Idle Curiocity & cure

In my company there was a lady. when I saw her, I found a kind of aristocracy in her dealings. She was behaving carefully & had good sense of dressing to cover her body. Although it may look like very usual but its getting very rare in the modern world specially software industry. So I felt a bit of more respect for her , But I found next 2/3 days when I would come to company I was unnecessarily curious about it. It was definitely was not a carnal but I was reminded idle curiocity is dangerous. Specially for the for one in pursuance of absolute truth &  he has to be careful about the patterns flowing in his mind.

Curiosity is the human tendency to know everything, good or bad, about a person or thing.
Few example of idle curiocity are to read the letters of other persons without permission, to examine the contents of the drawers or closets of a person, to look at, read or peruse someone’s papers or notes left on the desk or atop a work table.
Actually for many people the idle curiocity leads to many pitfalls in the life.

For many people the idle curiocity leads to smoking of cigarettes, watching pornography movies, to indulge into impure habbits. Later then they have to lament for the mistakes they have commited. Even idle curiocity which is not sinful but beyond perview of ones work is is not very good becuase scriptures say that Human form of life is very rare & even the life span in this form is very little so one should be careful to utilise his time. The cause of the idle curiocity is when mind is not occupied with fixed goal or purpose. When there is no definite direction in the life then we tend to experiment.

When I was writing this article I found Catholic manual of civility says something very nice related about curiocity

"Curiosity is bad, when it is scandalous. It is scandalous when one looks at what is indecent, be it at the theater or movies, or in photographs, books, magazines, and so on. Today we must include at the top of that list the obscene pictures plenteously found on the Internet. Looking at such things is morally sinful.
Curiosity is bad, when it suggests purchasing pernicious books containing doctrine against the Faith and good customs. Love romances are also dangerous traps by which the Devil snatches uprightness and purity of customs from souls, especially women.

Curiosity is bad, fourth, when it is idle. Idle curiosity consists in the blinding desire for novelties of all types: from political news to the latest scandals or romantic entanglements of neighbors or movie stars. It is idle because the person obsessed by such things looks at everything without seeing anything, without fixing his attention on immediate, proximate things. The only aim of this curiosity is to offer new information to others who have the same defect. Their conversation always starts with the eager question: “Did you hear the latest?” Then he pours his futile information into the ears of his companions. "

The idle curiocity is propelled by provoking advertisements, erotic films which overpromises or many times deludes the people about happiness which they can get by lavish lifestyle , uncontrolled indulgence in the gratification of the senses
superficial display of one’s status  in the society.
But one can immediately curb it by the strengthening the intelligence by the words of the scriptures. Like BG says
ye hi sam´sparsa-ja bhoga
duhkha-yonaya eva te
ady-antavantah kaunteya
na tes?u ramate budhah

"An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them."
So scriptures work 2 ways they expose the false promise of happiness through sense gratification & they guide us to inquire about something higher which will make us actually happy.

When we direct our curiocity to know about the Lord, Scriptures say its perfection of the curiocity. Because its beneficial for all the living entities.

munayah sadhu prishto 'ham
bhavadbhir loka-mangalam
yat kritah krishna-samprasno
yenatma suprasidati

"O sages, I have been justly questioned by you. Your questions are worthy because they relate to Lord Krishna and so are of relevance to the world's welfare. Only questions of this sort are capable of completely satisfying the self." (Bhag. 1.2.5)

The way to come out of idle curiocity is to follow the path shown by great people. Ramanujacharya, Madhvacharya, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprubhu, Srila Prabhupad these personalities clearly
show a Actually material things although they may be very new but the experience is always old and dull over the period of time but the nature of the spiritual practices is although the things are very old but the experience is always fresh.

tad eva ramyam´ ruciram´ navam´ navam´
tad eva sasvan manaso mahotsavam
tad eva sokarn?ava-sos?an?am´ nr?n?am´
yad uttamah?sloka-yaso 'nugiyate

"Those words describing the glories of the all-famous Personality of Godhead are attractive, relishable and ever fresh. Indeed, such words are a perpetual festival for the mind, and they dry up the ocean of misery."

Finally, by this time I am fully busy in projects inside company & outside of it. And demeanor of that motherly lady also hardly can be compared to that of Lord Ram even when he was in forest since recently I have read Ramayan.

All glories to Vivek Kulkarni Pr.

Dear Vivek Pr.,

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisance’s.

All glories to Srila Prabhupad! All glories to Sri Guru & Sri Gauranga!

On this auspicious day of your appearance although you are hundreds of kilometers away (555 km’s exactly) but  warmth of your love & affection still protects me from the cold formal impersonal  atmosphere of company. To be in the company where I work  I had to qualify the criteria, but to be in your company you saw that I am very unqualified & you blessed me with association Krishna in the form of his devotees. To remain in company I had to take so many assessment but for you, I assessed your tolerance, patience, calmness & humility etc.  so many times but you always kept me in your company, such merciful is your character. While company motivates me to meet the deadlines in the hopeless world; you are inspiring me for initiation of journey of endless love.

Srila Prabhupad writes in the purport of SB 1.5.28

Transcendental loving service for the Supreme Lord is the natural inclination of every living being. The instinct is dormant in everyone, but due to the association of material nature the modes of passion and ignorance cover this from time immemorial. If, by the grace of the Lord and the great-souled devotees of the Lord, a living being becomes fortunate enough to associate with the unadulterated devotees of the Lord and gets a chance to hear the unadulterated glories of the Lord, certainly the flow of devotional service takes place like the flow of a river.

My flow of devotional service was choked up from time immemorial but you became the instrument in paving the way for the flow of my devotional service. Not only that but you always vigilant that my flow should not go astray but reach to its ultimate destination, to the oceanic love of Krishna Prem!

            Your eagerness to practice devotional service is unparallel. Another high class quality of you is your uncomplaining nature. Although your health was very bad & you are currently far from association but you humbly accepted that without cribbing to anybody.

As stated in SB 10.14.48 purport

    A sincere devotee earnestly desires to go back to the Lord's abode. Therefore he willingly accepts the Lord's merciful punishment and continues offering respects and obeisance’s to the Lord with his heart, words and body. Such a bona fide servant of the Lord, considering all hardship a small price to pay for gaining the personal association of the Lord, certainly becomes a legitimate son of God, as indicated here by the words daya-bhak. Just as one cannot approach the sun without becoming fire, one cannot approach the supreme pure, Lord Krishna, without undergoing a rigid purificatory process, which may appear like suffering but which is in fact a curative treatment administered by the personal hand of the Lord.

You are exemplifying lines of above purport by your personal example.

Your gentle & calm demeanor soothes the heart of anybody associating with you and you like association of senior Vaisnavas especially HG PHP, HG BGP. In yatra you got association of HG Radheshyam Pr. HG Gaurang Pr.  & HG Shyamanand Pr.   also because of your sincere hankering.

As stated in Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.29, Narada says
TRANSLATION
I was very much attached to those sages. I was gentle in behavior, and all my sins were eradicated in their service. In my heart I had strong faith in them. I had subjugated the senses, and I was strictly following them with body and mind.

Anybody knows you will tell that first thing they noted about you is that  you are very cool headed & never waste time.

In letter to Madhudvisha Srila Prabhupada writes

  “So now you must all my senior disciples and leaders become very, very much aware of your grave responsibility to the human society for delivering them from the clutches of catastrophe, and be always cool-headed and utilize every moment in the best manner possible.”

You are possessing all these wonderful qualification necessary to practice devotional service. You are specially endowed with all musical talents to glorify the holy name & you like to do so very much!

Your company is one of the most precious gift I possess in Krishna consciousness. I am very thankful to you for being so kind to me

& always encouraging me in all my thick & thins. My only one complain to you is you are very miser in correcting me & I need that in abundance. Time is short to describe all your wonderful qualities so I could only touch those which came in my mind without much thinking.

I pray to Lord that you may get all necessary empowerment to execute will of the Lord in the glorious mission of Srila Prabhupad

Please forgive me for all my offense & Please pray for me that one day I will able to serve devotees properly

your servant,

tushar

I bow down to the glorious son of mother Hara

Dear Indraveer Prabhu,
Hare Krishna!

Dandavat!

All glories to Indraveer Prabhu! All glories to Srila Prabhupad!

"Your mood to help your juniors in practice of Krishna consciousness is suitably adapted to the Radheshyam prabhu's mood of preaching. When your throat emits sweet melodious  sounds of Hare krishna  & vibrant notes of harmonium are softly played (sometimes vigorously also) by you, it inspires all devotees to sing enthusiastically & from the core of their hearts, infused with aspects of devotional service. You are accompanied by all good skills & talents for the sankirtana movement which is a religious practice for the age of kali. You are brilliant ornament of Srila Prabhupad’s movement.  You are always accompanied by nice realizations & pastimes of Krishna’s transcendental abode. You motivate purer level of devotion to Krishna by your own example & you are very attractive to all of your associates. By preaching in your place you caused minds young & old village women & men dance in the tunes of Hare krishna. Your dislike to materialistic association, materialistic talk is like raging wind that heralds the daunting rain.

I remember when you used to utter holy name, it awakened sweet flavor to life in the VOICE!

I bow down to you Indraveer pr., a beautiful (in & out) son of mother Hara!"

I wish very very Krishna conscious appearance day to you! May lord bestow all his mercy upon you.

Whenever I remember you Indraveer Pr. it reminds me of your seriousness, sincerity, gravity, obedience , tolerance & extreme determination.

Please forgive me for my offenses & Please pray for me!

Your servant,

Tushar

Srila Prabhupad disappearance day offering

Today we are celebrating disappearance day of HDG Srila Prabhupada! I would like to make an humble offering at his lotus feet. Please forgive me for mistakes & bless me with your blessings & prayers.

Srila Prabhupada’s mercy  & qualities are unlimited.  I feel myself completely insufficient to speak about the glorious master Srila Prabhupada & I beg forgiveness for making this attempt without any preparation & on time which is clear indication of my callous attitude towards fully glorifying my Master who has come to deliver me from this unsurpassable ocean of samsara. He is a eternal servitor of the Lord. He is the chief Commander(Senapati Bhakta) of the Lord Chaitanya’s sankirtan army. His pastimes in this universe are just few pages of the vast book which inscribes his ever expanding glory as he goes to newer & newer universes to save the wretched fallen conditioned souls , this is confirmed by the current Acharya Vrinda. So this glorification is like catching a single ray of the fully blazing Sun. His glorification seems to be only ray of hope to me as he is most merciful master & attaining Krishna’s mercy directly not in the line of Prabhupad seems impossible (as well as undesirable) to me.

Srila prabhupada is emblem of the indomitable spirit for the service of the Lord & Spiritual master. Every moment of his life is the preparation for or direct execution of the will of the Lord. He is 100% flawless Vaishnava (HG Bhavananda Prabhu’s realisation) which surpasses thousand folds perfect Brahmana & Sanyasi.

He is revolutionist who most compassionately assassinated (this contradiction is only possible with Srila Prabhupada) all sub religious principles, dangerous atheistic theories & propagandas made by the modern scientist, bogus spiritual master who created their bogus spiritual paths as lanes towards hellish planets, impersonalist’s who are direct offenders of Lord & devotional service to the Lord. In recent reading of Transcendental diary I found Prabhupad quoting over  BG 1.19 “sa ghoso dhartarastranam hrdayani vyadarayat”( The blowing of these different conchshells became uproarious, and thus, vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the hearts of the sons of Dhrtarastra.) Prabhupad was telling that we have to preach in such way that it shatters the hearts of all the atheists.

He is the magician who transforms the boring life in this material world which constitutes chewing the chewed kind of absolutely insignificant droplets 0f happiness & following of the people’s who are like dogs, hogs, camels & asses into the life full of celebration. He has given access to the incessant sweet mellow of the devotional service. (At least theoretically I know & by Srila Prabhupada’s mercy we get some glimpses of this). His touch so amazing that person starts manifesting activities of the devotional service to Krishna which is even inaccessible to greatest of the demigods.

Oh Srila prabhupad, In my life now when I see, it is only your personality which keeps me on the track of the devotional service with whatever little enthusiasm I can gather to render your service. Yours & life stories of your devotees are nectar drops which gives hope to continue forward the march in the devotional service. When I read that, I always get amazed to see the unparallel dedication you had & you could inject in the heart’s of your devotees & it always surpasses my tiny understanding of intelligence of what a level & meaning of surrender could be.

I am ashamed to tell you that I am  covered with so much anarthas. I know already you are well aware of that but with your unlimited mercy you are keeping such a fallen soul in the devotional service. Prabhupad please give me intelligence , determination power to utilize your  mercy to render some useful service to your devotees & give me a benediction that I may not leave your lotus feets any time in my life as those are only shelter of mine & always remain grateful in heart for whatever comes in my way in your mission. I beg for the constant association of devotee who will pour my ears with your glory & who will be utterly grateful to you. I thank you very much for giving your most wonderful disciples & grand disciples without whom your mercy was completely inaccessible to us.Please keep me Loyal to you in devotional service by giving your mercy.

Your insignificant servant,

tushar