Manasa deho gheo.....

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Hare Krishna! I wish to sincerely offer my gratitude to all of you for so kindly utilizing this precious time to come to Shri Radha Gopinath Temple to perceive the purification of the heart and true perfection of life. We have sung this deeply meaningful song of Shrila Thakur Bhaktivinod where in he is teaching us the practical application of true surrender to the mercy of the Lord, He is offering his body mind home wealth life family everything in the service of the Lord, he is not concerned either good fortune or bad fortune or even life or death, for all difficulties disappeared by choosing to take shelter of the Lord's lotus feet. Slay me or protect me as you wish for You are the master and I am your eternal servant. Shrila Prabhupada writes in the Krishna book that once greatness has to be estimated by how one tolerates provoking situations, this is a very very profound statement of Shrila Prabhupada that gives us a specific perspective of who is great, not one who is beautiful bodily features, not one who can perform excellent dramatic performances, or sing melodiously with a very enchanting voice. Greatness is not to be estimated by ones money influence or power, ones greatness is not estimated by ones physical strength or athletic abilities, ones greatness has to be estimated according to how one is able to tolerate provoking situations.

Provoking means very difficult situations, it was by this criteria that Brighu Muni came to the conclusion that Krishna or Vishnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Shrimad Bhagvatam explains this story that on the banks of the river Saraswati great self realized learned and ostier sages were meeting together disscussing the puranas, some of the puranas discribed Brahma is the great others Shiva is the greatest and others says Vishnu is the greatest because different puranas of the different level of consciousness according to the particular types of peoples conditioning's (28:28 shloka) Krishna describes vedas mainly deals with the three modes of material nature the vedic literatures for that matter the most all scriptures throughout the world in history are dealing with people who are deeply entranched in the modes of material nature and trying to elevate their consciousness to the higher level but ultimately what is the essences what is the perfection what is the goal that all the scriptures are describing, very few people understand or perceive that. So is actually the greatest Brahma Vishnu or Shiva amongst them they decided the most qualified of all the mind born son of Brahma Brighu Muni should test them and bring to them his final conclusion. Brighu Muni he knew how to test someone's greatness by provoking them to see if they are angry Hare Krishna! So first he went to Lord Brahma, in Brahma loka now Brighu muni is the son of Brahma, it is the etiquette in any civilized society that when a son comes before the father or specially after being away for a long time he offers respect and speak words of praise so Brahma was so happy to see Brighu muni and He explained how happy He was to see my son who have come, Brighu muni stood their like a statue did not offer any respect did not speak a single word, Lord Brahma seeing the offensive mentality of His son who He trained so well He became overcome with anger He was fuming inside but because of the power of the Brahma's discrimination He some how or other justified, this is my son whatever offense he makes I should, must tolerate it but he was very angry, it is explained by the acharay's how Brahma was able to some how or other control Himself from attacking Brighu muni that just as water evolves from the element of fire that same water is what is used to extinguish fire so similarly Brighu muni was His son and just as His son who had ignited such fire that same son who was born from that fire who was born of him who was by meditating on his relationship with his able to somehow extinguish his fire. So as far as Brighu muni was concerned his father Brahma failed the test, visibly angry as anything. Then he went to his elder brother Lord Shiva at Kailash when Shiva saw his brother Brighu muni coming after long time He was so happy He got up from His seat, Parvati was with Him and He said “Brighu my dear brother I am so happy to see you welcome welcome!” and He came to embrace him and Brighu muni with his lips in his distaste in a disgusted expression he

said “Don't you touch me you heretic, your body is filthy, you rubbed it with ashes, you associate with gosts and all lowly beings, your snakes, your are filthy, do not contaminate me unless I have to jump in the Ganges to take bath for purification” Lord Shiva heard this insulting words right in front of His wife He became very upset His eyes became like coals he picked up His trident to punish Brighu, but some how Parvati fell at Lord Shiva's feet and said “ He is your brother forgive him, excuse him please please! He is a brahman” So Shiva cooled down, he failed the test. Then he went to Sweta deep the abode of Lord Vishnu, Lord Vishnu was lying with is head on the lap of Lakshmi devi relaxing very nicely, Brighu muni just ran right into the room, ran right in with no announcement and with his foot kicked Vishnu right in the chest, Lord Vishnu immediately got up and offer Brighu muni His own throne to sit on and he washed his feet and he said Brighu I am very sorry, due to my neglect I did not properly stand up to receive you I am so honored, your lotus feet the feet of a celebrated brahman like you can purify even the holy places therefore now my chest has become a holy place because your lotus feet has touched my chest now I believe that Lakshmi devi will now live there for ever and never leave me, such a good fortune you have bestowed upon me but I regreat that your feet are so soft so tender and my chest is hard like a thunderbolt perhaps I have committed the offense that not only not welcome you properly but hurting your feet so please let me massage them to make them feel nice, He massaged the lotus feet of Brighu muni Brighu muni was stunned literally he was practically paralyzed in ecstasy he couldn't move he couldn't speak, tears of ecstatic love was flowing flowing from his eyes for a long time. According to Shri Caitanya Bhagvat after a long time being stunned in ecstasy he began to dance in that ecstasy couldn't say a word he left that place returned to the banks of Saraswati to tell the great sages that he committed a mental offense to Lord Brahma an He became angry, worse than a mental offense is an offense with words, he committed such an offense to Lord Sankar, He became angry but the worst of all offenses is the physical offense, he literally he didn't slapped Vishnu with his hand but worst than that he literally kicked him with his foot that the most humiliating insulting thing you can do to a person and Lord Vishnu with great humility and forbearance excepted that He was the one who made an offense, after hearing this all the great sages unanimously agreed that Vishnu is supreme that if one takes shelter of Vishnu one can find supreme peace because Vishnu is the reservoir of supreme peace, the essence of all religions is to take shelter of Supreme Personality of Godhead. Bhogtaram the Bhagwat Gita verse describes how one who surrenders to the Supreme Personality of Godhead knowning Him to be the supreme proprietor of everything the supreme goal of all sacrifices the supreme enjoyer and the best friend of everyone, he alone attains true peace, Prabhupada this the peace formula surrendering to God and those who take shelter of Krishna they become great because the great manifest through them, this the meaning of taking shelter, to submit oneself to be the instrument of ones great, one who is the devotee of the great manifest the quality of greatness and what is greatness the ability to tolerate provoking situations. Shrila Prabhupada gives the example that a small fire can be blown out by even a small lite gentle breeze but the supreme of all fire the sun even the most powerful hurricane cannot even slightly move the sun from its position therefore the sun is great the candle is not. It is provoking situations that not only test our realizations in Krishna consciousness but is those same provoking situations that give us the opportunity to become great and we find in the holy scriptures this is a continues theme that graphic difference between a great person and a person who is not great a specially in regard to the enemy of anger (40:51 sloka) Krishna explains in Bhagwat Gita that the great symbol of sin is lust when there is lust within the heart it is transformed into rafts, lust means the desire to enjoy, there is gross enjoyment and subtle enjoyment when a provoking situations is that really interferes with our desires to enjoy either enjoy the facilities of this world through our senses or enjoy profit adoration or distinction. Shrimad Bhagwatam describes so many stories, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Puranas, the Shri Caitanya Caritamrita which revealed how great personalities are able to tolerate their anger, now how did Shrila Prabhupada define tolerance ? In many cases Prabhupada just describes tolerance as the ability to forgive even when we are offended. Lets take the example of Maharaj Parikshit, when he was in the embryo of his womb of his mother Ashvatthama try to kill him with Brahmastra but Parikshit Maharaj he was able to see the lord coming unto his womb to protect him, why did the Lord entered his womb ? Because his mother Uttara knowing that she was in a totally helpless condition cried out to Krishna please save my child and Krishna always hears the prayers of His sincere devotees and actually for that reason any of us have been a loud to have Krishna in our life's because great personalities have prayed for our salvation when the great souls pray for us Krishna makes Himself accessible and then it our free will how we receive His mercy. From that time Parikshit Maharaj knew that Krishna is my protector, Suta goswami described to the sages of Naimisharanya how incredibly compassionate Parikshit Maharaj was as the king of the world and his super glorious deads, they wanted to know more and more and more about this great king so suta goswami explains the greatness that how he left this world. One day king Parikshit was on an exertion in the forest and something happened to him that never happened before he was attacked with unbearable thirst, some of you may know what it is like! When you have unbearable thirst you give anything for little water nothing else can satisfy, if someone gives you ornaments nice car beautiful garments a throne to sit on beautiful people to associate with it cannot touched your heart as long as you are just suffering thirst you must have water you cant enjoy anything else until you attain water so Parikshit Maharaj was hunting for water he came to the hermitage of the great sage Shaumik rishi who is sitting in a state of samadhi meditating on the Lord, Parikshit Maharaj asked him for water, now Shaumik rishi was a brahman and Parikshit Maharaj is the emperor of the entire planet earth there should have been by natural etiquette that an offering place and water but Shaumik rishi was so much in the another world of meditation that he did not take a note that the king had come. So king Parikshit was overcome by the yoga maya potency of the Lord, although he was such a tolerant and great person he could control his all of his mind and senses to a prefect degree some how or other the Lord covered him over and put a little bit of desire within his heart to avenged the rishi as he was leaving the house with his bow he picked up a dead serpent and placed it on the shoulder of Shaumik rishi, very very tiny offense and he left but because he was a great king as the yoga maya potency of the Lord kind of wharf king Parikshit felt terribly guilty what I have done? Why have I done this, mean while the son of shaumik rishi he was inexperienced, immature and very very puffed up because he was brahman he was a son of a powerful Brahman and he was trained in such a way that he had brahmanical powers because he had this opulences of knowledge and power he became proud, kali had already been punished and subdued by Maharaj Parikshit he was looking for some way to overcome the earth but there was no possibility the only place is Parikshit Maharaj gave him to rule was whether was illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat eating or whether was too much hording of wealth but Parikshit Maharaj was such a pure devotee, he sets a wonderful example he was the father of all human society therefore there was no such illicit activities therefore kali was stranded without any powers to affect anyone but he saw in this little boy Shringi false pride, proud of his knowledge and his powers, kali understood this is the way I will enter into this little crack and through this crack I will conquer the world. He influenced Shringi to become so angry so out raged he spoke to his playmates that this rascal person he has offended a brahman since when does the crows and the watch dogs have right to enter into the homes of their masters and offend them what to speak of eat of the same plate as them, the kshatriyas are simply like watch dogs they are suppose to stay outside of the house of the brahmans and protect them but this king due to his impudence has lost all proper behaviour and he has offended my father now watch what I will do. He sip water from the Koshik river and then he pronounced a curse “ On seven days from today this low class person and the guys of a king would meet his death by the snake bird Dakshaka, I proclaimed this curse “ then the child went back to his father and he was crying he was a victim of kali he was crying because he really didn't know whether he did the right thing or not but it was done, his father hearing his little son crying came out of samadhi and saw the snake on his shoulder didn't think anything of it just pushed it of and asked his son what is causing pain to your heart, his son told what had happened, Shaumik rishi was overwhelmed with grief such a little offense didn't mean anything putting a snake on someone shoulder, he told his son do you not know the king Parikshit is a pure devotee of Lord Krishna, it is due to him that religiosity and spirituality is promiating the whole earth, without him decoits thieves would plunder the common people, he knew what was in store in the age of kali he grieved piteously and then he prayed he prayed to the Supreme Personality of Godhead to forgive his son for this horrible offense mean while King Parikshit was within his palace and he was thinking in his mind that I have committed an offense let what ever reaction is meant for me come now whatever Krishna sees fit to do to punish me I am willing to accept then he got the message for Shaumik rishi that he was cursed to die on seventh day, Maharaj Parakshit accepted this as good news he saw this is the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and opportunity to detach himself from all the entanglements of all social and domestic affairs in this and to completely surrender to the shelter of the lord. As Thakur Bhaktivinod prays “ slay me protect me as you wish, for you are the master of your eternal servant” this truly was the practical example of Maharaj Parikshit he left his home and sat on the banks of the Ganges to meditate on the Supreme Personality of Godhead fasting until death, seeing the great king with such a great for heart, actually king Parikshit was thinking of going back to Shaumik rishi to beg forgiveness but he knew Shaumik rishi was suffering so much due to his activities of his son if he would have face him it would have only caused more pain to the great sage so out of etiquette he went directly to the Ganges. Great sages and rishis from all over they all came to assemble there they wanted to be there to serve the king until the last movement, King Parikshit humbly bowed down to each of the sages and brahmans as they appeared and to each one he presented what was his decision, I have vowed to fast till death simply hearing the glories of the supreme personality of Godhead, do I have your blessing? Is this the right thing to me to do ? Although he was king of the world he had no pride he knew any decision is not auspicious without the conformation and blessing of great souls he would not act independently. All the great souls who were assembled they bestowed their full blessing upon him they confirmed that yes this the glories thing you are about to do and we will be there with you until you leave this world. Then Parikshit Maharaj with folded palms and lowered head of humility ask to question of the great sages, what is the highest occupation for people leaving in this world for all classes of people leaving in this world and what is the prime duty of a person who is about to die ? It was on that time the great son of Vyas dev Sukadev goswami appeared and spoke Shrimad Bhagvatam to answer these two question of Maharaj Parikshit. An example Shringi because of his false pride although brahmans with great powers a little offense and he became so raffled he cursed a man to die and King Parikshit he didn't deserve that by all social ethical or moral standards but he did not become angry, Parikshit Maharaj had the power to counter curse Shringi and Shaumik rishi and kill them he had the power to send his armies to destroy them but he forgive them, he considered he deserve it for his offense and he took shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therfore Parikshit Maharaj is celebrated even 5 thousand years later as a great personality because how he tolerated a provoking situation. The story of Ambrish Maharaj he didn't even committed offense to Durvas muni at Madhuban on the bank of Yamuna in Braj bhumi Ambrish Maharaj was performing a whole year Ekadasi fast and it was just the time to break the fast, this is in a previous yuga for all this technicalities was very very important to observe so just at that movement when he had to break the fast Durvas muni came to his house and he receives him with so much affection, Durvas muni says I want to take fast and then I will take prasad while he was in bath the brahmans told Ambrish if you don't break your fast now all the good affects for yourself and for the whole world will be nullified so with their permission he just have little charnamrita a drop of water that washed the feet of the lord because according to the scriptures drinking charnamrita is simultaneously breaking fast and not breaking fast, he took a drop of charnamrita, Durvas muni so powerful he knew it how did he know he was such an accomplished yogi but due to some pride in his heart he was out raged, he drank charnamrita before feeding me! directly with thunderous anger he approached Ambrish and he enter blaspheming him with horrible words than created a fiery monstrous demon to kill Ambrish. Ambrish Maharaj did not even tried to defend himself he just offered the respectful obeisances to the supreme personality of godhead, slay me or protect me as you wish, you are the master and I am your eternal servant and in that spirit Ambrish Maharaj simply accepted the Lords mercy in what ever way it came, thus the lord who always protect His devotees sends Sudharshan to kill the fiery demon and attack Durvas muni who fled, he ran he flew he went to Indra loka he went to Barhma loka, Barhma said it is Vishnu's chakra I cannot help you he went to Shiva loka, he's an expansion of Siva, Siva said it is Vishnu's chakra I cannot help you he went to Vaikuntha loka that was his power and Vishnu said you offended my devotee, my devotees have given their lives to me therefore I give my life to my devotees, my devotee is always thinking of me I am always thinking of my devotee, my devotee sacrifices everything for me and I will sacrifice everything for my devotee, the only salvation is to fall on the feet and get the mercy of Ambrish. Durvas muni came back to Madhubhan where Ambrish was still standing waiting for serve his guest prasad, one full year was passed he did not eat anything that whole year because his guest had not yet eaten his prasad. Durvas muni came falling at his feet while Sudarshan chakra was right behind him begging forgiveness, Ambrish Maharaj prayed to Sudarshan chakra the all auspicious servant of the lord to be merciful he prayed to the lord to forgive Durvas muni. Ambrish maharaj considered due to his offense Durvas muni didn't eat for one year and sat him down and serve him with such a love and respect. Another example a slight offense to Durvas and he was victim of anger a horrible terrible offense to Ambrish and he simply took shelter of the Lord tolerated his mind and senses and gave forgiveness to Durvas. The story of Gopal Chapala, he tried to ruin the reputation of Shrivaas Thakur by putting all tantrik paraphernalia in front of his house so that the whole Nava deep would think Shrivaas was actually a tantrik a materialistic person therefore all this kirtans going on in his house must be ob seen sinful immoral. Srivaas Thakur came out of his house and saw all this, called all the people of Navadeep and said it is been exposed that I am actually a tantrik worshiper of Durga but nobody believed him rather the cleaned with cowdung and made everything nice he did not seek revenge he saw as the mercy of the lord (1:06:17) Shrila Prabhupada explains what it means to experience the higher taste to see within the material world the mercy for hand of Krishna nothing happens by chance if we look for the spiritual energy if we look for the mercy of the Lord that is what we will find everywhere in all circumstances but the only way we could do that is therefore actually sincerely trying to be humble. Haridas Thakur is the another prime example, they beat him in 22 market places and how did he react to the people blaspheming him and beating him and entrancing him to torcheting death, he was praying to the lord to forgive them. A another example is Prahlad, what was Prahlad's offense to Hirankashipu he was respectful to his father he honored his father he offered his obeisances, spoke sweet polite words, he was perfect obidient son in every respect except he was honest that he love Krishna that's all and for that slight offense his father wanted to kill his 5 years old son, Hiranyakashipu was out raged for something small and how did Prahlad Maharaj respond to be throne into pits of snakes, being strobed with tridents, throne in ocean, throne under mountains into fire fed deadly poison under massive boulder's, he was never angry with his father he was humble he accepts every situations as an opportunity to simply remember Krishna to take shelter of Krishna and in the end the only thing he asked of Lord Narshima dev is please forgive my father give him liberation this is greatness. Throughout our vaishnav history, throughout our vaishnav scriptures this is constant theme why ? Because it is absolutely necessary for every aspiring devotee to understand this principle and apply it to their life. You cannot really make proper spiritual advancement unless you are able to forgive people who offend you, mundane egoistic consciousness is to hold grudges to avenged people to wish bad for people. Certainly if someone offends the lord or his devotees we should protect but if one offenses come to us our greatness has to be estimated according to how we tolerate those provoking situations and Krishna He is as the paramathma the Supreme professor who is grading us every times he sends a test and our spiritual advancement is going to be determined how show Krishna our sincerity to live by His principle. “ tåëäd api su-nécena, taror iva sahiñëunä, amäninä mäna-dena, kértanéyaù sadä hariù” when Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu composed this beautiful sloka which many of our acharaya's considered the crest jewel of all proposes of life to live by this principle, it was for this reason unless we are trying to practice humility tolerance, the offering of respect and not expecting respect we cannot really take shelter of the holy name. Therefore we should estimate greatness according to this principle not simply external appearances. Lust is also a provoking situation, Haridas Thakur was presented all the enjoyment of this world by maya devi herself in the form of a beautiful women but he tolerated that provoking situation he maintained the saintity of his vows took shelter of Krishna in His holy name therefore he is considered a great personality. In marriage there is provoking situations, I have never been married but I heard and read something also that there is many many provoking situations as may be at every movement, too egos a man and a women putting in the same house very difficult and then children and every parents want to be the controller of their children but every parents realizes I cannot controlled them its very humiliating its very insulting to the ego, when the wife doesn't listen to the husband when the husband doesn't properly appreciate the wife and when the children act completely contrary whatever the mother and father are telling them, very humiliating situations very provoking, what is your greatness how you can tolerate those provoking situations and today there is no greatness on any level of this world what to speak of spiritually but even moral. Previously no matter what difficulty was there in between husband and wife some how or other they some how tolerated and adjust and maintained the saintity of their vows but in this age when thinks are not conducive to our enjoyment provoking situations creates such a network or chain reaction of violent reactions, in the western world 60,70 % marriage end in divorce because they just cant tolerate provoking situations. Tolerance means to be forbearing and to be forgiving, tolerance means to maintain the saintity of our vows, to maintain the saintity of our morality, to maintain the saintity of our faith under any situations and the more we tested greater the opportunity is to make spiritual progress. Sometime we become expert at anything we become proud and that pride built a certain estimation of our selves within our own mind, people do not respect us according to what we expect our mind burns like fire when that happens that should simply be the evidence that I am really a neophyte, I haven't understood I must really really work hard to purify myself. A great personality himself or herself to be the servant of the servant of the servant and sees every opportunity as his every situations as an opportunity to take shelter of the lord not take shelter of material solutions to our problems. Durvas Muni, Shringi, Gopal Capala all these personalities Hiranyakashipu they tried to find material solution to what they considered a provoking situation but the vaishnavas took shelter of the Supreme personality of godhead, this theme I will repeat it again because the theme is repeated again and again and again, its practically everywhere in Shrimad Bhagvatam and Caitanya Caritamrita, the most important of the vaishnavs scriptures, why? Because its all important to understand. Making spiritual progress is like fighting a battle against maya and there is going to be so many battles that comes before us in this world and we must learn to be prepared for each battle and wining the battle means acting with integrity and taking shelter of Krishna, loosing the battle means for staking our integrity and taking shelter of our mind and senses, taking shelter of lower tendencies. The materialistic people they would think their victory is conquering over another person getting the best above someone else but the devotee understand that is nothing to do with victory, victory is pleasing Krishna and that means preserving faith and the integrity of our ideals and acting with self controlled forgiveness and tolerance. Therefore we must arm ourselves with Krishna's mercy so that the storms come upon us we can find shelter and comes by associating with devotees who are sincerely aspiring for these virtues, by reading the holy scriptures about the personalities, how they act? How they react ? How they pray ? How they take shelter ? That is my aspiration and then when situations comes upon our life we fallow in the food steps of great souls because we know who is great and what is great, we must learn to take shelter of the Lord that comes to chanting the holy names regularly and offering prayers. The story of Gajendra, he was big big powerful king of the jungle, he was put in a provoking situation, this insignificant little crocodile, if it was in the land stumped the head of that crocodile and killed it within a second, Ah! Yes he saw that crocodile finished, beaten him with one leg and crushed it with the other but in the water he couldn't do that. The water is the crocodiles abode and in the water crocodile is king and the land Gajendra was king, oh even though he was so big and strong, the lions and tigers would run away from him in fear when he looked at them in disapproval but he was in a situation where he tried everything to save himself, it was a terrible provoking situation and ultimately what did he do, he lifted a lotus flower and offered it to the supreme personality of godhead and offered beautiful prayers of complete surrender. In essence what did he pray “ slay me or protect me as you wish, for you are the master and I am your eternal servant “ Every day we sit down to chant japa, every day we come and worship the deities, we are practicing to take shelter of the lord, we are practicing to take the name of the lord. Bhaktivinod Thakur in his another prayer he tells us, I have seen and considered all the worlds and my conclusion is Krishna your name is my only salvation, so we must practice taking shelter of the holy name, practice hearing about the great souls and their devotion to the lord and sincerely honestly try to follow in the footsteps of the great souls in our every day life, even in the most ordinary typical situations that come for us in life we should be trying to follow in the footsteps of great souls that is how we become great in the eyes of God and then when the test come and they will come, when we are provoke with greed, we want to accumulate more and more and more and more and more, we want to use that greed according to our own whimsical independent desires thats provocation of maya, we understand that this money belong to God, its a test that my mind and senses are telling me to use it for some other purpose, it should be used in harmony with the will of God with the blessing of great souls. Greed is the provocation, anger is one of the most provocation, lust, envy, pride illusion these six enemies within the mind will provoke us in every situation of our life (1:24:13) we must learn to tolerate them without being disturb, without letting them disturb the integrity of the ideals we are living for and is possible (1:24:32), when the test come in our life with folded hands we gratefully accepts them as the mercy of the Lord and thank Krishna, offer obeisances to Krishna. Recently I was in Italy and one nice lady she was there, she is dying of severe cancer already spread all over her body and yet she just comes to the program smiling chanting whatever possibility she can she dances, she looks happy in anyone else in the room and all the devotees are happy, shes so happy looking, shes so great full, devotees are praying for her, I spoke to her, she said how luck how fortunate I am, there are people praying for me, if I wouldn't have this disease they wouldn't be praying for, what a great fortune, what a great blessing, she wasn't attach to living her dying , she was attached to accepting Krishna's mercy from her heart, this is the reality of a person following in the footstep of great souls, living examples so let us try to follow in the footsteps of those who are great and remember Prabhupada's definition of greatness, please repeat after me “ Ones greatness has to be estimated by ones ability to tolerate provoking situations “ much louder form the core of your heart “ Ones greatness has to be estimated by ones ability to tolerate provoking situations “ much louder please “” much louder please and emphasis on provoking “” Thank you very much. Is there any questions

Thank you Maharaj for your wonderful class , at a practical level when we are engaging in some service and we have to organize or conduct some event and many things have to be done at a short time and many devotees have to engaged in service and so in such cases because the pressure is very high and considering the consequences that what will happen if there is a mistake so sometimes one may flare up when something doesn't happen we have told someone to do and so many other devotees would be affected by that so in such cases what is the practical advice, how to keep ones cool?

Maharaj said:- Your question is a provoking situation and when we trying to serve the vaishnavas and we become exited sometimes over exited under the pressure of our service that is not a serious offense, if we are intensionally trying to harm someone, if we are intensionally trying to ridicule or minimize the person's positions in the eyes of others, that is offensive but if you simply “ no no no you do like that not like that “ that is not offensive however if you have hurt somebody's heart then you should ask forgiveness but the provoking situations is when we are offended when we are insulted or when lust, anger , greed , pride or illusion comes upon us, sometime in the service of others we may act in an exited way and but we should be careful to do it in such a way that we do not hurt the hearts of others and if we do we should ask forgiveness but that is not offensive. Offenses is when you deliberately avenged someone for what they have done to you or when we give to our lower and lower nature. Is that answer your question?

We will have sankirtan at this time please everyone dance very blissfully and chant the holy names for the pleasure of Shri Radha Gopinath.