Polloution

There is so much polloution in this age, we hear people protesting about it every day, but few people protest the subtle polloution that is affecting our consciousness. We absorb 1% of anyones association we are with, so we are in an age of global communication, global association, if we are in Gouranga consciousness we will naturally add positivity to the global environment.

The Psycho Cinema

Just as when we are in a cinema we find oursleves believing that the charcters are real. We feel ourselves moved by the storyline, sometimes afraid, sometimes laughing and empathising with the characters in different ways.

We don’t have to believe that the film is real, but we decide or choose  to ‘buy into’ the fictional story and characters for some enjoyment. The cinema is dark and this encourages your attention onto the film and helps you forget about yourself and your surroundings, the sound is very loud and from all sides, all of these capture our focus more and sometimes the film ends and we forget what time it is or where we are!

This is just the same as our mind, the mind is presenting ideas plans and demands, and due to a forgetfulness of our true identity we have decided or chosen to ‘buy into’ the minds suggestions, taking them as being real and important. We do not have to be moved by the minds ideas,

just as a sober film goer never becomes afraid in the horror movie, they are aware it is a film only. A sober sage never becomes disturbed by the minds demands, knowing himself and the mind to be completely different, not paying any importance to the mental suggestions.

The Workings Of The Mind Explained…

The mind has three stages, thinking, feeling and willing.  When we contemplate something we can enjoy with our senses then the thinking stage begins, after thinking for a while we move onto feeling, we feel what it would be like, then that takes us a stage further onto willing, which is where the subtle influences manifest into  physical activities. If we remain in absorbtion on the Great Mantra Hare Krishna and Gouranga then we never need progress past thinking, just as Bhagavad gita states in the second chapter

“A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires—that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still—can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires”.

Love or Lust?

In this world the concept of love between a girl and a boy is generally based on mutual sense gratification, “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” as the saying goes. Then when the other person no longer makes us feel good we go elsewhere.   I love you because you make me feel good and i like the way you like me so much! Is this really love? Although appearing to be love, this mood is really lust. To sum it up in a nut shell. Love is giving and lust is taking.

The vedas give very precise understandings of love.  Real love means moving right away from any personal gain and only acting for the pleasure of the beloved with no desire for any personal benefits. That consciousness is our original nature as selfless loving souls. Due to desire for personal gain, fame, distinction and  adoration our natural love has transformed into lust.

Through spiritual activities we can easily turn that lust back into love. happy valentines day!

Whatever you do will come back on you…

Whatever you do will come back on you. The law of karma means that for every action there is a reaction. Activities performed in spiritual consciousness in line with the divine do not produce Karma however. This subject is carefully described in the Bhagavad Gita chapter 3

You Cannot See Your Own Eyelashes!

To gain knowledge and understanding through our experiences will always be faulty as our sensory perceptions are limited. Imperfect sensory perceptions can only give limited and imperfect understanding.

Take for example the eyes, a person my be very proud of what he can see and observe, however we cannot even see our own eye lashes which are the closest thing to the eyes without some help from a mirror and so forth. Also we cannot see what is going on a long way away. So again we need satellite, television or telescope.

It is a lot easier to gain knowledge from more perfect sources than our own tiny sensory and mental understandings. Vedic knowledge is above the imperfection of the senses, and by applying this knowledge in our lives we realise its truth by seeing the results.

Iron Rod In The Fire

When an Iron rod is placed into a fire it heats up and becomes glowing red. Similarly when our mind and senses are absorbed in Krishna then we become Krishna – Ised.

” In the stage of perfection called trance, or samadhi, one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of yoga. This perfection is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless transcendental happiness, realized through transcendental senses. Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact.

(Bhagavad Gita 6.20-23)

Valuable Time

Time is more valuable than any amount of money. One second passed cannot be bought back with any amount of welath. We should spend every moment wisely by always keeping our consciousness absorbed in topics of Bhagavad Gita, the topmost yoga system, and chanting the great Mantra.

Controlling The Mind

If we do not control the mind then it will control us. We will follow its ideas, plans and demands and become subjected to the outcome. The mind will only act as a computer, whatever we absorb through our senses becomes imprinted upon the mind, who later replays the impressions to us and we seek after the same sense pleasures again. When we realise these fleeting impressions draw no real satiation, then we can approach self realisation. The subject of Gouranga Mellows.

thr President is not free…

If you approach the president of the United states and asked him if he was free from anxiety, he would tell you “no sir I am not”. Can anyone truely say they are free from anxiety?

By following the process laid down in the ancient sanskrit texts we can become free from anxiety by realising our position through self realisation.  The process is sublime.