Unity in Krsna Consciousness [granthraj]

As told by HG Devakinandan Prabhu in his recent mail, "The pain of bearing the physical disappearance of our Spiritual Master is very acute. Our hearts are vacant without his smile, his laughter, his humour, his love and his guidance. Who will encourage us even when we performed minute service, who will pat us on our backs to push us further to do more service, who will believe in us when everyone has given up?"

The disappearance of the spiritual master from the mortal world is a real testing time for disciples, particularly when the disciples are from different parts of the globe. Although the spiritual master is always with the disciples through His vani, His physical disappearance is an unbearable loss.

But, since we are all in contact with the modes of material nature, disunity between individual souls is bound to occur. The differences of opinion get resolved even before it is put before the spiritual master because of His presence. But as insisted by Guru Maharaj to Devakinandan prabhu, we should learn to feel his presence through Srimad Bhagavatam, Srimad Bhagavat-gita and Chanting. If we continuously strive to perfect our sadhana, we can minimize the amount of disagreements to almost nil by the mercy of Srila Gurudev and the Supreme Lord.

In this regard I came across a punching purport by HDG Srila Prabhupada for the verse SB 4.30.8:

sri bhagavan uvaaca
varam vrneedvam bhadram vo / yuyam me nrpa nandanaah
sauhaardenaa prthag dharmaas / tushto ham sauhrdena vah

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear sons of the King, I am very much pleased by the friendly relationships among you. All of you are engaged in one occupation—devotional service. I am so pleased with your mutual friendship that I wish you all good fortune. Now you may ask a benediction of Me.”

In the purport, Srila Prabhupada points out the importance of being united in Krsna Consciousness: “Since the sons of King Praacinabarhishad were all united in Krsna consciousness, the Lord was very pleased with them. Each and every one of the sons of King Pracinabarhishad was an individual soul, but they were united in offering transcendental service to the Lord. The unity of the individual souls attempting to satisfy the Supreme Lord or rendering service to the Lord is real unity. In the material world such unity is not possible. Even though people may officially unite, they all have different interests. In the United Nations, for instance, all the nations have their particular national ambitions, and consequently they cannot be united. Disunity between individual souls is so strong within this material world that, even in a society of Krishna Consciousness, members sometimes appear disunited due to their having different opinions and leaning toward material things. Actually, in Krsna consciousness there cannot be two opinions. There is only one goal: to serve Krsna to one’s best ability. If there is some disagreement over service, such disagreement is to be taken as spiritual. Those who are actually engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be disunited in any circumstance. This makes the Supreme Personality of Godhead very happy and willing to award all kinds of benediction to His devotees, as indicated in this verse. We can see that the Lord is immediately prepared to award all benedictions to the sons of King Praacinabarhishad.”

This gives us a realization how important it is to abide by our Maharaj’s last instruction to keep constant touch with Srimad Bhagavatam and practise devotional service.

Thank you very much.
Yours in service of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva,
Poorna Prajna das
Chennai.

Disclaimer: This article was originally published in the Yahoo Groups granthraj – run by the disciples of H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj – by the devotee name mentioned above. The posting in this article, is original realizations of our Guru Maharaj and the devotee who wrote this. Any comments regarding this article would be passed on directly to the devotee. In this article, ‘Maharaj’ and ‘Gurudev’ implicitly refer to our spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj.

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