Excavating our real desires

Although so many people in this world are homeless and starving its foolish to think that if they could simply have homes and food that we would have a happy society. Affluent societies still go to war. As Sri Krishna explains in Bhagavad-gita , under the influence of the binding force of nature s mode of passion , the soul is afflicted with "insatiable desire " which translates as frustration - no satisfaction , despite unlimited material prosperity both as individuals and in society at large. This should come as no surprise. After all , the Bible says that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God , which of course also means that God is a person , namely Krishna ,who speaks , and that His words are the source of nourishment and satisfaction for every soul. Our crazy society unfortunately misinforms us with the notion that all you need is money , not love, not Krishna , to be happy and we are provided with unlimited ways to spend that money with the false promise that this is all we need -that happiness comes from without , not from within.

In this mornings reading of Bhagavad-gita the following verse caught my attention. " A great many souls have already come to the stage of taking full shelter in Me , having been purified by penance and the cultivation of perfect understanding. Freed from all false attachments, anxieties and frustrations, they reached the Absolute Reality of My transcendental , loving nature . " Bg Ch. 4.10.Elsewhere also in Bhagavad -gita Sri Krishna advises on the importance of " ...carefully guarding the consciousness against exploitative motivations and false attractions . "

I am grateful that my beloved spiritual masters have come to give me the positive alternative - bhakti-yoga. They are pure devotees of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. Pure means no material desires , no attraction for anything else except the eternal loving service of the Supreme Divine Couple. I pray that one day I may , by their grace , get off the mental platform and come to have that higher taste , param drishtva , and absorb myself in the reality of Radha and Krishna. "When we see the devotional practice of previous great practitioners of devotion, we become a little hopeless. We have only one hope - the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (who is Krishna Himself) is flowing everywhere, and even one drop can drown us." Jaya Shrila Gurudeva ! Jaya Gauranga ! May we all drown in that tidal wave of love of God , Krishna-prema !