Monday, May 18, 2009
Re: Advice for the Youth and Students
Dear devotees,
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!
Hadai Prabhu's humble appeal to all spiritual aspirants : Many people feel quite guilty that they have wasted so much time in their life and have committed such dreadful sins. Do not worry. On the material platform, the body heals itself very fast, so within no time you will have recovered. Mentally the loud chanting of the Holy names of the Lord, in particular the most merciful names of "Nityananda! Gauranga" and the most sweet "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Raama Hare Raama Raama Raama Hare Hare" destroy unlimited impurities in no time at all. So your mind will be purified in no time.
But real healing is at the spiritual level where the names of the Lord bring the soul out of impersonalism and into personalism. That is what spiritual development is all about.
We beg such people that the devotees are ALWAYS there and that they will NEVER turn you away no matter what. Please, put your guilt behind. The past is gone. The Lord and His devotees never look at those faults. Those just apply to the dead material mind and body. They are not your real nature.
You are SOUL. Servant of the Lord. You are devotees, and your real position is to be in the spiritual world with the Lord and His devotees. Ultimately none of these bad qualities are of the soul. They just belong to the false ego. As a soul you are a perfect devotee, free of all faults and perfectly, lovingly, eternally, devoted to the Supreme Lord Gauranga Krishna and His devotees. So please look at yourselves and all other living entites as devotees.
The more you see everyone as a devotee, the more you activate that principle within yourself and others. And when you do that, someday that real nature has to come out!
The best time and the only time you have is NOW. Past is gone, future is unknown, you have only the present. There is never an ideal situation for spiritual practice in the material world, so do not postpone your chanting.
You only have the present moment, so NOW's the best time to chant.
When you chant NOW, then any situation in the material world will become ideal for chanting and making progress. Then by the mercy of the Lord, all situations will BECOME IDEAL.
So surrender, surrender, SURRENDER, chant, chant, and CHANT, AND GO FORWARD TOWARDS THE LORD!
Daao'smi,
Srinath
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