28 October 2007

I have 200,000 thoughts a day (approximately). Or so they say. I have never tried to count, but I know that the majority don’t relate to Krsna. Always remember him and never forget him is the maxim, but what a failure! The only way it is possible to achieve this is complete craving for him, and complete engagement in only his service. But this can be motivated only by intense love. When will that day be mine?

21 October 2007

In Hari bhakti vilasa there is process for purification of body and mind before deity worship. The devotee gathers all his sins together in the form of the papa-purusa, a mean looking thug dressed in animal skins. He then meditates on burning up that figure and exhaling the ashes. But if I try that, an uncontrollable Australian bush fire may start. Will I spontaneously combust and disappear?

14 October 2007

Krishna consciousness is an easy form of meditation. Who would not be attracted to that form of God, whose beauty is such that even the trees develop prema?

Dear Krishna, what woman in all the three worlds wouldn’t deviate from religious behavior when bewildered by the sweet, drawn-out melody of Your flute? Your beauty makes all three worlds auspicious. Indeed, even the cows, birds, trees and deer manifest the ecstatic symptom of bodily hair standing on end when they see Your beautiful form. SB 10.29.40

7 October 2007

All the molecules and amino acids are continuously passing messages throughout my body day and night year after year just to keep my body going. What dedication! I don’t even think about it. And matter can’t even think.