ambrosia

The storms of material life are inevitable. I dont need to try and stop them.In the immortal words of George Harrison " All things must pass ." The storms will end of their own accord. I just need to weather them by chanting the holy names.


The spiritual world is called Vaikuntha , the place of no anxiety. In contrast , the material world is an ocean of anxiety and I am certainly here in the material world . I am not seeing Sri Krishna face-to -face 24 hours a day like the saints whose eyes are smeared with the ointment of divine love for Him.Nevertheless in Bhagavad- gita encouraging words are spoken by Sri Krishna when he speaks with Arjuna in chapter 14 verse 20 about the three binding forces of material nature - namely goodness , passion and ignorance. He says " If the effects of these three forces can be overcome it is possible for a person to gain complete freedom from all of the miseries of material existence and to relish the ambrosia of life everlasting even while within the body. " Sri Krishna s reference to "...even while within the body " is what I find encouraging. In the same chapter He then gives us the way to overcome these binding forces . He says in verses 26-27 , " Those who follow the sacred path of unalloyed Divine Sevice , communing with Me in transcendental love , are automatically freed from all mundane effects and are enabled to perceive the Realm of pure divine consciousness , that everlasting zone of nectar which is the domain of Supreme Truth and infinite joy and which has its foundations in Me." So from the stress zone to the nectar zone - that is the sacred path under the guidance of the self-realized soul, Sri Guru - even while within the body. Jaya Gauranga. Hare Krishna