Dear devotees,
This year we are celebrating 30 years of the Vrinda family, 30 years my God, who could have imagined 30 years of Vrinda and it is true, it is reality. In 1984 we launched the Vrinda family. I wanted to find a spiritual family, family means commitment of father, mother, brothers, uncles, grandparents, all that.
I wanted to have a family, but I did not want to marry. I wanted to have a real family in the family of Srila Prabhupada, because I see that institutions always have shortcomings, on the other hand I will say this again, in my life I have helped find a minimum of 20 organizations but I am not a member of any of them, I just belong to the relationship from heart to heart.
If you have a shop you have to register it and that is called legal personality, and if it is not like this no one will take it seriously, and in our service we want to be taken seriously, we want to have a family from heart to heart, we just have that and we have to defend it, that is what this life is for, and that is my message to all of the Vrinda family members chatting on this day.
In a way another chapter of my life begins in Bogota, I already had several. I had the extensive chapter of Brazil, of Sweden, of Denmark, sankirtan leader in northern Europe, and brahmacari in the Berlin temple and all those were previous chapters, but the chapter that I opened in 1984 in Colombia was very significant because it was where Harijan Maharaj and I took responsibility for a spiritual family, this is a position called mission impossible, but by the mercy of a pure devotee the mission impossible can become possible which is called causeless mercy. But for a person with a birth as low as mine that can assume a role like this, one begins to wonder:
Why can I make a mission possible if it is impossible? Because at that time and thanks to Srila Prabhupada we were already working for years in Colombia, and there at that time there was no failing of international support from other Vaishnavas because Srila Prabhupada was helping his whole mission, but failure was felt .... either you assumed responsibility or close the mission, and some devotees said:
"We want to have your guidance, no one elses ..." and I was not in Colombia I was in India, and I came to the United States and I was completely uncertain about my future and I received a call from Harijan Maharaj and other devotees who told me: come to Colombia, we want to continue working for Srila Prabhupada but with your support, but if you do not come how are we going to do it? And I was in exile like Napoleon. I was six months in exile, I could not go to Colombia on part of the authorities because they knew that I was angry with them. Devotees told me not to put care into it and that with them I would walk with the mission, and that to me was like a 3rd or 4th birth. The first was mom and dad , the second is when I took initiation. The third is when you start to worship the Deity of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I felt that this was the fourth birth, to assume a role of spiritual responsibility, practically almost as a spiritual father.
I had seen the institutional aspect called international institution, so I wanted something that was from heart to heart, I deplored diplomacy, hypocrisy, I do not wish to have such relationships in life, I want to have relationships of the heart with people, thus this effort of Vrinda family was born, and the 30 year marks is here. And Srila Harijan Maharaja a couple years before went to be with Krsna, luckily Gurudeva Atulananda appeared to help me and lend a hand so that I would not be left without association. There was also Prabhu Kanka , Prabhu Askalita , Prabhu Mrigranath, but we were a flock of disciples of Srila Prabhupada with the charge of a large mission, and frustration because of the institution, from all sides, and we said that it was not the mission that Srila Prabhupada wanted and we looked for how he wanted it to be and from there we found inspiration from Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Maharaja. Harijan Maharaj and I received Sannyas and took off very happy.
So today we are reflecting on the fact that after 30 years Krsna blessed us to be in the service of Prabhupada in separation, but also Krsna shows us that the maximum degree of humility is the greatest need, permanently we must never forget that we come from a world of lust, anger, envy, from very low samskaras.
We are in the land where there are no jokes but only sacrifice, a growing humanity like the Vrinda family, establishing a spiritual family and among the devotees in general things are soft and very tender, when a devotee stops being a devotee the sin is that he begins smoking marijuana or takes a beer or has illicit sex; and this in the material world ... parties and partying, the fall of a devotee is engagement in the party of this world, then it's not exactly something as shocking as crimes and all the corruption and horror of this world, but of course we want to be exemplary as devotees, we want to be followers of a pure devotee.
We want to offer to human society, good things, extraordinary things through the services you all do, everything we do in a large part is done for you, I feel very fortunate to be associated with you, to inspire you. I feel fortunate to be a member of this family. I am very grateful for Sri Gaura Nitai and Sri Gauranga Radha Vrajesvara for exposing Their mercy to Colombia and the world. Imagine that the Vrinda family from Colombia has actually spread all over the planet, better said, Vrinda Family is known outside of Colombia by devotees who have also taken this sacrifice, as Paramahamsa Maharaj in India, who is very famous, he never misses any festival, he is always there and so many other wonders, I think Colombian devotees are more famous than just the Valdez cafe.
Then it's a good sign , imagine expanding the fame of Vrinda because of what the devotees do in the world. I am filled with great joy and it has been essential for the Vrinda family to create a regional family, for a devotee here there are no such distinctions as Ecuadorians, Brazilians, Panamanians, here there are only devotees. The integration and work in different countries has been very exemplary and it practically remains as such.
Venezuela is nurtured by Colombia going there to do sankirtan so that we can awaken our neighboring country, for love and rememberance of Avadhuta Maharaja, a special warrior of this country who received the sannyas order from Srila Prabhupada, and this is something very good, to maintain the spark in this fight, this memory. Then for devotees of the Vrinda family everyone around the world is family, any of you can go to Chile to do service, wherever there is family you are welcomed you just have to speak the secret formula Gauranga Radha Vrajesvara, continue within, initiation, internally, this is the key formula, then all doors open, except the door of the false ego, that is kept closed to such things but you keep fighting, you should always keep fighting forward because there is no other way. In this world and in this life you can not go back, in a car you have gears to go back, but not in life, and what happened, already happened ... you carry that charge, and you carry that with dignity, that is Bhakti yoga, the office of dignity.
We spent these days, celebrating a family that has existed now for 30 years, where virtually everyone comes from different ethnic, international, cultural backgrounds and even background and so we can report that for 30 years, it is assumed that the family has had no deaths and no one will lift their hands to another, but the devotees do not harm one another.
Now I wish I could say that in this mission of 30 years there was not a tidbit of gossip, but that would be a lie, and I will not lie, but despite the gossip, we continue living, growing, and appreciating that there is a family called Vrinda because when someone says: I do not mind the Vrinda family, I want no part of Vrinda, to me that's fiction, do not give me anything, I will become very sad that day, because Vrinda actually came as a refuge, Ashraya .
Ashraya means refuge and refuge is Radharani, She is who gives us shelter in this world and that shelter is transmitted to the last devotee who is part of the family, and when you preach you open the refuge to another person by the kindness of your heart, that is love and everyone asks why are you here and to every one you mention to them how another devotee inspired you and then they are hooked. Each one of you has a story, this is a family who become representatives, each Ashraya, a shelter and that is what we must be.
Without Srila Prabhupada nothing could have been done, the shelter given is based on him without a doubt. All glories to the various shelters that devotees provide through their work, their services, their various projects, conferences, publications, documentaries, and the sankirtan they do. Devotees of the 2nd generation must make their decision as they are there for their parents. It's very nice because those who have given us refuge are still present here.
This is practically the first official celebration of our 30 years together, we will celebrate every year course. A family that follows and establishes new centers is very special. Thanks to you projects and projects are growing. I spoke with P. Prakasananda about the yoga course by correspondence which was made in Cd -Rom format but the validity has been lost because the Cd -Room is no longer used. But so many people we met, told me the other day : you have to make all pages of Vrinda family new because they are all on Dreamweaver. Oh I had no idea what it was either, and now I have to figure it out, such as updating things. So Krishna does not let us rest, always doing, doing, take, do, run. Krsna pushes us, because one can not forget Krsna nor service to Krsna, there are many things to improve.
In the mode of passion there is creation, in the mode of goodness everything is maintained and in the mode of ignorance everything is destroyed, fortunately there are not many in ignorance, but many things will be destroyed, in fact we do not destroy, we create and that's very nice .
So we can understand that service to Sri Visnu is ultimate. We must be aware of many things, we are in the process of creating many things, we are almost finished with Oidatherapy, Yoga Inbound is not finished but it is growing and the material is being delivered.
The farms are always in development, as are the retreats, the tours, the pilgrimages, ah , I mean that we should always move toward perfection, thanks to Krsna who gave us the snow covered ground in the river Mink the traditional sector of healing, there are wells that are a specialty for healing, there in Goloka , which Sandi Pani bought when I lived in the U.S. without seeing it, and then later he gave it away without me seeing it. We have this beautiful place where one can go to stay two weeks and heal, 7 wells and a tremendous waterfall so you can imagine and Gambhira on the other hand is a special place for education, healing, there in the sierra nevada we have received a very special mercy. I want the devotees to take advantage of the tours and Goloka, where we have the ability to heal. Thank you very much mother earth for blessing the Vrinda family.
I 'll make a story of the most beautiful sites of Vrinda, although it is difficult because there are many and they are amazing .Varsana, the Sanctuary of water, Radha Kunda, the subtropical forests that are above Bhumi, the caves of the park, Krsna the winner of all obstacles and what to say of the temple and its devotees, after Varsana came Vrindavanita with Govardhana and this river which has healed us and refreshed us, which has been a haven for devotees of the golden age, how many devotees have left this world having a site like Vrindavanita? There are no words to appreciate and describe.
Then the sanctuary that is New Govardhana which is sustained by Krsna, a waterfall and a creek in the mountains there in Cali, then go to the coast, Gambhira , Goloka and the site of the University of Ancestral Wisdom, which has an altar of stunning water, something crisp and beautiful, some of these stones have original carvings of ancient cultures, as well as the Taironas roads, like in Gambhira and Goloka, very impressive, those are the most important sites in Colombia, until we come to the confidential womb of Mother Earth, her navel, called the shrine of Mother Earth, the Volcano Totumo, which the devotees have an Ashram of dedication beside it, natural and simple, but really where you can swim for hours between canoes and crocodiles, they are small but this site is amazing and when you leave the Ashram just 5 min is the Atlantic Ocean with clean and uncrowded beaches, very beautiful, very private, an awesome site.
Another site that Krsna has given the Vrinda family is Guatape, with a lake view and there is a cave which is another meteorite and it seems that it fell from the sky and remained stuck between two mountains, a river runs below this, and in the afternoon some lights appear in such a spectacular way that not even the best artist could have painted it, and we were there singing a song to the water, with more than 60 people, it was wonderful, amazing, and those are the shrines of our family that come to mind. In the Amazon, in Leticia, we have some special sanctuary that I've only seen pictures of, I could not go, it is by a river in which one goes to the Amazon and you can swim, and the devotees are doing very beautiful projects under the guidance of Bharati Prabhu.
Very wonderful, and we have now arrived to the Amazon, in Leticia with Krsna , all that is missing is the tip of the Guajira , although in Riohacha there is preaching being done by Prabhu Syama. Harijan Maharaj wanted 500 temples, a lot to do, these beautiful sites amaze me just like the Yamuna river passing by Govardhana Hill. I can look at it for a long time. I look at Govardhana, the Yamuna river, and I can stay there, it is an amazing beauty. We also have Vrinda Bhumi in Brazil, an estate of waterfalls, there are so many beautiful waterfalls, one more beautiful than the other, with amazing bath wells, the wind of the mother, it is also a self healing site, one can go there and stay amazed. There are such very special things like Ecuador, the Vrindavan Ecological Gardens. A very beautiful piece of rainforest where devotees have made a sanctuary. The Eco Truly Park which is internationally renowned as well as the Eco Truly Park of Argentina, although it does not have anything special in terms of visibility, but it is famous because Prabhu Thakur did a lot of volunteer work campaigning , and it was chosen in Only Planet as the best place to visit in Argentina.
So we arrive to Bolivia, Titicaca , Shanti Dwip an island in the Titicaca, very small, it has but a single tree, but there has been a mother there cultivating the vegetation. There is the beauty of Gupta Govardhana the ne farm, 60 acres of the most wonderful landscapes, crystal clear waters, wells, waterfalls, a nest in Uchumachi, the most sacred mountain of the Aymara, here the devotees have a corner of shelter, run by Colombian devotees, great devotees. Oh, I almost forgot to mention Cusco, Sradhavan in Cuzco, you can make a pilgrimage from Chaski or by America, visiting these sites to pray to mother earth, meaning devotional service (offerings) selfless service is a true offering.
Arica, the Trulys of Lluta Valley, the devotees there defending Mother Nature, very beautiful; Goura Mandal, La Serena , the Elqui Valley, Diaguitas, Jagannath Mandir between Mamayucta and Papallacta, sacred mountains of Diaguitas, very beautiful, and then there are the devotees of Chile striving and doing nice things too. The Inbound school of Yoga, Saranagati the school of leaders, creation of devotees for years, then you reach the beautiful terrain of the island Catemu of Lord Shiva. In Catemu you forget the materialistic world, it is so beautiful, there one can be with Damodar Maharaj, Tirtha Maharaj, and then you continue to the south of Chile where in Los Angeles there is a farm coming from island to a turbulent beautiful, clean, crystal river to the snow, a very nice farm, you have to visit, from there you arrive to Prema Mandal which is about south of Concepción where there is a beautiful lake, where devotees can take mud baths and it is amazing, a very nice place.
So in this world there are many sites revealed by Krsna and I am only speaking of South America, the other shrines in Hungary, Germany, India beside the dolphins of the Ganges there is Jahnavi Kunja Ashram and Saraswati Kunja where at both ends it becomes the Triveni and there are devotees waiting for you there or Vrinda Kunja which has been described as the most beautiful temple of Vrindaban. I like to that they say it but there are so many beautiful temples ...
In Yamuna Kunja we do social work and Radha Kunda the devotees are doing wonderful services, major cleaning, we are going to Govardhana for Maha cleaning, beautiful, very nice what Krsna has given us, so beautiful. And also there is Spain, Tenerife, devotees have meeting sites in Isla Palma, and there a devotee has a cave overlooking the Pacific which has been made into a temple, but it's wonderful I've seen in pictures, but it seems that in the summer I will be headed that way.
Those are the shrines that have been expand Gauranga Radha Vrajesvara. Being a pilgrim is amazing and I have been back and forth and I marvel at the beautiful things I come across, Mother Earth has been so merciful, but I ask you Why? It isn't so I could to travel, it is to provide shelter, healing, so that people can find Srila Prabhupada, Sadhu Sanga and it is amazing to see the Vaishnavas offering shelter to others, now on the coast they recently opened something of the UDSA. Prabhu Jagannath and Mother Radha Damodar are doing an organic farm, 1 hour from Barranquilla. Do not forget that Srila Bhaktisiddantha Saraswati said, I want a temple in each place and that is the bottom line, so lets dedicate ourselves to educating our children, new devotees, now comes the agro- ecological school; There is also the Guardians of Sumapaz, which is another beautiful corner on planet in Varsana .
Further up the path of the original natives, the Muiscas, and those are the sanctuaries in physical form, then there are the shrines of harinams in Bucaramanga, there is a temple with Sri Gauranga and Krsna Balaram, thanks to the efforts of Bhagavat Maharaja.
Now I have to mention the Visnupriyas and the Maharanis, that's a very important program of the Vrinda family. There is respect and we should provide support so that all can be free and give support where there is much deficiency in Kali Yuga. And there is much happiness in my association with the native people especially in the Sierra Nevada, I have special respect for the Sagas and very visionary and very loving, like mothers, then I think that the Vrinda family produce many Sagas, many Maharanis, extraordinary leaders who can support others, then for all women who are in Krsna consciousness, single mothers who preach, which provide shelter to the other women, to all of them I give them a great applause; it is amazing, I'm very happy, moreover, the Visnupriyas have given me so much support for regional work, that's the family of Vrinda over 30 years , the offices are important, full of sacrifice, with extra time for me, so they can help me do many things I could not do under any circumstances, but the mothers have helped me a lot, devotees also say, if we talk about Vrinda we must talk about the Sannyasis of Vrinda, the Maharanis of Vrinda and Pancatattva, the minister of communication of this family, this is difficult work without him, I applause him for it! And I know very well what I'm saying, he began the Sunday chat we use today to share this message, that was Pancatattva from the start and he has always kept it up even today ...
So all the work of Seva , which are very important, momentous books, literatures for the world to know who the devotees are, there are many, many things that most of the devotees of Vrinda do not even know of, you have to take the time. I create sounds that heal and I think only Mother Govinda has heard it since we and now we have reached 100 sound therapies. It is important, they are small pieces of service that Srila Prabhupada provided to the world, I want the world to fall in love with Srila Prabhupada, that is my sacred duty as a disciple, if it was not for Srila Prabhupada the Vrinda Family would not exist, that I can guarantee. A yoga move of determination, of volunteers which is increasingly present there as to reach the correct destination and not like some schools of yoga, where there are exercises only, take money and they only think of avatars as a concept of american movies.
Well, I want to keep talking about the celebration of the 30th year of the Vrinda mission which is difficult there are so many presidents, I want to applaud the Presidents that are enduring in these temples, that's just for presidents, they must endure it all, no? And they do it well, raise your hand: Who has been a president for more than 10 years of a temple ? 5 years? I sent a hug to all the presidents; Prabhupada wants to see presidents for life, it is something so beautiful to care for life, for people, I have to thank you on this day, at this moment, I can only ask for a recess to work a little, there is much more to do, we are not much for festivities, we are more for work in service, you have to work for everything so it progresses nicely!
With these words I leave you all today, Srila Prabhupada Ki Jay!
Your always well wisher,
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti
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Aggression & How to Protect Ourselves from It. 9/8/13 From Puerto Rico
Conference.
My dearest devotees
All my love from Puerto Rico .
We had a few quiet days with devotees . Yesterday we went to preach to a university .
Today I want to talk about aggression and how we can protect ourselves from it. When your relationships are based on aggressiveness , you lose the ability of conviction , reasoning, and power to handle the beauty of the intellect .
People who practice aggression differ in various aspects , some of them are : raising their voice excessively and intimidating, blackmailing others, deceiving and reaching points of physical violence threats or violence itself . This indicates that these people do not practice the fine art of thinking and reflecting , much less do they come to spirituality. Guided only by their selfish ends , they turn to different types of violence: physical , verbal and even worse. An example is the case of the military , another case is that of criminals .
The current military forces , which have no basis in love or respect of for other beings, only achieve their objectives by creating fear in others . Criminals base their actions only in violence. Another example that seems to pass unnoticed , but it is completely aggressive is the contemporary agricultural industry . This is a very popular topic these days , as people in camps are starting to realize that they are being deceived .
Where do you see the aggression in the farming industry ?
In creating suicide seeds that do not reproduce well and in patenting them, penalizing the common seed propagation that had been used since ancient times for millions of generations by creating laws that prevent rural people in claiming what it is just, they have gotten to the point of confiscating such seeds and destroying them. It's so unjust and an aggressive act by those multinational companies that seek to control seeds and food production, and they are also pushing laws that penalize people with GM seeds in their fields, even if they got there due to wind or pollination. This creates the most diverse terrors . The famous company Monsanto recently hired a company called "black water" which is a private military organization of the planet's most feared mercenaries . Among them there is already a contract for half a million dollars to create terror of international organizations fighting against GMOs , creating discrepancies between them and using who knows what other tricks for this.
Industrial agriculture and the supposed "green revolution " has been nothing but a big lie through which they want to invade agricultural fields with chemicals that have previously been used to manufacture bombs,such as urea, for example. Thus, they have tried to control the food market of the entire planet using fertilizers that are put into to crops, in addition to imposing an unnatural monoculture system they land acquisition by dirty political deals .
At first no one realized what was happening , people thought that these multinational companies were working against world hunger, but at this point , up to the last farmer has realized the aggression against freedom behind this . The only result behind it is hunger and misery for farmers and for the rest of society. Imagine how serious the situation really is : a few people behind some international companies are trying to take over agriculture in all countries, worldwide, keeping governments bribed or threatened to keep their selfish interests . That's not healthy . That is aggressive and even demonic . Without exaggeration, we can describe these people as heartless and even having a lack of brains, with their very actions going against the interests of their own children. They are in a state of profound ignorance and need to be enlightened to save the planet from a worse disaster than what already exists. Because the current situation is bad ... only if we want to go from bad to worse we leave everything as is and keep silent. Of course not, we must do something . In the Bhagavad Gita , Krishna tells Arjuna : " Stand up and fight with the sword of knowledge " also He adds that one must act with love. That is the key to solving all these problems : to become activists against this mess, but activists backed by nonviolence and love . Because without love there is never any solution. How to become activists to all this ?
One of the things we have to learn, which is perhaps the most difficult , is to control our senses and stop using any product that has GM ingredients . There are many foods that fall into this category , we must identify and eliminate them completely, for almost all products containing grains and oils are of transgenic origin . It takes work to become an activist, but it's time to do it , to save our lives and the future of the planet. You may have certain consumerist habits and comfort and do not want change or become a radical in this respect, but the price you pay if you keep feeding yourself with transgenic then disease is assured. Simply observe just how many people are dying of cancer, who have tumors or cysts , etc. . We are surrounded and infected by all these diseases that are caused by foods full of chemicals . People lose fertility because of it and whether you want to accept it or not, this is a mess created by man.
We're totally excited about products that we believe are essential but only damage our health . Fluoride is another example of this , we were told that toothpaste should have fluoride to maintain healthy teeth, but that is another chemical that harms the body only and does not guarantee anything . Antibiotics are another example. These are only lies established by companies seeking to control people . I argue this on behalf of the Global Awareness Compact - IKWASHENDWNA and confirm that the control of the senses is the only way to run a global boycott blockade and produce real change. For just as Mahatma Gandhi proved , only through the boycott is it possible to remove a rule, it is not achieved with aggressive confrontations, but by not buying what the empire wants to sell .
Those who behave aggressively yearn to be answered by aggression and not by love or wisdom, because when they are fought with aggression, they have the excuse to become even worse. In those moments they take more terrible weapons to fight, and position themselves as victims and then they end up raising taxes to the town . It's just a windfall of the same aggressive nature they use to try to control us.
Wars are just heartless business . So we must make a commitment to inform , to become aware and act with love unconditionally. That is the goal of the Global Awareness Compact. The only defense on our part will be not buy anything from that empire that wants to crush humanity; do not invest a penny on GMOs, in dyes, monosodium glutamate and other chemicals that are in food . Only by working together and organization we can accomplish this. Celebrating always peasants and ancient cultures as they are those who maintain our healthy life. And now comes the deeper issue ...
How do we, the devotees of Lord Krishna, face the reality of Kali Yuga ?
As aspiring devotees , we must stand firm spiritually for not participating in the multinational empires aggression and encourage others in this boycott.
A devotee looking for a Higher Taste , a pleasure beyond what can be offered by the material world and a Superior Taste which is only achieved by chanting the holy name , protected by meditation on the best environmentalist in history, called Srila Prabhupada , who is surpassed only by Krishna Himself in environmental activism . As we sing the Holy Names of the Lord we will be protected , and we remain enthusiastic even in the fight against all evil of Kali Yuga.
Another important point is that we should eat only prasadam , only God's mercy in the form of food , only food offered to Krishna and this offering must be healthy, organic, clean, chemical free, GMO free and free of dirty products. Dairy that is cruelty free and no maltreatment. No chemical creams, no pasteurized cheese, no refined sugars. Krishna is not going to please with such a gift . Even I have the solution for those who have problems giving up ice cream, for them I recommend my personal recipe best ice cream in the world:
- Take some grapes , place them in the freezer and leave them there until they are hard . When fully frozen, take them out and wait a few minutes. Then put them in your mouth and let them melt smoothly :) and you'll have the best ice cream you have ever eaten before. Without any chemicals, no refined sugar, or anything like that. A true delight for children to the elderly. They have to try it and realize they no longer need to spend money on ice cream with chemical ingredients which are full of refined sugar. At first they look like a sweet nectar, but it is not more than poison to your body . Sure, frozen grapes must be offered to Sri Krishna first :) .
So my dear, hands-on, hands to nectar in spreading active awareness and environmentalist awareness to all souls. Only in this way can we be free from the pressure of rogues and demons that want to take over the entire planet and thus enslave everyone.
With these words I say goodbye for today.
It makes me happy to know that we move forward, together in heart in this fight. Guided by the love of Srila Prabhupada.
Jay Srila Prabhupada!
Your always wisher,
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti .
My dearest devotees
All my love from Puerto Rico .
We had a few quiet days with devotees . Yesterday we went to preach to a university .
Today I want to talk about aggression and how we can protect ourselves from it. When your relationships are based on aggressiveness , you lose the ability of conviction , reasoning, and power to handle the beauty of the intellect .
People who practice aggression differ in various aspects , some of them are : raising their voice excessively and intimidating, blackmailing others, deceiving and reaching points of physical violence threats or violence itself . This indicates that these people do not practice the fine art of thinking and reflecting , much less do they come to spirituality. Guided only by their selfish ends , they turn to different types of violence: physical , verbal and even worse. An example is the case of the military , another case is that of criminals .
The current military forces , which have no basis in love or respect of for other beings, only achieve their objectives by creating fear in others . Criminals base their actions only in violence. Another example that seems to pass unnoticed , but it is completely aggressive is the contemporary agricultural industry . This is a very popular topic these days , as people in camps are starting to realize that they are being deceived .
Where do you see the aggression in the farming industry ?
In creating suicide seeds that do not reproduce well and in patenting them, penalizing the common seed propagation that had been used since ancient times for millions of generations by creating laws that prevent rural people in claiming what it is just, they have gotten to the point of confiscating such seeds and destroying them. It's so unjust and an aggressive act by those multinational companies that seek to control seeds and food production, and they are also pushing laws that penalize people with GM seeds in their fields, even if they got there due to wind or pollination. This creates the most diverse terrors . The famous company Monsanto recently hired a company called "black water" which is a private military organization of the planet's most feared mercenaries . Among them there is already a contract for half a million dollars to create terror of international organizations fighting against GMOs , creating discrepancies between them and using who knows what other tricks for this.
Industrial agriculture and the supposed "green revolution " has been nothing but a big lie through which they want to invade agricultural fields with chemicals that have previously been used to manufacture bombs,such as urea, for example. Thus, they have tried to control the food market of the entire planet using fertilizers that are put into to crops, in addition to imposing an unnatural monoculture system they land acquisition by dirty political deals .
At first no one realized what was happening , people thought that these multinational companies were working against world hunger, but at this point , up to the last farmer has realized the aggression against freedom behind this . The only result behind it is hunger and misery for farmers and for the rest of society. Imagine how serious the situation really is : a few people behind some international companies are trying to take over agriculture in all countries, worldwide, keeping governments bribed or threatened to keep their selfish interests . That's not healthy . That is aggressive and even demonic . Without exaggeration, we can describe these people as heartless and even having a lack of brains, with their very actions going against the interests of their own children. They are in a state of profound ignorance and need to be enlightened to save the planet from a worse disaster than what already exists. Because the current situation is bad ... only if we want to go from bad to worse we leave everything as is and keep silent. Of course not, we must do something . In the Bhagavad Gita , Krishna tells Arjuna : " Stand up and fight with the sword of knowledge " also He adds that one must act with love. That is the key to solving all these problems : to become activists against this mess, but activists backed by nonviolence and love . Because without love there is never any solution. How to become activists to all this ?
One of the things we have to learn, which is perhaps the most difficult , is to control our senses and stop using any product that has GM ingredients . There are many foods that fall into this category , we must identify and eliminate them completely, for almost all products containing grains and oils are of transgenic origin . It takes work to become an activist, but it's time to do it , to save our lives and the future of the planet. You may have certain consumerist habits and comfort and do not want change or become a radical in this respect, but the price you pay if you keep feeding yourself with transgenic then disease is assured. Simply observe just how many people are dying of cancer, who have tumors or cysts , etc. . We are surrounded and infected by all these diseases that are caused by foods full of chemicals . People lose fertility because of it and whether you want to accept it or not, this is a mess created by man.
We're totally excited about products that we believe are essential but only damage our health . Fluoride is another example of this , we were told that toothpaste should have fluoride to maintain healthy teeth, but that is another chemical that harms the body only and does not guarantee anything . Antibiotics are another example. These are only lies established by companies seeking to control people . I argue this on behalf of the Global Awareness Compact - IKWASHENDWNA and confirm that the control of the senses is the only way to run a global boycott blockade and produce real change. For just as Mahatma Gandhi proved , only through the boycott is it possible to remove a rule, it is not achieved with aggressive confrontations, but by not buying what the empire wants to sell .
Those who behave aggressively yearn to be answered by aggression and not by love or wisdom, because when they are fought with aggression, they have the excuse to become even worse. In those moments they take more terrible weapons to fight, and position themselves as victims and then they end up raising taxes to the town . It's just a windfall of the same aggressive nature they use to try to control us.
Wars are just heartless business . So we must make a commitment to inform , to become aware and act with love unconditionally. That is the goal of the Global Awareness Compact. The only defense on our part will be not buy anything from that empire that wants to crush humanity; do not invest a penny on GMOs, in dyes, monosodium glutamate and other chemicals that are in food . Only by working together and organization we can accomplish this. Celebrating always peasants and ancient cultures as they are those who maintain our healthy life. And now comes the deeper issue ...
How do we, the devotees of Lord Krishna, face the reality of Kali Yuga ?
As aspiring devotees , we must stand firm spiritually for not participating in the multinational empires aggression and encourage others in this boycott.
A devotee looking for a Higher Taste , a pleasure beyond what can be offered by the material world and a Superior Taste which is only achieved by chanting the holy name , protected by meditation on the best environmentalist in history, called Srila Prabhupada , who is surpassed only by Krishna Himself in environmental activism . As we sing the Holy Names of the Lord we will be protected , and we remain enthusiastic even in the fight against all evil of Kali Yuga.
Another important point is that we should eat only prasadam , only God's mercy in the form of food , only food offered to Krishna and this offering must be healthy, organic, clean, chemical free, GMO free and free of dirty products. Dairy that is cruelty free and no maltreatment. No chemical creams, no pasteurized cheese, no refined sugars. Krishna is not going to please with such a gift . Even I have the solution for those who have problems giving up ice cream, for them I recommend my personal recipe best ice cream in the world:
- Take some grapes , place them in the freezer and leave them there until they are hard . When fully frozen, take them out and wait a few minutes. Then put them in your mouth and let them melt smoothly :) and you'll have the best ice cream you have ever eaten before. Without any chemicals, no refined sugar, or anything like that. A true delight for children to the elderly. They have to try it and realize they no longer need to spend money on ice cream with chemical ingredients which are full of refined sugar. At first they look like a sweet nectar, but it is not more than poison to your body . Sure, frozen grapes must be offered to Sri Krishna first :) .
So my dear, hands-on, hands to nectar in spreading active awareness and environmentalist awareness to all souls. Only in this way can we be free from the pressure of rogues and demons that want to take over the entire planet and thus enslave everyone.
With these words I say goodbye for today.
It makes me happy to know that we move forward, together in heart in this fight. Guided by the love of Srila Prabhupada.
Jay Srila Prabhupada!
Your always wisher,
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti .
Why Do We Suffer? 8/11/13 From Germany
My dear devotees and friends.
Many times in life we meditate deeply and for a long time about the purpose of life. We strive according to what others expect of us: our parents have a concept about us, family and children have different concepts and expectations, the government and society is also another.
The world of consumption and competition for material achievements wants to convince us that the purpose of our life is to become a materialistic winner. Thus, whenever there are obstacles that exist for this gain we feel discouraged and frustrated or worse, we get jealous when someone has had a knack for getting things ... or they've already accomplished it just for the fact of being born in a wealthy family, while you, with limited wages know not how to satisfy every desire you have. Worse still is the position of the person with money, that despite having everything materially, still feels dissatisfied, without finding something in life worthwhile. This reaches such an extent that we realize that many of the people who commit suicide are people who materially speaking had everything they needed and more, while the simple and poor people do not have these tendencies, they have to worry about working to feed themselves.
We have to understand that material goods are only reexaminations of life. They are not the essence of life, but rather they come to test us. The purpose of life is to make positive and beautiful work that enriches existence. Works that are based on love and affection for all living entities and directed as an offering to God as the ultimate center of all. Works that are beautiful, positive, supported by our words and thoughts.
The purpose of life is to become an agent of solution of the problems we face today. Always tolerating those who may not be able to change . Only through the mercy of God can we acquire the proper discernment to distinguish between good and evil, and gain the enthusiasm and courage to move forward in spite of the evidence that comes to test us.
Determination is very important. The decision to become an agent of change is that everyone around you will benefit from their own efforts and achievements. All of us have received the wonderful opportunity to have a human body where we can be creative and positive. Just as we are wonderful beings we should be doing wonderful things. We always try to act positively within our means. Act in such a way that you are trying to make people those who surround you in your life happy. But, please, this happiness must be related to the real purpose of life, with growth and spiritual realization. It is not material happiness. For life is a gift and human life is an even more special gift. This life was given to us for the Greater Good. Many people can take life. But only the Supreme Benefactor can take it away.
The Lord is always present and close to us, always watching and is always manifested in different ways, but we can not see it. One of these ways is through the Universal Mother, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, the Cosmic Mother, this beautiful mother who wants to see his sons successful in doing wonderful and positive things. Mother Nature is satisfied when she sees her children develop positively in relation to their surroundings, while the Original Father expects those same sons and daughters to return to their eternal home. It has been established by all the great sages of different traditions.
Our stay in this temporary world may expire at any time and when finished, we have to take that bag we've been accumulating over a lifetime (the reactions of our actions) and with it define which is our next destination. The issue is that if your bag is full of things that accumulate undesirable reactions to negative actions, we will certainly go into deplorable states. This is not a threat or an attempt to instill fear but a realistic view of life. And we need that vision to become realistic people to be able to put into practice this wisdom. As a student who does not devote time to learning and study of what he is in the process of learning, it is impossible to pass to the next level ... if we do not put enough effort in positive living according to the ancient wisdom, we can not move forward on the spiritual path.
When Holy Scripture speaks of the lower levels to which our negative actions can take us to, it is a profound wake-up call to take action on the matter and become serious practitioners. God will never ask for something that we will not be able to do, because God is the supreme Well-wisher. And it is the inner voice, the inner teacher, who will guide us towards that which is positive and wonderful, away from all the negative that only leads to lower levels of life. But we must give importance to that inner voice above the voice of the mind, the voice of material desires, the voice of the false ego, because they are always in conflict with the voice of the teacher within.
The inner voice brings us the enthusiasm to make things beautiful and well done, while the mind always wants to take us to enjoy at all costs, even at the expense of exploiting others, telling us not to care about the consequences of our actions. But not so ... I said before: Every action always brings an equal and opposite reaction. That is Universal Law. So, we got what we sow: As you sow you reap. Your actions are planting your next state. So What if I have done evil deeds or I have deviated from the purpose of life? The answer is:
-Take shelter in mercy. It is the transcendental department of mercy that can save us if we are convinced of wanting to change. We need to beg the cosmic divinity for mercy and we must be deeply repentant of our wrong actions. Only the penitent has option to enter the department of mercy. The repentant person even has a chance to compensate all those who they have made suffer because of their own wrongful actions. To those who can not compensate for their wrongdoing have already left this world, such as the thousands of animals that have been killed just for our personal consumption and selfishness but we can reclaim them by becoming activists protecting animals and nature. An advocate of animal habitats, rivers and mountains that are all sacred. Someone who ceases to be a consumer of everything that causes oppression of the Holy Mother.
How much unconscious exploitation humans have committed against their peers, against nature and animals. Ignorant human beings do not realize that all these offenses against the Holy Mother Nature is self-condemnation and the reason for their unhappiness. That illusion operator disconnects us from the purpose of life. One rather must become the change they want to see.
Many things must be changed and adapted to become a positive agent. We must begin to cultivate the garden of the heart. Be part of the solution, not the problem. Spiritual life is not so cheap, it is not a simple conformism that only seeks the "relaxation" aspect of life and then one can enter "other worlds" that only keep us from reality, while outside everything is a total mess and we are unable to take any part in the matter, but rather become part of the problem, then we are still exploiting others and the environment without reason. Spiritual life is not about escape, but about service, to care for others. Dedication is essential for the welfare of all beings.
Jay Srila Prabhupada
Your always well wisher,
Srila BA Paramadvaiti
Many times in life we meditate deeply and for a long time about the purpose of life. We strive according to what others expect of us: our parents have a concept about us, family and children have different concepts and expectations, the government and society is also another.
The world of consumption and competition for material achievements wants to convince us that the purpose of our life is to become a materialistic winner. Thus, whenever there are obstacles that exist for this gain we feel discouraged and frustrated or worse, we get jealous when someone has had a knack for getting things ... or they've already accomplished it just for the fact of being born in a wealthy family, while you, with limited wages know not how to satisfy every desire you have. Worse still is the position of the person with money, that despite having everything materially, still feels dissatisfied, without finding something in life worthwhile. This reaches such an extent that we realize that many of the people who commit suicide are people who materially speaking had everything they needed and more, while the simple and poor people do not have these tendencies, they have to worry about working to feed themselves.
We have to understand that material goods are only reexaminations of life. They are not the essence of life, but rather they come to test us. The purpose of life is to make positive and beautiful work that enriches existence. Works that are based on love and affection for all living entities and directed as an offering to God as the ultimate center of all. Works that are beautiful, positive, supported by our words and thoughts.
The purpose of life is to become an agent of solution of the problems we face today. Always tolerating those who may not be able to change . Only through the mercy of God can we acquire the proper discernment to distinguish between good and evil, and gain the enthusiasm and courage to move forward in spite of the evidence that comes to test us.
Determination is very important. The decision to become an agent of change is that everyone around you will benefit from their own efforts and achievements. All of us have received the wonderful opportunity to have a human body where we can be creative and positive. Just as we are wonderful beings we should be doing wonderful things. We always try to act positively within our means. Act in such a way that you are trying to make people those who surround you in your life happy. But, please, this happiness must be related to the real purpose of life, with growth and spiritual realization. It is not material happiness. For life is a gift and human life is an even more special gift. This life was given to us for the Greater Good. Many people can take life. But only the Supreme Benefactor can take it away.
The Lord is always present and close to us, always watching and is always manifested in different ways, but we can not see it. One of these ways is through the Universal Mother, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, the Cosmic Mother, this beautiful mother who wants to see his sons successful in doing wonderful and positive things. Mother Nature is satisfied when she sees her children develop positively in relation to their surroundings, while the Original Father expects those same sons and daughters to return to their eternal home. It has been established by all the great sages of different traditions.
Our stay in this temporary world may expire at any time and when finished, we have to take that bag we've been accumulating over a lifetime (the reactions of our actions) and with it define which is our next destination. The issue is that if your bag is full of things that accumulate undesirable reactions to negative actions, we will certainly go into deplorable states. This is not a threat or an attempt to instill fear but a realistic view of life. And we need that vision to become realistic people to be able to put into practice this wisdom. As a student who does not devote time to learning and study of what he is in the process of learning, it is impossible to pass to the next level ... if we do not put enough effort in positive living according to the ancient wisdom, we can not move forward on the spiritual path.
When Holy Scripture speaks of the lower levels to which our negative actions can take us to, it is a profound wake-up call to take action on the matter and become serious practitioners. God will never ask for something that we will not be able to do, because God is the supreme Well-wisher. And it is the inner voice, the inner teacher, who will guide us towards that which is positive and wonderful, away from all the negative that only leads to lower levels of life. But we must give importance to that inner voice above the voice of the mind, the voice of material desires, the voice of the false ego, because they are always in conflict with the voice of the teacher within.
The inner voice brings us the enthusiasm to make things beautiful and well done, while the mind always wants to take us to enjoy at all costs, even at the expense of exploiting others, telling us not to care about the consequences of our actions. But not so ... I said before: Every action always brings an equal and opposite reaction. That is Universal Law. So, we got what we sow: As you sow you reap. Your actions are planting your next state. So What if I have done evil deeds or I have deviated from the purpose of life? The answer is:
-Take shelter in mercy. It is the transcendental department of mercy that can save us if we are convinced of wanting to change. We need to beg the cosmic divinity for mercy and we must be deeply repentant of our wrong actions. Only the penitent has option to enter the department of mercy. The repentant person even has a chance to compensate all those who they have made suffer because of their own wrongful actions. To those who can not compensate for their wrongdoing have already left this world, such as the thousands of animals that have been killed just for our personal consumption and selfishness but we can reclaim them by becoming activists protecting animals and nature. An advocate of animal habitats, rivers and mountains that are all sacred. Someone who ceases to be a consumer of everything that causes oppression of the Holy Mother.
How much unconscious exploitation humans have committed against their peers, against nature and animals. Ignorant human beings do not realize that all these offenses against the Holy Mother Nature is self-condemnation and the reason for their unhappiness. That illusion operator disconnects us from the purpose of life. One rather must become the change they want to see.
Many things must be changed and adapted to become a positive agent. We must begin to cultivate the garden of the heart. Be part of the solution, not the problem. Spiritual life is not so cheap, it is not a simple conformism that only seeks the "relaxation" aspect of life and then one can enter "other worlds" that only keep us from reality, while outside everything is a total mess and we are unable to take any part in the matter, but rather become part of the problem, then we are still exploiting others and the environment without reason. Spiritual life is not about escape, but about service, to care for others. Dedication is essential for the welfare of all beings.
Jay Srila Prabhupada
Your always well wisher,
Srila BA Paramadvaiti
Srila Narottama Das Thakura Cleaning Project 7/28/13
My dearest devotees,
Receive all my affection from Nandafalva. I've been sharing my days with all the devotees here. Beautiful concerts, news, new initiates ...
Today I wish to share with you a few words about a very important personality in our sampradaya. One of the greatest poets who composed many of the songs we sing every day in our programs,Srila Narottama Das Thakura.
Narottama Das Thakura was a disciple of Srila Lokanath Das Goswami and he reminds us of the true meaning of initiation. Narottam Das Thakur Das received initiation from Srila Lokanath Das Goswami after a long time. Narottam Das Thakur was announced by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Himself. He had the direct inspiration of Krishna Prema that Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu deposited in the river Padma for Srila Narottama Das Thakura.
So, it is told in the book called "Narottam Vilas" which tells about the time Sri Narottama Das Thakura went to the river, and how the personality, Padma River gave Krishna Prema to a young Narottama .
Since the beginning of his existence, Srilaa Narottam Das Thakur was a very inspiring acharya, someone who had a clear mission in the world to share love of God with others. He was the son of a great king. His father was very anxious to make young Narottama his successor, but the young man did not want anything to do with kingdoms. He invested his time listening to a brahmana tell the glories of Gauranga and Nityananda. He was always very eager to hear more about the glories of the Lord.
Finally, Narottam escaped his father when he was going to present him as his successor. When he traveled on the float for the event, Narottam asked to stop to go to the bathroom and escaped, hiding in the jungle. So he walked through the jungle for days without food or rest. Until he came to a crossroads where he passed out from exhaustion. There, one of the guards from his father found him and told him he would take him back. Narottama was very determined. Narottama told the guard "you better do something else, because I'm to Vrindavan and have important things to do there."
Narottama he argued in such a wonderful poetic form, which convinced the guard to go back without him. Narottama said to the guard, " many have come to find me and none of them yet to find me, so there is no problem, you can be another one of them and no one will be surprised. Please let me go and continue on your way."
So the young Narottama finally came to Vrindavan. An incredible story of great renunciation, so much so that he left all varieties of an opulent lifestyle just to follow his ideal of service to the Lord. Sometimes, for someone who has almost no material possessions it is easy to say, leave everything because they have not had much, but a special personality such as Narottama das Thakur, who had access to all opulence, he shined more when he gave them up and gave his life to God, with no interest in material things.
When Narottam came to Vrindavan, Srila Jiva Goswami was still there. So Narottam visited all the major Vaishnavas of that time. But his heart was completely conquered when he met Srila Lokanath Das Goswami. Narottama decided to become his disciple. He approached and Srila Lokanath Das Goswami accepted him as his disciple. Srila Lokanath Goswami was very moved by the request and replied: My dear boy, I am very flattered by what you're saying, but I regret to inform you that I vowed to never accept any disciple, and that can be done by someone else, so go your way, please. Srila Lokanath Goswami was one of the busiest in the dhama seva in Vrindavan. He found more than 300 holy places in the dhama, identified them and made sure that those places of lila were clear. He was someone very important in that service, therefore, he was always moving from one place to another. So Srila Lokanath Goswami continued and said, please find someone who can accept you as his disciple, Vrindavan is full of great souls who can.
Narottama was very sad with this answer ... not knowing what to do and so he asked for advice from other devotees. They told him to try to do some service. Then Narottama turned to Srila Lokanath Das Goswami and said, "Goswamiji, Is there a service I can do for you?" But Goswami Lokanath thought Narottama was trying to convince Him again and said to not insist any further. Narottam again became extremely sad. Hecried and cried without cessation. Then someone said, 'Why do not you do a secret service Lokanath Goswami? So, Narottama started watching Lokanath Goswami every day in secret. He saw everything he did and followed him, with an intense longing in his heart to serve. He saw when Srila Lokanath stood, when he went to take his bath in the Yamuna, when he went to the temple of Sri Radha Gokulananda to worship their deities ...
My dear devotees ... imagine that determination of Narottama Das Thakur to serve his Gurudeva in anyway. We are very fortunate to connect with the pastimes of the Vaishnavas ... and we are more fortunate at our temple in Vrindavan, Vrinda Kunja which is located right in the heart of the area where these pastimes occurred. So when we started our little attempt to do service for the dhama, we called it the "Narottam Das Thakur cleaning project" in honor of the intense service that Srila Narottama did for his Gurudeva and the Dhama.
Well, we're cleaning the same areas as Srila Narottam Das Thakur cleaned in honor of his Gurudeva. Thus Narottama Das Goswami would clean all the areas where Srila Lokanath Das Goswami had been, even the area where his Gurudeva performed his physical needs. He cleaned everything with love ... and did so for a long time without Srila Lokanatha Goswami knowing. (All this is narrated in the Bhakti Ratnakar, a book full of nectar.).
Our devotees also perform annual cleaning of the 64 samadhi places of Vrindavan, near the temple of Radha Govindaji ... it is one of the qualities that make our Braj Mandal Parikrama something very special, because we do not just visit the holy places, but the devotees go and do service there, a genuine connection with the dhama.
Our service in the dhama is always a guided meditation in the service of Srila Narottam Das Thakur who was always looking to please his Gurudeva, even if at the time he did not know. But there came a time when Srila Lokanath Das Goswami began to realize that someone was cleaning the forest. One way or another, Srila Lokanath Goswami began to question what was going on, he realized that something strange was happening. One day, he decided to wait and hide to watch what happened. So he did all of his daily activities and instead of leaving, he sat behind a tree to see what happened ... and so Srila Narottama Das appeared in a gamcha with his broom and started cleaning the place where Srila Lokanatha Das Goswami had been, even cleaning where Srila Lokanatha Das Goswami performed his physical needs. Henceforth, Srila Lokanath Goswami appreciated and told Narottama angrily: Who gave you permission to do that? Narottam replied: Oh Gurudeva, nobody has given permission, but seeing my sadness, some devotees said I should do a secret service for you. And that might please you, even with this indirect service. So Srila Lokanath Goswami felt affected by it all and said softly:
I told you to go to any place where the goswamis were and ask them for initiation. I want you to be happy, have a service and you stay in Vrindavan. But understand that I can not accept disciples, as I did take a vow. Please walk and visit the other Vaishnavas. Then, Narottam Das Thakur intensely composed a poem whose meaning is more or less like this:
"When a woman is in love with a man, but her father arranges for her to marry another, this marriage will never work, because she is really attached to the first."
So, Narottama said this to Lokanath Goswami and Goswami said: you are very foolish, do what you want ... Narottam was very happy and said, Joy! Now my service is authorized by my Gurudeva :) And so he went on cleaning with much more enthusiasm. Sometimes devotees approached Srila Lokanatha Goswami and said to him why do you not take this young man who has so much love for you and give initiation? But Srila Lokanath Goswami was very serious about his vow to not accept disciples.
Until one day, he accepted Srila Narottama and sent for him. When Narottam heard Srila Lokanath Goswami was looking, he ran up and prostrated himself at his feet vigorously. Lokanath Goswami said Narottam My dear, I made this vow to never accept disciples ... and it seems that you made the vow that I should be your Guru. Well, I have concluded that your vow is even more powerful than mine ... so he brought together the ingredients for the initiation ceremony and Narottama's happiness was overwhelming and with the same enthusiasm he brought everything needed for initiation.
Remember the beautiful hobbies and loving exchanges of these Vaishnavas, they fill the heart with happiness. They are able to transform your heart and teach you what really is sadhu-sanga ... of the way in which the devotees are related to each other, how they reciprocate and appreciate. All these experiences are very sweet. They are examples that we can apply in our own life's relationships. So, Narottama became an official member of the Gaudiya Sampradaya. And then he continued to incessantly preach and spread the message of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in many places.
In the same way that Srila Lokanath Goswami initiated Srila Narottam Das Thakur only, Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji also had only one disciple, Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta ... In both cases, the only disciple was a real gem in the sky of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and they each managed to bring the message of Divine Love to many souls. Spiritual life is not a matter of form or quantities, it is a matter of quality and substance.
When I think of Srila Narottam Das Thakur, I feel very fortunate to be connected with his beautiful songs and such. Thus, all our family members who have the ability to share for a month in the Braj Mandal Parikram can live the experience of visiting these sacred places that Narottama and the goswamis were present in and do service there.
Our main service is to serve the Vaishnavas via the Vishva Vaishnava Raj Sabha, providing a bit with our volunteering service through the Internet, etc.. We pray for the blessings of all the Vaishnavas to be useful in this endeavor, because their pleasure is the only goal of our effort. We do not have any other purpose.
I take this opportunity of this Chat Sunday to remind all of you of the great service we have in Colombia for our Ishtadevas Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Vrajesvara, who really are our life and soul.
The Yoga Project Planetarium is a humble offering to Them, our Lords ... I'm really grateful for the great work that devotees are doing there and my sincere hope is that more devotees participate there, either helping in the construction or the arts or financially supporting this offering. Even if its going to take several years to finish it all, the support of all of you will be of great help in this. This is one of the historical architectural contributions of the Vrinda Mission to the world. With this invitation and remembering the sweet pastimes of Srila Narottama Das Thakur I say goodbye for today ...
I am very happy that soon we will meet again in the Latin lands to share more nectar and service to Srila Prabhupada.
With all my affection for you.
Jay Srila Prabhupada!
Sounds that Heal From Brazil 7/14/13
Topic: Sounds that heal. From Brazil. 14/07/13
conference
Dear devotees.
I am full of joy because Krishna saved Sridham Prabhu of Germany, who was at the point of being paralyzed for life. One is always in this world with one foot in disaster. Sure, you have to see Krishna even in the time of difficulty. That difficulty is there so our compassion and solidarity grow.
These days I recorded many sounds that heal. This effort is an attempt to serve all of you more. I think these sounds that heal have multiple applications. Not only are they for people who are in bed but also for example for those who drive a car or who are imprisoned in a jail.
If anyone can put photos to these audios to embellish the message,then the meditative sound could reach otheres even better. The cover must be designed as well. In the edition the messages must interject with the beautiful music exclusively from Vrinda musicians.
Srila Prabhupada encouraged us with pure transcendental sound. There has been many themes and when one meditates on them it will reveal more and more dimensions, it is incredible. The philosophy of Vaishnavism is inexhaustible.
And I want you to keep expanding them to reach the hearts of all.
From Brazil with love.
Your always wisher
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti.
conference
Dear devotees.
I am full of joy because Krishna saved Sridham Prabhu of Germany, who was at the point of being paralyzed for life. One is always in this world with one foot in disaster. Sure, you have to see Krishna even in the time of difficulty. That difficulty is there so our compassion and solidarity grow.
These days I recorded many sounds that heal. This effort is an attempt to serve all of you more. I think these sounds that heal have multiple applications. Not only are they for people who are in bed but also for example for those who drive a car or who are imprisoned in a jail.
If anyone can put photos to these audios to embellish the message,then the meditative sound could reach otheres even better. The cover must be designed as well. In the edition the messages must interject with the beautiful music exclusively from Vrinda musicians.
Srila Prabhupada encouraged us with pure transcendental sound. There has been many themes and when one meditates on them it will reveal more and more dimensions, it is incredible. The philosophy of Vaishnavism is inexhaustible.
And I want you to keep expanding them to reach the hearts of all.
From Brazil with love.
Your always wisher
Swami B. A. Paramadvaiti.
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