KRISHNA-KATHA: Perfecting Ourselves & Others

September 21, 2007

OM NAMO NARAYANAYA QUOTE Nonviolence is generally taken to mean not killing or destroying the body, but actually nonviolence means not to put others into distress. People in general are trapped by ignorance in the material concept of life, and they perpetually suffer material pains. So unless one elevates people to spiritual knowledge, one is practicing violence. One should try his best to distribute real knowledge to the people, so that they may become enlightened and leave this material entanglement. That is

nonviolence. - Purport, Bhagavad-gita 13.8-12 KRISHNA-KATHA: Perfecting Ourselves & Others There was a millionaire who was suffering with severe eye pain. He consulted many physicians,

consumed various medicines, but the pain remained. At last a monk, who was expert in treating such patients, was called for by the millionaire. The monk understood the problem and instructed that for sometime the millionaire should concentrate only on green colour; and avoid seeing any other colour. The millionaire immediately employed a group of painters, purchased barrels of green paint and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall upon be painted green just as the monk had directed. When the monk came to visit him after a few days, the millionaire's servants ran with buckets of green paint and emptied it on the

sage. Seeing this, the monk smiled and said, "If only you had purchased a pair of green spectacles, worth just a few rupees, you could have saved these walls, furniture, jewels and other articles; and also saved a large fortune. It is childish to think that you can paint the whole world green." Let us change our vision. It is foolish to shape the world, let us shape ourselves first." Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction is that you can improve the welfare of others

when your own life is a success: bharata-bhumite haila manushya-janma yarajanma sarthaka kari' kara para-upakara[Cc. Adi 9.41] First make your life perfect. Then try to teach others. Lord Chaitanya has given the greatest boon: in this age one simply has to chant the holy name of God to attain perfection in spiritual

life. Radhe Shyam, Arun

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