I often ask myself, why I feel jealous of someone though he never intends to compete?
Why feeling of insecurity cripples me, even though there are no rivals to defeat?
How lust and greed creep into my mind and what is the sole cause of them?
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If Lord purifies me from all these sins, shall I be spared to live in peace at his lotus feet ???
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Cause of all this is material contamination.
Spirit soul by nature is of the "same quality" as Supreme Personality of Godhead Shri Krishna.
When placed inside a material body, the spirit soul thinks its the body and therefore, acts accordingly.
By Nama Sankirtana, congregational chanting of Names of Krishna, one is purified. As time goes by, true identity emerges and one is no longer influenced by bodily identification.
hare krishna...
may lord krishna protects you from all bad habits and sins..........
why we have to get scared??
our lord,>the one who explored his vishwaroopa in kurukshetra,
>the one who appeared as narasimha to protect pure devotee,
is always in our heart...if have doubt,just place your hand in chest side and feel his presence.
be courageous...god blesss u.
first it is not good not to mention that Your writing style is very intellectual and literal.
the same problem i had (or i have to say i had more than today) in earlier times. because i played chess, and there, it is not possible to not become envy to your opponents.
Then in the lecture i heard one thing, after that i became little bit calmer. Lecturer told:
EVERYONE LIVES HIS/HER OWN KARMA! THEIR KARMA DOES NOT DEPEND ON YOURS AND YOURS DOES NOT DEPEND ON THEIR.
Maybe one day she is a winner, another day you are.
Usually we are envy to those people who are similar to us or with similar interests. Just because we think that they are standing in our way as an obstacle.
Even when we join Krishna Consciousness we start to envy to those Devotees who are more elevated than us.
And as a result we will start to push them down. or we can just wish bad things to them or just not to wish good things to them.
As like we fall into the whale and pull our neighbor also in order to die together. If i die you also die. But it is not a solution.
And this feeling is very painful as You also told. Very painful. then i checked one process:
-- just tried to serve to that person whom i envy.
--to give him/her Prasad
--to pray for his/her benefit
really has worked.
In one lecture HH Giriraj Maharaj told that He also had this problem and looked for the solution. And He understood that if Krishna is unlimited then His mercy is also unlimited. If He gives so much mercy to a particular Devotee, some day He will give for me also. He has enough of them.
Spiritual world is unlimited. There is an enough place for everyone.
Krishna's love is unlimited. He can love You and others unlimitedly.
So why to be envy or jealous?
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the feeling of insecurity has in every living being. It is sometimes called a desire to live. We are souls and we do not want to die. But because we think that we are these bodies we feel insecurity and fear.
Because Krishna says that soul can not be killed or damaged.
As i am in female body, i feel also too much fear, but try to pray to Krishna and surrender to His will. That He will protect me. Also i have to be ready for bad things if Krishna wants me to suffer like that.
Nothing or no one can act without the permission of the Supersoul.
Also we fear that some one will rob us or something like that. But if we understand that everything we have is Krishna's and one day He will give, another day He will take away, we become peaceful.
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especially when we enter to family life our greed becomes bigger and bigger.
Why? because we think that things belong to us. That we are owners of everything we have.
the solution is to share for what we are greedy with others.
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lust - just we have to follow and respect the vaishnava etiquette and vaishnava etiquette will protect and save us from lust.
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Hare Krishna Mataji !!
Dandvat Pranam !!
I m reely amazed with your knowledge..
u seem to hav done a minute study of prabhupada books... your phylosophy as cristal clear !! Prabhupada would b very hapy to see a soul like u in his mission...
Hare Krsna !!
Hare Krishna Sagar Jadav Prabhu, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Disciples of Srila Prabhupada once asked Him, what they have done in their previous lives so that they are know chanting the Holy Names, what sukriti we have. Srila Prabhupada told that You did not have anything! I created your sukriti! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
And it is not my philosophy, we have just to listen and repeat what we heard and understood little bit.
Your servant, maral
Hare Krishna Maral Alim Mataji !
Dandavat Pranam !!
One must practise every of ur words as they are eternal truth...
the same example of Shrila Prabhupada was told us by our councellor HG Gopati Pr..
actually we had a prerna festival organized on saturday and the festival was too gud..
Hence our councellor told us not to be proud of this small success as we r not even qualified to hold Bhagvad-Gita in our hand then what bout spreading the msg of Gita..
whatever lil success we get its just because of the mercy of our spiritual master...
then he quoted the above mentioned example of Shrila Prabhupada...
he also mentioned dat after the service is done we must offer it to the lotus feet of spiritual master...
I hav very bad habbit of being proud of even a small service done by me. However after listening to these words i understood that whatever lil i could do its all because of the mercy of my spiritual master !!
Thank u..
Hare Krsna ..
Sagar
Hare Krishna Sagar Jadav Prabhu,
Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
pride is the way to the lost for Devotees. Why? because when we become proud we start think that we are the best. and it is the mood of material consciousness.
in order to give us a lesson Krishna takes away everything from us and then only we wake up and understand that sarva karana karanam (cause of all causes) is Krishna and Guru and all other Devotees.
Your servant, maral
Hare Krishna mataji
I always express what I feel .
Thanks for the guidance.