Today we have got association of vilasa vigraha prabhu in our hostel who has post graduated from IIT guwahati and worked for TEjas networks for two years, now for last five years he changed his job and is working as full time devotee for Iskcon Bangalore.
Last yesterday night and today morning we were very fortunate to have association of vilasa vigraha prabhu in folk hostel btm, we all are feeling enlightened to receive nectar of spiritual instructions coming out of prabhu's mouth and I am very fortunate to have this opportunity of posting it in whatever small amount my tiny mind could receive -
Prabhu talked about mainly two topics:
1. The difference in nature of material happiness and spiritual happiness using instructions given in BhagwadGita.
2. The two C that can only enable us to taste that transcendental happiness which is only possible to attain in human form of life only.
The following acronym prabhu used to explain material happiness- PARIS
P - pain. Material happiness have its side effects in form of pain. Like if we eat a palatable dish too much then we have to suffer from indigestion.
A - addictive . The more we indulge in material enjoyment the more we hanker for it and because of the P (pain) it results in a prolong misery.
R - Risky. Yes because we are spirit soul and body is simply a machine given by material nature based on our karma and desires so we should be very cautious to know what kind of body we are going to get in next life and then work towards achieving not simply wasting our time in animalistic life of sleeping, eating, mating and defending. So, because these fruitive activities create a different types of karma and hence it is simply enjoying materially is too risky as depending on the karma we may get different variety of bodies in next life which we may not like.
I- illusory. Actually material happiness is considered as a drop in terms of quantity in comparison to the ever increasing oceanic nature of spiritual happiness. But since we wanted to enjoy this drop only so god had to do some trick inside our mind to amplify our perception of that happiness. So it is out of illusion only we hope of being extremely happy we hanker for it and this chasing pleasure is what is running this material world.
S - stale. Material happiness has a beginning and an end but spiritual happiness or happiness in Krishna is like an ocean which is ever increasing in nature. eg. we purchase mobile phones or some new clothes but after sometimes the pleasure we were earlier getting in wearing it becomes stale.
Now , for explaining spiritual nature , prabhu used following acronym: SING
S- special. More than 99% of society is simply involved in four kind of things that is sleeping , eating, mating and defending but nobody is interested in finding out anything beyond it like our true nature, nature of god, his activities and what is our relationship with him. So, it is very unique to have such curiosity ..athato brahma jigyasa and to endeavor for attaining this timeless knowledge and establishing the lost forgotten relationship is indeed very special in itself.
I - increasing. As explained earlier also, spiritual happiness is compared to an ocean which itself is big in comparison to droplike material happiness. But not only that, it is always increasing also..anandamayo 'bhyasat. So, once someone start relishing spiritual happiness and develops taste for it who will want to hanker for tiny material happiness.
N- non dependent. Material happiness always depend on some external sense object because material happiness develops by interaction of senses with sensory objects. Like, someone planned to watch movies while travelling full day via train and is thinking that he will be very happy in that way but when he opened his laptop he found that the battery is very less ..so this material happiness is always dependent on external things..and these external environment sometimes is favorable and sometimes not. But since the source of spiritual happiness is within the spirit soul and since its true nature is sat-chit-ananda ..so spiritual happiness is not dependent on any outside element.
G - generous. Spiritual happiness is always full of generosity and expanding/sharing as someone sees a person being very calm in all situations..people ask him to tell his secret and want to follow whatever it is. So, this way there is no competition but only sharing which enhances its blissfulness.
Now in 2nd topic..prabhu told about what is needed to start relishing this spiritual happiness that is all auspicious for us:
2 C's - conviction and commitment.
One has to be fully convinced first about the instructions given in scriptures to be cent percent true and then only when we have the answer of why we have to endeavor for it? We can only start doing it with commitment and that conviction can easily be attained by the strong association of devotees like today we had. So,once again we want to thank all the prabhus who have given us their valuable time in form of such a nice blissful association.
Last yesterday night and today morning we were very fortunate to have association of vilasa vigraha prabhu in folk hostel btm, we all are feeling enlightened to receive nectar of spiritual instructions coming out of prabhu's mouth and I am very fortunate to have this opportunity of posting it in whatever small amount my tiny mind could receive -
Prabhu talked about mainly two topics:
1. The difference in nature of material happiness and spiritual happiness using instructions given in BhagwadGita.
2. The two C that can only enable us to taste that transcendental happiness which is only possible to attain in human form of life only.
The following acronym prabhu used to explain material happiness- PARIS
P - pain. Material happiness have its side effects in form of pain. Like if we eat a palatable dish too much then we have to suffer from indigestion.
A - addictive . The more we indulge in material enjoyment the more we hanker for it and because of the P (pain) it results in a prolong misery.
R - Risky. Yes because we are spirit soul and body is simply a machine given by material nature based on our karma and desires so we should be very cautious to know what kind of body we are going to get in next life and then work towards achieving not simply wasting our time in animalistic life of sleeping, eating, mating and defending. So, because these fruitive activities create a different types of karma and hence it is simply enjoying materially is too risky as depending on the karma we may get different variety of bodies in next life which we may not like.
I- illusory. Actually material happiness is considered as a drop in terms of quantity in comparison to the ever increasing oceanic nature of spiritual happiness. But since we wanted to enjoy this drop only so god had to do some trick inside our mind to amplify our perception of that happiness. So it is out of illusion only we hope of being extremely happy we hanker for it and this chasing pleasure is what is running this material world.
S - stale. Material happiness has a beginning and an end but spiritual happiness or happiness in Krishna is like an ocean which is ever increasing in nature. eg. we purchase mobile phones or some new clothes but after sometimes the pleasure we were earlier getting in wearing it becomes stale.
Now , for explaining spiritual nature , prabhu used following acronym: SING
S- special. More than 99% of society is simply involved in four kind of things that is sleeping , eating, mating and defending but nobody is interested in finding out anything beyond it like our true nature, nature of god, his activities and what is our relationship with him. So, it is very unique to have such curiosity ..athato brahma jigyasa and to endeavor for attaining this timeless knowledge and establishing the lost forgotten relationship is indeed very special in itself.
I - increasing. As explained earlier also, spiritual happiness is compared to an ocean which itself is big in comparison to droplike material happiness. But not only that, it is always increasing also..anandamayo 'bhyasat. So, once someone start relishing spiritual happiness and develops taste for it who will want to hanker for tiny material happiness.
N- non dependent. Material happiness always depend on some external sense object because material happiness develops by interaction of senses with sensory objects. Like, someone planned to watch movies while travelling full day via train and is thinking that he will be very happy in that way but when he opened his laptop he found that the battery is very less ..so this material happiness is always dependent on external things..and these external environment sometimes is favorable and sometimes not. But since the source of spiritual happiness is within the spirit soul and since its true nature is sat-chit-ananda ..so spiritual happiness is not dependent on any outside element.
G - generous. Spiritual happiness is always full of generosity and expanding/sharing as someone sees a person being very calm in all situations..people ask him to tell his secret and want to follow whatever it is. So, this way there is no competition but only sharing which enhances its blissfulness.
Now in 2nd topic..prabhu told about what is needed to start relishing this spiritual happiness that is all auspicious for us:
2 C's - conviction and commitment.
One has to be fully convinced first about the instructions given in scriptures to be cent percent true and then only when we have the answer of why we have to endeavor for it? We can only start doing it with commitment and that conviction can easily be attained by the strong association of devotees like today we had. So,once again we want to thank all the prabhus who have given us their valuable time in form of such a nice blissful association.
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