Will you over indulge (Over eat) or eat processed junk food?
Or will you get creative and take time to make nice offerings for Krishna?
Will you Order take out with nasty onion or garlic?
Or will you cook the things that you are craving and make them for Krishna? (Use Hing and natural or organic sugar)
Will you dumb yourself up with TV and time wasting video games...etc.? Or watch some devotee cooking class on line or devotional videos or listen to Srila Prabhupada lectures?
Will you sit and watch horrible news or will you read Srila Prabhupada's books?
Will you indulge in illicit sex due to boredom?
Married couples too? If you're not doing garbhodana samskara then what's the point? Do you want cats and gods for kids? Thats what happens when no samskara.
Will you zone out and sleep more?
Or chant more and do more devotional service?
Will you stay up late and sleep in past sunrise?
Or wake up early and do your puja aortic and chant your rounds?
It's up to you to have self control this is the test.
Parents with Kids..will you let your kids rule the house and drive you crazy?
Or will you take control and engage them in chanting, reading hearing and devotional activities? Keep the Kirtan or Prabhupada japa playing 24 hours .. (at night more softly if necessary) Sanctify your home.
Get creative ... make stuff for Krishna. (necklaces, garlands, decorations for the altar.. But do something or you will all drive each other mad.
It's all about training.. and if we have not had training then we get trained by hearing the Spiritual master Acharya Srila Prabhupada. So lets get busy. And clean Krishnas house for God's sake! Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Engage the kids in cleaning too. (While kirtan is playing of course).
You can't give things up without a higher taste and if you do not have the higher taste yet then the only way is to start developing the taste is by more devotional service. The only cure for Maya is Krishna.. the only cure for material activities is spiritual activities. The way to cultivate a higher taste is to associate with devotees who have a higher taste. If you have no access to them.. then reading Srila Prabhupada's books and hearing his lectures is the way. Chant! Chant! Chant!
Hare Krishna! Nitai Gauranga Hari bol! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
Or will you get creative and take time to make nice offerings for Krishna?
Will you Order take out with nasty onion or garlic?
Or will you cook the things that you are craving and make them for Krishna? (Use Hing and natural or organic sugar)
Will you dumb yourself up with TV and time wasting video games...etc.? Or watch some devotee cooking class on line or devotional videos or listen to Srila Prabhupada lectures?
Will you sit and watch horrible news or will you read Srila Prabhupada's books?
Will you indulge in illicit sex due to boredom?
Married couples too? If you're not doing garbhodana samskara then what's the point? Do you want cats and gods for kids? Thats what happens when no samskara.
Will you zone out and sleep more?
Or chant more and do more devotional service?
Will you stay up late and sleep in past sunrise?
Or wake up early and do your puja aortic and chant your rounds?
It's up to you to have self control this is the test.
Parents with Kids..will you let your kids rule the house and drive you crazy?
Or will you take control and engage them in chanting, reading hearing and devotional activities? Keep the Kirtan or Prabhupada japa playing 24 hours .. (at night more softly if necessary) Sanctify your home.
Get creative ... make stuff for Krishna. (necklaces, garlands, decorations for the altar.. But do something or you will all drive each other mad.
It's all about training.. and if we have not had training then we get trained by hearing the Spiritual master Acharya Srila Prabhupada. So lets get busy. And clean Krishnas house for God's sake! Cleanliness is next to Godliness. Engage the kids in cleaning too. (While kirtan is playing of course).
You can't give things up without a higher taste and if you do not have the higher taste yet then the only way is to start developing the taste is by more devotional service. The only cure for Maya is Krishna.. the only cure for material activities is spiritual activities. The way to cultivate a higher taste is to associate with devotees who have a higher taste. If you have no access to them.. then reading Srila Prabhupada's books and hearing his lectures is the way. Chant! Chant! Chant!
Hare Krishna! Nitai Gauranga Hari bol! Jaya Srila Prabhupada!
No comments:
Post a Comment