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Practitioners' Problem
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Speaking online to the devotees in Colombia
8 December 2019, part 4
Question: Why do some conflicts arise among devotees, members of
the community, even when they are trying to do service?
That is the practitioners' problem. A practitioner must think, "I must be
humble, tolerant and give honour to others"—that is the main thing. Your mood
must change—you must become humble, tolerant and give honour to others. Those
who have patience will succeed. It is necessary to have patience (ধৈর্য,
dhairya), which means it is necessary to have tolerance. The problem
is also that we do not think, "We are doing this service for the Lord, we are
not doing it not for ourselves."
Gurudev gave also one example. Suppose one devotee is distributing
prasadam and other devotees are sitting in a ten-feet-long line and
taking prasadam. Somebody thinks, "Oh, I have not got any
paneer!" or, looking at somebody else's plate, they think, "He has
good things on his plate, and I have not got any." Such mood is not good. It
means that this person is taking paneer—this person is not taking
prasadam. Those who take prasadam must have the right
consciousness, and the devotee who distributes prasadam must be also
careful and make sure that everybody gets equal things. Both are
necessary.
Therefore, we must control our tongue (jihva veg, urges of the
tongue), we must control our mind (mano veg, urges of the mind), we
must control our stomach (uddhara veg, urges of the stomach), we must
control our sex desire (upastha veg, urges of the genitals), we must
control our anger (krodha veg, urges of anger), we must control our
speech (vakya veg, urges of speech). We must control everything.
"Chhaya vega dami' chhaya dosa sodhi' chhaya guna deha' dase (ছয় বেগ
দমি' ছয় দোষ শোধি ছয় গুণ দেহ দাসে). O Vaishnav Thakur! Please subjugate my six
urges, rectify my six defects, and bestow the six good qualities upon this
servant."
Six urges:
(1) Urge of speech (vakya-veg).
(2) Urge of mind (mano-veg).
(3) Urge of anger (krodha-veg).
(4) Urge of tongue (jihva-veg).
(5) Urge of stomach (uddhara-veg).
(6) Urge of genitals (upastha-veg).
Six defects:
(1) Eating too much, hoarding things (atyahara).
(2) Engaging in material activities that are not favourable to
devotion (prayas).
(3) Talking too much or talking nonsense (prajalpa).
(4) Following inferior practices or neglect of activities
favourable to devotion (niyamagraha).
(5) Associating with non-devotees (janasanga).
(6) Being fickle-minded (laulya).
Six good qualities:
(1) Enthusiasm in service and devotional practice.
(2) Confidence: firm faith.
(3) Patience: never slackening your practice.
(4) Do what is favourable to devotion (sacrifice of your own happiness for
Krishna's happiness).
(5) Avoiding bad association.
(6) Following the sadhus' practice.
We have so many bad qualities, but we must be proper, pure disciples through
good association. That is our vision. We must try to be proper
servitors.
Sometimes, you keep on making some offence, time and time again you keep
doing something wrong, making some mistake, and you think that since the
temple manager is not doing or saying anything (he overlooks it because he
has tolerance), then it is not a big matter and day by day you keep making
offences, you keep doing bad things. You must be careful with this. You make
one offence, two offences, three offences, five offences every day—this is
not good. A practitioner will think, "OK, I have made a mistake today, but
next time I will not do that again." It is necessary to have such mood.
...I am telling to everybody—come at Gaura Purnima. You must join us for the
Nabadwip Dham parikrama, this parikrama is necessary for all
devotees, do not miss it. Come and join Nabadwip Dham parikrama. I am
praying to Gurudev for you all. Gurudev's Vyasa Puja is coming soon, it is on
14 December this year, and I must prepare everything, there will be a big
festival in Nrisingha Palli, please come to this festival, join us, and try
to come at the Gaura Purnima time. Come at any time, you are always
welcome.
Gracias. Jay Gurudev.
Jay Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami
Maharaj ki jay
Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki
jay
Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur
Prabhupad ki jay
Jay Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Govinda Sundarjiu ki jay
All the assembled devotees ki jay
All the worldwide devotees ki jay
Harinam sankirtan ki jay
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol
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