tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post420611251211572740..comments2023-12-27T11:38:13.998+01:00Comments on Nimaihuset: Everything is sweet (Srila Sridhar Maharaj)sadhusangananda dashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13803013429127405828noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-89930814212481193692013-09-23T16:29:34.217+02:002013-09-23T16:29:34.217+02:00Dear Bhakta Tom, thank YOU for the inspiring quest...Dear Bhakta Tom, thank YOU for the inspiring questions...<br /><br />That quote is a description of the whole undifferentiated Flow (of the material world) – karma (the flow of action and reaction of personal agendas: individual karma, group karma, gender, occupational, national, world karma…), dharma (duties, responsibilities, etc), and Divine Plan (yes indeed, even in the material world, the plane of low-frequenzy free-will acting). And depending on where your consciousness is in that flow, you will be helplessly acting in one of the three layers of the material energy (or maya/forgetfulness): tamas (ignorance/darkness), rajas (passion/friction), or sattva (goodness/remembrance). Something like that, I'm no expert on this.<br /><br />What Srila Sridhar Maharaj describes is how to step out of this helpless flow, the path of the nether-world, and make your transition to the path to the Gracious world, by dropping karma (stop creating new and let old reactions ebb out), doing your duties only (that sustaining activity, which is service to Krishna, wherever you are), and asking for service in the Divine Flow, which leads you up, to the Gracious World, the Land of Freedom, where “everything is sweet”.<br /><br />Tao means no goal, doesn't it? The way is all. The goal in Krishna consciousness is very exact, and so incredibly vertiginous high... And real. It is a science. <br /><br />Krishna, the innermost of Source, the source of consciousness (and consciousness means person – “I”), the last word of the Absolute Truth, says “Only by devotion can one come to Me”. Gurumaharaj (Srila B.A. Paramadvaiti Maharaj) calls the writings of Srila Sridhar Maharaj (His sannyasa-guru) the Science of Devotion. And someone else (can't remember where I saw it) said very seriously that in the next cosmic cycle, Srila Sridhar Maharaj's talks will be part of the Vedas.<br />Sevananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00596537272834188644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-67390820529402355842013-09-22T22:37:20.849+02:002013-09-22T22:37:20.849+02:00Sevananda das, thank you for the honest answer!
I...Sevananda das, thank you for the honest answer!<br /><br />I'm pondering how this discussion about duties relates to BG 3.5:<br /><br />"Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment."<br /><br />So it's about following the flow of one's life, continuing to "act helplessly" like the BG puts it, while at the same time transcending the flow, by lifting one foot out of it, setting it on Krishna's platform and trustingly shifting one's weight onto it?<br /><br />I'm familiar with taoism and that is just the same thing, though impersonal.Bhakta Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-88846298502801821142013-09-22T03:04:23.147+02:002013-09-22T03:04:23.147+02:00Sincere inspiring question accompanied by a bold h...Sincere inspiring question accompanied by a bold hearfelt answer...<br /><br />When Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur would initiate a person the only thing he would have them promise, in general, was to always take guidence in life from Sadhus...<br /><br />Naturally, in their holy association, our priorities will synchronize with the sweet will of the Lord.<br /><br />The voice of the Guru and his dedicated students are nondifferent from the voice of Krishna. So we are not left alone on the battlefield, thank God!Brahma Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552166035567831909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-9493224961776575592013-09-22T02:12:04.520+02:002013-09-22T02:12:04.520+02:00All of it together will let you understand what is...All of it together will let you understand what is meant - duties, responsibilities, "what's on your table", not personal agenda. Meditate and discriminate. <br /><br />If you have family then that is your duty: make money to keep it up, but don't make a career, that is personal agenda. And don't divorce and get a new family, that is personal agenda.<br /><br />Accept a raise if you get it, but don't go ask for it, that is personal agenda. <br /><br />Don't love your job, love your duty. Is there a difference? Yes. What? Find out. <br /><br />No attachment to outcome - "failure" or "success". SSM: "You are doing one thing but the result is giving another thing. So because I work for a particular result and I don't achieve it should I be discouraged? No. You go on doing your own duty and it will be offered to the Infinite and the Infinite will shape the result in Its own way. Whatever you are contributing, contribute it towards the Infinite and the Infinite will mould the result in Its own way. You are not to detect that. If you do that you are lost. Never aspire after any particular consequence of your action. At the same time don't be idle, don't be worthless. Go on discharging your duty independently of the external consequences."<br /><br />"Help" others: Leave that to Krishna and concentrate on discharging your duty. If it's on your table (what does that mean? Find out), then you do it, if not, leave it to Krishna, that is SSM's instruction here. Don't watch TV... <br /><br />TRUST Krishna or don't do this...<br /><br />Altruism is sattvic egoism. Surrender yourself to Krishna, the Supreme Controller, the Organic Whole, the Source of love and intelligence. Do your duty. Service is sacrifice, TRUE "altruism". Chant - "Let me be an instrument of Your love".<br /><br />If hurt animals come to you, then they're on your table. Do your duty and chant. Don't watch TV... Surrender to Krishna and TRUST that, don't speculate, don't go on a personal agenda. When you get a Spiritual Master he may tell you to do something about the mistreatment of animals and put it on your table. "If I want to do something" means personal agenda. As long as you’re going on personal agenda the Spiritual Master will not come… Either surrender to Krishna (and TRUST that) OR go on a personal agenda.<br /><br />Find out what is your duty. Chant your rounds :) Say: "Please let me be an instrument of Your love". And TRUST...<br /><br />These instructions are awesome - awesome as in both funky AND scary - this is why these things come to you. It is instructions on how to die to this world and rise to a higher. 'Die' means death. Mr Personal Agenda does not like that :DSevananda Dashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00596537272834188644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-30650728169507898652013-09-21T18:36:11.058+02:002013-09-21T18:36:11.058+02:00Fantastic!
But I don't understand fully what ...Fantastic!<br /><br />But I don't understand fully what this means in practice. In particular, "Do what is on your table" - there is so much on my table, activities I have chosen for various reasons, some more auspicious, some less auspicious. How can I know what is my proper duty and what is not?<br /><br />For instance, working to earn money as a grihastha is probably a duty, if the profession is not too destructive. But suppose I love my job and I put my heart into it, is that fine if I'm indifferent to success or failure?<br /><br />Or suppose I want to help others. This speech is all about egoism versus devotion, but what about altruism? If I want to do something about the mistreatment of animals in society, is that my duty, or should I stay indifferent?<br /><br />Or suppose I find myself on a battlefield of some kind, like Arjuna, but there is no Krishna on my side to instruct me. How can I know which action is my duty?<br /><br />Sorry if I'm just being dense. Haven't chanted my rounds yet today...Bhakta Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303863117437753645.post-8676131084575604282013-09-21T03:16:33.806+02:002013-09-21T03:16:33.806+02:00HAAA!
Hariiiiibol
everything is sweet.
Srila Shr...HAAA!<br /><br />Hariiiiibol<br /><br />everything is sweet.<br />Srila Shridhar Maharaj sweetifyes everything<br /><br />so beautiful...Brahma Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08552166035567831909noreply@blogger.com