Doing what the boss wants

I have a lot of idea's, I mean a helluva lot of idea's.

This unfortunately leads me to the thing I find hardest about spiritual life, to quote the great Mick Jagger " you can't always get want you want".

Some times the idea's I have don't fit with what the boss wants.

The whole process of Bhakti (the art of love and devotion) is that you have no other desire but to please Krishna and the way in which you please krishna is by humbly serving.

which basically means sometimes I can't do what I want but have to do what others want. My independent nature wails in disgust at this thought, the inner rebel wants to cut loose like the proverbial bull in a china shop. just like learning to do anything we have to be submissive, so it is in spiritual life. If I want to learn how to love Krishna then I must surrender to the guidance of people who do.

Yes you can't always get what you want, "but sometimes, you might find, you get what you need" good old Mick

Pointless

So it appears the Copenhagen summit was a waste of time. Except for the people who made £129 billion last year from the sale of carbon credits (CER's) who had the trade, made possible by the Kyoto agreement, extended. So it would seem that the trade in carbon was secured by world leaders but not the planet we live on.
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The flickering flame

It's 6 am and I have just found myself concentrating on the flames of the candles that sit in front of the pictures of Radha and Krishna on my alter, then I realised why am I not looking at the pictures and praying for their love to enter my heart. The candles seemingly hold more interest, constantly moving and flickering. Just like the mind and it's attraction for material nature constantly changing never steady always disturbed. Unlike the pictures of the Divine couple which like Krishna consciousness offer a steady and permanent source of fascination and happiness.
Let's not be fooled by the flickering flame of material enjoyment.
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Off Chanting

I've got another blog that I'm going to post when I get back from Hungary on Tuesay which is on a rather topical and serious subject. In the meantime I am on a plane flying towards Budapest. About 15 devotee's are coming with me for a weekend of chanting on a self sufficient farm and temple near lake Balaton. The temple on this farm really is beatiful, it feels like stepping into the spiritual world when you walk through the doors. All of the material worries and niggles that may be going through my mind will disapear and once again I will remember what it is to experience Krishna Consciousness on a higher level than normal.
I will try and post some pictures while Ikm over there and will be doing a write up when I'm back.
The downside to the trip is being stuck on easyjet with a load. Of lads off on a stag do for 2 n a half hours. Still it will be worth it
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jobless masses

I saw an interesting stastistic this morning that the amount paid out in job seekers benifits by the UK goverment (in other words to those on the dole) was more than the goverment recieves from income tax.
This means that the country is running at a loss.
Now this may not seem like a very spiritual thing to be interested in but it shows that are larger portion of the population is actually more interested in taking from the comunity than giving.

The centre of any sucessfull comunity has to be based on what I would call spiritual communism. Or in other words that the population work together for the goal of spiritual enlightenment. This means that a social structure has to put into place that enables everyone to add something to the living needs of the whole and to the masses spiritual development.
When you have a system like in the UK, that is based in getting your sense gratification in the easiest manner and a benifits system that promotes opting out of the social structure and cheating your way to getting money. It is no wonder that simple comunity based living that resonates with mutual respect, social equality, a high moral compass and a sense of beloning has fast diminshed in Britain.
The Vedic scriptures expertly point the way forward.
The vanasrama system places people in a type of work and social network that suits a persons abilities and temprement at the same time as offering a chance of spiritual realization from a platform from which they can understand.
There are leaders ( Ksatrya's) who's post is to govern with a high moral standard, protect the comunity and sispense punishment for crime. They take guidence from the self realized (brahmins) who live simple, God centered lives and have nothing to do with material wealth or possesions (so they may always remain impartial and therefore not open to bribes and favouritism). They both give guidence to the buisiness men (vaisha's) who employ the working class (sudra's) and provide for the needs of the whole comunity.

Could this system work? YES>
will it work in the current democratic atmosphere? NO>
unfortunately the votes lie with the general population and the overwhelming portion of those are, as seen in the above statistic, happy on the 'rock n roll' . Would they vote for a system that would mean they have to contribute?????

Glorifying A Saintly Person

Today is the remembrance Day of the founder of the Hare Krishna movement, His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami. He left this world on this day 1977.

In our process of devotion days like today are used to celebrate Saintly people and what they have given us.

I am finding this very hard to write because to remember what an amazing personality Prabhupada is, is also to realize that He is no longer physically with us. And that is upsetting.

Prabhupada did what no other person had done before. He has given the science of Krishna Consciousness to the world. He left home at an elderly age with no possessions, travelled from India on a steam ship suffering 2 heart attacks along the way to "give us what we have forgotten"

Without Srila Prabhupada I would not know who God is, I would be lost still trying to gain happiness from my limited senses, I would have nothing. So today I will try my best to do what would please Prabhupada, to some how try and repay a small amount of the debt which I owe Him for what He has given me.

There is a video below about Srila Prabhupada and a list of links below that I urge any reader to please go to and find out a little more about the glorious person that Srila Prabhupada was and how He touched so many lives with God Consciousness.

href="http://www.iskcon.com/about/parampara/srila_prabupada.html">http://www.iskcon.com/about/parampara/srila_prabupada.html

http://www.gurudeva.ru/eng/diary/diary7-20.shtml

http://www.gurudeva.ru/eng/prabhupada/index.shtml

http://prabhupada.krishna.org/

http://www.prabhupadaconnect.com/SrilaPrabhupada.html

A Touchy Subject

I've been away for a while. I don't know why but nothing has really been inspiring me enough to write recently. Could be a number of things, but anyway.

What has got me going again could be a bit of a touchy subject. I'm not even sure of my own feelings on it but am going to say something more just to start a debate.

This week a Doctor in the UK has been sentenced to 48 ( I think ) years imprisonment for trying to induce an abortion in his lover by slipping certain pills in her drink which would kill the young fetus but not harm his lover. There where many reasons for the long sentence, which I agree with. One was attempted murder.

Now before I carry on I want to say that what this man did was verry very wrong and I think he deserves a heavier sentence.

To convict him of attempted murder though, because his lover was unaware and did not want to abort the baby, to me suggests that whether abortion is murder or not relies on whether a woman consents to the action. So what if a woman has an abortion without the consent of her husband or partner, can he claim that his unborn child has been murdered???

I don't know

I do know that I think all abortion is wrong and I would class it as murder. for sure the above ruling makes the whole issue a bit more complicated than before.

What do you think