Hare Krishna, today article: Who is our only well-wisher is from Dharmavira Maharaja
Prayers
Śrī Guru-Praṇāma:
oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya
jñānāñjana-śalākayā
caksur unmīlitaṁ yena
tasmai śrī-guruve namaḥ
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened my eyes, which were blinded by the darkness of ignorance.”
Two important verses:
suna suna nityananda, suna haridasa
sarvatra amara ajna karaha prakasa
prati ghare ghare giya kara ei bhiksa
‘bala krsna, bhaja krsna, kara krsna-siksa’
“Listen, listen, Nityananda! Listen, Haridasa! Make My command known everywhere! Go from house to house and beg from all the residents, ‘Please chant Krishna’s name, worship Krishna, and practise what Krishna teaches.’” (Sri Chaitanya-bhagavat, 2.13.8-9)
harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā
“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverence is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.”
Mahā-mantra Hare Kṛṣṇa:
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa
Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare
Hare Rāma Hare Rāma
Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
Who is our only well-wisher
Why should we leave all bad association and stay with Guru –
by Dharmavīra dāsa, May 29 2022
“You can be here physically in Rādhā-kuṇḍa but mentally you are somewhere else. There are 5 bodies. There is the gross body, that’s who we think we are, whom we can see, then there’s the vital body, 3rd body we have is the mind, 4th body is intelligence. 5th body is the soul. More powerful than the physical body is the vital body.
Then above that is mental body. When we sleep, the physical body is lying on the bed, but the mental body is still in operation. When you dream, you see everything as real. Who is seeing that? You are! With your mental body. The mental body is stronger than your physical body or vital body. But people don’t know that, they only know their physical body.
When we go out, we meet people, people who are generally materialistic, our mental body interacts with their mental bodies. So, by that bad association, their negative thoughts pollute us, unless you are a pure devotee, then you can purify them. When they come in your association, you can purify them. But if they come to you and you’re not a pure devotee, then you can get contaminated with their association.
That’s why it is said that you have to have sādhu-saṅga with pure devotees because from them only pure thoughts of Kṛṣṇa are emanating. So, in their presence, you will feel the pure spiritual energy and you want to be more Kṛṣṇa conscious. Materialists, they are not thinking I am the soul, they think I am physical body – it is all negative thoughts. In their association, their negative thoughts pollute you – that is why sometimes you feel your mind is disturbed, or when you are chanting and you don’t feel like chanting.
You are not aware that by being in their presence, you are taking all the negative energy, negative vibration. Because you are still a conditioned soul, you are still taking all the negative energy, it is coming into you. That will disturb you. That’s why association with husband, wife, mother, father, children – they’re not sādhus, their association is detrimental for the progress of one who wants to go back to Godhead.”
