Duality must be tolerated and accepted. From Bogota. 05/31/2015

My dear devotees:

Being against time is always a little heavy, but life is always against the clock, we have only one chance, that is to run forward in this world, samsara; Every moment counts every minute, every thought, every word counts. Sometimes we think that the fleeting pleasure of the moment is the most important thing when in fact, what is most important is the pleasure of Krishna. Krishna being pleased with all that you do is important, so sometimes you have to suffer. Somehow life is marked by suffering, of course there is also joy, but it is marked by suffering.

The first is out of the womb, it seems impossible for a child of normal size to come out of such a small opening; rather it is almost impossible to imagine how much the body of the mother opens so the child can be let out. That is just like life, it is full of pain, great pain, karmic pain necessary and unnecessary. Most pain is unnecessary, that's the funniest thing. Why does a stone drop on my foot and hurt so much? Well it is natural; but that are pains that are not so natural, such as jealousy, which makes many people suffer. Jealous people sometimes lose their hair or live very nervously.

I have the solution for jealousy, if someone is cheating you then one should say thank you, you need not waste any more time serving someone who is not worth it; you can not be with someone who does not want to be with me, I do not want to impose my presence, my life on someone who will not be with me. Is that not reasonable? Clearly, if one already has three children it is different, in which case we speak about karmically signed contracts, because when someone leave their children, guaranteed there are many births awaiting such a person. So one should be very cautious, pray often to Krishna, praying and praying to God, not to others, not to the ego and lust .

Thus one suffers in this world, and to suffer for Krishna is good, so I have no fear when I send someone to Santa Martha or Varsana and they have to go through some tapasya, I have no shame, because they are coming in contact with something complex. Duality must be tolerated and accepted; it is temporary impressions of the senses, happiness and sadness. You are happy to have hair, but how much suffering to shampoo and comb your hair: that is a whole ordeal; however if you are bald you save the shampoo, but suddenly you do not like being bald; everything has its advantage.

Therefore suffering is there and wherever. Aging could be called the worst suffering because in old age there are a few good things but your sight, hearing, sense of smell, movement, everything fails you and it hurts, everything hurts. As hard as it is you feel ecstatic if before old age you realize that this body is temporary, that you are not this body. Thus, it is better to realize it as soon as possible because this body is problematic, there is not one old body that works perfect. So this material world is a place of suffering, as Krishna says in the Bhagavad - Gita: "It's short and miserable, what are we doing here then? how did we decide to come here, what were we thinking to make us come to this material world? "Maybe we still have the idea that everything will be beautiful, everything will be wonderful; I'm going to be a beloved wife, or have and admiring husband and everything will be fine for me ...

In Krishna consciousness things are sensible and worth suffering over. One must not think that by coming to Krishna Consciousness that your present sufferings will just end; that's a lie. It makes sense to suffer for the Lord in loving service; That brings us to the Lord of Love and Suffering. To whom I want to give myself to and marry (unite with) Him, if we celebrate marriage as something glorious it is because there are two individuals who have accepted the sacrifice of suffering. All this only to benefit the children who will soon arrive. If there are no mothers and fathers who suffer for their children then we are nothing.

This is not an advertisement for "Conscious Marriage", but in fact a man and a woman who marry and foster a good family unit are much more self-sacrificing than brahmacaris; Brahmacharis go through a great amount of sacrificing but one is a brahmachari to preach and not to evade responsibility. Otherwise, he is not a brahmacari but a deserter of human duties. The brahmacari who is surrendered to his Guru has yielded an apology, a good excuse to not produce humans beings and instead they generate awareness among the people in the name of the Guru, they are caregivers to these people so they can become good devotees and preachers too
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This is very important, and I always feel so appreciative to Srila Prabhupada for saving me from marriage to serve all of you, but I have to work hard just as if I had 10 kids and this is not false. Of course work is also having to read books, everything that a Brahmachari does is also work; studying to be a good preacher.

These things have a certain amount of humor or amusement. Rather said, the material world is like a German saying: - "Showing a pretty face to an ugly hole". Even if something bad might happen continue to smile. Imagine, I am a social person and I am involved with many families; I receive daily news of births, deaths, divorces, deceit and betrayal among other circumstances. And then I have to be in front of people and show a happy face and speak: - "How are you my dear friends, let create some wonderful projects, we have to move forward, we will not lower our guard, etc." Do not think it is always easy to make a pretty happy face, but that's life, so it's up to you and to me because I willingly accepted this service of being a beggar of love, a wandering pilgrim, and I can not complain about what I chose.

When I was 13 years old, I was depressed by war, read the newspapers and was about to enter into this abyss called depression, and I said: - "nothing I do is worth anything." But it was there when I had a realization, "If I can mourn for everything, why not instead I laugh about it and adopt a positive attitude in life. So I took an optimistic attitude, I took the attitude to laugh at everything, so that is why you always see me with a smile, and it is not artificial; If you look well enough the truth is that there are many nice things that make us laugh. When I see all of you, for example, I see wonderful people, even though I know many downsides of you all it does not make me think that you are not wonderful people. On the contrary, I see very beautiful people in a beautiful struggle, that we decided to struggle for, together. We can be sure of success, we will achieve something because there is no other way.

Your always well-wisher
B.A. Paramadvaiti Swami

The moment you separate yourself from the Absolute you take shelter of the relative. 5/24/2015. Venezuela.

My dear devotees,

Accept my affection from Venezuela,

Today I want to share with you a few words about union with the absolute sweetness; we must give our heart and soul to the absolute dominion of love. That is the level of the Absolute. The world of love is beyond desires, longings and regrets. The world of love is a very fine dimension, whereas in that domain one can join with the sweet will of the Absolute. That is the key in this whole affair, unite your soul with the sweet will of the Absolute, which is always favoring devotion and the devotees.

God has planned  the absolute welfarew for you, but you want to separate yourself from His will and obtain relative welfare and trying to turn make it absolute. God is sweet and has a sweet will and included you in that sweet will. But you must surrender to His sweet will. Surrender to the Absolute from the depths of the heart. You must understand that only by developing love for the Absolute will you obtain  an absolute well being and positively it is waiting for you and it is the very thing you're looking for.

The Absolute wants your absolute well-being, because you are absolutely part and parcel of Him, but because you possess the absolute function of free will (as you are part and parcel of the Absolute), then you should exercise your absolute power to decide. Decide whether "I want to get in touch with the Absolute, I want unite with the Absolute, I want to embrace the sweet will of the Absolute, and I do not want to use my mental faculties to separate myself from the Absolute." Because the moment  you separate yourself from the Absolute you take shelter of the relative, but relation to the Absolute only has one goal. In love, the goal is one.

That person who is immersed in the material plane and tries to change course and heads toward the absolute center, is known as a devotee. And when a conflict exists between those who insist on staying in the area of the relative and take possession of it, and those who want to go to the absolute spiritual levels then the Lord Himself descends from the center of everything and actively protects His devotees.

That is the special mercy of the Absolute towards those who have surrendered to His sweet will. And for those who are struggling to surrender to the will of the Absolute and become devotees, preaching is the essential tool to nurture spiritual life. Srila Prabhupada established the Sunday celebrations as the most traditional form of preaching in the West. In any place where devotees live there must not be one closed temple on Sundays. You can not afford that. That's a warning!  I have heard that there are churches without Sunday feast and that is serious. It was established by Srila Prabhupada himself, and that worries me. It may be that we can not require all devotees of the community to participate in the Sunday celebration, for they too can be busy organizing various festivals and programs during the week. But we need to recognize that hosting a Vaishnava gathering is a great honor and gives the highest degree of joy.

At these festivals there can be no shortage of prasadam. If there is not a lot of chefs who can do many different preparations, then there must be at least a delicious paella or kitri or upma, super sweet and lots of it, that's the minimum. Another option is that these devotees and grhasta community can cook at home and take different preparations to the temple. So you can make a variety of prasadam preparations for the festival. We just need to make meetings and all the devotees of the community (the temple and those who live outside the temple) are allowed to actively participate. Cultivate this family tradition with love and trust. They should make a list of chores and tasks to organize the party, before, during and after. It must be ensured that everything is very clean once the festival is over, in order to continue services the following morning. More festivals means more joy and more joy means more Vaishnava family, which means more work, more service, more devotion and more self-control, or less maya. It is all mathematical, a plan of salvation in loving service "The Sunday Festival of Spritual Love".

Of course, that does not mean that every night the temples can't have a mini party of preaching, where there is a class on the Bhagavad Gita, followed by kirtan and prasadam is distributed. The association of the Vaishnava means sacred instructions, kirtan and prasadam. In addition, we have many materials to introduce to people, all of them are introduced in the middle of the party. That way each guest can find the way they like to worship and serve God. That is our struggle, to spread the glories of the Supreme Absolute Lord and spread love to all souls for this movement which leads us to separate ourselves from the relative and surrender to His sweet will.

I leave you with a big hug and thank you from the heart to all those who are putting the effort to keep these beautiful Sunday festival of love going. Share this message with all the members of your community.

Jay Srila Prabhupada!

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

Be attached and engaged to the principle of love. May 10, 2015 from Germany

My dear devotees. 

I prayed to the Lord of great love, the incomparable, the one who in this world allows us to know something about Him through His ambassadors of love. To them I offer my obeisance and thank you for allowing me to speak about them and these sacred subjects that bring you strength and power.

The path of love is the path from Vrindavan, the land of love. The place where there is nothing more important than being united to the Supreme to engage in His service. No matter where you are, or what the circumstances in which one finds oneself, poor health or surrounded by the beauty of nature. Even in moments of despair caused by the difficult material circumstances, we can always turn to Him, we can always open our hearts to Him so that it becomes satisfied and we become closer to Him. For Him we can make music and dance, since He comes from that world in which every word is a song of love and every movement a dance, to express our enthusiasm how appreciative we are for what we have received and how much we would like to convey this to all who are giving us the opportunity to do so. Vrindavan Vilasini, the highest sound from the high goddess of love, who gives Herself to Krishna every second and moment with complete disposition, leading all souls in this world who are suffering because of their eager desires, who with their materialistic inclinations can never be satisfied.

Oh What a blessing this sacred mother! The original cause of love, the most complete compliment of the Supreme who by His side represents and teaches the principle of love. And because we have emerged from Them, for us there is no greater desire to also be attached to this principle of love and engage in this principle of love for all that happens around us can receive the full blessing of the holy mercy.

The longing to share this with those who are filled with wishes and who simply do not know in what way they should direct their longing. What can I do so that they too can learn something about God's love? I pray

  
                                                            Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
                                                            Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
                                                            Hare Rama Hare Rama
                                                            Rama Rama Hare Hare.

Supreme Lord, please let me be an instrument of Your love. Supreme Lord, grant me this, the greatest desire of my heart, to stay connected to You through my words and desire, my way of acting, through everything related with myself and others please take me to You, for only by Your side is there the shelter where my heart really is home.

Where does one find oneself at home? In the place of which one no longer has to leave. Where one is present and can be occupied in such a way that the realization of all our greatest skills within our heart is included, where the expression of what is creatively in our hearts is manifested. This gratitude, this joy in communication, this kindness to all other living entities, which logically originates from You, the Supreme of all loving. But in your love, you gave us all free will so that we could also decide to live and give this love. This is the gift, and anyone who represents this gift no matter which language or transcendental mystical tradition, that's quite secondary. The important thing here is to develop this desire and be ready at all times to correct what you still need to correct , which is an obstacle to understand You, reach You, love You, and to convey to others about You.

You, the Divine Couple, the divine Radharani, the divine Krishna, together performed the pastimes of Vrindavan with all Their happiness and all Their desires, which are satisfied to be with his devotees. Yes, I want to go there. That is my desire and in my life this I desire to bring You wherever I am. For how much longer will it take to get there and share in pastimes with You? But be as it has to be, as You desire, please let me be an instrument of Your love. This is the only hope of my life that matters. All the love I have received from my parents, friends, brothers, spiritual brothers, farmers, mother nature, from the elements. All pleasant moments of our existence, were all gifts from You. Everything You have planned to the smallest detail so that it may happen as it has been. And that is why I am so confident that everything will happen as You wish, even if they are gaps of separation that affect us deeply.

Separation is an opportunity to be united to God in a higher and intense manner, because He is the one that awaits us,  He gives us the gift of life, He gives us the ability to love and without falling in love with Him, all our other cases of infatuation are not satisfactory, because they are temporary, and everything moves in different directions, but the fact is that our heart is always yearning for the center, the place where we all can find one another, the place in which we are engaged together with the goal to please Your desires and we help each other, we protect, encourage each other, give each other encouragement, just as those do who have love for everyone.

My dear mother, I long to give this message to Your heart so I'll tell you through this recording. Please accept it and call to  the Supreme Lord of love so that He always keeps us in His arms for it is there where our souls belong.

Jay Srila Prabhupada, my love to all mothers of the world.
Haribol.

Your always well wisher,

B.A. Paramadvaiti Swami