Appointment with Krishna 11/12

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

We are always wondering as to why we are not making any progress in our spiritual life and we are expert at blaming so many things and people around us for all the impediments we face in devotional service. Maharaja completely thrashed this idea and made us understand that our devotional service is not advancing because we do not have Bhakti as our goal. This must completely stop. Maharaja pointed out that there is no other impediment other than us. I am giving herewith the excerpts from the instructions given by our beloved Guru Maharaja when he was in Abu Dhabi.

We have to get rid of all our material accounts. The first material account is lying. As soon as we open our mouth, lying is there. To justify our lies we start cheating. With lying and cheating, we cannot attract anything or anybody. So we start grabbing. Thus lying, cheating and grabbing is a universal fact. Maharaja was very serious when he instructed us that these three things should completely stop. We have to get rid of the innumerable material accounts we have opened everywhere on account of these three. Unless we seriously think about the impermanence of the material existence, we cannot give up lying, cheating and grabbing. It is very difficult to close all these innumerable accounts without direct contact with the Lord in the form of chanting and reading Srimad Bhagavad gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. Everyday so many material inauspicious contaminations are affecting us and so every day we have to close these accounts. Eventually the time will come when these accounts will not open at all.

Hoarding money will kill us. Krishna must own our riches. Renunciation is the order of the day. It is the order and not request. Grabbing tendency should completely stop. Then only we can become peaceful. Whatever is needed or essential is available freely everywhere. For example oxygen is required for breathing and everywhere it is available. We don't have to grab. We are taking advantage of so many facilities and we have to return the facility. Always repay to the best of your ability. If you accept anything, use it for Krishna. According to our own nature, Krishna supplies everything. He is very wide hearted. The orders of Krishna are all meant for our well being. By being grateful, we will get all opulence. Grabbing will reduce our health.

In order to obtain the Lord's mercy, 100% Krishna conscious behavior is required. Less than 100% means we will not have any result and we ignore this. Conscientiously we have to be sincere and serious about these things. Every time we have to be alert and check whether what we are doing is worth doing at all. Otherwise unworthy actions hit back with a boomerang.

Devotional service is simple because the Lord, by His internal potency, makes the process simple. But because it is simple, we lose our faith that such a simple thing can be sublime.

At the moment, our devotional service is polluted by so many unnecessary things. We have to improve the quality of our devotional service. Unless we constantly think about these things and really sincerely understand, there is no other way. Otherwise we will be helplessly coming and going. We are always suffering from the reactions of our sins and because we are suffering, we have lost the intelligence on how to get out of it. We don't even try to get out. Only if Krishna is merciful, will He give us His appointment and He will place Srila Prabhupada's books in our hands.

Chant,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna

Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama

Hare Hare

and be happy.