"Give Me These Alms"

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Vaishnav Seva Programme, Kolkata,
29 January 2021, part 6

Practise Krishna consciousness properly. I have only one prayer to you all. I am a beggar—I come to you all to beg alms. This is what I am begging from you:

You are all Vaishnav Thakurs—please always give me your mercy, please cry to the Lord for me.

বৈষ্ণবের আবেদনে কৃষ্ণ দয়াময় ।
এ হেন পামর প্রতি হবেন সদয় ॥

vaisnavera avedane krsna dayamaya
e hena pamara prati habena sadaya

"Satisfied by the Vaishnav's prayer, Krishna will be merciful to this sinner."

Please give me your mercy so that I can serve Vaishnavs birth after birth. This is my prayer, and this is what I am begging you all for. I am a beggar, and beggars always beg for alms. I am begging you all for such alms that I may have devotion to the Lord and serve Vaishnavs in this world.

There is one more thing I will beg you for. "Krsna bolo, sange chala, ei matra bhiksa chai. I am begging you for one thing only: come with us and chant 'Krishna'!" Chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.

So, I am asking you all to please not leave Krishna consciousness, no matter what dangers or obstacles come. Guru Maharaj often said: when were elephants, how many trees we ate! Then, why do we run after material things now? Gurudev gave one more example: you can see this mobile phone here; it works through the medium of ether, and you can even talk to somebody in America with it. Somebody called me today from America—it was morning here, and it was evening for them. How great the distance is—it is thousands and thousands of miles! America is on the other end of the globe! Yet through the medium of sound, we can talk with somebody on the other end of the globe. So, in the same way, when we chant kirtan and utter the sound of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, why cannot we reach the Lord through this medium (provided we chant it without offences)? Why cannot we? Tell me.

Once, somebody asked me, "You said yesterday that when Sukadev Goswami came out of his mother's womb, he ran away, but our children cannot even walk until two years old. How can that be then?" I told him, "You can see calves—when they are born, they start running after one hour. How can that be?" What is the point answering such questions? Somebody else asked me, "Maharaj, what should I say when people ask me why I wear tilaks?" I answered, "When somebody asks you, 'Why do you wear tilaks?' you should answer, 'Why are you not wearing tilaks?' That is the question. If they do not understand anything, if they cannot understand the glory of the Lord, then you can just tell them, 'Why are you not wearing tilaks?'"

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