Stop playing God!

[melvin]

 

" Stop playing God!", was the Voice that

I heard, unexpectedly when I took my regu-

lar afternoon bath yesterday, Nov. 7, 2000,

around 3:15 pm, Asia-Pacific time.

It was a command which made me realize

the futility of playing the role of God, as

if having the illusion that one is empowered

to do only God, in His transcendence, can

accomplish without much ado. Thus, in the

final analysis, in accepting that I am not

God is a step towards realizing the Divine.

Hiranyakasipu, a demon, thought he was God

and therefore more powerful than Krishna,

but at the last moment of his life, when he

attempted to kill his son, Prahlada, for be-

ing a devotee of God, demon Hiranyakasipu

was killed by Lord Nrsimha, the half-man,

half-lion incarnation of God with His sharp

nails. To consider therefore himself as God

is demon-Hiranyakasipu`s nature.

 

Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare

Krishna movement, didn`t consider himself as

God. So was Srila`s spiritual master, Bhak-

tisiddhanta Saravasti Guru Maharaja, and the

great spiritual masters like Bhaktivinoda

Thakur and Hari Dasa Thakur, who are Hare

Krishna devotees of Lord Chaitanya, the gol-

den Avatar-incarnation of God in the Age of

Kaliyuga.

Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, although,

He was God didn`t even consider Himself

that way, claiming to His pure-devotees that

He is the most insignificant, like a straw,

eternal servitor of Sri Krishna, the Supreme

Personality of Godhead.

In other words, there is only one God, and

He is Krishna, the primeval Lord whose name

is Govinda, the greatest Lover and Cowherder

of the Surabhi cows in Goloka Vrndavan. He

is present in this web site`s E-mail.

That is what I meant of the www.harekrishna.

com article I wrote which if handled with

care and devotion can accomplish the mission

of the Hare Krishna movement.

 

May the Lord in His Vasudeva form give His

full support on this wonderful Science of

attracting everyone in Transcendence, making

everyone want to go back home, back to God.

 

Hare Krishna!

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[viji_53]

GOD says O man kind, I bind you together towards one objective- the welfare of man. Join together with mutual love and goodwill. May you all share the comforts of life equally. May you accomplish your work with mutual accord and finally may you, in the pursuit of your ambitions at all time, engage in working together with good will.

May our inward thoughts conform to our outward actions. Carefully observe the ways of those that are virtuous and righteous. Follow the path laid down by our sages. This path will lead to happiness and heavenly bliss.

From Atharvana Veda

Hari Bhol!

 

 

 

[melvin]

 

King Pracinabharisat was advised by Narada

Muni to stop using his body for sense gra-

tification but instead engage it for Krsna`s

satisfaction. Narada knew the King`s disease

and how it could be eased. Narada Muni had

the prescription and it was only up to the

King to administer it on himself. Devotees

of Krsna, like Narada, have no other busi-

ness why he visits a householder or a King

because his only concern is to remind them

to go home, back to God, Krsna. Sri Narada

is not visiting us for the money.

 

 

Hare Krishna!

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