Re: Happiness

Dear prabhu,

          Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! My pranams!

          First please check out this article http://nitaai.net/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=6016#6016 . This should answer the first question.

          As far as the second one is concerned, how long it takes, it all depends only on one thing -- What is there at the very bottom of the heart. If despite everything we always have the Lord as our goal at the bottom of our heart we can attain Him in just a few days. It is possible and it has happened, so it is not an exaggeration. However if we try to worship the Lord, but deep down in our heart we give room for all other desires and other goals, than only God knows how long it will take.

           To tell the truth it only takes as long as we want it to take. If we keep thinking that it will come only after a very long time, then that's how long it will take because it means that we've made up our mind to get it only after a million years.

           Even after chanting for 25 years, 30 years, one may still have difficulty. It's only because of having  one part of the heart turned somewhere else all the time. Introspect, find out what you're really thinking while chanting. And just say "NO" to that and forget about it. Make devotion your aim and one can succeed very easily. The Lord gives exactly what one desires at the bottom of the heart.

           It takes years of struggle to become a solider or a pilot or a sportsperson or a great virtuoso or a multi billionaire -- but those are all material. But to get God is far easier. It only needs full acceptance, that's all. Bhaktivinod Thakur has promised that God can be reached in a few days. Even those in Satya Yuga or the abode of Brahma cannot get this chance and they are all jealous in a way of how even dogs and pigs in this Golden age, the 10000 years after Mahaprabhu's advent in Kali Yuga get the Lord easily what to speak of human beings. So the time has come stop looking at the distractions and make the Lord as the goal.

Daaso'smi,
Srinath

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