Connection to true happiness. Hungary. 08/03/2014

Conference.

My dear devotees. Receive all my affection from Hungary. At this time we are traveling to Bulgaria.

These past days have been very nice  making plans for the family of Srila Prabhupada in Europe.We had istagosthis, seminars of Faith education, conscious art, sacred baths in the river. We shared very special moments with all the devotees.

Today I want to share a few words about the connection to true happiness. Eternal happiness and not the apparent satisfaction of the senses. First of all, I offer my most humble obeisances to my spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, who rescued me from the greatest ignorance. I'm completely indebted to him for eternity, since before I met him I had no idea who I was and did not understand why I'm here. My spiritual teacher found me when I was in dark and terrible ignorance, surrounded by a meaningless world without values​​, and on the edge of being completely influenced by it. At that time he opened my blinded eyes with the torchlight of spiritual knowledge and saved me.

My spiritual teacher told me that life is full of spiritual beauty and consciousness of God is a divine gift that descends as the causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord Himself.

Before I met my spiritual master I was just lost in the pleasure of my senses. Sensory desires are the reason why we get caught again and again in the material world. There is no limit to those desires. One serves them constantly, yet they never show any mercy towards us. But thanks to Gurudeva awakening spiritual intelligence in each of us we can begin to reject and fight to abandon them. For that, I take refuge in the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who removes all fear of the heart. So I ask you all again and again to occupy me in his personal service and save me. Sensual desires are like a fire that is burning inside. A fire that never ends, because one will think that satisfying a desire, even a little bit, then it will calm down, but on the contrary, when you try to satisfy your lustful desires it is like adding fuel to the fire. So the flame grows and consumes all that you have around you.

Vaishnavas insist that sexual activity is very powerful, so powerful that it can generate life. It is the energy that brought us to this world. It is not something to underestimate. Life is not an accident, it is a manifestation of the Divine. Then if such a sacred activity is used just to please grossly lustful desires, then your own energy of being a conscious human being is completely undermined. If you are sexually active or you occupy yourself by fulfilling lusty desires without the intention of creating new life, then your power is cut, just like when you use drugs and your energy decreases.

Devotees teach that there is a world of happiness without exploitation. A world of fun and pleasure without spiritual harm, or exploitation of others, or without considering that others are objects of my selfish enjoyment. Vaishnavas have fun without excess, no frills nor do they need large sums of money to be happy. Devotees have fun singing and dancing for God. Fun with a simple life, with elevated feelings that helps one to explore more and more. There is no need of having contact with illicit enjoyment for entertainment. Ultimately that's more a problem than a pleasure.

The real sense of fun and joy, happiness, can be perceived when one gives love and establishes heart to heart relationships. But that's not easy to find in the material world. Here you only find people looking to meet their selfish needs.Real fun and happiness is what a mother feels for her son, who has so much love that she is filled with joy.So the key is to put our energy into making others happy, respect and appreciate them as part of a universal family, a family united under the protection of God.We have many tools to do this; You have your hands, that are amazing tools that can be used successfully for others through painting, dancing, writing, tending a garden, cleaning, playing music, cooking, taking care of your children ... So many wonderful things that can be made ​​by us ... you only need to be focused in the right way.

Appreciating the wonderful tools that God gave us helps us to always remember that this body is a temple where Paramatma Himself resides. Therefore we should be very grateful. I thank my Lord for allowing me to serve with the instruments of this body which is His Temple.

This human body is the most sophisticated thing we've ever seen. Even the most renowned scientists have not managed to create something like that ... because it is a registered trademark of the Supreme.
We think of everything wonderful that we have and what we can realize through our spiritual master, then it becomes amazing to see people lose their connection very quickly to true happiness.

In today's world people think that happiness is about sex and drugs, in power and money. People do not know the meaning of true relationships of the heart. They just think about relationships based on sex, contaminated by lusty desires. They do not know what it means to bring a life through responsible sex life. A life that will be educated on values ​​and spiritual awareness as an offering to Krishna.

People today do not know what it means to cook, sing or serve those around us. The contamination of the material world lead us to lose honesty. And develop apathy through being honest. And then we get honesty in a world of lies, betrayal, temptations, competition, disease of loneliness ... "of no importance" That is to say, I do not care: I do not care about the impact I have on others, I do not care if I do harm to nature or not, I do not care if others suffer with my actions or not, I do not if what I eat a result of violence or not ... I just care about pleasing my own lustful desires that plunge me deeper and deeper into ignorance.

The materialistic mind is always suggesting that we are the center of everything and that we should take the best part.It puts hundreds of problems in our way, but no matter what,  the focus is to just please the senses. That helps us to assess at what level we really are. As always the trend is to be the enjoyer, the controller and the proprietor. But we should be clear (and if you do not understand it by the good, karma will help us to understand anyway). We do not control anything. We do not even control our bowel movements :)
It is only by the grace of the spiritual master we can remember we are not the controllers.

The spiritual master gives us to the devotees, who stay around us like a protective barrier against Maya and who are always reminding us what is the right thing to do or proper way to behave. And because they are merciful, if we do wrong, they again accept and support us. The spiritual master gives us appreciation for people. Where there is appreciation there can be no exploitation. Where others are considered part of the same universal family then selfish desires of exploitation can not enter.

Lust is selfish. Love gives everything. Where there is appreciation there can be no exploitation, that means not only appreciation for people, but for what we have received. I thank you again and again to my spiritual master to constantly save me from my lustful desires and for allowing me to use all my energy in service to his beloved devotees.

With these words I end today's message. Thanks to all who read this Chat every week, it's my chance to stay in touch with all of you.

Your always well wisher,

B. A. Paramadvaiti Swami

The Science of Love. 06/22/2014 Spain

Conference.

My dear devotees. I am very happy to share with you today's chat. First off, I want to offer my humble obeisances to my spiritual master, Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in whose place I am speaking here, because I know if he were here, we would all be listening. Srila Prabhupada planted many seeds of love in many places and it is a great joy for me to see every day how my spiritual master impacted the lives of so many people so deeply.

Sure, intervening in the lives of the people who came to him in that way was his normal nature. When someone asked him something, Srila Prabhupada would at once give that person all the love he had and showed that person that there was something very precious and supremely beautiful in life and that was the power of love. Surely the human being is blessed with this great power but in saying this is not to say that only humans have this ability. This power is in the soul and the soul is present in every living creature, that means in animals too. They also have the ability to love. Thus, it is not a blessing just for human beings.

If we think that animals do not have such a blessing than more reason for man to love them because they have that capability however, the current reality is different. The way you treat animals reveals how much love you have. If we realize that this is the reality of our life then it is time to cultivate our love, develop it and grow it. Feed your love. How do you nurture love?

Even the muscles can grow if you want to. Your intellectual abilities. You can become an expert in any area of ​​life. There are no limits. Even in the temporal you can go far. Imagine in no time. That is the transcendental. Your capacity for love has no limits. You can even include loving the temporal and non-temporal.

Often young devotees come to me with the desire to study a temporary science, often encouraged by their parents to have some financial security. They think I am against science or against studying. I am against the false values ​​and the big business that is behind the so-called "education". Why am I'm going to send my child to a place where they repeatedly tell him that God does not exist, that life has no goal, life has no values ​​and we enjoy the world. Besides ignoring the wisdom, faith and transcendental sciences.

So Srila Prabhupada was adamant in saying: College is a slaughter house of the soul. And he even said that in a college where he was invited to give a conference. He was not afraid to say so. But what alternative do we have today in that situation? We are trying to establish a college of ancient wisdom to learn the true sciences. The science of Ayurvedic medicine, the science of conscious nutrition, the science of ​​pedagogy with values, the science of how to develop our ability to love, the science of how to become a spiritual leader.

Who says that the east has no science or that the ancestral knowledge of the past is not scientific knowledge? Whoever said that the east has no scientists? Whoever said that the past did not have enough scientific knowledge and isn't applicable to today? who says that it is no longer valid? It was definitely scientific. We are witnessing the amazing legacy that has been left to modern man such as buildings, art, etc..

There are even things that modern man with his science does not know how to repeat or explain. I myself was inspired by mercy to be an instrument of a deep study on the power of faith. This came to me and in my service of wanting to spread what I learned from my spiritual master I found that people suffer from lack of faith. People who have strong faith can confront the difficulties of life better. You can develop your faith, you can feed your faith, you may become very strong in your faith and see the results yourself. That is science.
In the same way: your health is primarily a result of what you eat. If you eat poorly you become sick. That is science. So we have the science of vegetarianism as the science of healthy eating but universities do not teach that at. Most colleges teach eating meat, and then from there one can began to distrust such institutions because what science could they possibly have if they do not practice something as basic as vegetarianism?

Well yes, vegetarianism is a basic science. It is the first course. Srila Prabhupada mainly teaches all of us about this from the first canto of Srimad Bhagavatam. I ask the devotee to make okis whenever Srila Prabhupada talks about it. You will be surprised how many times Srila Prabhupada emphasizes that science. And from there one can start to develop the ability to love. Start loving your younger siblings.

Many people talk about love but when it comes to eating then they run. And with children there is much talk about the traumatic experiences of children but there is no investigation into the trauma of eating our brothers from a very young age. For many it is a trauma to realize that we have to feed off of our brothers. No child wants to see a calf put into pieces and then eat it. Therefore in terms of scientific observation it appears as though scientist fail to observe that. And if they do observe it then they are disinterested in watching it because it can bring down their business or affect their contract with the meat industry. All science works for trade.

So we need to be concerned scientists. But it is difficult to graduate as a conscientious scientist in an unaware University. There is much useful and practical knowledge. For example the science of agriculture science or technology to serve the welfare of the community. For example the science of compost, composting toilets, the science of recycling, the science of water protection, etc..

There are many sciences that can also help today. For example I have a group of conscious lawyers in Colombia who are fighting to defend the rights of nature. We want governments to include in their constitutions the rights of nature including animal rights. There are many proposals but I saw one where clearly the life of an animal is respected. In many places there is any implementation of animal rights, if you mistreat a dog, a cat. That's quite an achievement but there is still plenty to be done. Bu what is exactly missing for that to happen? Love. The goals are achieved in proportion to the amount of love you put to achieve them. Srila Prabhupada set a goal: To establish Krishna Consciousness in the West and he did. A senior man, materially speaking, an elderly man coming out for the first time from his country to a distant place. But with a giant-sized love for us. And a love to please his Guru.

His Guru was no longer physically present on this planet but nonetheless he remained in Srila Prabhupada's heart. That's a great example of developing love, levels of love far beyond comprehension, give evidence to and prove now a days.We are invited to experience this love. And I also was struck by the love of my spiritual master and I can not help but tell you all who come to me because of  Srila Prabhupada's love.

So, I ask you to please speak about love of Krishna, to speak about Srila Prabhupada's love, educate your brothers in the science of love and be faithful to your convictions in your practice and in preaching. Acar and Pracar, practice and preach. In our life we ​​have Acar, behavior, and pracar is preaching, or what we communicate to others. We must be excellent in both. But principally in acar. We must be pure and transparent in our actions.

Love for your spiritual practice, love for japa, love for morning meditation, love of Srimad Bhagavatam, awakening love and appreciating each of your brothers who are with you. For those living in a temple that is a great blessing to see so many devotees and mothers every day. Likewise it is a blessing for grhastas to wake up and see their spouse and kids. It is an ashram similar to the ashram temple. Your husband or wife is your spiritual brother/sister. And a lot of problems arise when you forget your spouse is foremost a child of your spiritual master which he gave you and only you to personally care for. You are not just receiving a love from the person accompanying you, but you receive Guru's love in the form of a great gift that your Guru gave you, out of trust, to care for your spouse. One naturally loves everything that Guru has given. Everything that one gets from Gurudeva is prasadam. Mercy. Then your husband, or your wife is Gurudeva's mercy.

This understanding is true love and so the practitioners will not have problems in their relationships. This spiritual love between brothers is real and is learned in the field of devotional service. Therefore it is important to train in a temple. Some say why should we the temple? I can live in my house and practice Bhakti yoga there. The answer is: Where are you trained to love your brothers, to study and practice bhakti in a community, to sing and worship the deity? There we learn to love the deity and we see the manifestation of another's love. And you fall in love more and more with His devotees and in turn it inspires your love. So our life is filled with more and more love. And that love will then transmit to your children if that is your practice.

A sannyasi sees devotees as a father sees his children. The renunciate renounces a personal family to give his love to everyone and then see everyone as his children. Someone in the renounced life inspires others with their ​​love for Krishna and for a grhasta it is a blessing to be able to associate with a renounced devotee who can nourish your love even more. Love is an ingredient that unites us all and unites us with God. So do not hesitate to enroll in the college of love to learn the science of love and be an expert in loving everyone. An expert like Srila Prabhupada.

Seeing Srila Prabhupada, one fell in love at first sight, as he walked, as he spoke, as he worked, and ate, etc. Every detail of Srila Prabhupada you fell in love with. And you still can fall in love with every meaning of the Srimad Bhagavatam because Srila Prabhupada is still alive there and present through the devotees who serve him, he has never left. He is always with us, love is the force. And that's what we want, for our children and future devotees to investigate and learn. Learn something current and enlivening, not a dead science. The masters of the past live through the sound of their words and are present in devotees today. The masters of the past are with us all the time, their desire to flood the world with love is still there, still alive and it is what we see in the present. They have not left, nor have they abandoned their ideals. On the contrary, they are guiding the devotees in helping them to realize their projects.

So we always ask for the blessings of the acaryas. That's why we worship them at the altar. Therefore it is very important that they are on the altar. And it is important for parents to teach  their children the contribution of each acarya. The true heroes. Therefore it is very important that heroes are well identified in the life of a child. Children must identify them on the altar because that is where the acaryas are worshiped.
With these words I leave the chat today glorifying our great hero: Srila Prabhupada and all Acharyas who teach the science of love
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Srila Prabhupada ki jay!
Your always well wisher,
Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti