We've Got to Get this Message Through to the World Society

17 April 2008--I am now here in the Budapest airport on a stopover on our way from Bulgaria to Romania. The material world is going on all around me. Airplanes are landing and taking off. People are coming and going. It's business as usual as the world civilization caught up in false identification with the material body goes about its normal daily activities of sense gratification trying to squeeze enjoyment out of the hard rock of material existence. If they only knew who they actually are beyond their temporary bodies and that they can enjoy an eternal existence of ever-expanding bliss and knowledge, what an astoundingly different and wonderful place this world would be. Somehow or other we have to get this message through to them loud and clear.

In this connection I was very pleased when my disciples sang a kirtan in the airport this morning as we were departing from Sofia. So many souls who happened to be the airport were blessed with Lord Caitanya's mercy in the form of Hare Krishna kirtan. The more we hold kirtan in the public, the more the entire world will become transformed. Simply by wide scale public kirtan this entire planet will be gradually transformed into a paradise.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Final Kirtan at Sofia, Bulgaria AirportSankarshan Das' Final Kirtan at Sofia, Bulgaria Airport

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Distractions While Chanting

Whenever I want to meditate on the Hare Krishna mantra, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krsihna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare", I cannot concentrate. There are always a lot of images, past memories, yawning, sleepiness, and disturbance. How can I get rid of all this annoyance and get on with my meditation?

Please help.

Devaraj

Answer: Train Your Mind

The mind is like a naughty little child that wants to go running here and there all over the place. Just as we gradually train a naughty child how to behave properly, you simply have to grab your immature mind and fix it on the sound of Krishna's name. Do this again and again yet again until the mind learns the art of how to take complete shelter of the Lord's name. This technique is confirmed as follows in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita:

yato yato niścalati
manaś cañcalam asthiram
tatas tato niyamyaitad
ātmany eva vaśaḿ nayet

"From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the self."
Bhagavad-gita 6.26

If you are feeling sleepy, stand up. If you are still feeling sleepy, pace back and forth.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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