the goodness of this sacrifice to defend his mom.
In the same spirit we must educate ourselves to know that for our
mother any sacrifice we make, small or large, will be very little to
pay the debt we owe her. Of course with love, is love that keeps us
moving. So, let all your vanities go, excuses and apologies, and
organize a massive campaign of personalized sankirtan, "Seeding
Consciousness" whereever is possible.
The other day, in
Montevideo, they told me to have the lecture in a basement, in the
house of some young people but right over my head there was a rock
band presenting their concert. I had to defend myself loudly by
yelling so that they could hear me. After I finished the conference
the rock festival began and of course there was more audience
upstairs than downstairs. Many young people were there, and many will
of them go to their youth events of enjoyment. Immediately came to my
mind that a devotee should be in every event like this one
distributing to each one of the youngs, a letter sized sheet of
“Seeding Consciousness" campain, which are actually
invitations to our programs, to give away, not to sell. So on
Sankirtan, you will not never have again that unpleasant experience
because people take the free invitation, so whether they buy
something or not, they take the poster anyway.
***Thus, a temple can,
why not, distribute 1000 invitations as brochures of Consciousness to
thousands of young people at a music festival, impressing each of
them with with the message and may be they might want other items.
But already by distributing these papers and collecting the email
address of the boys and girls, it becomes a successfull event. NEVER
forget: our task is to make friends for Krishna and his devotees.
That is the purpose of sankirtan, of course, spreading true
conscious. And Krishna Consciousness will receive them when they see
the Seva's products catalog where they advertise so many things like
the Bhagavad Gita and all the other products we offer. Om Tat Sat
must be published, announced and read. Everywhere and at all times.
Or at least until a better idea shows up.
This is not a chat, it
is a hug of mine to your heart. For people in the world so that they
can realize what are the Vaisnavas... they are people of pure heart
and pure concern for the welfare of others. Let this message to be
translated to all languages, specially to Sweden, Bulgaria and India.
Because for this reason Srila Prabhupada left Vrindavan to come to
the Western world, to spread awareness, to give love for Krishna. And
everyone is invited to report your success on the sankirtan page to
aware us of how to plant further consciousness in the entire world.
A further point. Also
this program allows every devotee to engage people who already are
vegetarian and invite them instantly to become ambassadors or
ministers of the Revolution, and instantly give them the materials to
become one. So has done Madhumangal Prabhu and Hari Sankirtan prabhu.
When someone is vegetarian they are already an ambassador and with
the materials they turn they home into a ministry of the Revolution.
Srila Prabhupada ki
Jay. I say goodby now to attend here the devotees in Uruguay. I hope
my words have reached your heart. If you have any questions to better
understand this message you can easily contact a sannyasi or a leader
of my mission, although from my understanding, everybody, everyone
must become leaders and with these same words to create a revolution,
the same of my spiritual master.
Hari bol.
Your always
well-wisher,
Swami B. A.
Paramadvaiti.
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