March 7th 2007
This is an edited section from Sri Caitanya's Teachings -Colloquies with Foreigners -by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur.
Spoken on the 9th of January 1926:
We believe there is a Personality of Godhead and also that we are persons.We want all our troublesome situations removed and wish to reach a position where we can move freely and have all our needs satisfied.
This has resulted in our turning towards that Supreme Absolute Personality.
In the Supreme Lord we find three features - He is ever existing, full of knowledge and the source of unending happiness. In Him there is no inadequacy, no discrepancy, no defect, no influence of time, nor any ignorance.
Because He is an "emporium" of all bliss and all knowledge, we should not seek after anything for our worldly purposes, leaving Him aside. We are His servants. He is the Lord. Nevertheless He need not give us anything. We are simply meant to serve Him and eternal peace comes from our eagerness in His service.
God has got spiritual eyes, spiritual ears, spiritual tongue, spiritual nose, spiritual skin and a spiritual mind:nothing material like us. Our senses are made of material elements, but there are no material elements in Him.
Although He can choose to delegate power to certain infintessimal souls and thereby enable them to transact affairs with Him, ordinarily we are placed in a region where all sorts of imperfection and undesirables are prominent.
From this bitter experience, we should recognize the need to devise some means to get free from unpleasant situations and become prepared for the stage wherefrom we can realize the nature of our own true selves.
We should not trouble ourselves here by engaging in worldly amusements and other things.
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Strong words from the platform of realization. Without this we will never advance.
