(3/6) Seal Your Life

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
13 March 2020, evening, Sri Nrisingha Palli
Part 3

Actually, I told everybody – we are chanting, we are glorifying, we are listening about the Lord. But are we getting the result? We are singing at the prasadam time: 'Prasada-seva karite haya, sakala prapancha-jaya (প্রসাদ-সেবা করিতে হয় সকল প্রপঞ্চ জয়): by honouring the Lord's prasad I conquer all worldly illusions' (Saranagati). We take prasad every day, but can we overcome the five diseases (prapancha)? Why not? Because we have some internal problem – we have some material desire.

If you pour water into a glass, but the glass does not become full, what is the reason? It means there are some holes in the glass – in our life, these holes are offences to the Holy Name, offences to the holy place, offences to service, offences to Vaishnavs and other desires. Everything goes out throw these offences. No matter how much service we do, all result goes out through these holes.

অন্যাভিলাষিতা-শূন্যং জ্ঞান-কর্ম্মাদ্যনাবৃতম্ ।
আনুকূল্যেন কৃষ্ণানুশীলনং ভক্তিরুত্তমা ॥

anyabhilasita sunyam jnana-karmady anavrtam
anukulyena krsnanusilanam bhaktir uttama

'The highest devotion is that which satisfies Lord Krishna, free from the coverings of any pursuits, such as action or knowledge.'

(Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhuh, 1.1.11)

অন্য অভিলাষ ছাড়ি, জ্ঞান কর্ম্ম পরিহরি,
কায়মনে করিব ভজন ।
সাধুসঙ্গে কৃষ্ণসেবা, না পূজিব দেবী-দেবা,
এই ভক্তি পরম কারণ ॥

anya abhilasa chhadi, jnana karma parihari
kaya-mane kariba bhajana
sadhu-sange krsna-seva, na pujiba devi-deva
ei bhakti parama karana

'Serve the Lord with your body and mind, giving up all other desires and the pursuit of material benefit and knowledge. Serve Lord Krishna in the association of sadhus and do not worship any gods or goddesses. Such devotion is the highest process.'

(Sri Sri Prema-bhakti-chandrika, Srila Narottam Das Thakur)

If you are to serve Krishna, you must do it in sadhu-sanga. You cannot practise spiritual life alone. If you worship the Lord alone, that is not spiritual life (bhajan). It is necessary to worship Krishna in sadhu-sanga (association of saints).

You do not need to worship any gods or goddesses. We must always remember this: 'Serve the Lord with your body and mind, giving up all other desires and the pursuit of material benefit and knowledge. Serve Lord Krishna in the association of sadhus and do not worship any gods or goddesses. Such devotion is the highest process.'

We take prasad every day, but illusory environment does not go way from us: as long as you are attached to the material world or anything in it (visaya), the holy teachings of Rupa-Raghunath (what they told and what our guru-varga told) will not enter your ears because you have material desires. Chitraketu is an example of that; his story is described in Srimad Bhagavatam.

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