In our materially contaminated state the holy name of Krishna which is transcendental cannot be savored to the full measure for the offender to the Name is not able to attain devotional bliss or love of Godhead.In that impure condition if the living entity is able to chant the name of Gaura- Nityananda with devotional sincerity then his impurities gradually fade away.Conversely if one takes the Names of the Lordships in order to increase his bodily enjoyments including name and fame then his chanting of the name of Gaura will not have any spiritual bearing in the Least.A simple example to illustrate this point Calcutta is 2 miles west of Howrah but if any one walking two miles in the eastern direction from Calcutta were to audaciously claim that he had reached Howrah will definitely be in illusion.In the same way a pilgrim who though chanting offensively is unaware of the fact  fallaciously thinking his chanting is on a divine plane is in illusion.But the fact remains that he will never be ale to get Love of Godhead.There are some goons and rogues who also take the name of Gaura-Nityananda to commit robberies and looting,however such type of chanting can never bring any auspicious results.Their Lordships are most compassionate and therefore the sincere souls who take their names in submission and humility will reap the highest reward .     rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The best solution to all the common problems facing the world today

SriChaitanya Mahaprabhu has instructed the devotees to perform welfare work for society,many people have a muddled conception of welfare work thinking it in the context of helping the poor or the unfortunate amongst society,In actual fact, real help is not some tiny,narrow,fluctuating temporary benefit for the individual as fathomed by the majority.Most of the so called welfare work that had been misconstrued by different people for the individual or nation benefit has never succeeded in solving the main problems that society faces today.The Bhagavat announces :
vedyam vastav atra vastu sivadam tapatrayonmulanam
which means only delving into the real truth which is auspicious can provide succour from the three forms of material miseries besetting the misguided people of now .Those people who have tried to counter these miseries by their speculative methods have only been able to provide some temporary relief for the public but such have failed to avert continual distress in the long run.As long as the cause of all our problems is not investigated there will never be a permanent solution.An example is if the root of a Banyan tree is uprooted then only will the tree be destroyed but simply cutting of its numerous branches time and again will not stop the tree from growing.Another comparison is of all the methods devised by man for so called world benefit is like trying to dry a ocean with thousands of people using their palms to scoop out the water.Do you think we can dry an ocean in that manner?Artificial methods are simply in vain for the real problems that face society except for the one mentioned above regarding the Supreme Truth.The insurmountable, illusory energy of the Supreme Lord covers us in manifold ways and until and unless we can mitigate this there will be always constant difficulties.In short, until we can perform devotional service to the Supreme Lord by service and surrender, there is no other way to escape distress.The Supreme Lord is the only complete Being ,full of all opulence's and the supreme of all truths ,by glorifying Him and service to Him alone can all nations and individuals alike aspire for peace and contentment .He is beyond the mind and senses of ordinary men so it is foolish to evaluate the Creator by the ordinary,puny mind which He has endowed all mortals .He is the goal of all who want to drink immortality.The only way to know him is to ascend the eternal path traversed by the great souls who have actually realized the Supreme Truth in the heart and stand testimony to the words of the Holy Scripture by their actions.The basis of all is simple faith and obedience to His words and with the guidance of saintly people all of a nation's woes will definitely go to naught,but unfortunately blind leaders who cannot see only warrant chaos for the general bewildered population for they do not see what is essential for the permanent welfare of the populace.

Are we to believe that everything is by the Lord's will

Most people that are engrossed in sinful activities and want a respite badly ,sometimes take the stand that after all everything happens by the Lord's Will and in that way they console themselves of the nefarious activities undertaken by them.However,unfortunately for them the law of God and the State soon catches up with them and they are finally held responsible for all their acts.The Supreme Lord is merciful that He allows freedom for living entities to do whatever they want but good actions are rewarded justly and bad actions are punished under His stringent Laws .He allows all actions to take place for only under His Direction everything moves.He is the eternal witness of all actions and works.The living entity when he misuses his independence and acts against the Laws of God have to suffer for all his misdeeds and that end result is countless suffering.For the person who believes and has faith in God, he understands that any reverses in his life is due inevitably to be the result of wrong actions executed in this life or previous lives so he is very tolerant and acts in a proper manner so that no further will he perform actions out of ignorance of the laws of God.

Tat te anukampam sumakshimano bhujann evakrtam vipakam

A devotee accepts everything as the mercy of the Lord being tolerant and acting with fortitude in all types of circumstances while not becoming stagnant in the performance of his devotional service to God .On the other hand the furtive worker is always blaming others for his distresses and failures including the Supreme Lord for he will never believe that he himself is the offender.The fact remains until and unless one takes to pure devotional service of the Lord till then he will never be able to solve his problems and if not only his difficulties and miseries will keep increasing .It is a vicious cycle so  striving to serve the Lord will one be able to escape this vicious cycle.Sometimes people blame the Lord for being cruel but the fact remains one when has a infectious boil on his body the surgical knife may be painful but in the long run we are able to save ourselves by subjecting to that type of operation similarly whatever the Lord subjects his devotee to serves to help that pilgrim in the progress towards Godhead.Therefore in this respect it is best to channel our aims according to His will if we want to achieve any peace at all in this life giving up all our so called vain  acts which will undoubtedly thwart the ideal for happiness.

anarthas and how to overcome it

Most people are fixed in following their own devious methods which are not recommended by scripture or saintly people therefore the gaudiya sampradaya does not give give indulgence to such.This is the nature of 'anartha'(material contamination)Those who indulge in blasphemy accumulate offenses and suffer greatly.The devotees follow the divine message of Mahaprabhu and give up the path of in auspiciousness while renouncing all bad association.Our predecessor acaryas have always exclaimed that one should give up Bad association and take to Holy association whilst doing our bhajan.It is of paramount importance to give up those who are are enmeshed in their anarthas so strive earnestly to take to the spiritual teachings of the highly evolved saints who can cut out our anarthas.Sometimes a devotee who is full of anarthas may pretend to serve the Lord whilst engaging in all sorts of wrong doings , but those actions cannot be in any way termed as bhakti or devotion to the Lord.
There are many who are completely deviant in their understanding of the gaudiya siddhanta or
conclusions and by nurturing such they end up to become the greatest enemies of the sampradaya.Such type of bad association should definitely be avoided if one wants to make spiritual advancement.The other way to overcome anarthas is to keep a fixed count on the chanting of a lakh(hundred thousand) of holy names daily and endeavor to maintain it.
Those who are eagerly accumulating weath and objects of pleasure for sense enjoyment fall down ,the devotees are always compassionate upon such people and that is the real compassion exhibited in their preaching.Those who have become overcome by offenses should follow Mahaprabhu's regime and instruction in order to overcome such offenses.Still,for the sincere disciple who may be committing offenses ,the divine spiritual master may easily wipe out such offenses and set his disciple afresh while those who do not have a guru will certainly die in their anarthas.

eclipse of the moon

Usually the time of the esclipse whether of the sun or the moon is considered an impure time .In this context, impure time is in regard to the performance of religious activities which is conducted usually and in this inauspicious time all such activities are prohibited.According to Srila Prabhupada, one who is following the regulated principles of devotional service in our disciplic sucession should not neglect such rules completely but adjust in such a way that the maximum service to the Lord can be made possible in these circumstances. The time before Mahaprabhu preached the doctrine of love ,  the devotees used to bathe in the Ganga at the time of eclipse according to scriptural injunction.Later,after the propogation of the Holy Name the holy name being considered the most important in comparison to other pious  rituals and should be given the most imortance .'There is no auspicious or inauspicious time in regard to this.Those who want to acquire pious activities think greatly in terms of all the above rituals and are very rigid in observance of such rules to the letter.In contrast the devotees of the Lord think all these rules as insignificant and do not do any works in expectation of their  results.

Sriman Mahaprabhu did not advocate caste differenciation

During one time a scholar of the Brahma Samaj came to see Srila Prabhupad and he was of the opinion that Mahaprabhu was an advocate of the caste differentiation that was prevalent in those times. Srila Prabhupad firmly refuted this point by remarking that Sriman Mahaprabhu was neutral on that score and unattached but in order to make for less chaos in society, he externally followed the strictures of behavior as exhibited by all people especially the ritualistic workersthough being of the higher caste Himself. Notwithstanding, there was never a time that he regarded a devotee of the Lord in terms of his birth or caste while on the other hand, he rigidly did not accept cooked food from non devotees even though the person concerned may hail from a high caste. This was typical in all His dealings .Only the Brahmin who daily chanted a lakh of holy names and worshiped Vishnu purely was able to able to serve and offer Him cooked grains. In this context there is the example of the Sannodiya Brahmin who was a simple and pure devotee and disciple of Madhvendra Puri who’s cooking would be taboo in normal circumstances for ascetics to accept but Mahaprabhu did eat in his house. In short, one of the most important instruction that Mahaprabhu had left the world is not to consider and treat a devotee on the stigma of his previous birth or caste and also to not to view the remnants of the food offered to the Supreme Lord in the perspective of ordinary rice, or grain. The servants of the Lord and the food offered to the Lord are all transcendental and cannot be compared to be material therefore Mahaprabhu forbade such differentiation in this respect. The smarta or ritualistic workers are adamant in their defense of caste preservation while the Brahma Samaj and like societies want to end it all together .In this respect the devotees only want to serve the Lord and act favorably to carry out devotional service while giving up all such designations which is in the bodily conception of life .

The Names of Gaura and Nityananda

In our materially contaminated state the holy name of Krishna which is transcendental cannot be savored to the full measure, for the offender to the Name is not able to attain devotional bliss or love of Godhead.In that impure condition, if the living entity is able to chant the name of Gaura- Nityananda with devotional sincerity then his impurities gradually fade away.Conversely, if one takes the Names of the Lordships in order to increase his bodily enjoyments including one's name and fame then his chanting of the name of Gaura will not have any spiritual bearing in the least.A simple example to illustrate this point is say Calcutta is 2 miles west of Howrah but if any one walking two miles in the eastern direction from Calcutta were to audaciously claim that he had reached Howrah, then he will definitely be in illusion.In the same way a pilgrim who though chanting offensively is unaware of the fact and  thinks his chanting is on a divine plane is in illusion because the fact remains that he will never be able to get Love of Godhead.There are some goons and rogues too ,who also take the name of Gaura-Nityananda to commit robberies and looting,however such type of chanting can never bring any auspicious results.Their Lordships Gaura -Nityananda are most compassionate and therefore the sincere souls who take their names in submission and humility will receive their mercy to the full measure in that their offenses will be mitigated and eventually they will be able to obtain Love of Godhead.The son is important only because he is able to save his father from hell but if the son does not do devotional service to Lord Hari then the name son is merely a farce because his father will never derive any benefit in his after life and his attempt in raising such children is simply troublesome endeavor.