Learn to offer respect to every living entity…….….. Nectarean Mellows

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Learn to offer respect to every living entity…….…..

Nectarean Mellows

 

Srila Prabhupada is his purport he is instructing us how we should learn to offer respect to every living entity, especially to vaisnavas who are devotees of the Lord because they are so dear to the Lord. Ultimately every one is dear to the Lord. We talk about vaisnava aparadhs that is most certainly the most serious offence that would cause Krsna to withdraw his protective potency away from you; without Krsna's protection you fall; it is nothing else that you fall, your knowledge, your strength, your fame will not protect you, only Krsna's mercy can protect you. We should respect everyone, we should respect our mother and father, the government officials, the simple sweeper of the street, even those who are alcoholics, prostitutes, meat eaters, we should respect them but we have to learn how to respect them.

Srila Prabhupada gives an example; very important, listen carefully, by hearing what Srila Prabhupada says attentively it will protect us from falling in the hands of maya. We should not read Srila Prabhupada's books ritualistically, we should really try to be awake and alert to understand what Prabhupada is telling is essential, its urgent, it is a matter of life and death to understand and apply what he is speaking

; that you must respect the spirit soul within the heart of a tiger and you must worship, not only respect but you must worship the Paramatma that is within the heart of the tiger. But because somehow or other due to some karmic influences that spirit soul, that Paramatma, is in the body of a tiger, you have to discriminate, you don't say Haribol Prabhu! Tiger Prabhu! and embrace him; if you embrace him you die. We respect from a distance. Similarly materialistic persons who are addicted to sinful activities, they are more dangerous than snakes and tigers. Caitanya Mahaprabhu said to associate with people who are too much attached to sex life and material opulence is more dangerous then living in a room that is completely enveloped by flames of fire, it is more dangerous then living in a pit of 100s of poisonous snakes, because a snake and a fire can only kill your body but they would not disturb your propensity to serve Krsna; in fact they may help you to cry out for Krsna even louder with more feeling; but associating with materialistic people destroys our propensity to do devotional service because we become like what we associate with, but yet we must offer respect to them because Krsna is in their heart. So we respect the person but we don't associate with the bad habits that the person is addicted to.

 

H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj

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-- ChantHare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare II Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare II --is the sublime method for reviving our Krsna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our asociation with matter since time immemorial, our consciousness is now poluted by material atmosphere. In this polluted concept of life, we are all trying to exploit the resources of material nature, but actually we are becoming more and more entangled in our complexities. This illusion is called Maya, or hard struggle for existence over the stringent laws of material nature. This illusory struggle against the material nature can at once be stopped by revival of our Krsna consciousness. And Be Happy