The qualities of a servant of humanity 7/24/16- Miami Conference

My dear devotees, 

A servant of humanity has to be a servant of the family, which is the first social unit of the world that surrounds us. This includes the father, mother, the brothers and the neighbors and to all those who are close to us. 

A servant of humanity is like a subsidiary of love, and according to the place they live in, they are going to have different tasks, for example: if you arrive to a natural sanctuary and you realize that it is full of plastic garbage your service to humanity is transformed into collecting this plastic and to find a system for recycling to thus avoid that we suffocate in it. Promoting healthy food to the people around you through organic agriculture and permaculture is another great service to humanity. To convince people to live without the influence of chemicals and without letting ourselves be carried away by the culture of consumption is another service to humanity. To teach people to heal their lives through spiritual cultivation and becoming a doctor of the soul is a service to humanity. 

The sole act of helping a small part of the universe to improve is a great service to humanity. Helping animals who suffer is a service to humanity. Become a vegetarian or vegan is entirely a service to humanity and the whole environment (it is said that each new vegetarian helps the world become a safer place). In other words, becoming an exemplary person who is faithful to their ideals is directly a service to humanity. 

The questioning and deepening in the aim of life and asking, "why are we in this world, and where should we direct ourselves", is also a service to humanity. Because human life is the great opportunity that we have to find answers to these questions. It is also a service to humanity each time one identifies a response to the essential questions of life and shares it with others, in the same way that if I have food and water it is my duty to share it with those who do not have it. In this way, knowledge about the wisdom of being, on love and on positive values such as compassion, appreciation, or etc. must always be shared. 

A service to humanity sometimes may not be recognized by others, that does not matter, because our Creator is always aware of all the efforts we make for the welfare of others. He knows everything that we think and speak and what to say of what we do. When we want to serve a plant we know that we must put water in its roots, we will not be able to cater to the plant by putting just a drop of water on each leaf, this will not give the desired result. Similarly, to serve humanity and to reach the perfection of life one must deepen in the singing of the names of the Infinite truth in the tradition closest to one's faith individually. 

This great process that is known as praise (or kirtan in Sanskrit) is the presentation of the soul before the Infinite, recognizing himself as a humble servant that requests to become an instrument of His love. This is a process that opens the channels of communication with Divinity, both upwards and inward. The connection with the Holy Names of God is the means that fills us internally to become intensely grateful to the Infinite, because any potential help that we can give to humanity does not come from us but from the Absolute that allows us to be part of His great symphony. That is why, through the singing of Holy Names I connect with the Infinite. I have more of a chance of becoming an instrument and servant of His love for humanity. 

This is what I learned from my spiritual master Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 

With all my affection,
Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti

Sankirtan puts people in touch with God. Mallorca, Spain. 3/22/15

Very dear devotees, greetings from Mallorca, the beautiful island in the Mediterranean. In the company of the wonderful devotees of Spain and other countries. I send a fraternal greeting, all glories to Gurudeva Atulananda whose birthday just passed. We send a warm embrace and recommending always to take things to heart and work hard because that is the only way one can become qualified to understand the essence, because the essence is always something that one has to make a special effort for. One is not allowed to take things lightly or superficially, but requires that one treats it with the utmost care.

Today is Sunday, and tomorrow we will have the Theatre Mallorca festival where we will have 8 different spontaneous performances to convey to others the urgency of the message that has been chosen for the work. It's called the theater of emergencies.

There are several types of intelligence: rational, emotional and spiritual. The mantra Vanca Kalpa includes all these types of intelligence. The Vaisnava is always looking for the constructive welfare of others, and to be filled with compassion one must have great emotional and spiritual intelligence. The disenchantment with the material world, which wants to keep us from submitting to anyone except our false ego. This is the world that promotes selfishness, while the Vaisnava is always aware of the welfare of others. Thus the sankirtaneer is always aware of the welfare of all, all he does is look how to help others. A sankirtaneer can never be inattentive, even if he works with many people, each contact has a connection like the level of detail of a heart surgeon, because a wrong movement can even kill. One must be extremely cautious in the way he talks to people.

The sankirtaneer puts people in touch with God, not imposing but exposing. The service to animals, family, devotees, is a service to God. In all angles one must link all activities to God. But we must not think that we ourselves can liberate another from pain. Instead Krishna can, my Gurudeva can. They can give the form in which to find many treasures when one puts the welfare of oneself  submissively to the world. You can measure many things but you can not measure the transcendental, you can feel it but not measure it. Maya means that which can be measured, but the transcendental cannot be measured.

One always feels they are the most important and what one has to do is most important and it is partially true because if you did not exist you would not know of the existence of everything else. But this is very dangerous, because even though my life allows me to connect with others, we risk devaluing others. I can say, "My mom is the best in the world" and that may be fine, but one can not say "My mom is the best and only good mother out there." The same applies to Guru. I think my Guru is very special because I think I am the most important. "My Guru is the best Guru" that is fine. But "my Guru is the only good Guru alone" this is arrogance, it is ego, all about "me, me, me."

Everything is associated. When I think that my prayer is worth more than a native praying to the sun, that is arrogance. To think that God likes your prayer more than someone else's that is arrogant. To minimize or ridicule the faith of others is arrogant. Being in the state of  "me, me, me" becomes offensive to others. Instead of producing something good it produces something negative. What makes you important is your love for others. I'm here just trying to serve, and I do not even have the essential criterion. The Vaisnava is a Vaisnava because they feel that they are not. He thinks he's an aspiring servant of the servant of the servant of the Vaishnavas.

Only when Krishna allows us to serve, can we do so and preach. When we have a bad conscience, depressed, unwilling, we need to go preach. If you do not want to ask anyone for anything, then sit on the street and sing "Oh my Lord let me be an instrument of your love", until someone asks you of out curiosity and you show them a book.

Prabhupada did not come to us personally, but through the efforts of others, and thus we worship all devotees that give us the truth. Nobody knows how to be happy whether with wealth or poverty. But devotees of Vrinda are richer, more than Bill Gates because wherever they arrive they are welcomed by hundreds of temples. Bill Gates will always have to pay to be received somewhere, but devotees have much fortune.

One of the main problems we have is intense laziness. The process of awakening enthusiasm to serve is through Sadhana, since the most essential element of Sadhana is to share what the spiritual master has given you with others. Mahaprabhu said, "I plant a tree of love and it grew and bore fruit, and I distributed the fruit but still many fruits kept falling and I do not have enough hands to distribute all these fruits, many hands are needed, so I need your help, because there are many who need these fruits and I can not distribute all, I need help. "

The idea of ​​Sankirtan has changed a bit, it's more personal. It means that I treat you with all your needs. Ask "What do you need, are you a vegetarian? Here is the cookbook, here are CDs of the best chefs. Or do you want to know about reincarnation, here's the book. Or do you have someone with addiction problems, here's Vedic wisdom. Would you like to have a nice vacation? Here are the best places to go to in India or Colombia, or Mallorca. Personalized Sankirtan is: that I offer everything you could need. The essence is, I have nothing, this is the message of Srila Prabhupada. Sankirtan is a delight, it is the best thing to distribute to give a hand to many people. Today courses are made, Prasadam, but this is an excuse to be able to give them assistance. This preaching is education. It is the process of healing by healing others.

After all, despite not being qualified, do your best because it is all you can do, and do not be discouraged if for one reason or another there is a fall because they exist so one can overcome it, to recognize your flaws and weaknesses and to continue the struggle, because this is what we have to do. We can not wait to be perfect to go out and preach and help people.

Jay Srila Prabhupada!
With this message I leave today. Haribol.
B.A. Paramadvaiti Swami

The Sankirtaneer 2/15/2015

Dear devotees,

In our SEVA meeting, Editorial Vaishnava Acharyas Service, I announced that  2015 our mission is the traditional mission of distributing literature and other spiritual messages published by SEVA and that myself could be a sankirtaneer promoting these materials. This begins now that we are in 2015.

The sankirtaneer is the heart of the movement of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, because he is situated at the lotus feet of Nityananda Gauranga, who are dancing around the world with Their harinam sankirtan which is the rasa lila of this era. And at the tip of the Lord's lotus feet is the sankirtaneer because when he is dancing, he is touching a person with the message of love, that's the point of GourNitai's dancing, that it touches people, where the souls are called to hear and become impressed with the message of Krishna, who is in their own heart.

The call of sankirtan devotee is to wake you up, so that with your human intelligence you see that you are not this material body but are an eternal spirit soul and have a mission full of love.

Similarly, the sankirtaneer also has a mission full of love and what is it? To distribute all the books and materials of seva. The sankirtaneer tells the person: My mission in this moment is to leave you well armed so you can defend yourself, because you are disarmed in the world of kali, you're lacking, which is a dangerous situation. So I bring you the Bhagavad Gita, Sri Isopanisad, we also have Andean music and varied musical styles.

Another important material is the DVD of organic ecological farms, as well as the Annual Vraja Mandal Parikram, this is a project in India from the Vrinda family, where we visit sacred sites and we help to clean beautiful places like Yamuna Kunja, Vamsi Kunja, Vrinda Kunja, while we sing, dance and are grateful for everything that comes into our life.

The sankirtaneer is armed, equipped and informed, and has all medicines in his arsenal, or at least has the catalog to take orders and save the contacts he makes. In actuality, the sankirtaneer can not carry all the materials, but he can have the list of all materials that Seva carries and knows each material.

Seva is dedicated to equipping devotees. No seva product was created with a commercial vision of selling something that people would like, and neither have we put naked women so that people look, no seva product has this content and end. We deliver the message of love, God's message of Truth.

 The gift that the sankirtaneer has is paramount, and I want all of you to be equipped sankirtaneers. This is for all. No matter what you dedicate yourself to, the sankirtan is not just for brahmacaris who are dedicated to this all the time, the sankirtan is for everyone. We are sankirtaneers first. Any devotee can equip him(her)self and become a sankirtaneer that distribute what Prabhupada has given us. We have all these materials to establish our sincere, loving relationship with others, sankirtan is love in action.

The sankirtan mission is the most humble, the most tender, where the devotee only wants to reach the hearts of people. This is important when it is understood that  devotees are brothers who are raising a familiar relationship in this world, with the heart message that we are children of Mother Earth, and that we are children of God and we have a relationship of love with Him.

I have done many things, I have worked and tried to have as much material as possible, so that even the most timid devotee of the world, can have a connection with preaching. Therefore we meditations of heart to heart, I don't think that most know that seva has this, a message that includes information on where we serve, which also allows the whole world to be happy with a Vedic mantra.

Soon we will be sharing the information to view online, but this is a sermon for the day and for all. With messages of faith, love, and protection for our Mother Earth.

We also need to distribute more Okis, we are in a campaign to change consciousness in the world. I hope you will all support me in this, with enthusiasm and hereafter that these messages are ready for sankirtan, to distribute and are in the sankirtan bags, not in the house. This becomes a habit and then we can reach more people.

Thank you very much. Lets continue the sankirtan marathon every day of our lives
Haribol.
B. A. Paramadvaiti Swami.

Personalized Sankirtan from Mayapur 1/11/2015

Dear devotees
Happy New Year.

I want to thank all the devotees who have took part in such a beautiful marathon. This year something very interesting happened. On one side there were warriors tremendously giving all their efforts in the streets, distributing books and magazines with Gopal Sundara winning this beautiful competition.

Sankirtan has one purpose: to awaken the love of all for all. And another thing beautifully happened during the same period of the sankirtan marathon, the biggest collector of person to person sankirtan, utilizing yoga courses, our beloved Rasikendra of Bogotá, who gave us a different style of sankirtan which now confirms that it is a super productive tool. I decided that this could not compete with the more common form of sankirtan that was done on the buses. But at this moment I want to recognize Rasikendra prabhu's tremendous efforts and stress the importance of what he is showing us. A good lesson on personalized sankirtan.

I invite him and Sundar Gopal prabhu from Dominican Republic to share their secrets, in the form of an interview for the page, to encourage others in following their wonderful examples.For me, the marathon in India was mostly based on the production of websites and literature. The traditional form of sankirtan is of the utmost importance because it can be applied in any town in the world, not only in large cities where there are many buses where one can do sankirtan. And that is so important because the devotees have to go to every town and village in the world and with personalized sankirtan materials they can make good collections and keep their temples, that's the most important message.

This morning I was giving the order of visnu priya to mother Prabhupada kripa in Veni panca and just behind her there were fishermen, getting a giant fish net into the river, and I remembered what Jesus said. He said we are fishers of men and women. Taking the vow of renunciation, going on sankirtan or giving lectures at universities all share one purpose: to bring souls to Lord Krishna, to fish  them out of the ocean of material nature in which they are suffering.

Thank you to all of you for understanding this and for participating in it. And with this message from the heart I say goodbye for today, praying to always implement all the wisdom that Srila Prabhupada gave us.

A recommendation for readers. Please read Vaiyasaki's book, my spiritual brother, where he did a tremendous job of defeating the materialistic judgements of the atheists; this book will be available because it's almost completely translated into Spanish by our translator star from Cali, Gopal shakti.

Jay Srila Prabahupada ki jay

With much love from Mayapur dhama
Haribol.

Your always well-wisher
B. A. Paramadvaiti Swami

Fight with love. From India 01/04/2015

Dear devotees
A special hug to everyone in the new year.

We offer this year to Krishna, our Gurudeva and to collaboration for better awareness in this world. These moments of change, of a new year, also serves as an opportunity to reflect on how we have advanced. To advance in spiritual life the most important thing to do is to be under the shelter of the devotees. Always preaching and obedient to their instructions. Continue sharing in the chanting of the holy name with all those you meet along the way. That is the major occupation and thus all the blessings will be showered upon you. Never doubt this.

For sankirtaneer, the marathon  doesn't end in December, the marathon continues with the whole spirit of sankirtan. This is the greatest blessing given by Lord Caitanya. Chanting your rounds. This is the most effective way to remove inauspicious things. Do you want to distance yourself from inauspicious influences? Then put on tilaka and chant the name of Lord Nrsimha. If you keep your prayers that for sure will disappear. Try to maintain an atmosphere with the vibration of the mantras present and have faith that Krishna is always with you.

Krishna always blesses us even in difficulties. Keep in mind that we are where our heart are. A heart vibrating in serving Guru is a heart is saved.

Preaching is the essence of our life. And there we not only save people, we save ourselves. From what are we saved? We are saved from false joys and addictions. We are saved from going through this world and can do something positive. Sure you can do more. This thought gives me hope every day. And now that the year begins its something you can think more about.

For example: What do we do to promote wisdom and the values of Sanatan Dharma in this world? What do we do to awaken the values in young people? But it all starts in our personal practice. Partnering with devotees is the key. A day with the devotees is ecstasy. For me, the association of devotees is what saves me. And the leaders are pure gems.

It is my desire that all of you become leaders. There is much scope and  it newly appears each year.
One thinks that this year we wish to finish some services but then Krishna sends us new services. We have not even finished the previous ones and yet Krishna hands us new things. And services that one can not: no that, I don't have time.

For example: Now I went to Bangladesh and met wonderful devotees who wanted to connect with the Vrinda family. More service for me and for you all. I pray to Krishna to send us more good devotees to cover all the services he also commanded from us to perform. And you never know what surprises may come. At least I do not know. The only thing  that I know  that in life what gives reason for living is preaching.

We have seen the example of our Acharyas, until the very last minute of their lives they were preaching. Health may be bad and one leaves this world but one can also receive miracles. Many devotees told me: "now I'm leaving this world" and I told them: "Preach in the meantime as much as you can and till this day they continue to preach after years." Good therapy, right?

For example these days in Mayapur we are very successfully presenting a play to sensitize people about the care of the sacred rivers. We also continue to finish marathon publications, working with the office group in projects for the entire mission, and happy with the news of the marathon. Congratulations to all the devotees who participated. I am excited to know who is in the spirit of preaching one hundred percent.

These days I had a visit from a quero of Peru here in Mayapur. A grandparent. We present him the work of Rius and he was fascinated. We was happy that for his boys there is an understanding of the dangers of our modern errors. I was moved by his reaction.

Lately I have received many publications that are great for the start of the University. This confirms to me that our little attempt is being blessed by Krishna. It is not my project it is a project of Krishna's. And now we're working on all this so that they can develop it in South America. This makes me more present in South America than in India.Where I am, there I am dedicated to projects.

For example Faith education, the World Conscious Pact, the University opens many doors and makes many friends. Everyone can help. We do not want anything but to serve the people. If anything is impure it always comes out to the surface. And the people who do not understand what is being done then this year one has to devote themselves to understand. The name of Krishna is above everything. Of course, maya is always at our doors to serve our whims. Struggle to fight with love. This is my message for this Chat.

I am always happy to hear the reports of each temple. They can be sent directly or to my secretary. Also reports of service and personal study with specific questions where they need help. Study questions can be read here in the class and answered. I appreciate the effort of the devotees that are connecting the members of the Vrinda family with these messages, chats. It is very generous and helpful so that I can communicate with all the temples and everyone can read it. Thanks to all involved in this.

Srila Prabhupada ki jay
Haribol.

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

Everything Krsna Does is Perfect. Mayapur. 12/7/14

Conference.

My dear devotees
Preachers of love,

In full marathon, the first week. And the result is exciting that Thakur Prabhu in Peru and his group have obtained. At the same time, there are several important events of the marathon, like Kiwa in Colombia and the tribunal against the abuse of Mother Earth in Peru. A concert of our friend Hector Buitrago in Lima in the margin of the People's Summit. A lot of service. While here in India we have already presented four plays successfully at the Ekachakra villages in Kattwa and Navadvip. We are now being invited to other places like Ambika Kalna and other sacred sites of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya. Who can understand it? Pure mercy.

Krishna knows what he wants. When things get tough in my life I take refuge in two sentences: "Everything that happens that Krishna allows is perfect, it must be so ... if not, it would not have happened": And when circumstances still seem ugly, I take refuge in the phrase "every cloud has a silver lining" and with that, I calm the mind completely, otherwise how will I calm the mind of others if my own mind is agitated.

Therefore, by calming my own mind I extend my hand to the people who are still sad or agitated so they can also feel the protection of reflection and thus can begin the process of harmonization with the prayer "vanca kalpa tarubhyas ca ...: apologizing to all others who may have been offended by my conscious or unconscious behaviors in the past. With this attitude of humility one can go into battle again, in a pleasant and appreciative way. And by doing so reach goals in a transparent manner of what I should give to those around me.

Of course, when something happens that I do not like, I should complain to my authority to harmonize things. Because harmonization is possible when one receives the authorization for it. At certain times of conflict in the world it is necessary to consult the guardian of both sides. The guardian who is accepted by both sides of the conflict. However, preaching is our life. And preaching brings conflict. And in order to grow one must experience conflict ... or rather, when there is growth conflicts will appear. Each new child in the world means a new problem. Each new temple, it means new challenges. So when we preach we are inviting new problems. Secondly, to avoid problems there should be transparency, especially if a program handles Lakshmi, for many reasons it should remain transparent.

We are in Kali Yuga and there is a lot of envy. Now we need to realize this so it does not remain as just a theory. And so we do not have to learn it again. I send you a hug in this marathon that you are having there. With love I say goodbye from Mayapur Dham.

Jay Srila Prabhupada!

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

Sri Balarama Purnima 8/10/2014. From Bulgaria.

These two are one and the same identity. They differ only in form. Lord Balarama is the first bodily expansion of Krishna, and He assists in Lord Krishna's transcendental pastimes. (CC Adi 5.5.)

My dear devotees,

Please receive all my affection on this day of Sri Balaram Purnima. Today we are celebrating it in Bulgaria and then I will be traveling to Venezuela and Colombia, and stopping by Frankfurt to meet with Purushottama Prabhu and celebrate together.

  This Balaram Purnima day is pretty significant to me. I took sannyas three times in my life, the first time was in a dream I had with Srila Prabhupada, where he gave me the renounced order. The second time was on the day of Sri Balaram Purnima, when in 1978 I received the sannyas order of my spiritual brothers who were in charge of the mission of Srila Prabhupada in Brazil. Then in 1984, I had the opportunity to hear the beautiful sannyas mantra from the lotus lips of Srila Sridhar Maharaj and with this I had the fortune to receive the traditional order of sannyasa in the line of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada.

On this day, I pray for the protection of Sri Balaramji and I ask Him to give me permission to renew this contract of the heart. This is a great responsibility to represent Srimati Radharani, Sri Balaramji, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, my spiritual masters and all the Guru - parampara and the great spiritual family. To serve as a sannyasi is not the most important, but serving with love is. Anyways, the sannyasi ashram is so beautiful. It translates into the constant sacrifice of personal privacy to be always open to the needs of those who are seeking God.

The sannyasi ashram is quite severe, because with discipline you get the chance to serve. The sannyasi ashram is the gift of Srila Prabhupada to develop more dedicated service. People like sannyasis because they feel they can rely on them. It is really difficult to count on any person in this world, but someone who is trying to follow in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and constantly preaching, builds trust. It is a great fortune to have contact with those who are trying to establish places where you can practice spiritual life. Srila Prabhupada gave us this fortune to us, it is difficult to measure.

Today we can see that there are thousands of places that keep the doors open for the thirsty souls of truth so they can come and practice Krishna Consciousness. Therefore I am very grateful to the Vrinda family, especially the sannyasis and maharanis who have given much of their energy and love into the wonderful projects offered to the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada used to quote the slogan of the Indian Railway System which was "The wheels have to keep moving".We can say that "The doors of the temples and the hearts of the devotees must remain open forever", because closed doors means there is no refuge for the souls who seek it.

On this day, 30 years after the origin of this beautiful spiritual Vrinda family and 36 years after I entered this ashram, I express my deepest appreciation for every day that I have received, for each person with whom I have had the opportunity to associate with and I pray for this to continue for the rest of my days in the spirit of fortunate and humble sankirtan devotees. When I first got to know the mission of Srila Prabhupada, I immediately went out to the streets of Europe to preach, there were many hard years. So, as a beggar of love, our sankirtan was begging people to acquire the books of Srila Prabhupada.

I pray to my spiritual master to let me keep doing it for the rest of my life. In my time of sankirtan I only worried about visiting different places to be able to offer the books of Srila Prabhupada to others. But at some point I began to emerge intense feelings of concern for the temples and devotees. I myself was surprised by these feelings. A few days after that, I was sent to Denmark to take over the temple there.
Everything Sri Krsna does is perfect. Our desire is that everyone really can know about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and (hopefully) you can join this movement, because this union creates a wonderful fraternity where service becomes a real pleasure. Service to the devotees and their association bring us entirely closer to the Lotus Feet of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Dancing in the kirtan with devotees is the introduction to the rasa dance with Krishna in His transcendental abode. But for this we need the protection and mercy of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, the force that gives us Sri Balaram and the constant association with Vaishnavas so we can continue to dance well together eternally in sankirtan with Gurudeva Atulananda with Harijan Maharaja and all of you. The Sankirtan Movement is completely mystical and the constant inspiration of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the centerpiece. He is Srimati Radharani's appearance in a very hidden manner that is full of complete mercy.

My dears, on this day of Sri Balaram Purnima I wish you all that, independent of your capabilities and limitations, to always remain steadfast and constantly keep your faith and positive attitudes towards all. I also pray especially on this day to Srila BB Tirtha Maharaj, one of the star sannyasis that is a part of our Guru - parampara who is always showing us to follow the path of devotion to the last moment of our lives. Only by the mercy of the Vaishnavas those things are possible. And of course, what would the reason be to dance here if there were no eternal dance waiting for us in the spirit world? There is, and there we will go someday if the Vaishnavas are merciful to us. The whole universe is dancing and it is inviting us to dance with Krishna eternally.

That's the secret invitation of Sri Vrindavan that has become visible in Navadvip by the Grace of Sri Caitanya. And it will be expanded worldwide by the grace of Srila Prabhupada and all of you. For all of you, whether grihastas, children, brahmacaris, sannyasis, you are all representatives of Srila Prabhupada fulfilling their momentous duties. You are all representatives of this transcendental dance.

Again once more I pray to Sri Balarama so that all of you stay spiritually healthy and happy and that by His grace itself, we can stay under the shelter of the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada.
Jay Sri Balarama!
Jay Sri Nityananda Prabhu!

Your always well wisher,

B. A. Paramadvaiti Swami

Give the Happiness You Receive in Krsna Consciousness 4/13/14 Berlin

Dear devotees,
All my love from Germany Yatra .

Back to Their Lordships Gaura Gandharvika Sundaram. It's nice to get to a temple and see the effort devotees put into serving. Maintain an atmosphere of loving and dedicated service. How difficult in these times and in this era! But it is possible by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada. He was and is who encourages our enthusiasm. And sometimes drawbacks arrive but they are little compared to the amount of mercy that we receive.

You have to understand the essence to capture the spiritual beauty in everything. For example when a Arati is done you can express your joy of singing and exist for Krishna with your body, voice, and smile. The joy in this world is artificial, difficulty is joy, rather it is a confirmation that what you are searching for is joy.You can find joy in Krishna consciousness.

If  you still have not experienced happiness in devotional activity it is because you have not devoted sufficient effort to deserve it. It's in the way of your efforts. There are people who work hard for their enjoyment without Krishna. The devotee strives in the same manner but more so for the enjoyment of Krishna. If you see such dedication from anyone to achieve something in this world, that is thanks to Krishna who also gives you the ability and intelligence to do it. Imagine, what Krishna could not give to His devotee? In the Bhagavad Gita (9.22) the Lord says:

ananyāś cintayanto māṁ

ye janāḥ paryupāsate

teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ

yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham

" But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have. "

- Srila Prabhupada says in the purport :

One who is unable to live for a moment without Krsna Consciousness cannot but think of Krsna twenty-four hours, being engaged in devotional service by hearing, chanting, remembering, offering prayers, worshiping, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, rendering other services, cultivating friendship and surrendering fully to the Lord. Such activities are all auspicious and full of spiritual potencies; indeed, they make the devotee perfect in self-realization. Then his only desire is to achieve the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is called yoga. By the mercy of the Lord, such a devotee never comes back to this material condition of life.Ksema refers to the merciful protection of the Lord. The Lord helps the devotee to achieve Krsna consciousness by yoga, and when he becomes fully Krsna conscious the Lord protects him from falling down to a miserable conditioned life.

By the mercy of the Lord, such a devotee never comes back to this material condition of life. The word ksema refers to the merciful protection of the Lord. The Lord helps the devotee to acquire Krishna consciousness through yoga, and when the devotee becomes fully Krsna conscious the Lord protects him from falling into a bleak conditioned life.

Srila Prabhupada ki jay, Srila Prabhupada explained that devotees could chant Hare Krishna and distribute transcendental books, and Krishna would take care of the rest. No one is more valuable in this world than one who knows the transcendental science and helps others. His work is more important than a doctor, engineer or judge. Smart people who understand this are inspired by Krishna in the heart to support the preaching of the transcendental science and so, they also benefit greatly.

Devotees are not very interested in accumulating material things, but the little that they need is always enough. The devotee wants to accumulate nectar. A kirtan is a nectar. If you are very lucky your kirtan can be led by Gurudeva Atulananda, kirtan does not end there, it is a kirtan until you become unconscious. Gurudeva's Kirtan jumping is revolutionary and that is that he has more than 60 years, and how he jumped at 20, I do not know how. And at 60 he still makes such a revolutionary jump, leaving the youth on a mental plane.

Sada kirtaniyah harih  uaauuu ! And at the end of the kirtan you do Prema- Dhvani to remember all the sacred places and important people in your life. Wow. All of this is amazing and gives much joy to the heart. Remembering all the great teachers who fought to build a large family. Meditate on pure devotees. Pray from the heart, "when will be the day that I can do something valuable for them?"

I know different styles of Prema- Dhvani, for instance when Srila BB Bodhayan Maharaj recites Prema Dhvani takes a tour of all the holy sites of Puri Dham, Mayapur Dham, and Vrindavan Dham, he does not even miss a corner.

Another very special one are those of Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj, who is now in his Samadhi in meditation. We all pray every day for your health: Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Maharaj, God willing stay with us. Stay or go, what Krishna wants, now he is silent, bur when he spoke Prema- Dhvani was very slow, deep, lasted like 5 times longer than any other, straight out of his heart.

After all, what is the life of a devotee? Remembering Krishna, remembering devotees.
I'm always in a hurry, I do Prema- Dhvani very fast, they are different points of view, we are the group of administrators, we are always in a hurry. Come on , let's Sankirtan!

In India there are people who take half an hour to put on Tilak, I have at most 30 seconds.

In India, they put on tilaka with a mirror, it's very nice, it's a whole meditation. Krishna consciousness is a process of details. All is in the details, and perfection is when your details are perfected. Then the modalities that exist in devotional service are also realizations. Then there are different situations according to time, place and circumstance. Preaching and living in India is totally different than preaching and living in the West, truly a difference of day and night. The two situations are good, they are just totally different. You have to understand that in the spiritual life we must have the flexibility to understand individual differences. If you think that everything has to be as you like it, no, it's not like that at all. Everything that has to do with Sri Krishna is special. When we meditate on the essence everything is special.

Another example is when we offer our obeisances to the devotees. In the morning, after the program, after reciting their mantras, 20 people offer obeisances to you. That does not happen at work, in college, or in the government. Nobody ever gives you respect and obeisances. Devotees revere one another because they are a devotee of the Lord and are full of compassion for the fallen souls and they can satisfy the desires of all living entities, therefore people want to offer their obeisances.

Nobody says Vanca kalpatarubhyas ca with a superficial intention or as an automatic thing. No, it is like this: Prabhus, Please accept my most humble obeisances and let me offer my obeisances to your lotus feet. Out of the depths of my heart directly up to the spiritual world.

So the next step is conference day, now comes the majority of the day. Starting with Dhruva Maharaj: Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya . Go play your games! No? Narada muni proposed to Dhruva, go play! And Dhruva said, if you want I will give you my toys, I'm looking for God, if you want to help, then help, but if not then leave me alone, I'm looking for God, a very important job. Narada Muni was surprised by the detachment of the child, who wanted to give up his toys.

So that is how we begin the class of Srimad Bhagavatam: Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya and then there is the message. The message of the Bhagavatam is always strong.

It's amazing how a person could write 18000 strong verses! It is a very special talent, and not only that, each of the lines is strong, full of hope, of information of the spiritual world, the identity of the Jiva. Amazing! I'm reading for more than 45 years and I am still amazed. So then ends the class, and here comes the worst austerity, now we have to recite a mantra called sarira avidya - jal. Even those who are the most lazy come out of their little holes, and they join enthusiastically to honor this yajna. Everyone, brightly eyed, sing. They are the Prasada fans! There they are queuing. So, Krishna grabs us from the front, from behind. If we like the life of a monk or if we like married life then He grabs us but He grabs us from somewhere, we can not escape it! And one of the nicest things about Prasada is that we get to speak with the devotees. And after that, your responsibility, your Dharma and the Dharmas of all devotees are wonderful, including cleaning the bathroom . If you have the proper vision, cleaning the bathroom of the Vaisnavas, you have a very great privilege, if you have the vision, if you understand these things as they are.

Then life of the devotee is full of everyday joys, challenges. To go out preaching one has to be strengthened to deliver His message with much vehemence. If I do not speak well and everyone falls asleep in the classroom, what frustration! It must be delivered with a good vocabulary, beginning with a conducting thread from the beginning to the end of the conference, all mental configuration.

The joy of spiritual life has no limits, it's amazing. But the most beautiful thing is to see the lotus faces of the devotees when they smile, of course! Sometimes they have long faces, but it's not that normal. The devotee is normally very open, smilingly saying: welcome to my heart. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said, "The mission of my life is to build a temple in everyone's heart."
A temple! Just imagine that, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Takura came to build a temple in your heart, please smile! Because if you smile the temple is open , but smiles the temple is closed.

My guru built a temple in my heart but I make sure that it does not remain closed. Therefore, devotees have to always carry Prasada because in a temple there is always prasada. Imagine, you go to the temple and someone says to you, " Prabhu, today and tomorrow there will be no prasada, they are doing yogic austerities for 10 days and are only serving prana, sit in the temple, take a deep breath to get your dose of prana. . . " I do not know how many would put up with that for a week or so, after 3 days they will say, 'I 'm going on to another mission, this one performs too many austerities .

Everything is controlled by the Supreme Lord . Everything, absolutely everything . The Lord is great. The gift he gave to all of you, to me, is a thing of another world, the world of love. Because temples are the world of love and the devotees living in the temples are full of love. So, on with the love! Prabhupada 's love , the love of Krishna ki jay! , His temple ki jay, Vrinda Sannyasis ki jay, All sannyasis ki jay, All grihastas ki jay. All brahmacaris ki jay, All vishnupriyas ki jay. The Editorial Seva ki jay . All projects to serve the world ki jay. Everything the devotees do to promote awareness ki jay.
By the way, do you use what the devotees produce? This is an important question to ask every day. Are we supporting the efforts of the devotees? Are we consuming their products? Are we in solidarity with our brothers?

It is a commitment to promote the products that the devotees make. This does not take us out of our thread today. Quite the contrary. The essence is to promote all that gives joy and all everything the devotees do is with that ideal. Joy, increase joy. We are glad that SEVA printed a new book out, now we have to distribute it. We are glad that the temple produces prasadam bread, we have to take it to all places. If devotees make soaps like Spoon in Colombia or Brazil or in Antofa mother kunja and the many products out there, please support them. It is our family who makes them. Solidarity among devotees is always important. Your main task is to find joy in Krishna consciousness and give it to others.

You have to let me help you find a situation where you will want to fight to the end of your days. It is a responsibility of the spiritual master to occupy his children in a service where they can be very satisfied.

Maya? Very tricky, right? Maya sets up so many silly traps. It's easy for people to fall into the traps of maya, then we have to fight hard in union. The spiritual master is responsible to engage everyone in Krishna's service, it is important that you have a service which you can work on from morning to night, and hardly stop to eat because you identify yourself so much with that service.

Then do not lose your focus. The essence is to give what you get. And the more details in spiritual life you have the more joy you will have, then you have more to deliver. And that's sankirtan, solidarity. I do not want anything less for you and your soul either. And the souls in this world they do not want anything less.

This is my message for today . I wish much success to your heart and joy in Krishna Consciousness.
Srila Prabhupada ki jay .

Your always well wisher,

B. A. Swami Paramadvaiti .

Continue giving all your effort in your individual struggles... 2/9/14

From Ekachakra .
Dear devotees.
A hug from Chile Yatra. Happy in the company of my dearest brother Gurudeva Atulananda.

First I want to offer my obeisances to Srila Prabhupada, who changed the world, who sent me to this life with a mission. With a mission to fulfill, that mission is the mission of finding spirituality for myself and to share it with others.

The materialistic man is busy with all their toys and even though man has so many giant things, countries like China, Russia, USA, a fairly powerful world where everything is huge, yet they can not seem to solve their problems, it seems that man creates more problems than solutions.

There is very little coordination, there is little progress in understanding a situation of cause and effect. To avoid the negative causes and its effects, you would think that when you know something hurts that it should be removed to avoid causing further damage. So one might assume that the man would be very handy, especially in terms of food, pollution, but that is not the case. Man can not even advance much in that manner. For Example:

Currently there are many modern diseases and hospitals where new systems of medicine, surgery, etc are invented and there even exists computers that can run surgeries. One says, " how smart, look how much power man has." Actually the problem is simple, man has forgotten spirituality. Spirituality is the only way that one has to understand the difficulty of the material world. With the material one can not solve problems, the spiritual gives one the power to understand the essence, the cause of everything. The spiritual master always has doors open for everyone to grow and all problems are solved humility within the heart.

On the other hand, the idea of economic happiness or economic security is something that is naturally created in this materialistic environment where if everyone wants to have something then they have to have money, but they have forgotten that societies existed before without money and sharing was natural. ..
For example devotees share everything they have.We have a new farm Inkawara, 60 hectares in Bolivia which will be the light of the Incas, and it is a paradise. It has many butterflies, the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life, water everywhere, orchards in 60 years that have not been touched or better to say that have never ever been touched.

This land is also yours because you are a devotee of Krsna, because your dad is the owner, because the owner is Krsna, He has made the most beautiful things in the world until men come and they exploit it and destroy it. In other words, wherever Krsna may be that is also your place, that is divine socialism, and if we need a big roof because we are a lot of people we are also capable of making a large roof and if we need blankets because it is very cold, we will also be able to get them so that there is warmth.
So simple living and high thinking is not fictitious, it is not illusion, but you must be detached enough.

One of the founders of Ikwashenduna said : you all talk about the money but that is something very bohemian to decorate the walls, that is to stick on the walls, you see money as something important but it is only to decorate, but that is for doing something beautiful, but when you see money as the most important thing and you are neglecting your relationship with God that is very grave. Therefore, Srila Prabhupada was very gracious, he gave us the world, he gave us Vrindavan, that was raised by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

All the banks and financed houses cannot even  afford to pay for a pebble of Govardhana.

We know that our lives are there to serve, learning to serve with or without money, no problem, the issue is to serve, but when you forget to serve you want to become the served, that's what happens in the material world, everyone wants to be served, served by others, ignorance of others. Even when you say " I love you", that has become selfish, if people say " I want to serve you " that's fine, but people really mean " I want to enjoy you." So you must be very careful with this phrase "I love you ".

We are very fortunate when we look for the goal of life and it comes to us through the form of the spiritual master and you now can serve in a loving way. And it is better you understand this anyway because everyone is the architect of their own fortune. Some have heart and not others. Those who do not will not understand anything but those that are, will build a temple of the Lord in their heart. They become well-wishers for all others and want to make temples in the hearts of others also; they become builders in the hearts of others even when uninvited. I see that your heart is in a prison, a place full of worries, you should remove those bars to be free and then I will enter there and build a cozy temple.

Everyone has to build a temple in their heart. They are constructing doctors of the soul, and there are many ways to see it, but the concept is very nice; that someone comes into your heart and will start constructing sa temple, that is rather advantageous but nice. Because really to build and be constructive one needs materials, and these are the materials of Seva. These are the materials to build temples in the hearts of others, there are cds, books, all to create the perfect consciousness and to have favorable environments especially when speaking of intelligence and speaking of the mind. There is a subtle construction needed, in that place there is no longer a need to handle bricks or mud. To build on them one must be quite prepared. When you install the books of Srila Prabhupada and Gurudeva Atulananda's conferences in the hearts of people, a temple is insured. Only the Lord knows what you 're calling, you just have to change your heart and call, you have to call, I install the line but you have to call, and if not, that is alright, because we will also call you, but hopefully you answer.

All things are lessons to grow, to learn, to rejoice, the value of this world is to feel that our brothers are happy, and so practically the happiness of Krishna consciousness is knowing that there is Krsna consciousness.

Our life, our path, our road, our task is to spread love, and we do not need anything else, we just need love, and one who does not have much love then you must chant the Hare Krishna mantra, that is why in a temple the maha mantra is installed to activate that love that everyone searches for :

"O my Lord let me be an instrument of your love."
When you have time to sing, that is activated. Then the Lord's devotees have a duty to activate the holy name and install the worship of Ishtadev. Everyone should be involved in the worship of God, even when he is an atheist.

One has to be a sankirtaneer, sankirtan leaders for Srila Prabhupada, equip yourselves and do not go without material. Equip yourselves to preach without the false ego, without thinking that you are the doers. We are nothing but instrumental pawns. Those who are doing it all, are our Gurudevas, Srila Prabhupada, Srila Sridhar Maharaj, Srila BP Puri Maharaj, we are the pawns. And there is much more work to be done. I see that many communities are being activated through the leadership the devotees are taking.

My message and desire is this: to continue giving all your effort in your individual struggles and change the community around you.

I wish you the best with the blessings of Srila Prabhupada.
Haribol .

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