Vyasa puja offering to Srila Prabhupada Aug 13, 2020
I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who is very dear to Lord Krishna, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.
Our respectful obeisances are unto you, O spiritual master, servant of Sarasvatî Gosvâmî. You are kindly preaching the message of Lord Caitanya deva and delivering the Western countries, which are filled with impersonalism and voidism.
Sri Krishna Caitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Gadadhara, Srivas adi gaura bhakta vrinda.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.
Srila Prabhupada has explained that loving service is the basis of selfless devotion and how that loving devotion is expressed.
Srila Prabhupada - "Love is reciprocal, voluntary, good exchange of feeling, then there is love. Not by force! Krishna does not want to become a lover like that, ‘You love me, otherwise I shall kill you!" (Washington DC July 8, 1976)
Srila Prabhupada explains in "Nectar of Devotion", that just like the Sun cannot be separated from the Sun-rays, similarly Krishna is meaningless without the association of His loving devotees.
And in Krsna Book Prabhupada also further explains -
Srila Prabhupada - "As the sun disc and the sunshine cannot be separated, Kṛṣṇa and His bodily rays, the brahmajyoti, cannot be separated".(Krsna Book, 89)
The relationship between Krishna and the jiva-tattva (soul) is NEVER one-sided, never forced, never impersonal, it is ALWAYS reciprocal, nurturing, personal and voluntary, in a mood of good exchanges and feelings, ONLY then can there be REAL love.
Srila Prabhupada explained to us many years ago,
“If you love me, then I will love you” as an example that there must always be loving cooperation and responding in kindness.
Srila Prabhupada taught us that everything material will NEVER last in this temporary universe of impermanence, decay and death.
And that all material things, like one's home and material body they are in, eventually fades away over the movement of time because all material things, like our bodily vessels, are in a constant state of decay, decline, breakdown and eventually death.
Sadly, foolish people see this going on all around them, but still make plans as if they are going to live forever.
So wake up! The fact is, this material world is always in a state of disrepair, decomposition and decay, it is NOT our real "eternal" home!
We shouldn't even be here!!
Prabhupada has told us many times, it was a mistake we chose to came here in the first place from God's eternal Kingdom of Vaikuntha!!
We can never find permanent satisfaction and happiness in this alien decaying environment called the mundane material universes.
Only a fool will try to find comfort in these temporary material bodily vessels that will eventually grow diseased and old, and end up being food for earth worms and maggots.
Therefore, the goal of this rare human life is to GET OUT OF THIS MUNDANE MATERIAL WORLD, and not try and make ourselves comfortable here!
That is not possible in this temporary decomposing material world where everything is in a constant state of decay.
Our only desire should be to go back home, back to Godhead, back to serving Lord Narayana or Lord Krishna in the Spiritual Worlds of Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana.
We should NOT waste our time desiring to go to other higher material heavenly planets in this universe either, or attempt to take birth in a pious wealthy aristocrat family on this Earth planet.
We should be learning, from a very young age, we are the individual anti-material jiva soul (life force) within these material bodily containers, and all material endeavours for happiness will NOT solve the problems of birth, disease, old age and death.
The purpose of this very rare human form of life, is to get out of this material world and NOT try and build the kingdom of God without God.
Srila Prabhupada - "The human society, at the present moment, is not in the darkness of oblivion. It has made rapid progress in the field of material comforts of life, education and economic development of the entire world.
But it suffers a pin-prick somewhere in the social body at large and therefore there is large scale quarrel even on less important issues.
Therefore there is the want of the clue as to how they can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity by the common cause.
Srimad Bhagavatam will fill up this gap by ontological aspect of human education.
It is therefore a cultural presentation for re-spiritualisation of the entire human society." [Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Preface]
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Your fallen disciple, yet determined servant (now 68 years old) who will never give up the path of devotional service, no matter how difficult the journey may be -
Gauragopala Dasa (Initiated July 10th 1972)
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