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NECTAR OF INSTRUCTIONVS 4 02/2007

KKS

DAILY TEN MINUTE

NECTAR+

08/10/08

That is Lord Chaitanyas particular approach, extraordinarygenerosity. So this is the

underlying principle of this wholeverse, most magnanimous

generosity of Sri ChaitanyaMahaprabhu, that is theunderlying principle that in allareas one has to give, one has to

give in charity one has to youknow receive in charity, thatmeans appreciative, oh hownice (Maharaja enthusiastically

speaks) ..( Maharaja now pessimistically speaks) oh you both those, oh god.no.. Ohnice you brought shoes(Maharajaenthusiastically says) Oh very

nice, they are so niceappreciate. Appreciate the goodintentions of someone then alsowear it, wear that out of reciprocation, this is all part of generosity of reciprocating andappreciating, allowing others toenter in ones life and appreciatingthem, that is all part of beinggenerous, generosity is there inreceiving, if one is also receivingin appreciation, real appreciationand trying to appreciate that isgenerosity, if you receive in amiserly way and you think well,You could have asked me firstwhat I like You know I meanyou just give me somethingwithout asking, what is this thatsmiserly, generosity means to notaccept like that so therefore theunderlying principle is this MahaVadanyaya beingmagnanimous, verymagnanimous, magnanimousreveal our mind in confidence,trust, we are generous we aretrusting yes ok Oh Ill show my

weakness, yes, and Ill try andtake your advice, like this, this


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spirit of being very magnanimousis in the foreground, LordChaitanyas Movement is like that, it conquers from person to

person, it is a movement that, itsnot spreading in numbers.

There was a time whennewsletters were published with

bhakta points, there were book points and bhakta points and somany bhakta points, so many new

bhaktas made and in England theyhad a whole bhakta makingmachine, they were having like

bhakta points, you got a bhakta point once someone was shavedup, shika and everything or ladiesin a sari or a tilaka and the wholething, then you got a bhakta point,very good,

but thats not really what we areafter, we have to conquer peopleshearts because this movement isgoing from person to person, it isa movement, the spreading of thesankirtana movement to everytown and village, it means byconquering the hearts of the

people in every town and villageto a point that they are feelingYeah, this is wonderful that theysay that this is an amazing thing,this devotional service , Yes, Iwant more of thisSo the success of this movementdepends on how we reach

peoples hearts and then you can

speak of real success not that people get sweeped up in some


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euphoria, you know, TheGauranga Bhajan band in former Yugoslavia they were doing bigwhen it was still Yugoslavia and

they would like swing out with arope of acrowd of 30000 peopleand spring back andweeeeeeeeeew

Hysterical and people joinedWow, this is too far out! This istoo far out swinging on the rope

but that in its self, these are stunts,you know, these are stunts thatcan also be done by some

popstars, he can also swing out onthe rope, this is not the realsubstance, yet the real substance..maybe these stunts are nice but

beyond it has to follow the realsubstance.

Its when there are lovingexchanges amongst theVaishnavas are experienced that

we decide, it solidifies, now Illstay, now Im going to do it, just

philosophical conviction alone itsnot enough, one may be

convinced by philosophy of Bhagavada Gita but still its verydifficult to live it if theres notloving exchanges of thevaishnavas so to make it possible.If the vaishnavas treat us toomean then we might be inclined totake a break, You know Imgoing to take a vacation from all

this for a while, its too much .So its our duty ifsometimesthey say many people leave thismovement because they feelmistreated, many people after some time if they leave theassociation of devotees leave

because they feel mistreated, sothey say,whether its true or not,

but they were many who felt likethat. I guess whether they weremistreated or not is not the point,maybe they just felt like that,maybe they were oversensitive.Some people you say Boo andthey like cry for three weeks, itslike what can be done, but still itis our challenge to improve, if one

person leaves we should feel thatsomewhere we failed somewherewe share the responsibility,somehow or other we didntconquer that person, somehow or other we didnt have arelationship with this person,thats one way of looking at it.Anyway these are some thoughts,maybe theoretical, and it helps to

have such thoughts in the back of ones mind. Maybe its not


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always so possible on the practical plane. Well implement that butif we keep that in our mind wemay actually be able to improve

the atmosphere because thatswhat we have, we are not themovement of the far out

buildings, even when we havesome big castle or something,most cases its pretty run down andthe doors are falling offImgoing to one tomorrow (crowd laughs) You see nice place, old

aristocratic building with a bigtower, yeah they have the moneyto fix it up. So we are not famousin that way, they are amazing

buildings in the world that are being maintained. So you can goto India to Udaipur and stay inthis palace, in this lake go withthis boat and you are there and its

just like this amazing palace, youcan just imagine you are somemaha-Raja or some maha-Rani inIndia for three days. At a topdollar and that you can do.

And there are such places whereyou can spend three months of salary in just three nights and justact as if you are rich for amoment, its possible to go to5star hotelsWe are notfamous for efficiency , sometimes

they call ISKCON anorganisation,

I dont know. Ive never noticedit, I dont know what we are butone thing is, devotees, so onething we should have, lovingexchages, that is our only credit,thats the one thing we haveotherwise if devotees are notfriendly you sort of sneak in thetemple to steal some prasadam(Crowd Laughs) then you get outof thereso we must have lovingexchanges amongst thevaishnavas.

Right, comments ..questions? Devotee asks question Maharaja You were talking about

Balance, I have a question about that, how do we know if were inbalance?Maharaja: I think that althoughwe have these three factors, thatwe have to keep it balancedI

guess we also have to assign priority to them we havemission, bhajan, personal well

being, maybe, maybe thats thereal priority because we are partof Lord Chaitanyas movementand so Lord Chaitanya desires itlike that
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so there is priority in between thethree.. personal well being as yousay it is noticeable but alsosometimes you get sick and ittakes a while to get over it and

then it can slow you downconsiderably. But alright, its truewe can easily detect our body andmind when there are needs. Ithink we should use everyday,make sure that our bhajan, I rather use the word Bhajan thansaddhana because bhajan showsmore of an element of absorbtionso sadhana means like I am doingmy duty Im doing it religiously,

but bhajan is more like you getabsorbed in hearing and chantingand in a devotional mood. If thats not there in your day, knowthat day is burning up reserves.contd tomo

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