(1) Increase Your Spiritual Life

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Kolkata-Australia, 2 August 2020, part 1

Dandavat. I am very happy to see you all, to see all the devotees there. It is very nice to see you all. I see there are so many devotees present today. I remember that last time I went to Australia was in 2009 or 2010: after his appearance day in 2009, Gurudev sent me with Srila Ashram Maharaj to Australia. I remember that there are so many devotees there, and they are all very enthusiastic and practise properly. After that, many sannyasis visited you all from time time, but because of my legal problems, I have not been able to visit Australia again since then, but I will try to come. Now is the pandemic situation due to coronavirus (COVID-19), so there is some delay in getting my passport and I cannot come, but when the court opens, I will get my passport an will try to visit you all again.

Anyhow, at present moment, this opportunity to meet has come to us. I give a class every Sunday in the evening, at 7 p.m. Indian time, and it is very late for you. So, Sripad Sadhu Maharaj offered me to make a programme with the Australian devotees today at 1.30 or 1 p.m., and I am very happy to do that. I can do it every Sunday, it is not a problem for me. I come to Kolkata only on Sunday specially to make these programmes with the devotees from all over the world. I am trying to meet with all the devotees, to gather everyone.

Through these programmes, I am also getting devotees' association and getting energy to do more service for Guru Maharaj's devotees, Gurudev's devotees, Srila Prabhupad's devotees, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur's disciples and followers. Through this electronic system, we can reach devotees' hearts. In this pandemic situation, we cannot make very big gatherings at the temples, but through these zoom classes, through this electronic system, we can join programmes and get more energy for service. It is good for everybody. This is what sadhu-sanga, good association, is.

'সাধুসঙ্গ', 'সাধুসঙ্গ'–সর্ব্বশাস্ত্রে কয় ।
লবমাত্র সাধুসঙ্গে সর্ব্বসিদ্ধি হয় ॥

'sadhu-sanga', 'sadhu-sanga'–sarva sastre kaya
lava-matra sadhu sange sarva siddhi haya

'All scriptures keep saying, "Good association", "Good association". You can attain all perfection even just by a drop of good, saintly association.'

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, 2.22.54)

If we read Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, we can see this verse there. Good association cleans devotees' hearts. Sometimes, when we do some service, we can become tired, or we are practising, but we can become tired through our practising. If we get good association, we can get some energy through it and Maya will also not be able to get an opportunity to attack us. This is a good system, a good programme. Maya is always searching for a hole through which she can attack us and remove us from the service to the Lord. So, it is necessary to always keep good association of devotees. We need sadhu-sanga, sravan and kirtan. Listening to the class, chanting kirtanam, getting other devotees' association, getting sravanam and kirtanam, reading some scriptures and books of Srila Guru Maharaj and Gurudev. We have so many books. We can read those books and every time get more energy – in the association of good devotees, we can increase our spiritual life day by day.

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