Please find below the link and also, the notes on the lecture SB 10.11.19 (Preparing Consciousness ) by H G Gaura Gopal Prabhuji , ISKCON Chowpatty.
- How preaching happens – It starts with little faith to enquiring for the solution of the problem, then to listen to the solution, then observation in others lives, then applying in own life. Then faith got stronger. Then preaching starts. Fair and handsome cream example
- Preaching makes the faith more stronger.
- When the speaker speaks, the vehicle of his words reaches the destination of the ear of listener and the passenger gets down from the vehicle to the hearts of listener.
- That' s why in Krishna katha we should not look for fanciness or word juggleries. Even if fancy is there, its ok, but we should see the integrity, character, consciousness, life style of the person. Coz these things only will get added to our consciousness.
- Speaker does not talk words in Krishna katha, but impart his taste and conviction in KK.
- In class, the consciousness, faith, taste and conviction of speaker goes to the heart of listener.
- Words are like vehicles (which will get parked outside of temple when listener goes out of the class)
- The consciousness, faith, taste of speaker is like the passenger, sitting in that vehicle (use diff vehicle to go from Juhu to Borivalli. )
- And this passengers destination is ear of listener and it will go deep in the heart of listener, even after going out of temple or class.
- The Bhakti yoga...the KC cream removes the pimples and boils of anarthas in heart, when we hear from such devotees who have that conviction, taste
- Reading books and giving fancy talks, on that matter is not big deal. As a speaker, big deal is - to maintain clean consciousness, to maintain the clean motivation, when one is speaking, to maintain that conviction and shraddha in the SB, BG or any scripture. The big deal is to have taste sitting and listening in the class.
- Story if Punthaan of Kerala who went to Kotiar Shiva temple and given discourse on 10th canto and Shiva praised him.
- About cleaning Habits – Father asked 3 sons to get weed, bush and a banyan tree.
- Our physical habits of cleanliness is like weed and bushes. Not much difficult to follow.
- Our mental bad habits are like Banyan tree. We need Krishna to deal with these habitsuproot this tree like how He did it with Jamalaarjuna tree.
- Mental habits – fault finding.
- Intellectual habits -Mental speculation
- Egoistic habit – Grabbing attention
- These are only can be cleaned by Damodar, chanting HK mantra.
- Preaching means do not stand between Krishna and the other person and his bad habits. Let Krishna go and bring his trees of bad habits dwon. As a preacher give up all the ego. Give up all the credit taking mentality....simply be a transparent via-media to facilitate Damodar in his life. Dont stand between Krishna and the trees.
- Hearing and observation is easy. But for application. We need to pay the price of living as per the scriptures.
- Hearing and observation is sambandha gyan. By this faith in relation to Krishna goes stronger.
- Living by it is – Abhideya gyan – ve to do something.
- Q: How to improve the quality of chanting.
- Ans: Japa is abhideya – process of reviving the relationship with Krishna. Poor quality japa is coz of poor sambandha gyan.
- The way to strengthen the sambandha gyan – daily reading SP books, purports of BG, SB and hearing lectures from devotees.
- By reading SP's purport and hearing daily to SB and BG, our sambandha gets stronger and our process of abhideya works well.
- Japa techniques will works nicer when the japa principle are japa to make the sambandha gyana strengthen.
- When we get to know the greatness of Krishna's personality, automatically it makes us to pay attention to His holy names.
- A desire does nothing. A decision to live by that that desire does something. But, the determination to work on that decision does everything.
- Then we get experience. Bhakti is less about philosophy and theory, it's more about experience.
- Preaching is sharing. It does not come by force.
- It comes spontaneous enthusiasm, by our own experience. Its like I am transformed by touch of Krishna, let me share with others. All techniques of preaching helps to make it systematic.
- Krishna, the holy name is very powerful. It will fulfill all our m. desire easily except giving bhakti. He tests us, before giving bhakti.
- Hindi proverb – Khusiyan candan ki tarah hoti hai. Dusoron ko lagao...apne haath main ata hai.
- Similarly , when we give Krishna to others happily, Krishna comes to our lives. And our faith goes much deeper.
- We are like sponge. After certain amount of water, it can not hold any water. When squeezed, it will hold new water. Similarly, when we hear, observe, apply KC in our life....we feel ok..next what. When we give that nectar stored in our heart, we get space for fresh one.
- HOLES theory of spongue – Hear, Observe, Living by it, Experiencing, Sharing.
Thank you very much.
HARE KRISHNA.
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