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NECTAR OF INSTRUCTION

VS 4 02/2007

KKSKKS

DAILY TEN MINUTE

NECTAR+

07/10/08

Yeah yeah, so its like you feel itwhen you start sliding down and

hang on the side and you have to

try and get back on there so every

once in a while you get under the

elephant and its intense, yeah,

what to do? it takes a while torecover. But vaishnavas are very

precious, devotees are very

precious people, that one should

always appreciate because these

devotees they carry the blessings

of Krishna and therefore Krishna

is favouring them and anybody

who turns towards a devotee, he

will be favoured.

:there is no doubt about it. So if

whatever we do we have this good

intelligence to never

underestimate the importance of a

devotee, then always be

appreciative, generous, kind and

so on with the devotees then

somehow or other we will get

blessings, tremendous blessings

and then Krishna will make some

arrangements for us, because

ultimately we all need some


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openings, we all need some

favourable arrangements, its not

so easy to step in the sankirtana

movement and here it is heres the

process now just surrender. I amwho I am , its not so easy but

then Krishna makes an opening,

he may send someone, just like

when I became involved seriously

in the Hare Krishna movement I

found it not so easy at first. I was

in India and they were really like

pushing like anything. Its like I

stood in front of the deities andlike they were pushing me saying

dance! dance! and I was like

come on dance when its like

happening, you know its got to

happen at least cant just dance

dance dance you got to dance

its more spaghetti western type of

stuff- dance ! dance !

So I couldnt relate to it, Ithought it was too pushy, but the

devotees were quite closable in

India , they were taking a lot of

interest in ones person, the

person they were dealing with.

Visa ran out and I came back to

Europe and when I came back to

Europe the mood in the temple

was quite different, it was like

very impersonal and very rigid, it

was really like err.. I would not

have made it, right, people would

talk about the process of Krishna

consciousness but there was no

human interaction, from how

are you?, that was maya that was

not done and I couldnt handle

that and there was one devotee

from America, a black devotee,

black bodied devotee and

everyone thought he was strange

and he would ask people how are


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you and I liked him immediately,

wow, a human being, that makes

the whole thing possible for me,

you could be human in this

movement. So Krishna made anarrangement, he made an opening

for me. And I had hepatitis in

India and the result was I was on a

heavy diet and no ghee, right, and

no halva so it was a great disaster,

when you join and theres no

halva especially in those days that

was really too much, no halva, so

my friend he was cooking quite abit so he cooked some nice raisin

bread for me which was full of

dried fruit.instead of halva I

had that so by his mercy I

survived. So he made an opening

for me, he made it something

sustainable.

So Krishna makes arrangements

for us and the more we please

Krishnas devotees then somehow

or other Krishna always makes an

arrangement for us no matter how

strong or weak we are.

Hell create an opening for us.

That is the result of the blessing of

a vaishnava if one is not so strong,

therefore we must be very careful

with the vaishnava, be very

careful with the way we deal withthe vaishnavas and thats actually

the principle we are discussing

here.

When a devotee distributes

prasadam remnants of food

offered to the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, in order

to maintain our spiritual

devotional service we must acceptthis prasadam as the Lords grace

received through the pure

devotees sanskritone who has

no faith in the prasadam of Lord

Govinda, such a person can never

get the benefits of devotional

service.


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This prasadam is very important.

The Chaitanya Caritamrita is

describing the nature of this

prasadam and is saying that

actually Krishna has personally

taken this prasadam and .put it

back on the plate, it doesnt say

that in caitanya caritamrita but

elsewhere it is described.

Krishna has personally tasted itand touched it with his lips and

therefore this prasadam is now

different, it is what was ordinary

foodstuff that has become

transformed, it is now really

spiritually potent and because

whatever is spiritual is fully

surcharged with the potency of

Krishna and automatically makesone attached to Krishna, the

prasadam makes us attached to

Krishna. So it is very wonderful,

so it is a very important thing, of

course we must share prasadam

with the vaishnavas, again, maybenot just keep it for ourselves but

give, give, giving is a big thing.

Some people give away prasadam,

very nice, I got some today, it

was nice. Srila Prabhupada writes

even in normal social activities

these six types of dealings

between two loving friends are

absolutely necessary for instancethis man wishes to contact another

business man he arranges a feast

in a hotel and over the feast

openly expresses what he wishes

to do.

He then enquires through his

business friend how he should act,

sometimes presents are

exchanged. Thus whenever there

is a dealing of priti or love thesesix activities are executed, yes, so

that is also important how Srila

Prabhupada explaining that these

activities are characteristics of

love and how we have to learn

we just dont know, we just come

from these material relationships

where we are like dogs right

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not interested leave me alone and

so on and different barks and very

envious not at all appreciative of

each other. The what are so called

normal relationships are envious

relationships and everyone isthinking about everyone, oh

whos that guy oh whos that and

the whole world is just thinking

huh this ones that and so on

that ones this and people are

full of distrust and so on. So

amongst vaishnavas that gradually

has to disappear, in the previous

verse Srila Rupa Goswami has

advised that one should

renonunce, worldly association

and keep company with the

devotees.sanskirt

The International Society of

Krishna Consciousness has been

established to facilitate six kinds

of loving exchanges between the

devotees and so thats veryimportant that we just try to really

change our mood in this

movement. So its a big challenge

to live together and be together.

Somehow or other Hare Krishna

temples are, what shall I say, they

are extraordinary, thats one word,

for it, in all respects they are non

different to the spiritual world,they are always, they are bit

chaotic, they are full, there are

people, many times lots of people

doing all types of things in a small

space relatively, just squeeze

together on a floor, eating, so

many things are going on and its

all happening around the

Prasadam just like big time

events. So many things are there

but the most wonderful thing is

when the devotees are actually

very kind and gentle, so we have

to become kind and gentle, we

have to practise and be generous.
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When Srila Prabhupada started

what he called the Sunday love

feast it was a fifteen course feast,

fifteen preparations and each

preparation was special and evenin the late 70s and early 80s it was

like that and somewhere on the

line it changed and became less

and less, but it was fifteen

preparations they would cook,

start cooking Saturday. Saturday

they would start doing the sweets

and the whole thing Sunday doing

the rest and the big thing, big bigfeast every Sunday for free, so it

represents the mood of the

vaishnava who gives causeless

mercy, causeless mercy, causeless

mercy means you get so much and

you wonder I didnt really deserve

all that, and theyre giving all this

and they are not even charging,

thats how it should be actually,

there should be an exchange with

that mood and we see Srila

Prabhupada was there, thats how

it was very great generosity and

that is how this movement will

conquer. We will conquer by

extraordinary generosity that is

the nature of Lord Chaitanya,

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