(6/7) Every Day Service Day

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Preaching programme in Hooghly district,
1 March 2019, evening, part 6
Translated from Bengali

As I have told you earlier, in Kali-yuga the Lord comes to this world as Gauranga, a combined form of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna. He went door to door, distributing the Holy Name to everybody, urging everybody, 'Come back to your home!' You can see many foreign boys sitting here with us: some of them are from Colombia, some from Venezuela, some from Brazil and America. Some of you here were also born in Begampur, some were born in Bangladesh, some were born in Pakistan. Somebody is Russian, somebody is Indian, and so on. All this is not who we actually are. 'I am a spiritual person (brahman)', 'I am a fighter (ksatriya)', 'I am a businessman (vaisya)' – this is also not who we are. Our real identity is that we are eternal servants of Lord Krishna.

‘কৃষ্ণ-নিত্যদাস’—জীব তাহা ভুলি’ গেল ।
এই দোষে মায়া তার গলায় বান্ধিল ॥

‘krsna-nitya-dasa’—jiva taha bhuli’ gela
ei dose maya tara galaya bandhila

‘Jiva souls forgot that they are eternal servants of Krishna. Because of this mistake, illusion threw its ropes around their necks.’

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, 2.22.24)

We forget that we are souls and that we are eternal servants of Lord Krishna, that is why we are suffering so much in this world now. What should we do to get out of this situation? We must practise spiritual life. It means we must take shelter at the holy feet of a genuine guru and practise every single day of our lives.

You think that you can get a hired band to sing some kirtans at your home and this is what spiritual practice is, but what they chant is not the Holy Name! We do not practise like that. What do we do? You eat every day, you sleep every day, you go to the toilet and take a shower every day – in the same way, you must serve the Lord every single day, too. You must feed the Lord every day. You must wake up early in the morning, offer magala-arati, then cook something, offer bhoga to the Lord, feed your family if they are hungry or send them to work or school with some prasad to have later. You cannot have the Lord sleep until nine o'clock, and in the meantime you finish having your morning cup of tea. No! You must get into the habit of waking up early and thinking about the Lord, serving the Lord.

Do Tulasi parikrama. Every morning circumambulate Tulasi four times. If you do not remember the parikrama kirtan by heart, then you can do Tulasi parikrama just chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. If you have kirtan books, you can chant from the books. We have brought some books, but they have finished – there are more books in Kolkata, Nabadwip, Ekachakra, Tarakeswar and other temples. You can buy them there. We have chanted Tulasi kirtan this evening:

নমোরে নমোরে মাঁইয়া নমো নারায়ণী ।
যাঁকো দরশে পরশে অঘনাশ হোই
মহিমা বেদ পুরাণে বাখানি ॥

namo-re namo-re maiya namo narayani
yako darase parase agha-nasa hoi
mahima veda purane vakhani

'O Narayani, I offer my obeisance unto you again and again. By seeing or touching you, all sins are destroyed. Your glories are sung in the Vedas and Puranas.'

Seeing Tulasi and touching Tulasi destroys a ll sins.

We must remember and think about all these things. We must never forget any of it...

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1) Our Happiness and Mission
2) Where Does Your Submission Lie?
3) Do Not Take This Life for Granted
4) Prasad Consciousness
5) Material Killing, Spiritual Killing
6) Every Day Service Day
7) Universal Stumbling Block