Date 03.05.2025
nidrālasya hata, sukārye virata,
akārye udyogī āmi
pratiṣṭha lāgiyā, śāṭhya-ācaraṇa,
lobha-hata sadā kāmī (Amara jivana kirtan by BVT)
Ruined by laziness and sleeping mood, I resist all pious deeds; yet I am very active and enthusiastic to perform wicked activities. For worldly fame and reputation I engage in the practice of deceitfulness. Thus I am destroyed by my own greed and am always lustful.
It is quite natural for bonded jīvas that most of them have no interest in Guru-Vaiṣṇava sevā. The reason behind it is that surely they have some selfish motive, and nothing else. The only way to come out of this dilemma is to lend Guru-Vaiṣṇava our ears. Their Harikathā is like an elixir which even can make the dead alive.
satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido
bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ
taj-joṣaṇād āśv apavarga-vartmani
śraddhā ratir bhaktir anukramiṣyati (ŚB 3.25.25)
In the association of pure devotees, discussion of the pastimes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very pleasing and satisfying to the ear and the heart. By cultivating such knowledge one gradually becomes advanced on the path of liberation, and thereafter he is freed, and his attraction becomes fixed. Then real devotion and devotional service begin.
Without cit-bala it is next to impossible to get motivated in devotional activities. For baddha-jīvas to have the direct association of a firing example of a high class Vaiṣṇava is a must. To be in close association of such a powerful dynamo of sevā-vṛtti of pure Guru-Vaiṣṇava is the only way to change our dirty saṁskāras. Just by being next to śuddha guru-vaiṣṇava all our saṁskāras can change. Lines of dirty enjoyments which all where ingrained in our sub conciseness for infinite time period can get changed in course of time. Like ice gets melted as soon the sun rises, baddha-jīvas also get melted from all their material conditioning, just by being close to the pure sādhu. For those who have committed aparādha (offence) towards Guru-Vaiṣṇava-Bhagavān for them to catch that sevā vibration emanating from Guru-Vaiṣṇava is just impossible to realise. But those who are having simple heart (I mean having no duplicity), if they are coming in front of guru-Vaiṣṇava then they can change their heart. The first change can be seen is that—they can feel more and more interest in pure Harikathā and kīrtan. And by following this procedure of śravaṇa-kīrtan from genuine source- gradually their hearts can get converted like a fertile land where the seed of bhakti can sprout. With the right amount of sunlight (śuddha-sattva) emanating from the harikathā of pure Vaiṣṇava all our laziness will go away. Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura used to say that –“Bhakti is the natural function of our soul.”
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