Re: Is it always compassionate to make critique?

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!

Dear Guruji, Nava and devotees please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.

Very deep thoughts Nava. A few thoughts about thoughts itself and the seeking attitude.

Thoughts are the direction of our focus and focus determines where we are heading to which is eventually our outcome. All of our thoughts, every single one of them bubble up as energies from the floor of our consciousness a kind of like the way bubbles arise from the bottom of the ocean. On their way up they get ‘colored’ by many factors that eventually ends up to be a tangible, recognizable thought. We have roughly a million of those bubbles coming up per day and about 50.000 of them result into ‘meaningful’ thoughts. I agree that the closer to the root you can identify with the thought the more profound ‘power’ it embodies. That’s how siddhis work. However those thoughts are not necessary better or even spiritual for that sake. Our thoughts are shaped during their journey from deep within our consciousness to the surface. Spiritual thoughts are shaped rather than that they are spiritual by default. Therefore the more we indulge ourselves in reading about Lord Gauranga Krishna’s pastimes the more our thoughts will be aligned with His Supreme will and bliss. When we mix our indulgence with other interests our thoughts will be shaped by them as well.

A word about seeking: in the material sense that is a logic process because when I misplace something and seek for it I can find it back. In the spiritual sense it is a misleading activity. As long as we are engaged in the process of seeking we are not finding. When we have found we are not seeking anymore. Sounds like basic logic? Yes, but not as easy to put into practice. When I say I want to be happy that implicates I am not happy yet. Most people say those things for a lifetime. When the beggar doesn’t want to look in the treasure trunk he is sitting on he misses out on the wealth he has already. In this very fortunate Kali Yuga the Lord has incarnated in His holy Names. We only have to chant Them with faith and a drop of love to actually experience that the Lord has indeed incarnated in His Names. Without faith and that drop of love we miss out and although we seek Him we don’t find Him. But as soon as we experience the Lord vividly in His Names we are not seeking Him anymore.
Actually on a subtle level the process of seeking means that we are avoiding a relationship with the Lord. We might exhibit a desire to establish a relationship with the Lord on the outside but on the inside the desired fulfillment remains unoccupied. We HAVE already a relationship with the Lord which will instantly unfold within our consciousness the moment we surrender. Surrender means to give up our false ego, to step out of the way and to invite Lord Gaura-Nityananda to take over. As long as we are busy seeking we are pre-occupied with a self-fabricated image and are standing in the way. When we pour clear water in a glass with muddy water the water stays muddy. Our glass needs to be empty and clean so the Lord can be recognized rather than imagined. Recognition here and now is a million times more potent than waiting or seeking for something in the future.

When we surrender our thoughts to be exclusively shaped by sadhu, guru and shastra the Lord will reveal Himself as He is.

Thank you so much for your posts Nava .. may the Lord flood you with unlimited bliss.

Your servant,

Hadai Nityananda dasa

Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
 

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