Re: Internet Writing vs Travelling

Nityaananda! Gauraanga! Hare Krsna!
Dandavats.Thank you all for bringing in this topic and discussing it with a beautiful mixture of sincerity, inquisitiveness, humility and scriptural erudition. It is a blessing for me to have found your sanga. This is so very rare in this world. Please allow me to share my thoughts in this connection.

We are talking here about the principle of �yukta vairagya� taught to us by Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada. Yukta vairagya means true and complete renunciation of all material things by only engaging them in relationship with Krishna. In fact there is nothing in this world which is not related or connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Gauranga-Krishna.
The Lord Himself says in the Bhagavad Gita:

mattah parataram nanyat kincid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam sutre mani-gana iva

�O, conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior Me. Everything rests upon Me,as pearls are strung on a thread.� (BG 7.7)
And also:

Aham sarvasya prabhavo matah sarvam pravartate

�I am the source of all material and spiritual worlds. Everything emanates from Me.� (BG 10.8)
So, in reality we cannot renounce anything, because nothing belongs to us. Everything is Krishna�s energy and belongs to Him only. What we should give up is our false sense of proprietorship upon Lord�s creation and start using everything we possess in His devotional service. In this connection Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung very nicely :

Manasa deho geho yo kichu mora
Arpilun tua pade nanda-kishora

"Mind, body, home, whatever I call mine
I offer at Your lotus feet O youthful son of Nanda (Krishna)"

So, that�s what Srila Prabhupada did in his preaching in the West. He perfectly followed this principle yukta vairagya by engaging everything that Krishna provided in His devotional service and for spreading Krishna consciousness all over the world. Therefore Krishna provided more and more and his mission was successful beyond imagination. He also taught us to apply this principle in trying to push forward the movement. In this information age Internet is a very powerful medium for propaganda and can be used to spread worldwide the glories of the Lord. It is the brihad mridanga allowing the glories of the Lord to gradually reach each and every corner of the world.
Many preachers are using this tool very succesfully. My spiritual master His Grace Sriman Sankarshan das Adhikari is maintaining an e-course via Internet and in this way reaching to about 7000 students from more than 100 countries all around the world. Then when they invite him he travels to their respective places and provides them with more preaching and personal attention.
His Holliness Swami Gaurangapada has very kindly taken the task of spreading the rare and superexcellent glories of Lords Nityananda and Gauranga and Their Holy Names, Forms, Abodes, Pastimes and Associates, which is an unique contribution absolutely and crucially needed for reforming the suffering and offensive living entities in Kali Yuga which otherwise will have very little chance to steadily advance in spiritual life even if they take up to the worship of Lord Krishna.
So, let�s use everything with care in Lord Gauranga-Krishna�s service and our lives and the lives of others will be sublime.
Your servant: Sarvabhauma das

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