"Okis, marriage and seriousness" Sunday Chat 18th July 2010

"Okis, marriage and seriousness" Sunday Chat 18th July 2010

A message to the readers

A message to all devotees from the sunday chat editors:

We have heard from several devotees that they don't feel qualified to comment on Gurudevas sunday chat.

Me and Vasudeva have reflected on this and concluded that if you are not qualified, then we for sure are not.. We are not qualified to clean the temple, not qualified to chant our rounds, not qualified to read the scriptures and not qualified to associate with devotees. We are not even qualified to eat prasadam, so now we will eat junk candy from the supermarket until you start sending comments.

Sunday chat editors
http://sunday-chat.blogspot.com/
Vasudeva & Shyamananda

COMMENTS:

Bhakta Mikael Sjödin (Sundsvall, Sweden)

Hare Krishna!

I, myself, feel so unqualified that I don´t even dare to read the comments. I actually feel so unqualified that I cannot even dare to read the Sunday chat lectures!

ys, Mikael

PS/ If one feels unqualified to speak, then how can one be qualified to listen?
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Swami BV Padmanabha (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Pranams,

If I feel disqualified to speak or hear krsna katha, then the best way to qualify myself for that is exactly to start hearing and speaking krsna katha, with my best intentions and my greatest efforts to do the best, begging pardon for any offense, but not stopping i trying to do that.

Really feeling oneself disqualified involves a practical attitude, in which one struggles with one´s own anarthas for becoming qualified for the service of the Lord. It is not a passive thing, but a very dynamic one. :)

Gaura Haribol!!!

Swami BV Padmanabha

Comment on Swami's comment: Jay Maharaj, very nice message. Yes, we must learn to conquer the tongue by eating Prasadam and speak Hari Katha.

Haribol!

-Gour Nitai das
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Sudarshan Prabhu (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I have a lot of crap to say but nothing that beats Gurudevs nectarful words.

But well... I can try to say this...

To give others insights about how they are behaving by "learning them by doing" and showing up the behaviours so they see for themselves - is not a good solution. It is an attitude that very easily is adapted and spread by minds and it is more easy to be bad than good, but only for a very short time it can be nice to just give up and "be as we are - bad animals living in junk". And thereafter will come a hellish time that learns that those kind of thougts was an illusion. The alternative is to just tell what we know about the highests truths even if we never can be qualified to come in full realization like Krishna. We know nothing but can shoose to go lost in beeing Krishnas instruments, to be perfect writers, speakers and singers. By no mush thinking express the Krishna inside the heart. It's bhakti yoga!

I bet any crazy idea about being the "most worst" amongst vaishnavas is not seriously never coming from Gurudev. This is a joke on a high spiritual level! This is to be laughing about. So...

HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA - I almost believed yooouuuu ;) Meet you next time in a loving spiritual atmosphere as always and forever!

Dandavats

Sudarshan Das

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Gaur-Nitai Prabhu (U.S.A.)

Dandavats Pranams to all the Vaisnava devotees.

Srila Guru Maharaj ki Jay.

I often enjoy reading Gurudeva's chats, but I must admit that I do not comment on them mostly because I am lazy when it comes to this. But I must realize that I am unqualified to be lazy. As a fallen soul, I am only qualified to work hard on my sadhana, which now includes reading and commenting on Srila Gurudev's Sunday chats.

Nitai Gaura Premanande Haribol!

Your servant,

Gour Nitai das
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Prema Vilas Prabhu (Berlin, Germany)

So many people got inspired to write now comments on the chats ;-)
One thought I wanted to share is my gratefulness and admiration for Gurudeva who dedicates all his time to his disciples.
Any time any of his disciples has a problem, he has an open ear for him and a good and satisfying advice.
He really acts like a well-wishing father of all his disciples and I´m forever grateful for his attitude.
Although his disciples should also take care to not bother him with any little problem which can be solved in other ways or with the help of another advanced devotee.
Now through the internet we have additionally the opportunity to have the sanga and the advices of so many advanced devotees.
I liked also the discussion which came up through all the last comments, they make us think about the philosophy and how to adopt these high teachings in our daily live. I was really thinking during the last days about this "qualified or not"-subject ;-)
In this way, we remember the philosophy, statements from the acaryas and also own thoughts about it.
Maybe we discover in this way that we misunderstood something or we can explain some point which we understood at least in theory.
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Aspiring to serve,
premavilas das
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Govinda Prabhu (New Jersey, U.S.A.)

I have been passively listening (could also mean not listening at all) the conversations thats are going on.

I believe that we should speak our mind freely, with all our doubts and questions and let the spiritual master decide who understood what and who is qualified and who is not.

I am so fallen that I can not go anywhere else but up from here, and if I do not attempt to ask questions feeling that I am too fallen then there will be no chance for me to rise.

We are supposed to be humble, not mute and definitely not dumb , I am sure whenever we start speaking most of it will be wrong but if we never speak how will other devotees know how bad our condition is and how much help we need.

Also from time to time I let my tongue wag mindlessly (as i am doing here ) so that devotees can see where my mind is wandering and slap me back to my position.

So my request to all is to comment (look who is talking, I never write anything)

Aspiring to be chastised and be sent back to my place,

Your servant

Govinda Das
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Comments for "Open your heart"

Brahma-Samhita Prabhu (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Haribol!
Gurudeva sunday chat ki jay!

The knot of the heart is the crookedness of the heart.

Guru guided Sadhana Bhakti is the way to open the heart and it culminates in onepointed Bhakti, onepointed attention to Sri Krishna, as exemplified by Gurudeva in our lives.
Step by step we have to reach this goal

fear is there hidden deep within the false ego that we will miss out on so many joyrides if we don't pay attention to the opportunities this world have to offer.

Shradda means "Where we give our hearts" Full faith means full open heart. complete honesty. That we can see in Gurudeva. No hiding. There is no possibility for any shadow to be created when full attention is on the Lord who is like the illuminating sun.

Ugra Nrishinga (fearsome Nrishinga) made even the devotees tremble. Brahma and Shiva themselves did not dare to approach the Lord in that form (because they exemplify Karma respectively Jnana mixed Bhakti).
But Prahlad, with fully open heart, no shadows to hide or protect, approached Nrishingadeva and appeased Him with beautiful prayers

One pointed feeling, thinking, speaking and acting. The pure atma, undressed from all attitudes, released from all knots of the heart. I can only imitate the prayer of Bhaktivinoda and ask desperatly "when will that day be mine!"

Is it possible? can we do it?
yes we can, just follow in the footsteps of our beloved Gaurdian Srila Gurudeva.

We can test our advancement on our path by how much attraction we have to read the sundaychats, as they are the weekly "hotcakes" of our darshan connection with Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Radha Brajeshvara

Dandavats dear devotees. please give me mercy so I can understand one day what Gurudeva speaks and associate with Him with an open heart.

Krishna gave a heart to me and I closed it, how stupid. Please devotees give me the key to unlock my heart. Pray for me
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Makhan Chor Prabhu (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Dear devotees!

Yes. Very nice chat.

Let's see what the scriptures say. Beacause I remembered very valuable verses in Nectar of Instructions.

Vers 4, here we can read how to share and create love between devotees and also between other people and devotees.

This can be done WORLD WIDE. You can travel to other people/devotees in other countries and work with preaching there in some way like ur Gurudeva and like Prapbhupad did. You can also share and create love via internet ... by helping out ith many things ... building homepage, work onokis, translation of books or the chat ;) , exchange recipes (the first step when it comes to serving prasadam, don't forget) ....

--->> Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one's mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasāda and offering prasāda are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.

AND if we go back to verse 3 .... here we found what to do if you want to be a devotee. This is recommended to perform every day,yes 24 hours/day.

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There are six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service: (1) being enthusiastic, (2) endeavoring with confidence, (3) being patient, (4) acting according to regulative principles (such as śravaṇaḿ kīrtanaḿ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam [SB 7.5.23] — hearing, chanting and remembering Kṛṣṇa), (5) abandoning the association of nondevotees, and (6) following in the footsteps of the previous ācāryas. These six principles undoubtedly assure the complete success of pure devotional service.

Please don't drag this up ...who is qualified or not. It's like throwing mudcakes in a sandbox. We can do better things with our time.

So now we come to intelligence.

I realized two weeks ago that INTELLIGENCE is when you live/act and think according to the scriptures. Everything else is just speculation.

Intelligence is there but since we are born ignorant --- the intelligence is sleeping. But doing what it is recommended, reading the scriptures and doing things like in verse 3 in Nectar of Instructions ..... YOUR intelligence come alive. Slowly we start to wake up. Some speculations will always be there but when we know more about what's in the scriptures - more intelligence we get. RIGHT!?

Read more about intelligence in [the purport of] verse 1 in Nectar of instructions ... the example with the thief.

Jay!

Dandavats.

- Makhan Chor das
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Bhakta Mikael Sjödin (Sundsvall, Sweden)

Hare Krishna,

PAMHO. All glories to Shri Guru & Shri Gauranga!

Very nice contribution, Makhana-chora prabhu!

I couldn´t agree more. There is no such thing as unqualified. I don´t think Shrila Prabhupada or other gurus would take the trouble to work hard and preach to unqualified people! They give us the essence, and we need only to remain committed and motivated by whatever little taste we have aquired. That´s our full qualification.

The title of the 2010-07-11 chat is "Open your heart". Yes, we must at least leave the doors open to our heart; the doors which have been already so kindly opened by our spiritual master. Leaving the doors open also means interacting in different ways, like proposed in Shri Upadeshamrita 4 (Nectar of Instruction). Receving nectar is one thing; giving is another. Both should be prominent and flourishing - otherwise, where is the movement?

I am often reminded about the importance of developing loving relationships between devotees. We often have the tendency to forget this most important aspect of spiritual life, and instead we focus on saving the whole world by massive preaching efforts. But we must save ourselves first. Then we can go out and make a real impression on others, when they see us really happy!

ys, Mikael
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Vasudeva Prabhu (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Jayataha
Dandavats to ALL devotees

One astrologer said about Srila Prabhupada that He would build a house where the whole world could live. And He did by inviting the whole world into his heart. Srila Gurudeva is doing the same. His vision stretches beyond the VRINDA mission; to unite the Vaishnavas he enthuses the WVA, to unite the religions of the world he revealed the OIDA therapy, to unite the East and West (and all the hindus around their common causes) He started the DharmaScience, to include the animals in the family of mother earth (and bridge out to the nondevotee masses) he started the spoonrevolution. Gurudeva takes in the whole world in his heart and asks us to also look beyond our own problems in life or our local concerns. Gurudeva often quotes Srila Prabhupada; "The world first, your temple second". This prevents us from creating our ego-zone around our service. After all, Krishna consciousness is supposed to be universal.

Taking others into the heart
Krishna gives equal love to all souls, but to those who reciprocate he can give more. This means that any soul that is regularly taking association with devotees, making any service, giving donation, appreciating hari-katha, is chanting rounds, serving my Gurudev in various ways, offering his food before eating, bowing down in the temple room etc etc is in the spotlight of Krishna. This soul has received Krishnas attention and deserves my appreciation. By seeing all devotees in this way i will hopefully not make a fool out of myself when the spotlight shines on me, because indifference and offenses are not allowed on the stage of Bhakti.

Gurumaharaj ki Jaya!
//vasudeva d
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Balabhadra Prabhu (Mewegen, Germany)

Hare Krishna dear Devotees,

my respectful and loving obeisances to all of You.

I think it is clear who from all of us is the most fallen and the most unqualified – the one with the greatest ego, who want to be the best and the first even in this regard – me…..

But still I admit that the real progress in cleaning and opening our heart comes by a deep meditation about Gurudeva and the topics of his classes, and these deep meditation comes actually when we try to speak or to write about. Listening is nice and good, reading already more intensive, but speaking or writing brings You to a very deep level of finding out what is in Your heart, what You want to share, which direction You really want to go.

Still I feel very ashamed what comes out of my heart when I look what rivers of nectar all of You are sharing from Your sweet realizations. But this is also a kind of ego, I guess and why not let You know how falls I am, actually, then You all feel more compassion and pray more for me. Cool

When Gurudeva speaks about to open the heart with all his deep meanings and different aspects, wow I can only bow down to such an universal understanding and realization of the divine love. And it’s so true. Not much more to say about. In my little world I try to open the doors of my heart by learning to understand that everybody must be happy in the family of Krishna Consciousness. To feel home, wherever there is a temple or devotees worshiping and serving the Lord. And the best help to learn this here in Berlin, are our brothers and sisters from foreign countries.

First, when I would be in a place completely out of everything I know or I’m used to deal with, I would be very happy that there are friends who help me even in the little details.

Then they bring so much love and fresh energy into the temple atmosphere that makes all of us so happy, that we have to do our best, that they never want to leave us anymore.

And also, when the people from outside see the community, they should feel by seeing all the happy faces that this community around Krishna has something very special, very happy and very heart-open.

If we feel responsible for the happiness of our brother next to us, when we cannot leave somebody, without asking, “how are You?”, “what can I do for You?”, then we are on a good way to open our hearts more and more. This sacrifice is actually the biggest pleasure one can experience.
and in my case also a good portion of egoism, because there will be the time for sure, when I’m on the ground beaten up by the reactions of my sinful activities. and I would be most happy and fortunate, if there is a compassionate devotee, who give me his attention and help. We need so much help and mercy from everyone around us, the we cannot risk to be alone one day, by bad our behavior or ignoring, selfish mood.

If we see a devote, we try to serve him the best we can, for sure he will be the one, who save us one day, when we are lost. With this feeling we will be saved, I think.

Haribol.

Gurudeva Patita Pavana Ki Jay

Vaisnava Thakur Ki Jay
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Bhakta Michael Hurn (San Diego, U.S.A.)

Dandavats Prahbuji,

Ki-jay! That is splendid, getting all the jiva souls to unite in one common cause under Krishna no matter how fallen. We are we must unite under that one common cause keeping the four regulations and chanting at least four rounds a day trancending all religions to keep the harmony in Krishna's creation and by re-identifying with our spiritual divine identity creating a Vrindavana here on this earth and to try to see past others offenses to the good transcending all material obsession. I also like the idea of working on ourselves first which I need to improve on and then help others although it is good to help others on the way.

Haribol,

BK Mike
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Gaur-Nitai Prabhu (U.S.A.)

Jay Prabhu, very nice message. I totally agree. Many times I am in my ego zone and forget about the world.... than you for reminding me :)
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"Open your heart" Sunday Chat 11th July 2010

"Open your heart" Sunday Chat 11th July 2010
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"Megalomania" Sunday Chat 4th July 2010

"Megalomania" Sunday Chat 4th July 2010

Pepito commentary (Chat 4th July 2010)

Wow, to make a conscious soap opera is to follow in the footsteps of Srila Vyasadeva. He did the equivalent of that when he wrote the Mahabharata for the general population. Me and Vasudeva had the same idea, that it would be nice to make a modern version of the Mahabharata for the soap opera.

Dear vaishnavas, please save me from the pepito inside of me!

/Pepito (Shyamananda das), Sweden

"Learn solidarity, do not fight" Sunday Chat 27th June 2010

"Learn solidarity, do not fight" Sunday Chat 27th June 2010

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"Symptoms of the love squad members" Sunday chat 20th June 2010

"Symptoms of the love squad members" Sunday chat 20th June 2010

Epic chat. Don't miss a word...

Paramatma das commentary (Chat 20th June 2010)

"Symptoms of the love squad members"

he gurudeva

dandavat pranams

dear brothers

dear sisters

radhe radhe

backpushing nature versus responsibility

gurudeva explain us again & again how we should interact

without fighting against each others &

how to reach the qualification to play

together in the elite ( not at all just soccer ;) team

do we remark the capable friends, brothers & sisters for this

not so easy task ? do we accept that all others are much

more qualificated to be teamplayer then ourself ? did we

really understand that this meeting of each other is not just

a game or by chance ... parhazard?

when will come the moment that i will catch with two hands the every where falling prema nectar raindrops & to step out of my material into spiritual acting ?

yours paramatma dasa

... nevergiveup & goforit ... pada yathra rata yathra

sorry, he gurudeva! he vaisnavas! i'm still not yet ready

for the elite & in fight with myself produced karma

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//Paramatma das, Hungary

Bhakta Michael commentary (Chat 20th June 2010)

"Symptoms of the love squad members"

Dandavats!

Thank you for sending such excelent lectures from your guru. He is definately a great soul! I think he is up there with Prabhupada because he is very down to earth and good at reaching the ordinary devotee or bhakta. I would like to meet him some day.

Lately I understand the harmony that one of your gurus was talking about the other day. I can see it in holy life that when people accept God (Krishna) there is a harmony. I can see it in nature I can see it in families I can see it in jobs. It is all about accepting God (Krishna) then everything is harmonized. It is magical. I see it in almost all theistic religions.

//Bhakta Michael, California, U.S.

"Talk about Krishna, what else?" Sunday Chat 13th June 2010

(Gurudeva giving special mercy to Pancatattva Prabhu, the main secretary of the VRINDA mission)

Gurumaharaj Paramadvaiti Sunday Chat 2010-06-13 "Talk about Krsna, what else?"

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"Preaching in Bucaramanga" Sunday chat 6th June 2010

Chat 2010-06-06 "The Preaching in Bucaramanga"

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Shyamananda das commentary (Chat 6th June 2010)

Sunday chat 6th June 2010 "The preaching in Bucaramanga"

Dandavats! Hare Krsna!

This about the mayor of Bucaramanga is amazing. I cannot even imagine such a thing happening in the city where I live (but maybe I should). This reminds me of Dr. Janez Drnovsek, the former president of Slovenia. He was a vegetarian, active fighter against the meat industry and he had a link to the Spoonrevolution on his official webpage. And before he left his body, he met with Srila Gurumaharaj, Sadhu Maharaj and other devotees, because he was also interested in spiritualiy. You can read about him here: http://www.vina.cc/news/index.php/Search.html?searchword=janez

I want to thank Mataji Bhagavati for putting pictures from Bucaramanga on http://gurumaharajdiary.blogspot.com/

//Shyamananda das (Sweden)

Bhagavati dd commentary (Chat 6th June 2010)

Dandavats to all devotees
I am very greatfull there is now a page where the chats in english can be seen on internet, we were specting for so long. Of course manah siksa dd has for so long extracts of the chats in his page http://www.vrindanews.com/
thank you to all my reverences.
dont forget to visit http://gurumaharajdiary.blogspot.com/ there you can find in english all the visits of gurumaharaj to the different yatras around the world, with news, extracts of lectures and photos.

I think this step in bucaramanga is a very special mercy for krishna consciousness and for vrinda mission. I am talking about conscious goverments. What important and special is that the mayor of the city has a spiritual adviser, and in this case a discipule of Gurumaharaj. Imagine how many changes can be done in a city by chanting the names of the lord.

"The mayor was decorated as an honorary member of the city and he is recognized as an important member of the goverment of the region." Sorry, this I did not translate correctly, it was Gurumaharaj who was decorated!

Also Gurumaharaj recently is pointing out the importance of his offices all around the world and the connection with the sevas. In the offices of Gurumaharaj one can learn many things, how to connect with all devotees around the world, and see how many beautifull and important things they are developing for the preach. Knowing different devotees from all over the world (although sometimes is only by internet) and trying to appreciate their efforts, you can be full of enthusiasm all the time. Its important always for devotees in the offices to do sankirtan, so they can see the needs of the people out side, in this way they can contribute to the sevas in a better way.
Well, thank you for giving the opportunity to write this lines. The important is to listen carefully to our Gurumaharaj and try to follow his instruction the best we can.
Gurumaharaj ki jay !
Sunday chat ki jay !!
Dandavats

//Bhagavati dd (Mexico)

Editors note: Bhagavati is the person who every sunday makes this chat available to us from Spanish to English. We are very happy for this and grateful.

Vasudeva das commentary (Chat 6th June 2010)

Dandavat Pranams
My head to the feet of all devotees and to the feet of Sri Gurudeva

Here are some highlights I extracted from all the nectar in the chat…

"Devotees are very creative but sometimes they lack solidarity. That is necessary for working in a group."

Its easy to think that "My service is the most important" and we get frustrated when the others think the same about their service. It is very easy to miss out on the big picture as well as the details in relationship to others. The big picture is that we are all parts of Gurudevas vision. We all can fulfill different aspects in his vision. we all can have different realizations and by sharing them we are connected and will help to fill in the pieces in the puzzle. When we see the others in relation to Gurudeva and Krishna we will naturally feel inclined to make the others happy, to talk nicely to them, to not speak in a bad tone or voice, to help them out in their service etc etc. This is called sankirtan. Working together for a common goal.



"When someone comes and say: "Gurumaharaj, what can I do with my life?", its very difficult to me. To determine I should make a study of the person. Better you tell me. Suggest something you like."


"The better thing to do with the problems in the temple is to stop being a problem to the temple myself."

I once heard that the real first steps following the sravanam kirtanam is scrubbanam and moppanam. Very often one devotee is left with a dirty kitchen and gets all the nectar for himself/herself. If the devotees when they see me think that “oh that’s the guy who can’t even wash his plate” then how do I look in front of Krishna since it is well known that the devotees are even more merciful than Krishna?

Then even worse problem i can make is fighting and having a bad mood. Then in the best case I will be tolerated but being tolerated is not really the goal. Then i need to make a self-evaluation.

//vasudeva das (sweden)

Brahma-Samhita das commentary (Chat 6th June 2010)

Sunday Chat 6th June 2010 "The preaching in Bucaramanga"

You are amazed when hearing about the advancement of the movement in Colombia. I heard a devotee once describe the amount of devotees on a sundayfeast is some on the temples there. "you have to climb into the pots to dish them after" :)

When I was in ISKCON before joining with Gurumaharaj I had the idea that Krishna consciousness is really ecstatic only if there is thousands of devotees in the kirtan. (like in the chandradoya mandir in Mayapur) big scale is the only nectar. Every thing have to be BIG!
Then when I met Gurumaharaj in in Mayapur we spent the Gourpurnima together with Him and a small amount of devotees. Gurudeva said that this is sweet :) you cannot have a personal relationship with thousands of people simultaneously anyway :) and spiritual life is all about personal relationships. This was a twist of thinking for me. I can hear many times Gurudeva say that when the temples grow big many problems arise, so Gurudeva send his disciples to the next town to open a new center and in this way keeping it small and in a pioneering spirit.
We want the whole world to take up to Krishna consciousness but still we want it small and sweet with less politics and more inspired natural leaders and dynamic helpers.

We want it big (audarya) but small and sweet (madhurya). :)
The dynamics of Goloka allows such a reality. A place with innumerable millions and trillions of devotees that eternally remains a small forest village.

Cintamani prakara sadmasukalpavriksha
lakshavriteshu surabhir abhipalayantam
laxmi sahasra sata sambrahman sevyamanam
Govindam Adipurusham tam aham bhajami

//Brahma-Samhita das (Sweden-Bulgaria)

Balabhadra das commentary (Chat 6th June 2010)

The sweet fruit of Krishnas sweet philosophy becomes more and more sweet when the devotees touch it with their heart, with their mind and intelligence and share it with us. In this way Krishna consciousness becomes sweeter and sweeter every day.

Gurudeva in his position as an Acharya has to be strict in rules and to protect his disciples, in his position as our father, he comes with so much compassion, only to help us to make progress in our life.

And still somehow I cannot follow his instructions and advises – I have to admit. But You, my dear brothers and sisters are all the around with the helping hand open. At all circumstances You are there to bring me back to the instructions and Lotusfeet of Sri Guru.

Like in this commentaries. Krishna is already so merciful, that he brakes his own rules to bring us out of the material world.

I wanted to share with You my favorite statement from Krishna in the Brihad Bhagavatamrita:

“My dear friend, you have passed many lifetimes without paying any attention to Me at all. For so long, hope ha me dancing like a fool, thinking “Perhaps in this lifetime, or this, or this, or this, he will finally turn his face toward Me.” But I could find no pretext on which to bring you to My abode, dear brother, and still follow the timeless laws that I Myself have created.

You showed me no mercy, and as I considered this I grew impatient, full of anxiety to receive Your favor. So I transgressed My eternal code of conduct and arranged for You to take your current birth. Dear boy, in that divine district of Govardhan, my most beloved abode, I Myself became Your Guru. Today you have at last fulfilled the desire I have harbored for so long. Please nourish your happiness and Mine by staying here forever.”

This is so touching, so inspiring, that Krishna brakes his own rules, out of love for us to bring us back to him. And what to speak about the Vaisnavas. They are even more merciful. This makes me crazy and very happy also. Without all of You, Your kindness, Your examples, Your compassion and Your help, even Krishna could not rescue me. I run very fast in the opposite direction, but You ran faster and as a close friend You bring me back on track to the final goal of life. Thank You so much again, and again, dear Vaisnavas. I pray and I try to serve You, that You may be pleased and just shower your love on me.

Haribolo dear Govinda, dear Syamananda, dear Vasudeva, dear Brahma, dear Haladhara, dear Gopalito, dear Vamsi, dear Sanket, dear Yashoda, dear Draupadi, dear all others. I’m begging for Your mercy.'

//Balabhadra das (Germany)

"Childrens education" Sunday Chat 30th May 2010

"Childrens education" Sunday chat 30th May 2010

This week we received some notes from the sunday lecture of Gurudeva. We recieved less comments and I will not be late to remind you to please send your comments again and again. If you find no impetus for commenting on the subject Gurudeva gave for the chat, then we are also superhappy to receive some report from your preaching areas or if some devotee or youself made something extra ordinary, please lift him/her out here and make it known to all other devotees what this devotee or yourself has done, send link also if available some material. So many artists and so many new things done all the time, but so much is still inaccessible to us...

Shyamananda das (Chat 30th May 2010)

Sunday Chat 30th May 2010

Dandavats to all devotees.

Yes, the children have to be taken care of. If their natural faith is protected, encouraged and nurtured they will be very rich inside. If this is done naturally by the fact that the parents are spiritually sincere, mature and balanced it will be true. If the parents are simply frustrated failures trying to live out their dreams through their children I don't buy it.

Thank you Gurumaharaj, Badarik, Damodara Priya and others for your work with this. It gives me inspiration when I spend time with my younger brothers and sisters, and I see it works.

Haribol! Jay Sri Krsna!
//Shyamananda das, Sweden

Brahma-Samhita das commentary (Chat 30th May 2010)

Sunday Chat 30th May 2010

Through the OIDA project Gurudeva have translated the complicated Vedic knowledge into a very universal language. Instead of quoting from shastra to show the validification of certain truths OIDA logics helps us to convince people refering to the Chaitya Guru or the common sense and in that way a very powerful preaching tool attracting people approach Shradda Devi

OIDA is like hidden Gupta VEDA

I am not yet aware what Gurudeva and the devotees like Paramananda Prabhu and other psychologers are developing across the atlantic but I am eagerly awaiting these preaching tools to be translated to english.

Shradda Devi ki JAY
Gurudeva ki jay!!!