Before initiation

Before one gets initiated,  one has to take vow that the person will not take any non veg food item or stuff from there on.

Initiation by Guru

Once a person get a initiated, gets the blessings of a guru,   comes under the shelter of Gurudev all his life will change even his qualities or guna will also change. You will get same qualities like that of a brahmana .

State of depression

We should not serve the Lord when we are depressed because at that point of time our mind is very Chanchal,  it is a time when you cannot concentrate.

Not to do

Do not mix your bhakti with  or indulge in any material chit chat while you are doing your sadhna or while you are engaged in any of the service to Krishna.

No envy

When your mind and heart will open for every one,  when your heart will be full of love, then no envy can come inside your heart.

Qualities of Krishna

It is not easy to attain all the qualities of Krishna by their own effort, but if a Sadhka focuses his heart and mind on Krishna completely he can attain all these qualities in his or her heart.

Medicine

Harinam  is like a medicine which might taste bitter in beginning but will cure you from inside and cleanse you.

Sadachar

If you are not careful about sadachar,  then perhaps you will make offences on bhakti.

Manah (mind) part 2

We have to control these great six natures of us, speaking, mind, anger, greed for
eating, hunger, and the urge of sex. Sri Rupa Goswami said if somebody succeeds
in controlling them, he can control everything, even the whole world. If we
succeed to control our mind, then we can do anything, whatever we want. Most of
the time in our life, we are facing the illusions for our unstable mind. We can see a
snake in a rope. For that, Shastra said to us, we should focus our mind on the point
of our Supreme Goal, for that we have to control our mind. The eternal desire of
the Jivas is happiness, “sukham me bhuyat, duhkham me maa bhut….” But we are searching eternal happiness in this material world, and then we are tasting material
pleasure instead of eternal happiness, bliss, chidananda.
In our Sadhanaa also the mind is a great factor. There are three great ways
(paths) to achieve The Supreme Goal. Gyana path, Yoga path and Bhakti path. In
Gyana path, the Sadhaka has to be renounced and he has to reject everything from
this material world in his mind. “ na iti, na iti..” in that way he has to think that all
these material objects do not belong to him. This is the work of the mind, that
means, first you control your mind, and then you reject all these material desires ,
then you will realize Chidaananda. In path of Yoga, there is also something like
that. In the Swetaswatar Upanishada it has been nicely explained this theme of the
path of Yoga. “dwaa suparnaa sayuja shaakhaayaa samaanam briksham
parisasyayate…” There is nicely explained, two birds, one is Paramaatma and the
other Jivaatmaa, they are seated in the same branch in the tree of our body, deha
briksha. The Jivaatma bird is taking and eating all the fruits, happiness and
distress, from that tree where they are seated, but the Paramaatma bird is not, He is
like a witness and a viewer of the activities of the Jivaatmaa. When Jivaatma
realizes that, after taking all the fruits from this tree he is still unhappy, and that the
other bird didn’t take anything but is happy, then the Jivaatma will get the
realization of Paramaatma. All this process goes through the mind. In the Bhakti
path, it is said that first you should focus your mind in your ultimate goal. With an
unstable mind nothing will happen, nothing good for the material duty, nor for the
eternal duty, Sadhanaa. But how will we control it? Shastra says so many things,
but I think Adi Shankaracharya explained the conclusion in His Moha Mudgar…
“Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam, Govindam Bhaja mudhamate” O stupid mind! Worship Govinda, Govinda abd only Govinda.

Residence

Krishna doesn't resides on luxurious beds, his place of residence is within the hearts of his devotees.

Parsha Ekadashi

Jai Nitai! Tomorrow is Parsha Ekadashi. Sri Hari will turn in another side in HIS sleeping. The day after tomorrow is Bijaya Maha dwadashi and Bamana Dwadashi. According to Sri Sri Hari Bhakti Vilasa when Maha dwadashi will be there, any one of eight Maha Dwadashi, then we have to observe the fasting for Dwadashi, instead of Ekadashi. So, this time the Gaudiyas, who are  the followers of Sri Sri Hari Bhakti Vilasa, should fast on Dwadashi day that means 10 September, Tuesday.

Gurudev and Krishna

If we will worship Guru like Krishna,  then we will commit apradh. We should not offer Tulsi or Bilva patra to the lotus feets of Gurudev.

Krishna's body

What ever you see, what ever you feel , evevrything is the body of Krishna.