Accept what is favorable & reject what is unfavorable …..………......Nectarean Mellows

September 30, 2009

“G u r u m u k h a p a d m a v a k y a "

Srila Rupa Goswami has given us a simple instruction that we should accept everything that is favorable to devotional service and we should reject anything that is unfavorable to devotional service and this simple explanation of surrender is really all we require to know to understand what to do, how to do it, in every situation of life. The philosophy of Krsna consciousness is meant to give us an understanding of who is Krsna, what is the soul, what is material nature, what is the karmic conditioning of this material nature, how we are being influenced by time and how to get out of the clutches of suffering, how to reunite with our original spiritual relationship with Bhagavan, Krsna. And the formula is this, to accept what is favorable for devotional service and reject what is unfavorable for devotional service. Devotional service means to please Krsna through our efforts; and maya means to do anything, to speak anything without the desire to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj-- At the present moment our minds are polluted with the dirt accumulated over millions and millions of lifetimes of sense gratification. Even though our original pure nature is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss, due to our mental contamination we are presently suffering in the realm of temporality, ignorance, and misery. By the purificatory process of chanting the holy names of God we can revive our original, pure nature and thus relish the sweetest happiness at every minute.

Chant:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare