The Key

[bija]

"The key to it all"

by BR Sridhara Maharaja

 

This Nabadwip Dham, on the banks of the Ganges, has such great value, especially for the realisation

of our highest self, as recommended by Sriman Mahaprabhu. It is the land of love, sweetness,

charm and beauty – all are synonymous. It is heart –capturing. Our real existence is neither

in our knowledge nor our power, but in our heart. Really, our proper identification is with our

heart. So, in which direction our heart is moving, that is the all-important factor in our life. It is a

heart-transaction.

Mahaprabhu recommended: “Don’t rely on your knowledge, reasoning capacity, or power, but

the heart-transaction is all-important in you. The inner factor of your existence is in your heart.

So try to guide your heart towards sweetness – towards home. And your real home is not here

where we are wandering around with no certainty throughout eight million four hundred thousand

species according to our karmma. But only in the human birth, with the help of the Divine

Agent, can we go back to our home: to home and affection.”

Home is there, where the environment will take care of us, our fortune, and our comfort, independent

of our consideration. The affectionate paraphernalia there will help us very affectionately and

lovingly. So we should make good use of this opportunity to go back to God, back to home, our

sweet, sweet home.

Mahaprabhu recommended the path: “With the help of the Divine Agent and the revealed Scriptures,

try to go there yourself. Your present position is uncertain. After death it is not fixed where

you will be carried by the current of your previous karmma, therefore try to utilise for the best

whatever time is available before your death. You have free-will, therefore those days before

your death are to some degree in your hand to use, so that time you must utilise with the utmost

care for God-realisation.” There is nothing so important as this for all of us.

The advice in common for us all is: “Give up all your duties and jump into the one duty, to go back

home. There everything is full and complete, and everyone will look after your real interest. So you

must go there: back to God, back to home.”

 

The Maha-Mantra and its glories

The Supreme Mantra of the Holy Name of the Supreme Lord –

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

 

The Glories of the Holy Name –

harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam

kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha

The Holy Name, the Holy Name, the Holy Name alone – in this age of Kali there is no other

shelter, no other shelter, no other shelter.

(Brhan-Naradiya-Purana)

 

kaler dosa-nidhe rajannasti hy eko mahan gunah

kirttanad evy krsnasya mukta-bandhah param vrajet

O King, this age of Kali is a reservoir of wrong, yet it has but one glorious quality; in this age,

simply by chanting the Glories of Sri Krsna, the soul is freed from the bondage of Maya and attains

the shelter of the Lord Himself.

(Srimad-Bhagavatam 12.3.51)