Krishna says “
whoever remembers Me, they come back to me
”. But Prabhupada He was already perfect spiritual,He has already achieved that success and that off course is a very rare situation, but it is so much inspiringto be with Him, He was constantly guiding us how we could achieve Krishna.I remember once when he arrived in Mayapur, we are here in Bombay and the other side of the country isCalcutta and north of Calcutta there is spiritual pilgrimage site called Mayapur.So how many of you have been to Mayapur? (yatra or what and may be 1/8
th
but many not).So Prabhupada when he arrived after His Journey, from wherever He had come from around the world, Hecame and saw the deities, he gave us class and went up to the room and take a sip of water, he would drinkwithout touching and then He said
‘Ah!Mayapur”
and then said
“living or dying in Mayapur is all the same”
and that was like what it means of live and die is one and the same, that seems to contradict some basic facts of life we take for granted, thenHe explained that
“to live in Mayapur, Mayapur is an extension of the Spiritual World , that we are living inspiritual world and When we die here (Mäyäpur) we go back to the spiritual world!”
So live or die here , youlive here in the spiritual world or die and go back to spiritual world so all of it is victory all the same. ‘So one of the thing recommended is the holy place but that is not possible for everyone, students, people areworking how many can live in a holy place so temple is like a holy place, extension of Vrindavan andMayapur where they can make their own living place as spiritual abode have deities, chant the holy names
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna HareHare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Like sometimes people get bonus special mercy they didn’t even know it,That’s a puranic history about a beautiful young lady, who has married to a young successful businessman,seems he may be he was only in about his early 30’s. Somehow he got very serious asthma and because of the asthma attack he died. So this lady who had a nice husband, wealth, everything, suddenly she was awidow no husband, she is feeling very alone very despondent. So this story says that history says that shebecame lonely and she started to go out with men. She was a widow then her father in law said look we haveunmarried daughters in our family you are a daughter in law, if you want stay here we are quite happy butyou have to follow strictly the rules, the morality. If you are going out with man then they will think all ourdaughters are like that, no one will come to marry our daughters, better you live separate may be your ownlife.So these things are happening even in the puranic time, she decide d to move out. She build a cottage at theside of the town, she was famous type of little bit of loose lady, somehow some man visited her and he had aparrot and this parrot only could chant, talked, the parrot talk some times this parrot talked but the onlything that he could say was
“
rama
” “
rama
” “
rama
” “
rama
”!!! so the lady
she was also replied as she onlyhad the parrot as she was alone and she had the friend the parrot so they had only one word vocabulary soshe was chanting
”
rama
” “
rama
” “
rama
”(you chant like a parrot someone!!)‘
rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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.So her life is going on everyday chanting
‘
rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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and the parrot also chanting
‘
rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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rama
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.So she actually became attached, this was not like the Ajamila.
B
ut this was little different as she actuallydeveloped an attachment for chanting the holy name and everyday she might be chanting so many time thenames of Rama.One day there was a huge storm and there was lightning that hit the house and she and the parrot died. Sofew destinations you can have after. And there is messengers who come from spiritual world are called
visnudutas
, if you are going to go to
visnuloka
there is
eternal life, no rebirth no old age no disease
you havea spiritual body considering one of the ways of the winning the game of life, if we get back to godhead.But normally we have to practice the whole life before, be focused
Jai Radha Gopinath ki jai!
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