Happy new year
Soul on Fire
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Greetings
Welcome to this issue of Soul on Fire.
Happy new year and stuff!
I’d like to invite the reader to experiment with Vedic technology in order to experience something sublime. For millions of years yogis have been chanting mantras to transform consciousness. Mantras have been used to alter material things also. Things like karma, marriages, warfare and weather.
Right now Australia is receiving some heavy reactions for its involvement in negative karma. (As is everywhere on the planet in other ways) Recently a group of Hare Krishna chanters went to Australia promising to bring rain and sure enough it rained for about 20 minutes upon their arrival with the maha mantra. If you can chant the Maha Mantra for a few minutes each day with sincerity good things will happen.
The Bhagavad Gita states:
annad bhavanti bhutani
parjanyad anna-sambhavah
yajnad bhavati parjanyo
yajnah karma-samudbhavah
All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajna [sacrifice], and yajna is born of prescribed duties.
Prabhupada comments on this verse as follows.
Food grains or vegetables are factually eatables. The human being eats different kinds of food grains, vegetables, fruits, etc., and the animals eat the refuse of the food grains and vegetables, grass, plants, etc. Human beings who are accustomed to eating meat and flesh must also depend on the production of vegetation in order to eat the animals. Therefore, ultimately, we have to depend on the production of the field and not on the production of big factories. The field production is due to sufficient rain from the sky, and such rains are controlled by demigods like Indra, sun, moon, etc., and they are all servants of the Lord. The Lord can be satisfied by sacrifices; therefore, one who cannot perform them will find himself in scarcity—that is the law of nature. Yajna, specifically the sankirtana-yajna prescribed for this age, must therefore be performed to save us at least from scarcity of food supply. Kindly take this message to heart and bring about good fortune for yourself and our global community by participating in kirtan:
hare krsna hare krsna
krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare
Muchu updated his status:
I just got back from a ten day festival in Otaki and I feel jubilant. Bhakti yoga really delivers on it’s promises. My main realisation was the Krishna consciousness is just like any loving relationship. It’s based on affection, consistency and giving. In other words it’s about how we use our senses. Singing while serving just like Mother Yasoda. Spiritual life doesn’t mean sitting idly in a cave and trying to control the senses. It’s about using your senses for Gods pleasure and awakening our dormant loving emotions for Him. Then true intimacy, connection, inclusion and peace in the community will be realised.
Enjoy this issue and don’t forget to be fearless in pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Things to look forward to: An art show, some new T-shirts, a documentary by Fionn Sherry and a video series on my 10 day bhakti yoga retreat in Otaki over New Years.
Above and below: A piece I painted with a mate in an abandoned bread factory.
Circa Melbourne, 2012
Krsna Graffiti Sessions #002
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