Kadamba Kanana Maharaja visits Lenasia Temple

Did he speak anything new?

After Lord Krishna had learnt everything from His teacher Sandipani Muni, Krishna asked His teacher what can He do for him. Sandipani Muni replied that his son had died, Krishna must bring him back. Krishna obliged, Sandipani Muni was very happy and so he gave the benediction to Krishna that, “Let whatever you speak be ever fresh!”

Power of Harinaam

When devotees perform Harinaam on the street the effects are so great that not only are the people who are present while the harinaam is going on lives have changed but actually the entire street changes and anyone else who may walk on that street becomes effected! – I didn’t know that.

By the effects of this Krishna consciousness movement the whole world is changing. We can’t see it but it will become like the Satya yuga, where all the people were hamsa, transcendental personalities. It will be a time where no money will be required, where if you make clothes than you give it out for free, or if you sell fruits than you give the fruits out for free.

In the Vedic culture young girls would not inherit anything but they would have these thick gold bangles so if at any point they required something then they could use that. And no one would touch them. Actually even if there was a lump of gold on the street no one would touch it because it does not belong to them.

Well wisher VS I don’t want the karma

There are 2 levels of being situated in transcendental knowledge. Initially a person will not perform a bad act because they do not want the karma. But a higher level is that a person becomes the well wisher of all then where is the question of causing harm to another. Where is the question of unnecessarily speaking harshly to one?

In sickness and in health?

The past 4 or 5 days I’ve been down with the flu, and as my health deteriorated the little spiritual practices I do slipped away too. Actually “slipped away” indicates a gradual reduction but it was almost immediate. So much for being steady! It is a clear indication of my level in bhakti – not very high.

I need to become steady – to not become overcome by my circumstances. To chant my 16 rounds come hell or high waters.

Dearest Gokula Taruni, She whom all the young girls of Gokula Worship,


Dear beautiful lady, all glories to your most enchanting form. All glories to your limitless glories which I am too dumb and dull headed to even remember or think about. Dear Srimati Radharani, please show compassion on this most foolish child. O best of worshipers, there is no end to my misfortune. Who knows what lives I’ve been living, somehow this life time I have been given You and Krishna by Srila Prabhupada. My spiritual master takes great pains in trying to help me please you. Each lecture, each letter, each conversation is aimed at trying to make me chant better, with attention, with love. He knows that this will help me because it will give me You. But Radhika, I am so unfortunate, so lacking in love, so lacking in discipline, so lacking in duty that I can not or is it will not listen. A hundred times I have heard the glories of pure chanting but still I will not chant.

Dear sweet Lady, Mother of the universe, please grunt your disobedient child, a life of service. Please grunt me the shakti to please gurudev and Srila Prabhupada. Please bless me to somehow find it in myself the ability to preach. Please Radharani, please help me serve. Please give me some little service to assist in spreading Gauranga’s mission. Please grunt me taste for the holy name.

I am an unworthy child who only wants, wants and wants. But I beg you to please consider these. I want to be a servant of your servants, but I can only be one with your blessings.

Forever begging your mercy,
Sitala dasi

Who else can I take shelter of but you?

This was Srila Giriraja Maharaja’s theme in Maharaja’s offering to Srila Prabhupada. Maharaja’s offering was so sweet and so clearly defined Srila Prabhupada.

The character of Lord Krishna who saw only the maternal affection in the demon witch Putana!

character


Dearest Srila Prabhupada,

Please forgive me for not writing an offering sooner. I am most ill mannered and uncaring for not making it my most important duty to glorify and thank you.

The truth is I have no words to say what you mean to me.

Sometimes my heart is hard and I can not even remember who you are and can not realise the significance of what you’ve given me. And other times like when I was hearing the beautiful offerings I was thinking “Wow! This is Srila Prabhupada!”

Dear, Srila Prabhupada, as you know recently I have visited New Vrindavan and Gita Nagari. It was incredible and has left me inspired. But it has also left me anxious. All your devotees are serving you with such enthusiasm. Not a moment goes by where they are not thinking of how to advance further and thereby please you. My Lord, I want to please you very, very much. I want to come closer and closer to your lotus feet. I want to be a puppet in your hand guiding me in spreading the mercy of Lord Caitanya.

I know these requests are like a dwarf reaching for the moon; however I have full faith in your mercy and your superb guidance. How else would I be where I am now? If it were not for your causeless mercy no doubt I would still be a quiet bystander to the Hare Krishna Movement.

My dear Srila Prabhupada, please help me develop a spotless character. A character full of compassion, free from greed and envy. This is a tall order however, however painstaking and however long it takes I would like to be a model devotee. Someone for you and Guru Maharaja to be proud off.

Please forgive my multitudes of offences. All glories to your causeless mercy!

Your eternal servant
Sitala devi dasi