Chant Hare Krishna and be happy 1st January 2020

1 January 2020

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy

In the japa talk I share a few things from my heart and not my mind. Today there were greetings in the chat session about a Happy New Year. I also wish you a Happy New Year. Devotees in ISKCON Noida started the New Year with mangala arati darsana of Radha Govind. It's great if you can come for mangala arati daily.

We take new year resolutions. I had to say something. We just don't greet with a Happy New Year. But we also tell how you can be happy in the New Year. It's not that you drink wine in the new year. Just greetings won't work. You have to tell them how can they be happy on behalf of Lord Caitanya. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy. This message is given by Hare Krishna devotees. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy.

They won't understand when we just say this. We have to explain a little more. How to chant? Why to just chant Hare Krishna? We say we become happy by chanting Hare Krishna? Has anyone become happy by chanting Hare Krishna? We have to tell them something from the scriptures. Krsna is like the sun and Maya is darkness.

Krsna is not just like a single sun, but millions of suns together. Wherever there is Krsna, Maya has nothing to do over there. As soon as we have light, darkness immediately vanishes. Wherever there is light, darkness can't stay.

One more year has passed away. You can think how it has passed away. Srimad Bhagavatam states that our lifetime is stolen by every day and night. Our life reduces every day. But if one is engaged in glorifying the Supreme Lord then he actually has not wasted his lifetime. We don't want to waste our lifetime. To do so we have to discuss the glories of the Lord, remember Him and render devotional service. Such people make the best use of time, not waste it. Krsna is like the sun.

As you sleep, you lose yourself. The Lord says in Bhagavata-Gita that ‘I am time’. Worldly people may say something different. They say time is money. They think that if you don't use time in earning money then it is wasted. Devotees engage their time in earning Krsna.

The wealth you have earned is to be used for dharma.We have to stay with time. It means we have to stay with Krsna. Time is Krsna. We have to stay with Krsna, not behind Him. Krsna is the sun, the light, Maya is darkness. If we are sitting in an aeroplane which is flying at 25000 kph around the globe then if we go in a Western direction at this speed what will you experience?From Singapore to US, back to Tokyo. If we complete this circulation within 24 hours starting our flight at 12 pm.Then we will experience that at every place time it will be 12 pm. Wherever 12 pm is there, there will be afternoon not night. You will always be with the sun and no darkness. You will be going with the sun.

So in same way, we can remain with Krsna by glorifying Him, offering everything to Him all the time. In this way, we can stay with Krsna, remembering Him. Srila Prabhupada has asked us to remember Krsna 24 hours a day. Why not 25 hours? How ever many hours you have, for all those hours you remember Krsna. If we do so then our New Year will be happy.