Thursday 7 April 2016

Opium

Srila Prabhupada used to tell a funny story about an opium smoker. The sun was setting and this addict felt the need to satisfy his addiction, but he was on one side of the river, while the village where there was fire to light his pipe was on the other.

Our situation is something like this. We want to be united with Krishna, the Lord of Goloka, but we are separated by a raging river of disqualifications. We have to bear all this in mind.

We can

  1. dive into Radha-kunda as often as we like, 
  2. drink the water, 
  3. submerge ourselves in it, 
but that does not mean that we have really bathed in Radha-kunda.

What we really have to do is plunge into the waters of Radharani’s mood of spontaneous devotion, and to do that we must first develop enthusiasm for Krishna’s Name. Without such enthusiasm, nothing further will be gained.
http://harekrishnainfo.blogspot.com/search/label/OmHareKrishnaGayatri

This is the teaching of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
http://simultaneouslyoneanddifferent.blogspot.com

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