[Nectar] Krishna's House

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"Do not think, 'This is my house,'" I recently wrote to a disciple.

"You should always think, 'This is Krishna's house, and I am living

here as a servant.'"

 

I hit the key and sent off the e-mail. Then I began to reflect on what

I had just written. "Why don't you take your own advice?" I asked

myself.

 

I got up and walked into the living room of my apartment and looked out

the window at the awful city around me-the smokestacks and the dirty,

gray apartment buildings.

 

"This is not my house," I said to myself. "It is Krishna's house. It is

Prabhupada's house, and I am living here as a servant. I have to use

everything in this house the way Srila Prabhupada would want me to."

 

Suddenly I felt as if I were in Vrindavan. The big window seemed to

become an open veranda and the ugly, drab city turned into the trees

and grass of Vraja Dham.

 

I still knew where I was, of course, and I could still see the

smokestacks, but now Vrindavan was just a thought away.

 

"It's so easy," I said to myself. "Just see what a thought can do. Now

I have to try living it."

 

© Umapati Swami, January 16, 2007

 

 

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