Appreciate the Beauty of Krishna's Creation
Lord Sri Krishna has blessed each and every one of us with a beautiful, wonderful existence. But the difficulty is that instead our showing our appreciation by lovingly engaging everything in His service we try to enjoy it separately completely turning our back on Him. Thus we make ugly that which is actually unlimitedly beautiful. This is our gross foolishness. It's time we wise up and again engage everything in His service. If we can do this, the whole world will gain its original, natural beauty. The difficulty is that being overwhelmed by greed hardly anyone wants to do this, and thus we continue to make our world uglier and uglier with each passing year.
Goeran Holm
My Dear Goeran,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Serving the spiritual master means doing whatever he instructs you to do without any concoctions. In this connection Srila Prabhupada has wonderfully stated as follows:
Service means you must take order from the master. That is service. Otherwise it is mental concoction. Actually, the servant requests, "How can I serve you?" So when the master orders, "You serve me like this," then you do that, that is service. And if you manufacture your service, that is not service. That is your sense gratification. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. You have to see how he is pleased. Now if he wants a glass of water and if you bring a nice glass of milk, you can say milk is better than water, you take it. That is not service. He wants water, you give him water. Don't manufacture better thing. Just like Krishna wanted Arjuna to fight, and he became a nonviolent saint, "No, Krishna, I'll not fight." That is disobedience. Krishna says fight, you must fight. Don't bring philosophy of nonviolence. That is nonsense. What He says, do it. That is service. That he did later on. Sometimes they misunderstand Bhagavad-gita, that Arjuna is not willing to fight and Krishna is inducing him to fight. They misunderstand that Arjuna is better than Krsna. But that's not the fact. What Krishna says, we have to execute that. We should not manufacture our own ideas. That is not service.
I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Question: How Can I Serve You?
How can I serve you?Goeran Holm
Answer: Follow Instructions and Do Not Concoct
From: Helsinki, FinlandMy Dear Goeran,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Serving the spiritual master means doing whatever he instructs you to do without any concoctions. In this connection Srila Prabhupada has wonderfully stated as follows:
Service means you must take order from the master. That is service. Otherwise it is mental concoction. Actually, the servant requests, "How can I serve you?" So when the master orders, "You serve me like this," then you do that, that is service. And if you manufacture your service, that is not service. That is your sense gratification. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. You have to see how he is pleased. Now if he wants a glass of water and if you bring a nice glass of milk, you can say milk is better than water, you take it. That is not service. He wants water, you give him water. Don't manufacture better thing. Just like Krishna wanted Arjuna to fight, and he became a nonviolent saint, "No, Krishna, I'll not fight." That is disobedience. Krishna says fight, you must fight. Don't bring philosophy of nonviolence. That is nonsense. What He says, do it. That is service. That he did later on. Sometimes they misunderstand Bhagavad-gita, that Arjuna is not willing to fight and Krishna is inducing him to fight. They misunderstand that Arjuna is better than Krsna. But that's not the fact. What Krishna says, we have to execute that. We should not manufacture our own ideas. That is not service.
I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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