Maharaja, please bless me 20th Feb

We had 316 participants today. We have two Bhuvaikuntha BACE’s , one in Pune and other in Pandharpur. Devotees from both these places are chanting with us. Padayatra India have joined from somewhere in Central India. They always complain about not getting my association. But now most of the mornings they are chanting with us. I think I am with them and they are with me. I visit Russia once in 2 – 3 years. But now daily they are getting my association. There are around 40 devotees from Russia and Ukraine chanting with us. So continue chanting with us. “ Let’s chant together” is the theme of this conference. Keep chanting.

Several of you are writing , “ Maharaj please bless me.” I was thinking, you are getting my association, as well as of so many devotees. Isn’t that a blessing? We have the mahamantra, the best mantra, Hare Krishna mahamantra. Isn’t that a blessing? What more blessings do you wish to get. ‘Please bless me , please bless me.’ You are already blessed due to all these. So keep chanting. As I participate in this conference, my own chanting slows down. I am taking your darsana, trying to keep an eye on you. I see some of you yawning and very tired. So I have to inquire, ‘ Are you tired?’ As I pay attention to who is chanting and how they are chanting. In this process my chanting kind of slows down. There are some sacrifices for me, but I don’t mind. I am doing this for your benefit. To give you association or to give you a boost in your chanting. Also as I said, when I see hundreds of you chanting, this is like a ‘Virat-rupa’ – Universal form. So I see you all devotees, but I was wondering ‘Where is Krsna? Where is Krsna?’ and then suddenly Krsna appeared on the screen.

Guru Maharaja responded, ‘ Not this! Vaikuntha-Nayaka is not Krsna. Not this, As King Pariksit was looking at different personalities around him, thinking – Where is that Supreme personality of Godhead whom he saw in the womb of his mother. I want to see him again. He was examining and eliminating Not this! Not this personality whom I had seen. So I was wondering this morning , ‘ Where is Krsna?’ These are devotees, fine, I am happy, but ‘Where is Krsna?’ Then suddenly somebody started showing their altar and Deities. This happens rarely and it happened today. Immediately I was at their altar, taking darsana of Laddu Gopal and other Deities. I found my Krsna whom I was looking for. Then I also had thoughts. The Krsna I am looking for and you are also supposed to be looking for is with us, as we as we chant

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Ram Ram Hare Hare.

So my question should also be your question, ‘ I am seeing devotees, that’s fine, but where is Krsna? This ‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna’ , which you are chanting and I am chanting, and everyone of us is chanting is – ‘Krsna’. Krsna is with us. Krsna is here. As he has also promised or declared ,- na aham vasami vaikunthe na ca yoginam hrudayeshu va , yatra gayanti madbhaktaha tatra tisthami naradaha. ( Conversation between Narada and Visnu) Sometimes you may not find me in Vaikuntha or in the hearts of Yogis, but I am certainly there where devotees are chanting my glories or ‘Hare Krishna’. So we had to realize, where is Krsna? – Hare Krishna Hare Krishna is Krishna. You don’t have to go very far to look for Krsna. Chant ‘Hare Krishna’ and hear that. Then try to realize that, this ‘Hare Krishna’ is Radha and Krsna. That is the whole exercise of chanting, to realize this abhinnatva -abhinnatvat nam namino. ( CC Madhya 17.133) The name of the Lord and Lord are non different. We have to understand the statement that the Lord and his names are non different. It is acintya(inconceivable) . But through cintan which is also mananam which is also hearing and smaranam (remembrance). So through this smaranam, cintanam, mananam and chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra bring the name to your mind. Japa means mananam. Reach out to the soul in fully spiritualized or Krsnaised state of mind Ceto darpan marjanam ( Siksastakam verse 1) takes place. Mind is part of cetana.

Mind, intelligence and false ego remain no more. Only real eternal ego remains, aham dasosmi – I am spirit soul. So this is the cetana. No more mundane mind and no more mundane intelligence. Dadami buddhiyogam tam yen mamupayanti te.( BG. 10.10) Lord gives divine intelligence by intervention. Divine way of discriminating and sorting out. This is Krsna. All this mind, intelligence and ego which we call subtle body. Then – machhitaha madgat pranaha bodhayantaha parasparam ( BG. 10.9) Then that citta or consciousness and intelligence, your self gets glued to the lotus Feet of Lord, the whole form of the Lord. The name, form, pastimes and qualities are non-different. Form is non-different from qualities which are non-different from, pastmes and like that. Paraphernalia and associates all become one entity through purified consciousness as ceto darpana marjanam takes place.

We are part of that spiritual world. We are no more in Noida or New York. As Prabhupada would say I am not in Europe. He was thinking of Radha Damodar in Vrindavan. So ‘Where is Krsna? The answer is ‘Hare Krishna’ is Krsna. The holy name , Harinama is Harinama Prabhu. He is a person.

This is a forum we have provided. We asked you to write your comments, questions, and realizations. and we try to address and have a dialogue. Some of you have to leave early, as temple programs start as I can see Nagpur devotees getting up. But these talks are getting transcribed, so you can always revisit, read and contemplate further. So keep chanting and omplete your 16 rounds every day. You can always chant More. We say kirtaniya sada hari which includes chanting more.
HARE KRISHNA!