Advances in Sankirtan - 3rd June, 2012. Uruguay

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.

"Jaya Jaya Radhe Syam, clean Vrindavan Dham", may 27th, 2012 from Argentina Yatra

Dear devotees,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Today I want to introduce to you a consciousness material which has been the result of months of work and, first of all, it tries to have environmental impact, so for this reason it is not printed on plastic, but it's handmade. This product was realized in our office in Vrindavan – India; before we printed it in Hindi and English, but we realized that the message is so good and strong we wanted to do a variation in Spanish.

This campaign is promoted in India by an organization called Braj Vrindavan Heritage Alliance, but in this version we have changed the phrase to "Our mission is to build sanctuaries in the hearts of every being". We've taken out the elements that focus only on one city (Vrindavan) and in one type of religion, including the various mystical traditions so it can be used by the whole world.

This poster was originally developed because of the ecological situation it's been lived in the holy sites to inform and educate them about it in different schools, ashrams and public areas. It is totally educational and looks like the typical Indian mantles that are very popular. It is full of green advices and hints that one can follow.

It is my heartfelt wish for this loom to be in all the temples and houses of grhastras. Why? Because our children need to interact with and learn these topics; so if you do not pay attention to this and don't practice it, means that you are clueless. The essential question regarding the subject of ecology is that only by seeing and experiencing it one can have the required concept to live in a different way.

I will explain you in details what the written messages here are talking about, so that you have a clue that tells us where we should walk through to deepen our mentality of respect for the Mother Earth, or how to have it if you do not already have it.

First I will refer to a key topic in the ecological issue: the topic of cleansing. We have recently been at the most beautiful lake in the world, Lake Titicaca and, although we have collected plastic from it several times, both the lake and reed plantations are full of garbage. Rivers and oceans around the world are contaminated by large amounts of waste of all kinds.

How do we approach to the cleaning?

You already know our program "A helping hand to Vrindavan". This is a project under development in which you can achieve perfection through the mercy of becoming someone humble and clean. Becoming someone who cleans. This is the reason why our Eco-villages and temples must be examples of cleanliness and if any of these sites needs to improve this aspect, please do something to make it happen. We must all participate, I do not want anyone to be without this opportunity to clean or assist in the cleanup.

Is true that life in community has many demands which makes difficult to work because there are many things to attend, we must always strive to be disciplined and clean. Together with the devotees who visit India we perform cleaning duties in the cities of Mayapur and Vrindavan, there we collect all the garbage founded in different holy places, we remove the plastic from rivers and lakes and transport it to the official city dump. At the end of the day of service, the result is a huge mountain of garbage.

We all can participate in this effort, while been away physically from Vrindavan, by sending a monthly donation to the cleaning program; by doing this we are not only giving something to the Holy Dham but also we receive much mercy. Thus we extend Vrindavan and Mayapur to other places on the planet, because we must remember that both are a state of consciousness. The Cleaning of Vrindavan - Mayapur and the sending of donations are an interesting example of activism, a practical way to become part of the solution instead of staying just in complaints. If we do not help with cleaning and garbage collection, everything will be contaminated.

Thats why we must take care of the sanctuary that exists inside and outside ourselves. We begin the cleaning task by keeping the temples clean and spotless, so every time we go to a temple we must look around it and pick up trash that we find, it is very important to experience firsthand the beautiful feeling that is produced by cleaning the temples.

We recently watched a documentary that tells the story of a village in the Himalayas which did not reach the roads, because they had no communication with the "so-called civilization"; later on that same village became a horror because of the contact with this "civilization", the impact was terrible, it made you want to mourn. The good news is that today there are still some communities that are kept separates from the materialistic influence to preserve their roots and do not suffer the evils of pollution on all levels that afflicts the whole world, an example are the native communities in the Sierra Nevada of Colombia.

Could it be that our life is to collect garbage? Is it the only conscious activity to protect the environment? The answer is no, there is much to be done in different areas, that is why we have more posts in this mantle that are of utmost importance to us and to our children.

Continuing with the explanation of the elements in the mantle of consciousness, we must pay attention to the center. What is there? We have kept the phrase "Jaya Radhe Jaya Syam, cleaning Vrindavan Dham", recalling the divine couple Sri Sri Radhe Syam. Above that is Sri Giriraj Govardhan, that represents our main iconography. We have also placed different universal symbols of love that have a deep meaning for many people who will come into contact with this mantle. We have also included the logos of some of the organizations involved in one way or another on this project, such as Values and Science, Yoga Inbound, Oida therapy, among others. We also placed the name of all our Eco Yoga Villages around the design, making a true pilgrimage around them.

We can also see some important temples of Vrindavan included on the poster, like Radha Gopinath Mandir, where we are doing restoration service, or Keshi Ghat, where is Pandavali Kunja, our main site of activities, and in the future will become a beautiful museum to spread the glories of the mission of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada. This way we can remember the cultural legacy of our teachers, because from them we came.

Another issue to consider is the transport. If we used ox-driven carts it would solve many of the problems caused by pollution containation. We've made four great oxen carts in Vrindavan, which look fantastic and are very useful. It is a solution for this issue. Similarly, in some cities of the world rikshawalas are being established as a transport; so for example there are rikshaws already in Barcelona and Rome and many of those who see them readily understand its usefulness and benefits. We obviously also count on the transport of bicycles and other non-polluting mediums.

We may be few, but we have much to do, that is why year after year we have established sites throughout the world witch the main criteria is ecology. These are our Eco Yoga Villages like the Eco Yoga Park in Argentina, Shanti Dwip in Bolivia, Vrinda Bhumi in Brazil and many other farms in South America, Europe and India.

Most important part of this mantle of conscience is that if you hang it somewhere along where people are passing, you will automatically provide information and exemplary education and you are also inviting them to become an activist. We need people to become activist for the benefit of the waters, to protect flora, fauna and Mother Earth itself. Imagine, if we could annul all the military activity on the planet, surely we would be able to reduce pollution by 70%. The same would happen if the whole world became vegetarian. We have tangible answers, but due to the current state of things, it become impractical, because what would the military say if they had to stop doing what they do and were forced to plow the land? So becoming somehow part of the solution to help Mother Earth is also a great help for yourself and your family. Another proposal is to use solar energy, for exemple.

All that we propose here is quite revolutionary, perhaps not everyone will be happy to read these proposals, but one of the basic premises of the work of an activist is to make himself to be noted and to fight for his ideals. On this course, we also suggest the suspension of visual pollution caused by large unconscious commercials advertisement.

It is our clear intention to serve humanity and the animals through all our activities. We must always be pending on this. For this, I invite you to become environmental activists today; the songle fact of making others become vegetarian means that you are already an activist.

We invite all the reasonable religions to participate in this cause, we do not exclude those who do not chant Hare Krishna, on the contrary, this is a universal call. We propose to all good will people to protect the Mother Earth, do not mistreat other beings, human or animals, and do not use anything but that of vegetarian origin. I can say unequivocally that if something is dirty on the outside it is also dirty on the inside. Let stop making the world sick and dirty. The dirty water must be purified and then it might be used; if we pollute the waters, we are obligated to clean them.

Further down in the mantle, we find a very direct message saying: study the Bhagavad Gita and other sacred books, use your time wisely and not waste it on superficial things. Before the twentieth century there were no problems like those of today. There were no large companies harming the Mother Nature, nor was there television with all the materialistic messages it promotes. Nobody imagined at the begining, that the TV or the computer could become the most powerful tool of the unconscious mind. Human beings in general were not capable to calculate the impact and difficulties brought by their own inventions, and that is how most people who use the internet have become addicted to Facebook, for example.

For this reason we have compiled all these messages, with the intention to wake up the people and so for them to take responsibility and awareness on issues that concern them and if, even so, they prefer to continue watching soccer or consuming marijuana, then we can say that is a person without reasoning or that has little humanity, because does not care for the welfare of himself or his family's. So, this is a call to everyone, to inform them of what is happening in the world and how we can help to provide solutions.

A practical example is that we all visit with some regularity the Yoga Eco Villages and are in direct contact with the ecological problems. But how many of us have put our hands into our pocket to help these farms or simply offered ourselves as volunteers? So there are many people on these occasions looking for consume only a few things nice things and that is all, but are not willing to do something to protect the flora and fauna of our planet. This is so because we are selfish and are part of a materialistic system that encourages selfishness in the highest degree.

There are not many who wish to hear this message, as it asks us for a real change in ourselves. I realized that this change is extremely slow, however, I continue to propose it because we had to start it sometime, we all know the saying "better late than never."

It is my wish that each of you has 10 of these mantles today, and that you take them to the temples or to your homes with the desire to spread them around the world, because that's why we've made it. It must be hunged everywhere. You can even distribute it and collect with it, but most important is that each one of you can give a daily lecture from one of the themes that are presented here.

A very important issue, discussed in the messages here founded, is the use of dry toilets, because waste and pollution are two things that are very closely related. Therefore, we must all take responsibility to monitor where to our waste is going. It is critical to note that only humans throw excrement and chemicals into the water, no other animal does such thing. The animals are much more aware than ourselves, constantly throwing papers and trash on the streets, lakes, rivers etc., without thinking that no one will come to pick them up for us. For this reason in this mantle is highlighted the phrase: "Water is our life, do not waste a drop".

Something transcendental to all of us and which is the basis of our daily awareness, in regard to the environmental issue and to all matters of life in general, are meditation and prayer, both are the crown of your heart. To illustrate this on our poster we put a devotee chanting japa, this is a way to make ourselves known to the world, and to show them our way of praying and meditating. We also helping to excite people to plant the sacred Tulasi.

In the poster we also address to the issue of noise pollution, which is another evils that afflict the world these days. Therefore we ask please not to impose loud noise to the people around, but to support with your actions the harmony and the meditative energies. The ideal is to always produce beautiful sounds and not to disturb those around us, the appropriate it not to invade the privacy of others; this includes our own kirtans, programs and conferences. I wish all the devotees to behave like true gentlemen and ladies, like friends of the heart, especially in regard to becoming a representative of the temple and the attitudes towards the deity. We should always transmit sweet sounds for all those who are participating in the programs can be attracted.

When enacting a healthy lifestyle that seeks to protect Mother Earth, we must bear in mind some details that are harmful to nature, for example, the burning of plastics. For anyone who wants to cultivate a green mentality this is completely forbidden, because it poisons the blood of people and Mother Earth itself. Therefore we encourage organic farming and celebrate all farmers who, despite all the difficulties imposed to them, are dedicated to maintaining a healthy production.

Oddly enough, people generally are not interested in the subject of healthy eating, as they are more attached to pleasant experiences when it comes to food. We do not stop to think that behind the taste of products on the market, there are components which are totally addictive. That is the reason for the high consumption of junk food, which is very tasty and totally harmful to health. The message is loud and clear: just eat food offered to God of which we know the provenance of its ingredients. It is essential the consumption of organic food and that means something very basic: Learn to accept the nature of things and to use what the earth gives us to live. Therefore we also constantly preach that eating meat, fish and eggs sadden Mother Earth.

When reading my words everyone can tell that to walk the path of consciousness is something costly. It requires a great investment not only monetarily, but more of effort, time and labor; but it is the only thing that has the power to awaken us from illusion. Today I want to wake you up with these messages and I clearly know that to read this type of thinkings cause some discomfort, this happens mainly due to the lack of chanting the holy name of Krishna with the right attitude and faith.

One more direct message for the consciousness is that everything that is produced in a place where there is alcohol, intoxicants and dead animal, becomes inauspicious. Marijuana use and tabacco produces irreversible damages to the respiratory system, thus the smokers converte their body into a hopeless case, because all the chemical residues from these products stay forever. It is amazing even knowing about all the effects people still continue consuming tobacco, as we all know that smoking is a major cause of death worldwide. For this reason is very recommended to watch and expose information about the physical consequences of the smoking habit. Despite this all, smoking is still considered as a social product, but the act of smoking is a complete insensitivity to the body that God gave us.

One of the facets of visual and noise pollution is the television. A box that makes us completely materialistic, because it's constantly sending subliminal messages with the idea that for us to be happy we must buy or have something new. So I recommend you not to waste your time on watching television, but to invest that same precious time in singing the Glories of God and the studies of the Sacred Books with the family. So this way we become part of the solution and help to provide options to the people of good will.

We must be aware even to the means of transportation we use, so you have to ride the bike whenever possible; other means such as motorcycles are a real anxiety and danger to people. There is always a risk of accidents that happens in the streets, therefore, one who operates a vehicle has the same responsibility as one who carries a gun. Our goal is to cover all areas to make us aware of every little detail that we must protect.

We want to see the streets, parks, rivers without litter; so we must educate and convince everyone of the importance of keeping the environment clean, including parents, and children at schools, etc. We must become aware of our trash, we think that everything we put in the trash can practically disappears, but it deosn't happen this way. The sun gives us a great blessing by acting on the organic waste and purifying it, but this does not happen with plastics. Therefore, we must avoid the use of all disposable plastic, cups, plates, etc. Use only biodegradable products, organic materials or metal made, or pottery, among others. There is somuch ability and technology in this regard that in the world today there are disposable products made from potato starch or corn; these are the conscious innovations we must rescue.

In this ecological loom, we have a variety of disciplines that are related to the value that is given to consciousness, for example: The Conscious Doctors, Values and Science, the Eco Yoga Villages, etc. All these programs are based mainly on affection and respect for those who love God, the nature and the animals. This is our political program and we want with our hearts that you become part of the party, that you have no other interest than the welfare of all entities, which seeks to promote a cleaner world, healthier people and that produce harmony within the environment. Thus the Supreme Lord in the heart might say, "This is a true son of Mother Earth who has been concerned about the welfare of his own parents and children and is not a disinterested person who just takes advantage of the environment by making suffer of other beings”.

I hope that throughout this effort we can raise some awareness, to some mothers who are representatives of Mother Earth, to make things right from now on and to see that it is possible to be part of the change, that we need help and energy to keep the beautiful places we have under our care as impeccable examples of consciousness; that must be our goal. To do this I need the continued support of you all, because I cannot do it alone. My heart's invitation is for you to become conscious and dedicated activists. It is not every day we touch these issues, so I ask you to take these words as treasures in your heart and hang the mantle of consciousness in your homes, temples, preaching centers or yoga schools.

I know it's hard for people to understand the meaning of consciousness, but we must spare no effort in it. I hope that from this moment on we become dedicated and conscious individuals in all these areas. Do not despair because people do not understand the background of all this, to one who has not been systematically educated it is very difficult to understand these type of issues, but we must not think that the others are in a lower level of understanding, that does no good for our spiritual development; but well, we must remember how we were when we used to live in unconscious manners, this way we can awaken others with much of affection. If you belive you are good and others are bad, you automatically convert yourself in a bad person. Only by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada who taught us to chant Hare Krishna, we received all this knowledge that took us out of ignorance.

All these issues are so important and interesting that we could talk about them day and night, so go ahead with the preaching of consciousness expansion. I thank you heartedly for all the beautiful things you are doing in our mission, devotees are always doing spectacular things and deserve our respect, although in some cases they still have much to learn. The effort is what counts; we must be tolerant but not condescending.

People are waiting to be awakened, they are willing for that and the OKis we are promoting are designed precisely to provoke mass awakening of consciousness, are new ideas to promote ancient messages. There are more than 1.100 varieties of OKis to be distributed and they are available to everybody. We have also DVD's and audiovisual materials that are very good, like DVD Changing the World, which was produced in Mexico's office, or the Eco Yoga Villages DVD produced together by several countries; we also have a film made in Colombia on conscious agriculture. They will be astonished to see all the materials we have to learn and implement in preaching, that's the most important, that all this is implemented and does not remain merely as beautiful words.

I wish you much enthusiasm in this life of serving the expansion of consciousness.

With great affection,

Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti

The Spiritual Family. 5/20/12 from Santiago, Chile

 Taking Shelter on Asraya Tattva: Srimati Radharani & Guru

From New Navadwip, Chile Yatra.




Dear devotees,


We are fortunate to be in front of Asraya vigraha, which is Srimati Radharani. She is the greatest gift we have in this world. What perhaps may seem more strange to you is that Lord Krsna himself takes refuge in Asraya vigraha. This is something unprecedented. As this beautiful Lord of the eternal love, Bhagavan Sri Krishna, he takes refuge in His loving internal energy and at the same time His energy opens the doors to all living beings who desperately need it.


We form a beautiful family, if we are invited it is because we are all one family. They do not invite you to do business, to get something from you; they invite you to be part of this family forever. Entering the depth of the Vaishnava faith. What do you think? Do you really pray to God? Up to what point is it a part of your daily life, with your affection, your expectations? What are you doing? Where do you want to get to? We are all on a trip but where do we want to get to? Let us be specific, is a bit hard to be so concrete when traveling to an eternal destiny. Goloka Vrindavan is full of mysteries. Of course, Krsna’s book is full of mysteries. And Krsna reveals many of those mysteries in a very interesting and beautiful way. It is manifested as the land of love, Vaikuntha’s crown. There the supreme enjoyer and controller is with the person who owns Him. In divine love it is shown that Radharani is the main figure. She is the greatest personality of shelter and she expands Her refuge. Guru tattva is also Asraya tattva. It is our tattva...


We are all studying to become worthy to offer shelter to others. This is most wonderful, is what makes you feel that it is a spiritual family. It is not a sale of convenience, not a place of amusement, it is commitment. Look how far it expands. In a family you do not say thank you; ‘Thank you’ is considered a semi-abusive expression. It's something like ‘thank you, see you later’; by saying ‘thank you’ I rewarded you, and now I’m free of charge. So you say ‘thanks mommy’, and she says ‘no need’. The mom does not do service for the child to receive ‘thanks’. This is the western-spoken way. We do not think much on it. In the Vedic culture ‘thank you’ is not appreciated because the commitment is total within the family. If I am yours, I am yours forever. Not for a month. And then you say, I have to go and I don’t come back, that's the material world.


Today you're the star, the alleged person of the other’s life, and tomorrow you are one of the ex’s, expired, expelled. That is not exactly a family. Father and mother cannot be ex. There are ex sannyasis but there should not be. Ex love not, if it’s not, then it wasn’t love. Do not make ir less or give relative calculation of Asraya. In other words you are in the course of becoming a person worthy and able to provide permanent shelter to others. All I know is that I was initiated with my spiritual master, by His grace I received the order of monk, the holy name of Krsna and from there on my Guru has me with Him. He has not released from me in forty years and I feel He is happy. Although there is also the prodigal son, which is more important than the other.


Krsna Consciousness is the gateway to the maximmum in this life. Without it your existence will not be complete. If we get together here like a club, we hold each other’s hand, we share interesting informations, but if we keep on our destiny with no care for others that is not Krsna Consciousness. It is a training to become part of that commitment to the eternal spiritual family that transcends the material body. That is very rare. Fortunately, something can go beyond, because this body, this beloved flesh of meat, you may lose it any moment. It is vulnerable. We can lose it today. Perhaps not all is lost, who knows what is lost. Severe is this. If you invest all your life and hope in the material body, soon you’ll have nothing. You are investing your money in a bank account that does not exist. You deposited everything and the account is not yours. It is only based in physical vanity. And soon you're dying and wanting them to return you the money you invested. Only thing you'll take is a jar of ashes. Not even that you take, someone else has to carry it. I speak of an eternal family because it is the only shelter the soul has and for some atheists it does not exist, everything is finished in the tomb.


And for this reason I will enjoy the last days I have left. That is half precarious. It cannot be trusted. If something goes wrong they say goodbye to everything. I vain, enjoyer, the rest I do not know what they do. Each one looks for himself. Who is the single one in the world who is not like that? The mom. She is the only one that has us inextricably tied. My mommy, but I have no time for my mommy. The love we seek, overcomes the mother’s love for her child. If your identification with the Lord does not overcomes the love of a mother, you're still not at the level of evolucion you need. You’re mastered by carnal desire. It is the subject of attachment and thus the devotee becomes attached in two ways, first to Asraya tattva, the Guru and to Radharani. It should be a reinforced attachment to be so deep and powerful that it removes the jiva from the material world. If I'm not very attached to Guru and to the Supreme Lord I will not be successful in spiritual life.


The highest ecstasy is the ultimate horror, which is the loss of privacy. I have no private life, I am yours. I do not know if all of you realize that. I even have my mom. To have a good spiritual life one must be attached over all to the Guru. These are matters of the heart accompanied by true sacrifice, otherwise love is a joke. I renounced material life. I do not want to know anything other than Krsna. This is yours, No thank you, it is Krsna’s. I have no private accounts, properties in my name. I can be a front man for Krishna. But make it clear that it is all Krsna’s.


The world laws are different, before issues were solved with words. Now everything is governed by the laws. The Mapuche passed their legacy by speech. And so was the story. The ancestors had no concept of running the survival of the species like today. They were smarter, now we have notaries and problems. You must become a Guru so you do not forget. We are all Siksa Guru in varying proportions. Those who listen well and soon speak what have heard are a Guru. What comes out of the key must be pure water from the fountain, it should not be adulterated. The water must not come out brown. You want pure water from the fountain. You want tattva, Krishna, the truth. He teaches you something and now it's yours, you must share it. We must share it with everyone, the service and its results. It must be distributed and you are on the course and when you’re on the course Guru is yours and the Guru is watching over you until He’s able to. The Guru is no longer the Guru but Krsna, and when He is in your heart as paramatma, who is the original Guru. The Guru never leaves you. My diksa Guru is not gone, he is manifested in other Vaishnavas and is now in my heart. It is always like that the true union with the Tattva Guru. Krsna doesn’t leave you, He does not let you go, and He does not abandon you. He does not say 'I'm going to Goloka, you stay here alone’. Paramatma never says goodbye to a soul. Krsna is the most tolerant of all, to put up with many people’s Paramatma who have done evil to this world. He is most tolerant. It's the way He manifests. Ravana also had Paramatma. In the Lord’s lila demons also manifest against spirituality and spiritual family...


What makes the spiritual life strong  is you getting attached to the people which you are nursing, in such way that you belong to them. You must stick to the people you are taking care. You have no right for yourself. I want you to occupy me in the service of Krsna from morning until night. And when I’m separate from this body I hope that the vaisnavas receive me on the other side to give me more service, with no time for leisure and separation from the devotees. This is the philosophy of the spiritual family, going far beyond from what we see here in the room. The spiritual family potentially includes everyone. If you know how hard the Gurus include you, you will not want to get away. A spiritual family does not move away from someone. And you do not move away from the family. I will serve like this well until we see what God makes with us. It is a commitment of fidelity, very high awareness, and commitment. I am yours. It must be like this. If you want something less than this then you are not complying with the invitation. Prabhupada's invitation is to go back home, back to God. We do not get lost in this material world. And now we go to the mountain. And we go to the river. To be embraced of our Mother Nature to foster this relationship of this family to learn how to be a representative (delegate). I'm leaving on Monday and I am not sure I will return to Chile. Do not get me wrong, I'm taking notes of realities. I have a material body, any time one will have to leave it.


I have been saying this for twenty years now and they still have me around here. I will probably be back here sharing many beautiful things. I would love to come back here because I love you so intensely. I belong to you. Then someone tells me, stay. But I also belong to the devotees of Florianópolis, Buenos Aires, Cordoba. I have to say "I want to obey and stay but I cannot because where the captain orders the sailor doesn’t". And the disciple is the Guru’s owner, but does not order because he has a command from a superior. It's like the commitment of a father with many children. A child cannot say “dad you are my dad only” and put all the others aside. The son, the deciple may feel that he is the dearest of his guru, if you behave well it is not so hard to feel so. But in the relativity of divinity there are some contradictions, the paradox of love is I love each one of you more than any other. To each and every one I love solely and exclusively. In India when there is a conference and there is a gathering of many disciples of Gurus, all children of  Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, they all say they were the dearest disciple of their Guru. It seems illogical in the Western system. But it is not so in the spiritual life, there is such potency in spiritual love that supersedes it all. Paramatma loves us in such an intense way, just like we do. My Paramtma stands me and for standing me this much it is because he loves me exclusively. Because if not, why is He there. It's a miracle. "I give knowledge, I give forgetfulness and I give the memory. And I'm all for you. "I'm in the heart of all beings related to my world”. Thanks to Krsna, that gave us another beautiful sunny day.


Now I wanted to say a little things, my time is very measured. I'll talk alone with several devotees. The flight of birds forms an arrow. The ones in the front are protect. The one at the tip is the hardest. And that’s why the one at the ones at the tip are always changing. If I have a wish it would be to have a flying carpet. :) Airplanes have me here and airports there. An extending carpet, as many people as I want to bring up. It seems that in this life I will not have it. A large Harinam sankirtan in group. There's a mystique there. In spiritual life the individual personal contact is very important. This love that we want to give us is the love we have to give people, the love that God sends to our way. It's how it works. Asraya vigraha. You have to give your love to people who need it the most, with all your commitment, and encourage them by giving them the same treasure you have received. Asraya tattva is Radharani expanded in all her devotees. Krsna is the one who attends to each of the devotees.
The way to subjugate the Supreme Lord is to take shelter on Asraya tattva, in Radharani. There is an ongoing competition between Krsna and His devotee to see who serves whom. That is love. It's not like in the material world where I want to exploit and calculate. I want you to be tied to the real commitment. If you want to be linked, this is the only way I know and it's worth it. That's the only thing I offer you. I do not offer you eternal health, mystical powers, passports, nor a beautiful wife or a good husband. Sometimes it happens. He has plenty. To each one it comes when it’s needed. That is the way of karma. What I can offer you is the family Prabhupada offered me. And if I had found something better I would have already gone and I would have told you all so we can all go together. The best I found is Srila Prabhupada and his love.


We are trying to continue with this family that is sometimes very heavy to carry but it is also the most beautiful thing one can imagine. Family is not pure nectar. Anything can happen, surprises which are not necessarily the greatest joy, but in love, sorrow or joy they are good. For the one who loves everything that happens is perfect. He knows where he is at and goes with the flow. One thing comes with the other. It is better to accept it as it is, because it seems that is the desire of the material world that we cannot change it. For some reason it will be that way, if God planned it that way. You have to accept things as they are even if sometimes we do not like them.




Thank you very much for listening and accompanying me. And allowing me to serve you. This way you shall never be alone or helpless. I am a slave for you. One shows that he appreciates what the slave is doing by becoming a slave of the slave. Krsna is the servant of the servant of the servant. It is mystical but it is demonstrated in reality. The tree is searched for the fruits. Jay Srila Prabhupada.






Your always well-wisher,
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti.

Krsna Krsna Govinda! Life is Beautiful. From Chile, Ekachakra 5/13/12

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Dear spiritual brothers and sisters. Please accept my obeisances.

Vrinda family’s Sunday Chat, ki jay, Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay, Srila Atulananda Acarya ki jay.

Srila Guru Maharaj is in good health. Yesterday we arrived at Ekachakra mandir in Chile Yatra. Sripad Damodara Maharaj arranged the transport of Gurudeva. The trip was quick, we arrived around 4 am. Guru Maharaj arrived and greeted the devotees who received him, then got ready to attend the mangal arati in the morning.

This morning Guru Maharaj began the day with a meeting of OidaTherapy.
Right now, the meeting is continuing. The local team present is confirmed: mother Radhika Kumari, mother Vayayanti, mother Prema Mohini, mother Sati and mother Dulali.

The main topics included: 
The development of Oida Therapy in Chile. Presentation of work or progress of each one of the team. The development of the Purges’ Project, a work connected with OidaTherapy. Comments on the new edition of the book. In briefly and in general, Guru Maharaj reinforced the links between the group and encouraged the projects in development. Now Guru Maharaj is going for morning class and from the class, will dictate the chat today.

From Eka-chakra: Welcome to the loving chaos of Vrinda family.

When something grows very much it is difficult to maintain discipline, it is difficult to keep it organized, with good vision. When something grows, what used to function in the beginning not necessarily functions now. Something that works on a small scale not necessarily works on a large scale. Indeed, I give you the example of the artists, I can also give the example of the art departments, there are so many contributions from the Vrinda family that it may not get noticed because there are so many that you do not have time to look at.

The Internet is a big space to get lost in. I remember when Rasa Manjari of Germany, was the first who made video clips, then we were all so proud because they were spectacular. Gurudeva Atulananda is similar to a volcano because from him always springs wonders, songs, books, lectures; I do not know how many there are already recorded. Because years pass, I listened to Damodar Maharaj 12 years ago and he was very dynamic.

Krishna Krishna Govinda, life is beautiful, we are always traveling, singing, admiring the wonders of the devotees. But there are two parts, one is the organization and another is the funding, because this does not happen so easily. Where there is notion of private property there is no notion of equality, of volunteering, it does not fit there, so it is practically about an ecological community, a project we do together, where we can say, "Krishna Krishna Govinda life is beautiful.” It is not that we say Krishna Krishna and that's the end of it, life is beautiful, it is boundary. Where the boundary begins the beauty ends, that was something revealed at this moment.

The spiritual community is where you do the spiritual; there rules only "Krishna Krishna Govinda, life is beautiful". The parameters, the statutes, the approaches of Srila Prabhupada are in such way that if there is no cause in common, if it is not like that, then there is nothing, then we are not attached to Eka Chakra, of course we love it with the heart because there is no notion of private property, this is something very beautiful and has great potential, more than all educational potential. Tirtha Maharaj is here representing an ideal, which is love for Krishna, love for the devotees, and this is work and cheerful work. The Christians said “pray a lot and work hard”, or as the Chileans say to God “in prayer and with the hammer” (orando y con el mazo dando). One must work for his ideals, one has to translate it and who wants to support, to participate, does it.

New Navadwip was 3,000 meters square, where the Vrinda mission started picking up forces. As soon as you want to do something for Krishna things move. For example, we come from Bolivia where Bhima Prabhu, where he purchased a building for his company and said he would provide a floor for the devotees. Now Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Ramanji are there already installed, this is the best place that La Paz has had so far. So this was possible thanks to the sacrifice and generosity of a devotee.

A devotee is recognized because he works for the happiness of others. If he own a house he invites the others, decorates it beautifully, has everything open, the opportunity for everyone to go, so that everybody may learn. Like Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur said, “Our mission is to build a temple, a mandir of love in the heart of each jiva.” In short, a temple in the heart of each one, that is our task. That is our mission and for that we have ministries, that is the ministry of love for animals that cannot get together to defend their interests and now we meet to decide how we do it for them ...

There must have protection laws, the best law is the growth of consciousness. This is ethics, understanding. Therefore, our spiritual life basically revolves around these concepts. The Spoon Revolution is to awaken love for the animals and for the mother earth. The more dedicated you are to the happiness of others, a higher level you are making, it is not a thing to say: I make others happy and then mistreat them, this is not propaganda, it must be real, this is not by birth.

The bankers system is like the system of the lenders, you are in need so for that reason I lend you, but if you do not return it to me I will take your house and not only that, but I will take it back with 80% or perhaps less, favorable interests, it’s how they call it, but in essence everybody who lends you money does it because want your money. So that's the idea of ​​the bankers. This I say because I met a lady who has this philosophy, when you see that this philosophy is the opposite, our philosophy is the most dedicated to the happiness of others. That is a great server, not the one saying I am a servant and you are not, the Brahmin is a very humble servant, he wants to achieve the purpose and the purpose is sacrifice. We are the proof of goodness of the joy you can give to others.

All regionalisms, fanaticism, all that has no solution, it has no medicine, no joy at long term, only at your ego’s moment you feel encouraged for a moment. The party of Krishna in this material world, is the party that loves everyone, here we do not want to discourage people, we don’t have this desire, all we want is for everyone to become more loving and devoted, because people who have many material attachments have many problems, in fact many get sick. Someone who thinks can do whatever wants to be happy, because for them karma law does not exists, this person motivates the justifications of his way of acting and being by a materialist.

Many people think that seeing you suffering makes them happy. An example for this is bullfighting, how can they be there with their suits supposedly civilized, and are watching how to torture a bull, while the animal is just looking for grass. While the bullfighter is coming with a flag and if the bull does not want to fight, people with little flags go and stick it into its back. So, why are all these people there? To see the dead flesh of a bull? No, that is not what they want to see, otherwise they would go to a slaughterhouse in the city filled of bulls dead flesh, but people want to see blood from a bullfighter.

Man no longer touches the earth, no longer respects it. They don’t know that if they have a wound mud can help them, most people think that if they do this it will cause them infections, but that's not true. The land is not infected, it heals, since land cannot be sold at high prices it is not good business. Then the naturalist, the holistic, the healer, the ones seeking something to sane the world, the ones seeking God in all this, does not agree with materialism.

Secular education is crazy, although originally, the education was a salvation before the fascist dictatorship. But the inquisition is not over, still exists, it just changed its face.

To sing "Krishna Krishna Govinda, life is beautiful" is a miracle of yoga maya. We have things to say and to contribute that are of maximum importance, but let's say in legislation, in the power of the world, we did not exist yet. This is a question one should ask, what is Sri Chaitanya’s plan?

We have the plan to conquer and reach every ones heart. What is happening to secularism is that it was hijacked by the consumer society, and it used to belong to those who previously had fundamentalism. So the people were subdued by this theist fear. When secular education reached the world, then that was not secular, secular is something that is supposedly impartial and that does not favor anyone over another, and gives no right to abuse of one and other. It has a very positive connotation but after it was kidnapped by materialism the opposite occurred, anyone who talks about values ​​was already seen as someone who diverts the purposes of society.

Even in India you can see this, people saying that religion doesn’t matter but economic developments of the country does. They no longer pay attention to the environment, thus, the world has a terrible materialism fighting against the health of the people themselves, fighting against spiritual values. We are all brothers and we must make others happy. We must continue with this song throughout our life, "Krishna Krishna Govinda, life is beautiful". You may this way, accept life.

We must understand that there is a difference, a karmic thing, we must accept the mind as it is, the pocket as it is, this doesn’t mean we're not going to work, what it means is that we must be aware that we should not be afraid of anything. If you are afraid of what might happen to you in the future, behave better every day. Spirituality is whenever you sing Hare Krishna you are appealing for spiritual amnesty.

The eternal soul is not happy in a temporal world, so Krishna said accept it, you're here to learn, to suffer, to offer your respects, you are here to be intelligent and to ask for the spiritual amnesty to be conceded, this is the first thing, the devotees have no shame. Our approach is to love everyone, to love, to care, to change the setting, to start based on our potential, transcendental, sat cit ananda vigraha.

If I'm with sat then I am happy, if I am with cit then I’m grateful, if I am with ananda I’m in ecstasy and vigraha the personification of sat cit ananda is the everlasting father, the source of all existence. This is something I wanted to say to you this morning. Something very beautiful is happening, I am very happy here with Gurudeva Atulananda and with you all. A brahmana is not necessarily a great organizer, like the style of a large company; the brahmana is always sincere and is wprking on injecting this purity into his family, in his surroundings. The brahmanas use to give their hope to the world, without a culture of Brahmins there is nothing.

Srila Prabhupada said he established a school for "Brahmins". That is the success of our mission the formation of brahmanas, support each other with training materials, with web pages. As it is all based on volunteering, sometimes mandatory it is messy, I see that despite the disorder everything grows, and that is something amazing, because our heart is set on the feet of Prabhupada, and the lotus feet of Srila Prabhuapda are like Krishna and Arjuna and where they are there is victory.

Of course I always want to organize everything better, in fact tomorrow we’ll have a national meeting here in Chile, to see how there can be more vegetarians, so there are more success in relationships. The development of Eco Yoga Village is also very important, there are many important things and we will continue to grow with your help. So I invite you to help me make this contribution to humanity, more beautiful and loving, with less chaos, with your help and listen to the advanced devotees who live to make others happy. Pay attention to them because they will be the ones to realize something and have a criterion, so we ask that Gurdueva Atulananda speak more on these aspects.

Gurudeva Atulananda:

The brahmanas are the head of society. Helping is the result of love, and that already sounds revolutionary. That love becomes revolutionary and that it becomes a danger to society. But that is, Jesus himself was saw him as a danger to society.

As Gurudeva Paramadvaiti said, we all have within us a materialist, for some reason we are in this world, but we ask Krishna to remove it, because that materialistic is too powerful. We alone cannot eliminate it. So through constant prayer we ask Krishna to establish in us the divine nature, to attract us to the higher realm. We need attraction to the transcendent and so we will give our back to the material. That is what our walk in this world and our walk out of this world.

When you're in a dungeon you must get out of it, and we remain in the dungeon when we are more interested in ourselves than in universal goodness, is a mystical prison, the bars are our own selfishness, envy, our low ability to bend toward was to what was pure and good. What is pure is what pleases the Supreme, the impure is what pleases the senses, to my ego. The impure is averything that makes me suffer and keeps me conditioned. That is very easy to spot, so the most intelligent people realize these things, they see it clearly. They see that the entire problem is our own anarthas, defects, Krishna is right here, in our hearts. Krishna is with us, but we do not want to listen to Him. It's like a child living in his father's house but still doing it on his own accord. Krsna said in the Bhagavad Gita, this takes many births, but soon you will surrender to Me.

Gurumaharaj:

I forgot that today is Mother's Day in Chile. We pay our respects and love to all women who have children, to those living in the Visnu Priyas, to the Maharanis. It's a great phenomenon of revelation in this world, thanks to the original mothers who have our world on track towards the goal, Srimati Radharani ki jay! Bhumi Devi ki jay! Sraddha Devi ki jay!

We cannot compete with the mothers, how they work for the good of all.


All glories to the women in Krishna consciousness and all the mothers in the world!

Srila Prabhupada ki jay!

Your always well-wisher

Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti.