20181214 Śrī Krishna Caitanya Book

Nama Om…

Mukham karoti vaachalam…

Today we are continuing reading and compiling the Shri Krishna Caitanya book. We have many visitors here. We thank all of you for coming. And so far 105 on Facebook! But we hope more will come! So we got some news that in Avatari Desh in the Middle East a group of single devotees, who are married people and their wives are in India but they are staying in the Middle East. This group in the month of Damodar, they were able to engage 30,000 people to do offering of lamp to Damodar. I hope they will send their results to the Congregational Development Ministry. It seems that the total will be more than one million lamps, combining all over the world. So we are very grateful that these bachelors and these single married men have done such a tremendous seva, in spite of their heavy workload they found time to cultivate so many people. Normally those conditioned souls are very busy how to have sensual enjoyment but real happiness, the real satisfaction comes when we please guru and Krishna and we have a service attitude rather than being a godaasa or a slave to the senses we become goswamis or the controller of the senses. So today I had physiotherapy. I had voice therapy and I met with various devotees. I talked over the phone to the devotees in Avatari desh. So like this we hope that everyone will use their energies to please Krishna and to help people become liberated. So now we will start the reading. 

This is Lord Caitanya speaking to His students. He talked about Ajamila that He remembered that his son who was named Narayana and who he called out at the time of leaving his body. Narayana! So then he remembered that this name is not the name of his son originally but this is the name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Narayana. By remembering this he ultimately went to Vaikuntha. So worship the lotus feet of Lord Krishna. Hare Krishna!

So Ajamila was the most fallen sinful person. He first uttered the name Narayana for calling his son. But as soon as he gave up this idea that the name was of his son and that Narayana, is non-different from the name of the person, he immediately attained liberation by the influence of naam aabhaas, the accidently chanting of the holy name and with that alone he was able to enter the spiritual kingdom VAIKUNTHA! Which is transcendental, beyond the region of mundane senses and beyond the jurisdiction of maya, the illusory energy of Krishna. You will find the description of Ajamila’s life in Srimad Bhagavatam canto 6, chapter 1, verses 26-28 as well as chpter 2 and 3 of canto 6. 

Lord Shiva is going around naked; He serves the lotus feet of Lord Krishna. Those lotus feet are served by Lakshmi devi with great – Lakshmi devi wants to serve those lotus feet with great desire. So the Brahma Vaivartha purana also states the glories of Krishna. that if one wants to achieve the topmost abode, he should worship the lotus feet of Lord Govinda. 

Anantadev, glorifies the lotus feet, the glories and the qualities to those lotus feet, one should take a straw in the teeth and worship those lotus feet of Lord Krishna.

Render devotional service to the lotus feet of Lord Krishna. As long as one has life, as long as their body has the strength. In Srimad Bhagavatam 11th canto, 9th chap 29th verse, the mendicant the brahmana speaks the following to the king of the Yadus: 

“After many, many births and deaths one achieves the rare human form of life, which, although temporary, affords one the opportunity to attain the highest perfection. Thus a sober human being should quickly endeavor for the ultimate perfection of life as lons as his body, which is always subject to death, has not fallen down and died. After all, sense gratification is available even in the most abominable species of life, whereas Krishna consciousness is possible only for a human being.”

So this point, Lord Caitanya is teaching His students that being a human being and being born as a brahmana in Navadvip, they should worship Krishna as long as they have life in their body. So this instruction is very potent and people today should also take advantage of Lord Caitanya and Srimad Bhagavatam’s instructions. The purpose of human life is to understand our real relationship with Krishna, to develop our Krishna consciousness To awaken our dormant love for Krishna. So this truth is largely absent from the modern psyche. He will not think that the human life is meant for understanding the higher spiritual goal. Instead they find unique ways to waste the valuable human form of life. Like sports, people surfing - Prabhupad called them sufferers, they were surfers but Prabhupad called them sufferers. So many activities but they are not including Krishna. So Lord Caitanya gave us a process which is simply blissful, singing Hare Krishna, dancing Hare Krishna, studying the teachings of Lord Krishna and serving Lord Krishna and feasting on His prasadam.