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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
We have got the power.
We have got the power.
Everything, whatever we are thinking, doing, imagining, making plan, etcetera, the heart is so nice, it keeps a stock, photographic stock. Sometimes we have got experience: all of a sudden a thought comes which has no connection with my present activities. Still, all of a sudden comes. So in the heart there are so many stocks of different lives because I am passing through different lives. Bhutva bhutva praliyate [Bg. 8.19]. So stock is there. It comes like bubble. Just like we will find in some reservoir of water, big, all of a sudden some bubble comes. Similarly, the heart is the stock of so many dirty things. Dirty things means this experience of this material world. That is called dirty things. Because we are covered. We are spirit soul; we are now covered by these material dirty things. So it can be removed. Sva-tejasa. There is such potency of the spirit soul that it can come out. Simply the attempt should be made, assisted by or guided by a superior person. That is called spiritual master. He can guide, and we can come out of this slumber, sleeping in ignorance.
So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given us a very easy process, this chanting of Hare Krsna maha-mantra.
harer nama harer nama harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha
[Cc. Adi 17.21]
There is no other method for our spiritual progress. Simply chant Hare Krsna mantra. And there is no loss on our part. And if we chant Hare Krsna mantra, there is no loss. You can chant, Caitanya Mahaprabhu says, niyamitah smarane na kalah: "There is no hard and fast rule for chanting this Hare Krsna mantra." Everyone can attempt. Even the children, they are also chanting. There is no loss, but gain is very much. That is the greatest gain, ceto-darpana-marjanam. Ceto-dar... That requires. Ceto-darpana-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Just like in the mirror, if it is covered with dust, you cannot see your face, but if you cleanse the mirror very nicely, then you can see your actual face. Similarly, when our this heart is cleansed... And within the heart, Krsna is there. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. If we try to cleanse our heart, then -- Krsna is already there -- He will help immediately.
Ref: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.26.20 -- Bombay, December 29, 1974.
