Post by malati on Oct 24, 2009 18:47:46 GMT -6
I would like to introduce sadhus to serious western devotees who they can draw inspirations from.
First one on my list, although he is not my guru, is Pran Krishna das Baba of Radha Kunda. This link gives you a brief info how a simple village sadhu can touch anyone’s heart.
www.kundeshwari.com/sweetvision/main.php?g2_itemId=942
The inspiration of starting this thread are from the words ( read below) of
my guru the late Sadhu Baba Nikunja Goswami of Advaita Acharya parivar.
“Withdrawing the hands, feet and other active senses and dressing oneself as a renunciant is allright, but if one ponders on sense enjoyment for 23 out of 24 hours then one is a hypocrite. One is not on the shore of a sense enjoyer and also not on the shore of the renunciant – one drowns then. Leave one shore and come to the other – make a choice.”
Then he quoted:
karmendriyäni samyamya ya äste manasä smaran
6indriyärthan vimüåhätmä mithyäcäraù sa ucyate
“One who controls the active senses, but whose mind remembers the sense objects,
and is bewildered by them, is called a hypocrite.” (Bhagavad Gétä 3.6)
Those who say one thing and do another, who pretend to be pure but are actually
absorbed in sense objects have surely practised in mäyä’s marketplace. Many people falsely dress like renunciants and make a big public show of tears and ecstasy. Choose which side you want to be on – mäyä’s family or Kåñëa’s family.
Why should you leave a good position to sit on an äsana and renounce like a monkey or a cat? Acat is pretending to be peacefully sitting around but when he gets his opportunity and nobody watches, he will jump and attack. A monkey lives in the trees and looks simple, but that is only external. His inner feelings are not at all renounced. Why stand with your feet in two worlds? You will pollute this pure religious tradition by falsely dressing like a renunciant. You know why I became a forest-dweller? Because there are no hypocrites here in the woods. Even a thief here will not speak lies.7 What will you gain by just dressing like a bhakta just to enjoy some facilities? Will you make your birth successful with self deception?
You have now taken human birth, make your choice! Go to Kåñëa, fix Yourmind on Him, He is so kind! When a child cries the mother is obliged to come and give him
her milk. The Lord is like a cow that comes running like mad after her calf when it runs away. Why worry? Just call out to Him! You have now taken a human birth, now you can attain God. That’s why you got the human birth anyway. As a human being you should callout to God. There are millions of species of life, but the human species is the best – why are you wasting this precious life then? You think it will come again?”
First one on my list, although he is not my guru, is Pran Krishna das Baba of Radha Kunda. This link gives you a brief info how a simple village sadhu can touch anyone’s heart.
www.kundeshwari.com/sweetvision/main.php?g2_itemId=942
The inspiration of starting this thread are from the words ( read below) of
my guru the late Sadhu Baba Nikunja Goswami of Advaita Acharya parivar.
“Withdrawing the hands, feet and other active senses and dressing oneself as a renunciant is allright, but if one ponders on sense enjoyment for 23 out of 24 hours then one is a hypocrite. One is not on the shore of a sense enjoyer and also not on the shore of the renunciant – one drowns then. Leave one shore and come to the other – make a choice.”
Then he quoted:
karmendriyäni samyamya ya äste manasä smaran
6indriyärthan vimüåhätmä mithyäcäraù sa ucyate
“One who controls the active senses, but whose mind remembers the sense objects,
and is bewildered by them, is called a hypocrite.” (Bhagavad Gétä 3.6)
Those who say one thing and do another, who pretend to be pure but are actually
absorbed in sense objects have surely practised in mäyä’s marketplace. Many people falsely dress like renunciants and make a big public show of tears and ecstasy. Choose which side you want to be on – mäyä’s family or Kåñëa’s family.
Why should you leave a good position to sit on an äsana and renounce like a monkey or a cat? Acat is pretending to be peacefully sitting around but when he gets his opportunity and nobody watches, he will jump and attack. A monkey lives in the trees and looks simple, but that is only external. His inner feelings are not at all renounced. Why stand with your feet in two worlds? You will pollute this pure religious tradition by falsely dressing like a renunciant. You know why I became a forest-dweller? Because there are no hypocrites here in the woods. Even a thief here will not speak lies.7 What will you gain by just dressing like a bhakta just to enjoy some facilities? Will you make your birth successful with self deception?
You have now taken human birth, make your choice! Go to Kåñëa, fix Yourmind on Him, He is so kind! When a child cries the mother is obliged to come and give him
her milk. The Lord is like a cow that comes running like mad after her calf when it runs away. Why worry? Just call out to Him! You have now taken a human birth, now you can attain God. That’s why you got the human birth anyway. As a human being you should callout to God. There are millions of species of life, but the human species is the best – why are you wasting this precious life then? You think it will come again?”
