If Love finds you worthy

8th March 2013
readings from Madhya Lila, verse 43

GH: Its not from doing Vaidi Bhakti, and Sadhana Bhakti, that one can worship Krishna in Vrndavana but you have the Rasa devotion. to have the Rasa. Its through the devotees, its through the devotees, Its through the devotees, who are engaged in chanting the holy names, and fame , and pastimes, and qualities and characteristics of that Krishna in great devotional ecstasy. I repeat it so much because people are, here even I repeat it, people are a little bit dull. People don't get it, 'all I need is Prabhupadas books for the next 10,000 years' and their hearts are dry and parched. Because they don't understand those books, its not about just having them on the shelf or just reading them superficially, its about understanding what the contents are, that's what we're describing. By the mercy of Prabhupada. You do this, you understand these things, I've given you so much now you give it to your brothers, now you go and share. Whoever accepts, whoever accepts this is true this is real you know this is not full of motives and cheating and all that, Oh they will be blessed with this Rasa. If thats all they want, thats the only thing you will get here. If they want want anything else, there will be alot of pain, very painful but thats the baptism no pain no gain. Right Sachi?
Sachi: Right, thats right. Ive had my share of pain, Ive also had my share of blessings too.
GH: When I feel my pain in my heart, which is rare these days because it has transformed, but in the beginning you feel this pain from being around this fire so just to set a warning don't think it is always going to be Blissful but when you feel this burning this stuff burning up just count your blessings because you are just going to through to another level of purification, of purity, of bliss, because youre going to be able to relish the Lord even more. So thats why I say these things if that is happening sometimes don't think it is bad its wonderful this is the Baptism by fire. You know John said I'm just throwing water over its nothing you follow the rules you do all of that but there is someone who is coming that is going to Baptise by fire and the spirit. See here you get the fire, and the spirit. That is the work temple of the heart has to do, so anybody who can understand, have this process that we are trying to teach the you'll be able to take advantage of it. Cause if you get the fire and you get things burning up that means you are going to taste this devotional Rasa even more. If thats what you really want, I don't really have much else I can give you.
Sachi: Sometimes we might want it and sometimes we might not want it, and we want that material stuff, but we must want the devotional enough to keep us here. That's my situation.
GH: Yeah well that's the mix thing, and thats OK. Who's so pure hearted? even Jesus he had people who were mixed, we're all mixed. The spirit has somehow or other adopted us all. Who's qualified? Im not qualified, you think Im qualified, Im not qualified Im the worst of the lot, but the Lord comes and he's doing his miracle with us, that's all I know. If we come here we can feel more humbled, in the right mood, praying for that mercy and used and feel more love. Hm thats kind of all I'm here for, Thats kinda what I want, so if you're happy with that and being a servant. Actually we're just pleasing the Lord of the heart.
Meena: Its a science, we're dealing with different types of energy the Lords energies are multifarious so. The devotional energy is, we're trying to make contact with the devotional energy.
GH: See one guys trying to understand what we're doing here and he says "Oh I see, you're a specialist". Thats it, this Temple of the Heart preaching is specialising in, getting the devotional potency and giving it to others. Its a process you can not understand this process unless you meet devotees who have gone through the process and are on the devotional platform and are experienced in it. Noone can teach you this, you can have a Guru with a big title like this, but if they're not on the devotional platform, went through the fire so many things to get where they're actually there, you can not learn this science. You can read the books and everything, but you will have to meet a living example. You can not teach Raganuga Bhakti without practicing it yourself, and practicing on this level means tasting it, tasting the woes of it sometimes. And you know why we have that , everyone should have that Kahil Gibrams poem right on your wall, 'if Love finds you worthy, it will caress your tenderous branches and descend to your roots and shake them from there clinging to the ground." So thats what love does to you, so you can become a fragment of life, in other words you know who you are, a servant of the Lord. You're used by the Lord, but if you just want Loves caressing passed out of loves.. ..well you will not cry your deepest tears or laugh your deepest laughter, see thats the devotees. What we're teaching here is so rare and I don't think there is another person on the planet who can teach like this, I haven't seen him, if you find lets us know and let us all hang out, we might learn something. (laughter) I sometimes wish I would just stop boasting. You gotta understand Lord Chaitanya  he had that side, I think if you hear enough of it and you start to take a look at the Lila then you have to laugh at the Lord who is doing this, you he is boasting. You know when he was, he was in that mood, this audacious, it seemed like he is puffed up or something.