30 December 2007
How to keep all the devotees happy? Let them do whatever they want? Nice, but one devotee’s needs conflict with another devotee’s needs.
Should devotees want anything? Kardama Muni fulfilled his duties and had only one thing to ask from the Lord: let me leave home and simply think of you, without like or dislike for anything in this world!
With devotees like that, management would be unnecessary. Maybe we should concentrate on training the devotees to that stage.
23 December 2007
“Krs” means “the cause of existence” and “na” means “cause of bliss.” Because of this, he is the supreme form of God. “Cause of existence” sounds good for philosophers, but what does it mean for the devotees of Krsna? For the devotee, everything is in terms of love for Krsna. Their very lives depend on him.
O lotus-eyed Lord, whenever You go away to Mathura, Vrindavana or Hastinapura to meet Your friends and relatives, every moment of Your absence seems like a million years. O infallible one, at that time our eyes become useless, as if bereft of sun. SB 1.11.9
16 December 2007
The trouble with unconditional love is we want to receive it but we are lazy to give it. Krsna give me mercy! But how much do we do for him without motivation?
9 December 2007
Visvanatha Cakravarti writes at the end of his commentary of Bhagavad-gita that a mouse unfortunately ate the manuscript containing the commentaries on the last few verses. He addresses the mouse as carrier of Ganesh, the remover of all obstacles. Accepting the situation as the will of Krsna, he did not bother to rewrite them.
Bhisma says, “O King, no one can know the plan of the Lord Even though great philosophers inquire exhaustively, they are bewildered.” SB 1.9.16
2 December 2007
Windows vista, please don’t crash again! Sages did not depend on such unreliable machines and programs. They had a much simpler but more effective process for knowledge: realization. By realization nothing else needs to be known. At that stage, knowledge is simultaneous with existence.
