No Quarantine in Practising Life

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Kolkata-Worldwide, 26 April 2020, part 1

Jay Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay
Visva-varenya Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay
Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay
Jay saparikara Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva Govinda Sundarjiu ki jay
Om Vishnupad Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad ki jay
Rupanuga-guru-varga ki jay
Namacharya Haridas Thakur ki jay
Vrinda Devi Tulasi Devi Sri Bhakti Devi ki jay
Sri Shyama Kunda Radha Kunda Sri Giri Govardhan ki jay
Sri Mayapur Dham Sri Nabadwip Dham Sri Vrindavan Mathura ki jay
All the assembled devotees ki jay
All the worldwide devotees ki jay
Samagata Sri Gaura bhakta-vrinda ki jay!
Harinam sankirtan ki jay
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol

First, I am giving my full obeisance at the lotus feet of my beloved Gurudev, Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, as well as all the guru-varga, all the godbrothers and godsisters, all of my humble brothers and sisters. I am paying my full obeisance to you all from my heart.

I am very happy because I can see all the devotees' smiling faces. All devotees are happy because they accept Krishna consciousness life and practise properly, they know, "Our life is very short, but if somebody within this short life can reach their goal by chanting, dancing, and practising, why can I not do that?" So, we should try to practise and reach our goal, and everybody is doing that.

In this situation, almost everybody in almost all countries are in their rooms or houses because Krishna has sent this disease, this virus covid-19, coronavirus, all over the world. Even those who are eighty-ninety years old, have never seen this kind of situation in their life; I also have never seen anything like this. Anyhow, it has happened now, and everybody is following the government rules and regulations...

We are now in quarantine in our house (Sevak Bhavan in Dum Dum Park, Kolkata)—somebody is in government quarantine, and it is very difficult, but we are in home quarantine, it is better than to be in government quarantine. Although we are indoors, we are chanting, we are reading books, we are writing books, we are reading scriptures, and we pass our time in this way. It is necessary to have patience. Krishna is testing us to see how much patience, how much tolerance we can have.

It has been almost one month now since we have been indoors. We have not been going out so much. It is a little boring, but what can I do? We cannot do anything. This kind of disease can affect our body and make us sick, that is why we must be always careful—we must always wear a mask when we go outside, we must wash our hands from time to time and keep a little social distance. We keep social distance, but not mental distance—it must be only social distance, not heart distance. We only sit in a little distance from each other, but devotees actually always keep connection with us.

Our practising life is going on like this. We are in quarantine, but we can read, we can chant some kirtans, we can practise. That is good for us.

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