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Vraj Krsna Das
What are your thoughts on COVID 19?
COVID 19 is the facade for everything nefarious that is happening under its flag. That includes forced and unnecessary masking of healthy people, social distancing, upcoming mandatory, yet also unnecessary vaccination, killing healthy people in hospitals, lying with statistics, corrupted and controlled media, hundreds of million people lost their jobs and hundreds of thousands of businesses bankruptcy.
How did you first start practicing bhakti?
When I was in the army, one weekend I went to a birthday party of a fellow soldier. He had the Bhagavad Gita on his shelf, yet he didn't want me to focus on the book. He wanted me to attend his celebration.
But the book remained in my consciousness. The chariot with the amazing looking blue person at the front page.
When I completed the army I found some books at a street shop. A man is still selling books there. Those days esoteric literature was most popular...
So, I saw a book with the same blue person on the cover. I purchased the book with all the money I had in my pocket. It was tough to read. there was a lot of terminology and quotations in Sanskrit.
It was a difficult subject to penetrate, but I liked it. I liked the topics on vegetarianism, although I had never met a vegetarian. In Bulgaria those days there were hardly any vegetarians and they were very private persons not like now with videos and societies etc.
Later I purchased another book called Prabhupada from the same shopkeeper (now his daughter is part of our K.C group here in my home town.
What is Bhakti to you?
Bhakti means love. Love is about the awareness that we are love and nothing less. When we live without love, then we are just dreaming or imagining that we are living. Life without love is impersonalism. It’s nondifferent from asat or non existence.
Love is connected to the root. When we love the root, Sri Krsna, we love with our entire being, every second of our life and in every interaction with the living or the nonliving. We are like fire; unstoppable to spiritually flammable elements.
What do you hope to get out of this life?
I hope to continue living the most beautiful life, the life of giving life to others. I don't want anything from this world, because all good here is illusory and perishable. If something is useful in my service to the mission of compassion I utilize it. If not, I don't care about it.
That’s why I still play my guitar and continue composing music. I have just completed a four-part suite for a symphonic orchestra called " Ray of Visnu".
What are your hopes for the people you meet and share Bhakti with you?
I hope that they will also live the most beautiful life and that one day they will be happy that they took that turn.
Void
Photo and text by @eyes.of.the.wise
Understandably it can sometimes seem attractive, especially when life’s not going to plan. Nobody, no mind, no self, no one to bother us or hurt our feelings - just “the void.” The problem is..well, let me illustrate with a true story. I have a friend who was traveling and checking out meditation retreats. At one, in Australia, after a long session of silence, breath focus, and emptying the mind, he noticed a co-meditator alone in a room, crying. He asked her if everything was ok, and if he could do anything to help. Surprised and embarrassed she quickly began wiping the tears from her eyes. “Oh, I’m sorry, ah..no, I don’t think so” she replied. Hoping to assist a fellow seeker, he gently asked if something disturbing had come up in her meditation. “Well, to be honest,” she said, “I’m really struggling with this idea that I don’t exist - I just can’t cope with that. No relationships, no personal experiences, no nothing - just the void!” My friend could empathize.
To be a person in this world is tough, there’s no doubt. In fact, it can get so tough and produce such inner discord that “the void” can appear to be a tangible option. But on closer consideration sooner or later our hearts rebel - “I’m a person! I want to love and be loved!” Yoga wisdom reaffirms our experience - the best happiness exists in loving relationships. And that is what yoga, at its peak, is all about - reconnecting to the ultimate loving relationship, which in turn enables all other relationships to function harmoniously. Missing that connection we may, out of frustration, deny our loving propensity, and inadvertently throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. Prime yoga text Bhagavad Gita protects us from this catastrophe by urging us towards the positive spiritual life of bhakti.
— This shot was taken with a Fuji X-70 in Wellington City New Zealand in June 2020. ISO 2000, f/8, 1/500
Transcendental Artist Jayarama Das
Excerpt from an interview on the Back to Godhead Magazines Website.
Navayauvana: Now that you’re painting for Krishna, do you find any difference in your role as an artist?
Jayarama: I’ve always felt a kind of need to glorify God in my work, because painting is something He’s given me. And now I have that desire even more. I’m mostly interested in trying to show how beautiful Krishna is. He’s great and H’s beautiful; He’s kind and He’s compassionate. I just want to try to remind people that God is actually a very beautiful and kind. Person. Whether it takes me ten years to do a painting or ten days, I have to glorify Krishna the best I can. Anything less than that I consider very unsatisfactory and very frustrating.
Navayauvana: Did you ever want to become a great artist?
Jayarama: I don’t care if I’m a ‘great artist’ or not. I just want my art to point toward the mysteries and the beauties of the truth, that’s all. Whether it comes into the context of being great or famous, that doesn’t matter so much If I feel that it evokes the desire to understand something higher and to appreciate a higher beauty, that’s what I care about—because that’s the experience I have with it, and that’s the experience I would like to share. And if it becomes ‘great,’ fine; if it doesn’t, fine. That doesn’t matter, as long as I can somehow point toward that higher direction.
Navayauvana: How has chanting Hare Krishna affected your work?
Jayarama: Well, I can just follow my own progression. My conception of form, my standards of beauty—they’ve all become so much higher since I’ve taken chanting seriously.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu started this world’s first civil disobedience movement. It was to free people from spiritual oppression. I believe His movement is the most important one that exists.
Chaitanya left 8 divine instructions for those desiring spiritual advancement.
Here is the first of verse:
Glory to the Sri-Krsna-Sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.
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