Every act of our life should be an offering 12/29/13 from Colombia

Hare krishna

Dandavats pranams to all of you

Srila Gurumaharaj ki jay

Srila Atulananda acarya ki jay

     Aradhya prabhu:  jay dandavats to all Gurumaharaj ki jay. Friday night Guru Maharaja arrived to bogota, more than 100 devotees where expecting him, he gave us a short class and shared some moments with us. The next morning he went to villa de leyva a traditional turistic town of boyaca where the mayor and local authorities gave him the keys of the city and named him honorable person for the city because of his ideals and different projects in benefit to mother nature, animals and human beings also for his contributions in education. There was a very nice ceremony where many kids received him with offerings and with emotional words from the mayor and from the people of town. Jagannath vallenato gave a show and later Srila Guru Maharaja dictated a lecture. The mayor committed himself to work in ecologic programs and agriculture alongside the support of Guru Maharaja.

In the afternoon Guru Maharaja and devotees went to visit the restaurant of Sevanandini mataji in the center of villa de leyva and then they went to the gurukula program whcih please Srila Guru Maharaja very much. 

This is a center where there are 9 kids that receive spiritual education, they have all the installations adequate for them, after the lecture in the night Guru Maharaj guided a arati ceremony for the constellation of sapta rishi in the hot springs. The ceremony was decorated with many candles and every body committed themselves with vows to protection of mother earth now Guru maharaj is in seva bogota ,he will start with a meeting of seva office projects and then yatra projects.

Gurudeva emphasized that we need to give more attention to good nutrition, the importance of seed protection, growing organically and to listen to the voices of the farmers and natives so generations to come can have a future in this earth. At night when he gave the lecture how one should heal all bad relationships that may exist between devotees as well as with all living entities so we can work in harmony. He also spoke about the importance of education. It should not be based in the concepts of consumerism which society imposes us upon us but an education with values that really teaches children and young people how to live in a system

where many living entities live in harmony and everyone is respected. All the technology and media are constructing models for fooling young people and schooling is where these models are imposed, where consumerism is the most important, only a cheating system to enrich companies. The educational enterprises are involved in creating consumerism models and they utilize our information that we give them and they find our needs only for the purpose of enriching themselves. Now the meeting is going to start.

The lecture begins, jay Srila Gurumaharaj

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Dear devotees,

Please receive all my affection from Colombia. Today i send you a message from the center of operation, seva colombia, where we are discussing how to serve better Srila Prabhupada through the Vrinda family. The theme of today is very important: every act of our life should become an offering.

Somedays ago I was in contact with a native priest of South America that is an expert in offerings. She told me that the barriers that exist between a human being and the divinity will be trespassed through the act of offering in the form of sound in other words by songs. These offerings done with love and surrender to the divinity goes directly to the spiritual world. This is the power and the mystic of the divine sound, divine songs with divine messages that promote divine entertainment and offering is not something that is just repeated as if we were parrots, they are invocations full of spiritual meaning and as we invoke the spiritual master reciting his glorification mantra Om nitya lila pravistha om vishnupad paramahamsa parivrajakacarya Sri Srimad Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, ki jay... in this prayer I am asking for the blessing of Srila Prabhupada, i am saying : Prabhupada i am here , i am yours, i belong to you, i want to live for you and do what ever you want me to do. This is complete divine sound and the divine sound goes beyond the sky, beyond barriers of the mind, of intelligence and false ego, and it enters to the world of devotion.

The songs of our acaryas such as Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur are full of this divine sound and this divine meaning, imploring to the Supreme Lord for refuge and that we may give our heart completely. These prayers remove all the dirtiness of our interior world and all that is around us as well as that which keeps us away from Krsna, that is removed. All obstacles between you and God are strongly removed if you cry for mercy. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Srila Narottama Das Thakura are incredible examples. Each of their songs is a divine explosion of dedication and devotion. What we have to do is bring people the knowledge and understanding that God's love is the reality, that love for Sri Sri Radha Krsna is the Supreme reality, not this world of illusion, this is not the reality. What do you prefer? Is it your desire to be with the Supreme reality of love or the world of illusion ?

Krsna is the reality, we can listen from Him, we can worship Him, we can serve Him, we are connected with Him and with vrindavan through hearing and by chanting the holy names. Thus in the process of offering, of reciting divine sounds, we have to be very respectful and never commit offenses against devotees, an example is the pastime of  the immolation of sati, the chaste wife of Siva. Even if you do great yajnas with all the brahminical procedures, nothing is succesful if you commit offenses against the devotees, take for example the prajapati daksa, a higher brahmana who committed offenses against Lord Siva. So we pray profoundly to Gopesvara Mahadev so he can save us from the offenses against devotees, we should never forget that we will die in any moment, so we have to remember the sweet name of Lord Krsna  as our only hope. With this messsage i say goodbye to you so we can continue with our seva office meeting in bogota. 

Srila Prabhupada ki jay.
Your Always Well Wisher,
B.A. Paramadvaiti Swami

Envy of God 12/22/13 Mexico

My dear devotees, receive all my affection from Mexico .
The land of Sri Gauranga Radha Madhava .

Very nice days in the company of Mexican warriors . Today I want to talk about a very common issue among us, of which we hardly realize that we are very attached to. It is the envy of God . We always seek to be the most prominent of something.

A girl wants to be the prettiest, or someone wants to be the richest . We are always trying to be "the most ..." So, when this is exaggerated, the richest wants to be even richer than God ... That's the bad consciousness of competition, the rising vanity, the desire for power . In the scriptures we find many examples of this, the demons like Hiranyakasipu wanted to be more than Krishna ... Even demigods like Lord Indra, also are envious of God. What to say about Lord Brahma himself , who thinks he can fool and confuse Krishna hiding  his friends, shepherds and cows.

Nobody can compete with Krishna, no one should , no one should doubt the existence of Krishna. That is something offensive, intolerable. Krishna is the Supreme, they can give Him different names, but if you call Him Yave , Adonai , Allah , or as you like to call Him it is still Krishna , the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the origin of all, the sum total of all and, in addition,  He is your everlasting father, the goal of all perfection.

So how to be envious of someone who has given us all ? Envy is not only competition , if you do not pay attention to God  you are also envious, for you are not able to appreciate all that you have received from Him nor revere Him for that.

Have you ever wondered : What do you do for Krishna ? In other words we can say that God is always present, but it does depend on how much value we give it, is simply a matter of realities. In Vedic culture the presence of God is in all areas of life and it is a constitutional right . The same happens in the ancient cultures. It's all constitutional and it does not give rise to discussion. Krishna can not be debatable. It is not a matter of debate or ambiguity. We can not say that we are all God ... God of what?

The Mayavadis , the Impersonalists are completely envious of God. They accept all the incarnations of Vishnu as figures you can meditate and worship, but why to what extent ? So they can "detach" themselves from the personal and melt into nothingness. It should be clear that just because we know that we have an eternal nature with God, that we do not have the need to pray, nor to purify or qualify ourselves as servants. Contrary. For as much awakened spiritual nature that we have we must recognize the superiority of Sri Krishna and His associates Sri Balaram , Sri Gauranga and Nityananda ... For only they can save us from material existence. Only Krishna and Prabhupada can save us.

Srila Prabhupada said that he could help us to stay connected to Him. So we must give much importance to cultivate our relationships with others to always stay beside the devotees and Prabhupada, stay close to them and become their servants, so we will be forever linked to Krishna Himself . We must cut that root of envy towards God and we will succeed only to the extent that we do service in connection with the devotees and the spiritual master .

Some time ago in Europe there was a famous yogi who invited people to " become God through meditating". Imagine that madness. Such things are very common today because people want to enjoy to the maximum exponential possibility of everything, so they yearn to become God of something. This is just another confirmation that we are marked by envy .

We must precisely define that Sri Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so to cut the impersonal that has expanded so strongly and that preaches this jealousy without reason and which only makes us believe that we should not worship anyone because I myself am the center of everything. What a crazy mentality. Our goal is to become servants of Krishna and His devotees. Krishna himself has revealed the process for this. That's what we want and that's what we're spreading. That is the essence. So that is why we do marathons in December in Bogota, Chile, Mexico, Peru ... To expand the process of becoming servants of Krishna, to save the souls of the envious tendency towards God that looks so lovely, but it is no more than a great offense. These are the teachings of Srila Prabhupada.

I want each of you to feel completely part of this family of service to Srila Prabhupada and focus on working hard and wonderfully to be happy about it.
That's my message to you today .

Today we have a very nice preaching to organize here in Mexico. Devotees are very active, developing wonderful programs .

There is nothing to fear , for Lord Krishna is here and we are dealing in His service. We just have to connect with Srila Prabhupada and move on. All my love to you. Have a very nice ending in the December marathon, conquering many hearts for Krishna and Prabhupada.
Jay Srila Prabhupada!

Your always wisher,
Swami B.A Paramadvaiti

Sankirtan Marathon. From India 12/08/13

                                               Conference .

My dear devotees, this is my last message from India .
All my affection for all of you.

After having seen a documentary about vaccines, I can only say to all of you, especially to the fathers of their family : avoid , avoid , avoid , all vaccines for your children and yourself. I will not spend the time now to tell you about all the arguments, but it is a documentary called, "Vaccination, the hidden truth " which has subtitles in Spanish, and there you can find all the arguments that one person can have to never put their children in more danger of the greedy speculation of irresponsible people.

As far as I know, no vaccine is required, they are all dangerous. After watching this documentary, I personally consider myself a victim of the vaccination, I suffered from asthma in my childhood and that is one of the diseases that  arise from vaccines.

Apart from this, many diseases like autism, epilepsy, allergies, hyperactivity in children, etc., are linked with vaccines. The Mafia are of such shameful great size. When one sees the amount of lies they give the people so they can take their money including putting them in life threatening situations, it is incredible. Think and inform yourself. After watching this documentary, I felt like putting those personas who gave me vaccinations in my childhood in front of a jury. It is something incredible. Do not have doubts on it any more, this is a message directly from my heart ... and these vaccinations are something that should be totally dismissed . It is better said that I amcompletely interested in your health and in your children's health, but I am disinterested in the business of vaccines. This was a brief statement before giving my message on the December marathon .

Today I received a video about the Sankirtan marathon which gave me much joy to see. Sankirtan is a way out from misery. It is a celebration of joy. It is the perfection of human intercommunication . There is nothing more profound and sweet than to arouse a soul from their worldly life without hope.  Even if its a rare case of immediate success. Each one of us are a success and these, and if you were a success, then why can't others also be?

I'm over taken by the need of the Krishna Consciousness for this world, even though there are many people who do not understand that, but like the devotees here who didn't give me the chance to give class tonight because they went out to Sankirtan.

Today some devotees left to do Sankirtan theatre on the street. This is a theater that can be done everywhere and can be combined with Sankirtan. It is the awakening of eco consciousness by part of the Global Conscious Compact, with excellent illustrations done by Vishvarupa , he also does them in expanded forms in the streets of Vrindavan.

It is a simple system : one person is wearing a costume filled of junk which represents the "Muci", the " the pig ", this persona goes throughout the streets looking friends, better said, he is in search of piggish people who allow his products to be thrown in the street. He congratulates them and tries to embrace them.

Symbolically, "Muci" throws trash over people's heads, in an expressive manner towards the floor. And if someone comes to pick up the garbage to put it in the right place ( "Suci" ) who is walking in a group in the form of one giant bag and inside there is a beautiful person, every time someone comes to do that "Muci" comes to protest against recycling and tells them trash is meant to be left on the street. In a moment appears one cow with a wonderful costume and then "Muci" gives the cow plastic to eat.
The cow becomes sick and falls flat, hence a member of the theater comes disguised as the "Doctor" and he takes the plastic out of mouth of the cow and screams to the surrounding public "plastic kills cows." In India, the killing of cows is called " gohatya " and is seen as one of the worst crimes.

The doctor takes the plastic out of the cow's mouth and sings " Govinda, Govinda, Govinda, wake up please" and the cow gets up with the applause of the people. It is an effective theater because it is held in front of the very Shops that are responsible for fouling and generating garbage, thus "Muci" finds his allies there and congratulates them. " Yamuna " the sacred river, she is represented by a beautiful woman with a dress that also has plastic on it, " Yamuna " protests and tells everyone that they should put the plastic in the garbage bag and demonstrates the cause of contaminating her river.

At the end, the actors present the chaddar of Vrindavan with all the conscious messages if someone  wants to buy it then it can be sold so it can be hung in the house. You can also present them with posters, which can be stuck to the wall of the offender, the Business, so they can remember the impact of the theater.

It is a short work that can be repeated every time. For Europe you can even show the separation of the organic and inorganic garbage. Now, all of you  who have seen this message as a bit rudimentary, but here in India, when it is executed by western actors it creates a tremendous impact and it goes hand in hand with our campaign of protecting the Yamuna.

This is a bit of the Sankirtan of Vrindavan these days. We also take the play to one school in Delhi and it was very well received and reported in newspapers throughout the city. Tomorrow we are going to present this work to one of thestrong supporters of Vrindavan , KPS Gill and Chandi Heffner , the Doctor of animals .

With these words I bid you farewell. Sending you all my affection from Vrinda Kunja and all the enthusiasm to have many wonderful days in the Sankirtan marathon. I am very happy that we are going to meet soon.
A hug from the heart.

Jay Srila Prabhupada!
Your always well wisher,
Ba Paramadvaiti Swami

Sri Krsna Bhajanamrta 12/1/13 From India

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