Smoke will not do

"So pure devotional service is the flame. All other things are smoke. You must get the flame. Otherwise your business will not get done. So, naturally, we fan when there is smoke, phat-phat-phat. As soon as flame comes, there is no smoke. So again fan it, let the flame come. Then everything will be all right. Otherwise be satisfied with the smoke. You are cooking with smoke for three hundred years." - Srila Prabhupada

- From "The Great Transcendental Adventure" by HG Kurma Prabhu

Higher Education and Career in Krsna Consciousness

Krsna is amazing. He just sent me this wonderful post at a time when I (and people around me) need it the most. I read this post at a devotee's blog. Here is the link.

Young devotees, especially girls(!) come across this dilemma sooner or later.

"If you are serious about Krsna consciousness, then why do you want to give your time to higher material studies, or working in the corporate world? But everyone works, and if you earn more money, you can use it in Krsna's service." Different devotees have different views.

Its difficult to make a determined decision unless you have the right people to advise you, and ofcourse, unless you truly know what your goal in life is.

Before making a decision, its very very very important to know how Prabhupada wanted us to live our lives as devotees, and how he wanted us to serve Krsna.

Lets hear it from HH Romapada Maharaj.
http://servantoftheservant-ananda.blogspot.com/2008/09/higher-education-and-career-in-krishna.html

Srila Prabhupada ki Jay!

Its Time..

Its time to get back to writing! I've been telling some people how its so important to write write write their realisations. And how Prabhupada wanted us to just write.

And then I realised that I had a blog and I hadnt written in ages!

Bad girl.

Nitya-mukta and Nitya-baddha

...Krsna's spiritual form has all qualities in full, and those qualities are naturally present in the living entities in minute quantity. The independent nature of Krsna is found insignificantly in the living entities. For this reason the living entities claim to be independent. As a result, all living entities have developed different propensities. By one propensity the living entity searches for his own happiness, and by another propensity he searches for Krsna's happiness. Thus living entities are divided into two groups-those searching for their own happiness and those searching for Krsna's happiness. Those who search for Krsna's happiness are called nitya-mukta, and those who search for their own happiness are called nitya-baddha...

- from SBL: Six Faults that Destroy Bhakti, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur.

Inspiration..

I don’t feel like studying!! Tell me something new.
Well, I was just inspired to write. For the 100th time or something. But now I hope this inspiration stays. So do I hope for all the wonderful inspirations I get. I guess its more up to me to keep these inspirations alive by actually acting on them. And not just wishing that they stayed. Point. Hey, im a genius :P

I make so many resolves. That from today, or tomorrow, or from this date, I will start doing this, or stop doing this. And depending on whether I am faithful to these resolves, I see myself changing, for the better. I think the most important thing is to take it seriously when it hits you. And even when after sometime it doesn’t sound that appealing, just know that ur mind is just like ur body: it keeps changing. Don’t let the inspiration fade away.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

That means im no genius :P

äyur harati vai pumsäm
udyann astam ca yann asau
tasyarte yat-ksano nita
uttama-sloka-värtayä

Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the all-good Personality of Godhead.

(SB 2.3.17)

Dasanudaso bhavitasmi bhuyah?!

aham hare tava padaika-mula
dasanudaso bhavitasmi bhuyah

manah smaretsu-pater gunams te
grnita vak karma karotu kayah

O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, will I again be able to be a servant of Your eternal servants who find shelter only at Your lotus feet? O Lord of my life, may I again become their servant so that my mind may always think of Your transcendental attributes, my words always glorify those attributes, and my body always engage in the loving service of Your Lordship?