Where Who and Why

Where is the world? Is it on the internet? Is it out there on the streets? Is it the people you see everyday? Is it your firends? Your relatives? Where are you? Meaning, where am I? Am I in my body? Where do I look for that? The other? The forfillment? The purpose? Do I find You in a book? Do I find You at all? Do I wander here and there in a kind of forgetfulness, never quite finding but never quite looking? But then when will I look if not now? And when will I find if not Now? What are You, that fills me up? And to know you are there yet not feel you how is that? No wonder we find ourselves looking in all the wrong places? Are you in the food I eat? The cigarettes I smoke? The people who are around me? Do I see You in them? Do they know they are You in them to me, and I You to them? Otherwise why? It is not philosophical, I feel this how can our feelings be philosophical? Did someone teach my emotions philosophy at university? Is it the feeling that is giving the lecture? Well one just knows You are there simply because I am here and if I am here then you are here. You have to be and they all say so anyway. I can take their word for it, I can be that bold. But it hurts me if I don't ask for myself, how could it be any other way? Was I planning to leave myself out of the equation when it was my own yearning that brought me to ask the question. I know I am not that yearning alone, but in a way I am this sentence. The journey goes on, I don't think it ever really ends, though I must have started somewhere? Don't remember when that was, and I keep finding things and going places so I am clearly moving. I wouldn't like to not move. Yet I keep finding out I have it all wrong. But that is the realisation that I have it. So yeah that sounds good. Amen.

Person who steals Butter

BHakti begets Bhakti I won't go Bhakti begets Bhakti I am a wretched person But I won't go Bhakti begets Bhakti and I have nowhere else to go

Why did he do it

He did it for fame, he did it for honour, And that was his reward, He did it for the filthy dollor, And that was his reward, He didn't use his life for others, in service to the Lord, So he had it all to himself, In darkness with closed doors.

Chant

Chant Chant Chant I only want to chant, how can I chant more? Oh I hear your name Whisper it again Glory to the Pancha Tattva now we start again, Chanting out aloud, Love is sure to rise, Like living yeast, devotion raises the bread of Truth, in the heat of Your Holy Name.

Divine Truth

The Divine Truth is all around us, he lives and breaths existance. He smiles and laughs and cares for us always. Oh the joy it brings to ones heart when they are aware of his constant care and attention to us. The Lord does not throw anyone into hell, people put themselves in hell by their state of mind and their actions. The Lord is Love, he cares for us always and always is bringing us towards him, he never throws us away. He laughs and smiles. He talks to us if we listen, maybe we dont hear him now, but we will, and we will see him if we really want to, we will get there in the end if our intention remains in the direction of Love and Truth. All good comes to those who look to the Lord, the Lord arranges even their mistakes to be blessings. We must never forget what others do for us, like the Lord rewards all many times over for the love they give him. There is nothing to worry about, just always trust in the Lord and his servants and the angels that are in our company, Glory to them. Amen Om

Light of the World

Where are You? the light of the world, everything is empty. I hear music but it is like a morgue, Where is the sound of your ankle bells? I hear people talking and laughing but they are just murmurings in a dark place. How have I fallen unto this hollow, where you appear as an absence? Everyone is painting but they cant see the canvas. Nothing is anything, please let me chant your Name.

Association with Heaven or Hell

The principle of association is really a beautiful thing, one should learn early in spiritual life to avoid bad company, like is said one knows a man by the company he keeps. But what about the company one keeps on the mental level. We learn from Bhaktivinode Thakur that the heavenly and hellish worlds are emanations from a particular potency of the Lord, this creation inacts in such a way as in an interaction with the human mind who is in freedom. The contents of our mind is the result of what Emanuel Swedenborg calls influx. In a atheistic naturalist influx is primarily ascribed to the senses of the body and the external world. One who is a little elevated in spiritual life ascribes influx to the spiritual world. The first teaching of yoga is that we are not our bodies, further we are not our minds either. Understanding influx helps the process of disindentifying with the mind because one comes to understand that what enters the mind enters from either Heavenly or Hellish societies. Likewise we first learn to be mindful of the association of our bodies with other physical beings as we are in the process of disidentifying with our bodies, further we can learn to watch our association on the level of the mind as we are disindentifying with our subtle body. It is beautiful that one has the opportunity to avoid the association of hell even when one is not directly met with it in any particular physical scenario, one simply recognisises the thought - that is not heavenly influx - and chooses to disassociate from it, as this battle is won the opposing heavenly state is 'plugged in' in its place. In this way a persons mind can be gradually raised into love by the understanding of the will. One should chant and always remember the Lord and his devotees, because by chanting their names and remembering them we are associating with them and their good qualities.

Contemplations on Maha-Mantra

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare In the Maha Mantra it can be understood that Rama indicates Balarama, Krishnas brother Ananta Sesh or Nityananda in relation to Sri Krishna Chaitanya. In 'teachings of Lord Chaitanya' Srila Prabhupada states in the Introduction "That maha-Vishnu who lies on the Causal Ocean is actually an expansion of Balarama, who is Krishnas first expansion, and, in the Vrndavana pastimes, is the brother of Krishna. In the Maha-Mantra Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, the word Rama refers to Balarama." But how are we, especially those of Christian background to understand Krishna having a brother and what is the significance of chanting his name? And how is it that all the names Hare, Krishna, and Rama indicate that one supreme inseparable Lord of the Universe? These are questions I came to consider after discussing Balarama with my Christian mother, and the Lord enlightened me to some degree while reading Emanuel Swedenborgs 'The New Jerusalem and the Heavenly Doctrine'. We are to understand from Christianity that their are two commandments on which all other commandments are for the purpose of serving, these are love to the Lord, and Love to the Neighbour. Further it is understood from Swedenborgs teachings that Love is manifested in use or service for what is Love if not expressed through use or service? Use is it's container. It is important to understand who is the neighbour to be loved, Swedenborg explains "What the Neighbour is must first be told; for it is the neighbour who is to be loved and towards whom charity is to be exercised. For unless one knows what the neighbour is, one may exercise charity in a similar way without any discrimination towards the evil as well as the good, and in that case, charity becomes no charity; for the evil, thanks to the benefactions they receive, do evil to the neighbour, but the good do good." further he explains love to the neighbour is expressed in higher and higher degrees depending on what you could say is the consciousness of he who is exercising charity or love toward him. In the first degree that neighbour is an individual, then a higher degree of Love to the neighbour is Love to a society, that society being loved for the goods of uses it performs, higher still is love to the neighbour as ones country, higher still is the Church, higher still is The Lords Kingdom and then in the highest sense The Lord himself is the neighbour to be loved. I believe this is what is meant by 'Rama' Rama represents love towards the neighbour which in the highest sense indicates love towards the Lord as neighbour, hence why it is said Krishna and Balarama are non-different, also why Balarama is the representative emanation of the spiritual master for the neighbour is more the neighbour when he is more in Love and Wisdom from the Lord and the spiritual master is the embodiment of that individual who is the neighbour to be loved. The perfection of the Maha-Mantra runs deeper however as we see that 'Hare' indicates the energy of the Lord which personified is Radha. Hare is the use, the service itself otherwise called the Holy Spirit, Swedenborg explains The Father Son and Holy Spirit is Soul, Body and Operation, that operation is that service which contains that Love in it, what is Love towards God or Love towards the Neighbour if not expressed in service or use, when one really Loves they can feel this urge saying 'Yes I Love, what can I DO?' What can I do, this is this Holy Spirit. Use can be expressed in infinate ways as many as there are spritual sparks of consciousness in the entirety, use is unique to each individual, but without Love of God, indicated by 'Krishna' it has no meaning as Radha has no meaning without Krishna. 'Hare' "Krishna' and 'Rama'

Sweetest Flute

Sweetest Person, How can listen to your sweet melody of your flute? Your eternal companion, transcendental by your touch, empty of its body, full of your warm breath. Soaring through the cosmic air, Vibrating the toungues of the saints. How can I hear that Melody and relish that message? Oh my mind, allow me the space to hear, Body, Lie down and let that sound penetrate my heart.

Krishnas mind

Autumn Winter Spring and Summer All the ways to love each other time in paths that shift and merge time we take to pause and think Once a memory stirred the brain then Krishna stole it for my sake Now I chant to love to love to want to learn to love him more and though I lose it all the time I think he still minds me with his eyes

Another conditioned sould cannot save you from the ocean of misery

One must be willing to dive beneath the surface of the ocean in search of a willing whale but you must be able to breath only once a minute, then God willing he will pull you down to the depths of your own disease, gasping for air the aspirant cries "Guruda!" And in your failing symptoms of life you will remember that you were alive once, far before when you slept in the ocean of your mothers womb

Getting to know you

Feeling you in all the people, all the people I know.
Wondering how to serve you, and all the people I know.
Wondering who you are, and wondering who the people I know are
Oh well maybe we will spend some time for a moment
trying to figuire it out, what does it mean this life I'm living?
How can I make you happy, how can I make all the people I know happy?
And get to know you more.

Still we move

One moment in the oneness
was once all that I could get
but to know why I was there
had not crossed my mind yet
Still we move to cultivate
A Bliss in relationship

A harsh Reality

My hair my house
my job my jail
my child my spouse
my lost sense of pleasure

What is this Rasa?

Friend of the Heart,
What is this relationship
the taste is not there
in mundane meetings of boy and girl
Yet congugial Love
holds the highest potential
to forfill ones heart
to forfill ones understanding

The Narrow Gate

Through the narrow gate,
Time seems to dissapear.
The world becomes a shadow,
A perception in the senses.

The Stars

Hare Krishna. You fill the three worlds with your radience. This universe is so expansive and yet you crush it all in your teeth in the form of Time. You are the lover of the Gopi's, the one who plays sweet transcendental songs through your transcendental flute.

When I looked up at the stars I heard You speak to me, You said: And it is so hard to believe in the spiritual world when you see so many stars in the sky? And I laughed and laughed until tears came to my eyes and I thought yes, it is so obvious that the spiritual world exists just look where we live in this universe, what are all these planets for? If not for residence.