Tirisilex Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 I've been listening to Hare Krishna Radio online. They were saying "If you like to cook. Cook for Krishna. If you like to do business. Do business for Krishna." When I was a Buddhist I was taught that I can help people, heal people,teach people.. for the Buddha but I dont have to preach the Buddha to do it. Is this same with Krishna? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhakta Don Muntean Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 I've been listening to Hare Krishna Radio online. They were saying "If you like to cook. Cook for Krishna. If you like to do business. Do business for Krishna." When I was a Buddhist I was taught that I can help people, heal people,teach people.. for the Buddha but I dont have to preach the Buddha to do it. Is this same with Krishna? Certainly! You can teach math or lit [or whatever the course is] for God. O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me. [bG 9.27] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gHari Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 SrIla PrabhupAda: That is my mission. People should understand the science of God. Unless we cooperate with the Supreme Lord, our life is baffled. I have given the example many times that a screw which has fallen from a machine has no value. But when the same screw is again attached to the machine, it has value. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God. So without God, what is our value? No value! We should again come back to our position of attachment to God. Then we have value. The following is the Invocation to the Sri Isopanisad (listen while read: Audio): <center> oM pUrNam adaH pUrNam idaM pUrNAt pUrNam udacyate pUrNasya pUrNam AdAya pUrNam evAvaziSyate </center> oM--the Complete Whole; pUrNam--perfectly complete; adaH--that; pUrNam--perfectly complete; idam--this phenomenal world; pUrNAt--from the all-perfect; pUrNam--complete unit; udacyate--is produced; pUrNasya--of the Complete Whole; pUrNam--completely, all; AdAya--having been taken away; pUrNam--the complete balance; eva--even; avaziSyate--is remaining. The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance. PURPORT The Complete Whole, or the Supreme Absolute Truth, is the complete Personality of Godhead. Realization of impersonal Brahman or of ParamAtmA, the Supersoul, is incomplete realization of the Absolute Complete. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is sac-cid-Ananda-vigraha [bs. 5.1]. Realization of impersonal Brahman is realization of His sat feature, or His aspect of eternity, and ParamAtmA realization is realization of His sat and cit features, His aspects of eternity and knowledge. But realization of the Personality of Godhead is realization of all the transcendental features--sat, cit and Ananda, bliss. When one realizes the Supreme Person, he realizes these aspects of the Absolute Truth in their completeness. Vigraha means "form." Thus the Complete Whole is not formless. If He were formless, or if He were less than His creation in any other way, He could not be complete. The Complete Whole must contain everything both within and beyond our experience; otherwise He cannot be complete. The Complete Whole, the Personality of Godhead, has immense potencies, all of which are as complete as He is. Thus this phenomenal world is also complete in itself. The twenty-four elements of which this material universe is a temporary manifestation are arranged to produce everything necessary for the maintenance and subsistence of this universe. No other unit in the universe need make an extraneous effort to try to maintain the universe. The universe functions on its own time scale, which is fixed by the energy of the Complete Whole, and when that schedule is completed, this temporary manifestation will be annihilated by the complete arrangement of the Complete Whole. All facilities are given to the small complete units (namely the living beings) to enable them to realize the Complete Whole. All forms of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete knowledge of the Complete Whole. The human form of life is a complete manifestation of the consciousness of the living being, and it is obtained after evolving through 8,400,000 species of life in the cycle of birth and death. If in this human life of full consciousness the living entity does not realize his completeness in relation to the Complete Whole, he loses the chance to realize his completeness and is again put into the evolutionary cycle by the law of material nature. Because we do not know that there is a complete arrangement in nature for our maintenance, we make efforts to utilize the resources of nature to create a so-called complete life of sense enjoyment. Because the living entity cannot enjoy the life of the senses without being dovetailed with the Complete Whole, the misleading life of sense enjoyment is illusion. The hand of a body is a complete unit only as long as it is attached to the complete body. When the hand is severed from the body, it may appear like a hand, but it actually has none of the potencies of a hand. Similarly, living beings are part and parcel of the Complete Whole, and if they are severed from the Complete Whole, the illusory representation of completeness cannot fully satisfy them. The completeness of human life can be realized only when one engages in the service of the Complete Whole. All services in this world--whether social, political, communal, international or even interplanetary--will remain incomplete until they are dovetailed with the Complete Whole. When everything is dovetailed with the Complete Whole, the attached parts and parcels also become complete in themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 I've been listening to Hare Krishna Radio online. They were saying "If you like to cook. Cook for Krishna. If you like to do business. Do business for Krishna." When I was a Buddhist I was taught that I can help people, heal people,teach people.. for the Buddha but I dont have to preach the Buddha to do it. Is this same with Krishna? Hari OM You always "work" to satisfy your ego and never succeed in that. To break from this slavery, probably the best possible alternative, is to work for Krishna, the work which Gita promises will ultimately liberate you. But how to work for Krishna, you can't see him and he is so transcandental that and he probably does not need any service of yours So is this a paradox that you get liberated only when you work for Krishna , but you can work for Krishna only after really understanding him? No, the Manu dharma, says that working for His creation is the same as working for Him, due to his non-dualistic nature. However His creation is so vast that you feel insignificant and helpless to work for it. So it says you can work for a part of it, which part? the part which you are more comfortable with--- that is your family, relatives, community, village, country, etc., This was practised for 1000s of years and still probably being practised in many parts of the world, and hence we say "dharma" is still prevalent in most parts of the world. Gita goes one step further and says, you work not thinking this is "my country" , "my religion", "my family" and expect some rewards in return for working. Rather you think you are working for a family which is "His creation", a country which is "His creation", etc., and thank Him for giving you an opportunity to serve His creation. All your karma, bondage, ego, miseries, fear, insecurity, .... will be blasted like anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shuvo Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 I've been listening to Hare Krishna Radio online. They were saying "If you like to cook. Cook for Krishna. If you like to do business. Do business for Krishna." When I was a Buddhist I was taught that I can help people, heal people,teach people.. for the Buddha but I dont have to preach the Buddha to do it. Is this same with Krishna? Namaskar, When you do any thing, you should keep your mind in Lord Krishna. Whatever you do, you should first take the name of Krishna. Your every work should involve Krishna and Krishna should always be in your mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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