First, surround yourself with everything that reminds you of Krsna.
Avoid anything or anyone who tries to take you away from Krsna or tries to force you to worship Krsna under their dictatorial demands.
My only music in the car is Prabhupada bhajans, Acyutananda Swami bhajans, Radha Krsna Album, old Vishnujana Swami kirtans and the 1976 record Album "Golden Avatar - A Change of Heart", by Mangalananda Dasa ACBSP (Michael Cassidy)
Go for two hour jappa walks everyday (for your 16 rounds) and take a few books with you to hand out.
Read Prabhupada's Books everyday, such reading will protect you from being cheated by dubious charismatic gurus, sannyasis, scholars and other so called spiritual leaders.
Never give up no matter how difficult the path has been or gets, or what past fall downs you have had.
Just like a child learning to walk always falls down in the beginning, but always gets up and keeps trying until there is no more fall down.
Avoid gossip and those who criticise and fault find devotees trying their best to remember Krsna.
Do not let the hash judgements of other so called devotees bother you, avoid those bullies who think they own your right to be a genuine follower of Prabhupada, ignore them, defend yourself from their bogus teachings and be with genuine devotees who build character, not destroy it.
An example of what happened to me years ago that I find hard to get over, happened 53 years ago (1973) as follows-
There was this arrogent ignorant fool in 1973 named ********** dasa who bullied me by humiliating me with loud foul mouth abusive language in front of all the devotees just because I was ill one morning and could not sell Prabhupada's Books in Hobart Tasmania.
That day he totally destroyed my self esteem, no one looked at me the same after his humiliation of me with his anger foul mouthed nasty put down language that made me feel totally worthless and no longer care.
Being young, I lost all confidence in my self after this idiot attacked me in this nasty belittling way, and later, due to low self esteem and self worth, did do some silly things. This low life arrogent bully destroyed my self respect, self esteem and self worth in my youthful years and I wanted revenge!!
And few years later (1978) I tried to destroy his car, doing a lot of damage, I even had plans to do something unspeakable to him, but fortunately chose to not do that.
Sadly, I have learnt that in this one life time, time does NOT heal all wounds, such wounds only fester as the years go on!!
Now in my 75th year, I still often dream of ways to get him and others back however, fortunately, many of those bullies back then are now dead and gone!! Left this material world - so good riddance to these arrogent bully scumbag so called devotees, I tell myself, then add, I NEVER want to see any of them again in this life, or in a future life.
However, such silly comments above, are also ignorance and foolishly identifying with the temporary material bodily vessel, and the material energy it is made out of, forgetting I am NOT this mundane material body but instead a pure individual jiva-soul realized in my full potential, and have nothing to do with any material bodily vessel or the material energy it is made out of. This material world is NOT my real home!
I know those beliefs of revenge and hate belong to the material world and NOT the pure individual jiva-soul in their full potential as Krsna’s dear selfless caring pure devotee!!
So, we have to learn to hate the sin (the material energy) and NOT the sinner (the pure individual jiva-soul as Krsna’s devotee), this is most important to understand,
Instead, I now have learnt we all must do everything to ALWAYS remember Krsna, and never ever forget Him.
It does not matter how fallen you are, or if in front of others you never feel worthy of their friendship or respect, or if so many even hate you for all your past foolishness, all that does not matter because you are NOT the troublesome material bodily vessel others only see and know.
You are different from this material vessel, you are the eternal passenger inside (the indestructible individual jiva-soul) who has been in an unlimited number of material bodily containers (vessels) over an infinity of times, therefore no one knows who you really are inside the material bodily covering.
The only important thing now is to somehow, someway remember Krsna and NEVER ever forget Him!
Soon, this decaying temporary material bodily vessel, which is the dreaming state of the fallen eternal individual jiva-soul, will be over and eventually forgotten.
Nothing lasts forever in the temporary material world, be it infamy or fame, pleasure or pain, this material creation is temporary and NOT our real home, nothing is forever in the material world.
So, again I tell myself, who cares what arrogant people and bullies, including some ignorant sannyasis (three in Australia) think! They were NEVER my friends to begin with! However, these silly comments are also ignorant nonsense. As explained above, we are NOT the material bodily covering or vessel.
The pure individual jiva-soul as its full spiritual bodily potential will not think this way because such mundane emotions belong to the material world and NOT the spiritual world of Goloka-Vrindavana and the Vaikuntha planets.
As Srila Prabhupada says, when dogs bark, you do not bark with them, you ignore them, and keep on going forward remembering Krsna and telling others about Kṛṣṇa.
That is what I have been doing Srila Prabhupada.=÷=.

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