BURN THE CD OF MAYA MEMORIES

We started our japa talk earlier because it has to be ended earlier, as I have to give Bhagavatam class this morning. You are welcome to listen to it on mayapur.tv at 8.00 am. I wish to prepare for my class.

While chanting also I couldn’t control, but keep thinking of Bhagavatam verses which I have to talk about this morning. It is about Parasuram and his father Jamadagni and their pastimes. While chanting I was forced to think about those thoughts. They were not just imposed upon me, but I wanted to think and remember those pastimes so that I can share that with my audience. In fact I was praying to Harinama Prabhu to give me intelligence to reveal those pastimes more vividly, distinctly, clearly. I was kind of preoccupied thinking of that subject matter as I was chanting

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA
KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA
RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

It is time to chant and remember Krsna and pray to Krsna. Remembering Krsna is remembering His pastimes, His form. In Mangal-aarti we have darsana of Radha-Madhava and Pancatattva. Then while chanting those forms come to our mind. We think and contemplate about those forms of Radha-Madhava. We have to get them settled and etched in the memory so that They get stuck there. In part of our subtle existence there is something like smriti- patal as sastras describe patal as a screen or board. Things gets impressed or etched on that smriti patal. That smriti-patal has many,many, many wrong memories collected from birth after birth. It’s a maha storage unit. Something like an external hard drive. Sometimes the built in hard drive does not have sufficient space, so you add another external hard drive. That smriti-patal has many memories, samskaras, and what not. We keep it and keep visiting them in our day dreaming or night dreaming. So the idea is, as you chant Hare Krishna, it does -ceto darpana marjanam.

That smriti-patal could be also called a darpan or mirror. The memories of our previous lives or non-Krishna conscious activities also cover that mirror. Every time we chant Hare Krishna some cleansing or erasing is done. Wrong memories, Maya memories are being burnt. Like in a computer they burn the CD. So here also lot of burning occurs. As we chant HARE KRISHNA the forest fire of this material existence is extinguished. What we have done earlier is erased, burnt off and new data uploaded as we chant Hare Krishna. It is time to remember the name, form, pastime and devotees of Krishna. If you have heard or read this subject matter then we remember. So during the chanting of Hare Krishna we upload this new data of Krsna’s names, forms, qualities and pastimes. We try to become more and more Krishna conscious as we keep chanting. Simultaneously we erase mayavi or illusory thoughts and memories and we upload fresh ones. As we upload new ones we get rid of the old ones. It happens simultaneously.

We become attached to Krsna and there is detachment from Maya which happens instantaneously and simultaneously. By chanting the Hare Krishna mantra we clean our mindset. We fill up our minds with Krsna. This was just one of the points. This morning I was forced to remember a section of the Bhagavatam which I had to recite and share in Bhagavatam class. I was chanting and remembering, thinking of Lord Parasuram and his father, Jamadagni.

We will have to stop now. You can join again in about an hour’s time for nityam bhagavata sevaya. ( SB. 1.2.18) We chant every day, we recite Bhagavatam every day. This is our life style. We deal with the name , form, pastimes and qualities. Prabhupada also described nityam bhagavata sevaya!. He explained that there are two types of Bhagavat – book Bhagavat and person Bhagavat. We serve both book and person by reading and studying as well as a pure devotee who is a mahabhagavat. We stay busy in assisting Prabhupad’s ISKCON, propagate it. That is also serving Bhagavatam. We recite Bhagavatam in morning, chant Hare Krishna in the morning. Then you serve the holy name and holy Bhagavatam differently all day long, by doing yare dakho tare kaho krsna upadesh. (CC Madhya 7.128) By distributing Srila Prabhupad’s books in various ways we share Krsna with others and try to stay busy 24 hours a day. Prabhupada would say that our goal is to stay busy 24 hours a day and stay away from Maya. All day serve Lord and keep Maya at a distance.

Hare Krishna!