Fall In Love, Become the One in a Million

Very few souls take to the path of pure unmotivated loving devotional service to God. This is because the gross or subtle egoistic disposition of the typical soul of this world prevents him/her from whole heartedly serving someone whom he/she considers "someone else". The typical soul wants to serve himself or those closely related to him materially.

This false ego is the fundamental reason for souls being averse to God. Once one understands that God is actually his most intimate relation, the path of pure devotional service to Him opens up. This understanding is the defining characteristic of the true ego, or in other words, the soul's true identify and relationship.

Thus, it is not surprising that most people serve something other than God. They see things as related to themselves, rather than seeing themselves as related to God. So much so, that even other spiritual paths focus on one's own liberation from matter, than on reviving one's relationship with God. This is the extent to which the egoistic disposition denies the soul it's true glory of being a loving servant of God.

The heart yearns for love, and true love is not found in this world of limits. To escape this fact, other spiritualists seek to reach a state of oneness or nothingness wherein the yearning for love stops. This is akin to the desperate suicide attempt of a heart-broken lover, and is born out of ignorance of the complete nature of spiritual nature.

God is our eternal friend and the worthy object of the heart's yearning for eternal love. Break your internal ego barriers - grossest to the subtlest, and fall in love. Are you the one in a million?

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Bg 7.3

manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu
kaścid yatati siddhaye
yatatām api siddhānāṁ
kaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥ

Synonyms: 

manuṣyāṇām — of men; sahasreṣu — out of many thousands; kaścit — someone; yatati — endeavors; siddhaye — for perfection; yatatām — of those so endeavoring; api — indeed; siddhānām — of those who have achieved perfection; kaścit — someone; mām — Me; vetti — does know; tattvataḥ — in fact.

Translation: 

Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

Unfortunate Rebels!

Dear All,

There are different spiritual paths described in the Vedic scriptures along with the goal that is achieved by following them. What can be a more wonderful goal than to achieve the association of God? That's what Bhakti (Devotional Service) gives -- association with God!

Knowing this, I am surprised that people follow (really?) other paths which finally result in an existence devoid of activity and devoid of any loving relationships. Why are these people destroying their futures like this?

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Ofcourse, Prabhupada has extensively explained the reasons. One is that the living being gets frustrated with material life and thinks that he is miserable because of seeking happiness from material relationships (relationships without God in the center), and therefore thinks that all relationships are causes of misery, and thus, in fear, aspires for an existence without relationships. Similarly, he gets frustrated with material desires and thinks that he should give up all desires so that there is no more misery.

However, he is unaware that relationships or desires in themselves are not a cause of misery, but relationships and desires without God in the center are cause of misery.

The desire to become independent of God is the cause of misery. There is ample proof of this. Some survey made by some big well known organisation clearly indicates that people who believe in God are much happier than those who dont..

Point is, why this rebellion against God, despite seeing that surrender unto God is giving so much bliss to those who have surrendered? Again, Prabhupada answers extensively all throughout his purports. The living being is in this material world (full of misery) for the very reason that he wanted to become (or enjoy) independent of God! So, even after he understands that material world and material relationships and material desires are the cause of misery, he still wants to stay independent of God! Thats the original reason he is in the miserable material world, and yet he is unaware of this! As Prabhupada says, even if the person is fed up with material entanglement, that desire to remain independent of God is still there -- the last snare of Maya!

So, these unfortunate people, rebelling against God, want to become God. So they philosophise using big big flowery words to prove that God doesent exist and only the impersonal manifestation of the sum total of energy is the Absolute Truth. This way, they hope to remain aloof from both the material world and from God!

However, that is not possible. One has to either serve the material world or serve God. One cannot become God. God is always God, and never forgets that He is God as the foolish philosophers suggest.

So, as devotees, one should not get disturbed by such philosophers, who themselves dont really want to know the truth, but are just egoistic and are trying to become God! How can such people find the happiness that comes only by surrendering unto the most merciful God! If someone is just envious of God, and just doesent want to surrender despite the well known fact that those who surrender unto God are the happiest, then who can help them?

Your servant in Krishna Consciousness,
Abhijit.