Re: A positive attitude and a positive faith

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!

Your post reminds me of something Srila Prabhupada used to say, keeping things simple and practical: for example he used to give instruction like - 'if  you are angry be angry for Krsna, if you are greedy be greedy for Krsna' etc etc.

Many new-age people I meet over the years (and at the time of Srila Prabhupada) are interested in the heavens (demi-god consciousness). And positive positive! Often they will use the term these days 'love and light' as a goodbye and greeting. I respond to them, as a jokester and trickster 'love, light and shadow!;)' With a grin of compassion...

In the realm of psyche and mind one may become aware of very very subtle things; and if honest will notice much flux. Striving for the positive will increase the dynamic of the negative...  For example much materialistic yoga in the west, and now India, teaches kinds of meditation aiming at stillness of prana and psychic phenomena. In my opinion, avoiding the negative and aiming for the positive is not the final goal.... Aiming for the positive and renunciation simply awakens us to the flux (and the negative) more so. If we are fortunate and use buddhi-yoga (transcendental bhakti/consciousness) we will 'centre'...

...'Transcendental consciousness' rises above duality of the mind. Firstly it is 'detached consciousness', secondly it is 'not renunciation' - it is 'bhakti'. It is application, it is joy! Just like Srila Prabhupada pointed out in the above case of sadhana...use what we got, use our disposition. You are correct Srinath, we should not be shaken by the worldly, who judge by the worlds standards, and the conditioned mind. And saying that, if we are enlightened we will not judge them also- simply because we have raised our vision (conscious awareness).

Lets simplify it further, away from the very very subtle area of mind phenomena and the prana (raja yoga). Lets look at  black and white, sad and happy, dark and light etc. Fundamental building blocks of the mahat-tattva. What do we get if we mix black and white?..... We get - 'Grey!'

Interestingly enough as we grow older in wisdom our hair also goes 'grey!' ;) Inconceivable really, that existing in this plane of duality and ""striving""" of the psyche, there is also 'spiritual' consciousness' and ease, the spirit spark. And the super-soul - the master of the body/mind -  is the 'controller and doer' in that plane....

Nature reflects all things for the wise! Nature reflects the turmoil of the human mind - we can see this in degradation and neglect of the ''holy rivers'' and the eco, the fast paced modern society (mind), neglect of good farming and eating.... etc. We can also see reflected in nature 'the spiritual reality'... That spiritual reality is the focus and needed discussion...the cultivating plane...

This reflection of spiritual reality Srila Bhaktivinoda called 'a painting of Krsna'. This beauty is charm! This beauty is transcendent! For example; it is not only our hair that goes 'grey' as we become free of 'moralistic religious striving'... the 'beauty of the storm' and the 'grey monsoon cloud' also becomes evident.... Nature displays her true self. Maha-maya is transformed into 'internal potency' - Yoga-Maya. The servant plane... That is one of the messages of the treatise Sri Krsna Samhita. Bhaktivinoda was a great follower of the Caitanya tradition....

His skin is 'blueish grey'. 'The color of a grey monsoon cloud'. Jai Sri Krsna!

For the simple sadhana devotee, even hell becomes fertile soil for cultivation. Even the spirits are seen as servants...and the foot-stool of the great Godhead is a Serpent! Jai Nitaai! Most kind...

y.s.

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