INTRODUCTION
Hare Krishna PAM HO,
As the title suggests "cushion can be cleaned and maintained from outside but only a vacuum cleaner can remove the dirt from inside" its directly refers to a devotee's heart.
A heart of a devotee is like a soft cushion on which krishna as a parmatma resides, through which he instruct what is to be done at a certain situation and what not to be done, and this is done only when the individual has the knowledge of the soul and parmatma.
A non devotee doesn't know whether or from where things are automatically settling down he or she thinks that its just nature or their own hard work but the fact is, it is the parmatma who is sanctioning all the desire of one's activity, it is the energy of krishna who is making them work hard, who is making them eat their food, who is making them digest their food. All are the deeds are been done by krishna, an individual is only a source of doing certain task whether he or she is a devotee or not.
If one Guy thinks of sincerely do bhakti, krishna gives him or her the right path and the right guru and if in the name of sincerity he or she thinks of accumulating name and fame, krishna sanction that desire too.
If one sincerely wants to eat krishna prasadam then krishna will arrange that too and one who wants to eat meat krishna will sanction that too, what to tell if krishna is providing air to breath for all, for the devotees and the sinners both.
But that doesnt mean a person can desire anything and it will be sanctioned as HDG Srila prabhupada use to say "God is no one's servant. You have to oblige Him by your love, by your service. That is the process"(BG_8.14 ,November16 1966) And HH Radhanath Maharaj says "To love means to serve".
THE DIRT
There are many dirt in our heart which we do not even notice and taking that dirt with us we roam everyday every second.
1. To think and sometimes using harsh word for some fellow devotee is the common dirt, generally while performing any seva with devotee member sometime happens that situation arises where there is a conflict or like for an example suppose a devotee started chanting and while some rounds he is getting the taste in chanting and suddenly a devotee comes and tells prabhu please bring some vegetables i have to offer that to krishna and then all of a sudden the chanting has been stopped and there will be some atleast some small little harshness flickers in mind. Now that is a small dirt and from this small dirt more dirt will be accumulated later onwards.
2. Some times heavy load of work comes especially for those who are students or grihastas like for example a student is having an important exam the next day and at the privious day he started thinking "oh no i didnt even opened the book what to tell about completing the syllabus so by the pressure he excuses himself today i will not chant and give my every second to study. This also is the common dirt.
3. A person whether he might be a businessman or a student does his sincere devotion,does his all service at the best levels, he or she always wakes up early and attends each and every morning program and always his or her 16 rounds are completed in the morning hours, his taste increases day by day and thinks yes now in krishna consciousness there is pleasure i am getting it and all of sudden one day that person gets a huge loss in business and that student gets 3 backlog in the semester then on that very day he thinks or doubt arises that i did so much service to god and this happend.
In other case some one is chanting his or her daily round in time daily sincerely but their day by day activities and relationships from the world are going down and down and they start thinking "whenever i do chanting my all activities are going more to failure and this is just because of chanting i think".
4. There is the dirt known as helplessness, what happens is the person does all his duties and devotion and service sincerely but on a certain specific time he gets caught with mode of material nature for example if a person was a meat eater then by seeing some stuffs he or she gets that remembrance of the taste and commits again that sin and later onwards they will say i was helpless what to do? there are more such examples not only of the meat eating but there are other things too.
5. This type of dirt is the priority one, a person is doing 16 round chanting daily but when offer him or her some additional seva for the pleasure of guru and lord in such case a person consider and gives much priority to the people and the activity which he or she likes to do and thinking i am atleast chanting 16 rounds daily that is enough which they also don't know that this is a common dirt.
6. And the last one is very simple and common in this the person is very jolly about chanting the holy names like in one hand he or she is rotating the beads and on other hands playing with phones or in some case a person is chanting and while chanting he or she makes future plannings, most funny thing is "in this ideology they think that it is very good both the 16 rounds also completes and the planing also completes and after the round will be completed i will execute the plan"
In some case they will talk in between the chanting ( this all happens because of the mode of nature)
THE OFFENSES
All the common dirt that are written above leads to the following offenses
1) To blaspheme the devotees who have dedicated their lives for propagating the holy name of the Lord.
3) To disobey the orders of the spiritual master.
5) To consider the glories of chanting Hare Krishna to be an imagination.
7) To commit sinful activities on the strength of the holy name.
10) To not have complete faith in the chanting of the holy name and to maintain material attachments, even after understanding so many instructions on this matter.
10) It is also an offense to be inattentive while chanting.
THE CONCLUSION
There will be conflict
There will be anger
There will be miss match at every steps
There will be trouble
Because at the last we all live in Dukhalya so one must tolerate everything and see everything as a gift by krishna whether it is a physical disease or any mental disease.
On the path of bhakti krishna always tests his devotees this is absolutely sure so one must see every difficulties as an gift and accept every trouble with the firm faith and determination towards the lord.
Because as stated in the bhagwad gita "even a single blade of grass take krishna's permission to move" we are also like the grass we cant overcome the mode of material nature its the energy of the lord and we cant clean the dirt of the heart by our self but only by chanting it can be cleansed if we are really wanting to go back home back to godhead then we must accept every difficulties and do our service to the lord.
Another Solution is atleast if we are not wanting to do so then we must manipulate the mind and atleast should act like a sincere devotee no matter what because there is no other way no other way no other way other than krishna consciousness.
THANK YOU
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