The verse in Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.107 reads, nitya-siddha krsna-prema 'sadhya' kabhu naya, sravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya. "Pure love for Krsna is eternally established in the hearts of the living entities. It is not something to be gained from another source. When the heart is purified by hearing and chanting, this love naturally awakens.

This is a wake up call to preaching Krishna consciousness. It is actually in everyone and merely has to be found, or brought out.

Education always involves some guesswork, because we rarely know the full propensities of any child in the early years, what to speak of the future and how to prepare for it. This is a challenge for all Krishna consciousness educators. The best scenario is to maintain traditions, yet ensure our systems are always sensitive to time, place, and circumstance, and prioritize preaching as frontline work, thus keeping compassion and our mission as the yardsticks.

Intimacy should be saved for devotees. One is not to be intimate with others. Reference: "Asat-sanga tyaga, - - ei vaisnava-acara, 'stri-sangi' - - eka asadhu, 'krsnabhakta' ara," or, a Vaisnava should always avoid the association of ordinary people. Common people are very much materially attached, especially to women. Vaisnavas should also avoid the company of those who are not devotees of Lord Krsna. (Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 22.87).

Diplomacy CAN be used for Krishna, but don't try it unless you're expert and there's a good reason for it. "The conclusion is that diplomacy used for the service of the Lord is a form of devotional service." (Caitanya Caritamrta, Madhya-lila, Chapter twelve, verse 44, purport). Diplomacy or kutaniti, is sometimes translated as "duplicity." But both Raghunatha das and Sanatana were familiar with diplomacy and used it when necessary.

Srila Prabhupada: "Our only request is that every one of you, you try to understand God, love Him and be happy. The final conclusion in the Bhagavad-gita is that if you want to be peaceful, if you want the peace of your mind, you should understand three things. That three things are that to understand that God is the supreme enjoyer. This is one. He is the proprietor of everything, and He is friend of everyone.

Plastic surgery and other attempts to arrest the aging process are popular, and on the rise. As Srila Prabhupada points out, a dead body is disgusting, regardless of how beautiful he or she may have been when alive. In fact a beautiful dead person is downright scary, especially if you think at first that they're alive, isn't it so?

It helps us remember the fragility of life when we realize that every time we drive a car we're wielding a lethal weapon. A ten-inch wide painted line is often all that separates us from oncoming cars. When we drive on these kinds of roads we are only a few feet away from death. Padam padam yat vipadam ne tesam.

At least ten times, Srila Prabhupada said, "You Are What You Eat," attributing it to George Bernard Shaw.

In a letter to Mandali Bhadra dated 25 May 1969, Srila Prabhupada wrote: "But in everything we do devotion and sincerity are the real things. There is a word in Sanskrit; bhava grahi Janardana: This means the Lord accepts service in devotional emotion. If we are sincere in offering something to the Lord in devotional love, He will accept it. The procedure may not be very right, but the desire being sincere, He accepts our offering.

The influence of the age is so pervasive that even Krsna's own peers suspected him 10. 57.41: "After the almighty Lord had shown the Syamantaka jewel to His relatives, thus dispelling the false accusations against Him, He returned it to Akrura."

PURPORT
For the second time, doubts about the Lord's reputation occasioned by the Syamantaka jewel are dispelled by the jewel itself. Indeed, for the second time the Lord brought the jewel to Dvaraka to establish His integrity there.

The fourth verse of Upadesamrita,

"dadati pratigrhnati, guhyam akhyati prcchati, bhunkte bhojayate caiva, sad-vidham priti-laksanam



(Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one's mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasada and offering prasada are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another)"
is meant for devotees. Revealing one's mind is meant for devotees, and those to whom we reveal our minds is also meant for devotees.

In Srila Prabhupada's printed word, there are over 30 instances of him saying that all the problems of the world can be solved by Krishna consciousness. This is a fact we should be convinced about, by thinking or speaking of these problems one by one, seeing how individual and collective Krishna consciousness can solve them.

Population studies experts predict that our planet's population will reach equilibrium in the first half of this century, and then begin a sharp decline. All of earth's human inhabitants could fit into the country of France with 1000 square feet (100 square meters) of living space for each man, woman and child. Some countries are already noticing they don't have enough people to run their factories. The earth can easily support 10 times its present population on a diet that includes meat, and 10-25 its current population on a meatless diet.

The practice of 'voluntary austerity' has become fashionable in parts of the USA. People have opted out of high-paying corporate positions, taken a severe salary cut and sometimes moved to country-like surroundings, professing to be happier and far more at peace with themselves and their families.

Srila Prabhupada is reputed to have said "Work now, samadhi later." Although this phrase is not to be found within the Bhaktivedanta Database, the idea is that devotional service is to be part of our lives and that we are to be ghostianandies, not bhajananandies.
Some may argue that Rupa and Sanatana Goswami were bhajananandies, living in caves, beneath sacred trees, near holy lakes and rivers, at hallowed shrines, aloof from the general public. But what was their purpose?

Srila Prabhupada has written that infallible faith in the Vedic system is essential. It is written in the Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23: "yasya deve para bhaktir, yatha deve tatha gurau, tasyaite kathita hy arthah prakasante mahatmanah. Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed."
But "implicit faith" doesn't mean blind faith.

This phenomenon is something that materialists would like to put on the back burner. Yet thousands have already been displaced and dispossessed due to flooding from global warming.
As we wrote in the 1998 edition of DIVINE NATURE, "United Nations studies show that a warming climate could raise sea levels, which are already rising, by 1.5 to 6.5 feet over the next century. If sea levels rise 3 feet, this could submerge 1 million square miles of lowlands. These lowlands are inhabited by one billion people and include one third of the world's cropland"
Dr.

Submitted 26 February 2002