Conference.
Dear devotees,
Greetings from Guaruja, Brazil. Today I want to share with you a
message that has nothing to do with "taste" but with the
quality of the love we deliver.
There are different
degrees of love in the field of devotion, from the most basic to the
most advanced and pure which is characterized by the spontaneous
plenitude. I want to tell you about the great need to do things in
life as an attempt to perfection. Of course, is anachievable; the
perfection is love. There is no love without the desire and intention
of doing things with perfection and God in the Bhagavad Gita speaks
about the perfection of the spiritual life. That is our main subject,
devotion is an artistic process... To sing, to glorify, and to cook
for the Lord. So it is not a matter of taste, it is about the quality
of the intention which things are done with. The Vedic culture is
very refined culture, it is a culture of worshiping; everything is
worship, the cult of poetry to God, cult of decorating everything for
God, the cult of service, of preaching and publishing transcendental
books, the cult of receiving all visitors at the temple with much
love. Cult comes from culture, we must be cults, that means:
worshiper, cult and responsible.
We do not imagine how
important quality is in everything we do, the quality of service. We
must apply the intention of perfection in everything we do; when we
are negligents with the quality of what we do, things lose their
importance; and it means that there is no love in what we do nor on
the process we practice. Conclusion: We must take care of the
smallest details, try to do things with perfection and with love...
because by the perfection of devotional service we can reach the
Supreme Goal, the Darshan of Krishna, the meeting with God himself.
The process is to chant Hare Krishna with perfection and to execute
the art of devotion with perfection.
And the art of
devotional service we can apply to the different areas of the
preaching we attend; for example, to open an Original Kingdom
Ministry, a place to advertise and expand vegetarian awareness and
the protection to all living creatures and the nature; this is tru
art. To distribute everywhere the message of the compassionate and
free from karma food, the food blessed by God himself in the form of
prasadam, is complete art. And you all can learn the everyday art of
the activists who are opening new ministries like Hari Sankirtan in
Colombia and Madhu Mangal in Ecuador. And remember that the
importance of spiritual food is 100 percent, that is why we spend
energy to make new vegetarians with prasadam. Because prasadam is the
strength of our life... we should offer to Krishna only the best, the
best fruits that are not damaged by chemicals nor are transgenics,
the best healthy and organic offering grown with love, the best
classes and the best preaching to enchant the souls of Kali Yuga, the
best Bhajan and the best Kirtan, for His satisfaction. The devotee
must try to offer the best to Krishna.
We must share this
conscious that human beings should offer all they have to Krsna and
that offering should be the best ones, free of material
contaminations. This is bhakti yoga, the perfection. And the proofs
life brings us have the role of improving the quality of our
offering. To be even more perfect. And we always have to learn to
pass through new tests. We are under constant examination. And
tomorrow's test will be harder than today's test... This way only we
can be improving. That's the pedagogy of growth. God made everything
perfect and for the benefit of all.
Therefore, in the
service to God everything must be guided by that same intantion of
perfection. We should be very willing to pass through all the proofs
and tests that come to us. Even Srila Prabhupada had to pass through
tests as a pure devotee at the age of 80. Srila Puri Maharaj, with
over 100 years also had to pass through pure devotee's test. Of
course, at that level, tests are pastimes of Krishna.
Prabhupada did his
service with all the sacrifice of his soul and he is our role model.
So during hard times we should remember all the sacrifice he made so
that we might receive Krishna. We must pray to Srila Prabhupada for
our service to be accepted by Sri Krishna. This is a real spiritual
desire we should cultivate. To desire for Krishna to guide us with
His love and allow us to serve Him as a tool and for the people to be
happy with what we do, and for them to want to get closer to Krishna,
and for the devotees to feel pleased with our attempt to reach the
perfection of service.
We must not forget that
everybody is suffering because they don't know Krishna, they are
suffering for their lack of consciousness. That is why we must go
every day to the streets to win the hearts of people and bring them
to the Feet of the Lord. Everything we do has this basis, all the
preaching of the Spoon Revolution seeks to make new vegetarians...
for them to be more sensitive so they can accept Krishna in their
heart.
The websites we
maintain in the office, Cart Records musics, conscious art of the Art
School, the Vaishnava's Academies, the Yoga Inbound we offer, the
devotees' beautiful and sweet Harinam, the mass distribution of Oki
messages in letter size, the prasadam we distribute in our
restaurants, all, all, all this is directed to captivate the hearts
of the people and bring them to the feet of Srila Prabhupada and Sri
Krishna.
When we chant the holy
name of Krishna and read the Bhagavad Gita then we will find the
peace we are seeking, that is the message we give to people. God will
allow us to be sad for all our life, if that is what we want... but
that has no use, because the mission of human beings is to serve God
with joy.
That is my message for
today. Never lose the enthusiasm and always give your best to make
things with perfection, as an offering of life to God. I leave you
all my affection from Guaruja, where we had yesterday a wonderful
Rasa Yatra with Lord Jagannath at the city streets and the at beach.
Go on in the fight against Maya.
Jay Srila Prabhupada.
Your always
well-wisher,
Swami B. A.
Paramadvaiti.
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