Who is the owner of our body? - HG Shudha Nitai Prabhu

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad.

On Saturday 18th, March 17, spiritual program was organized by HG Akhil Guru Das Prabhuji at his home. HG Shudha Nitai Prabhuji lead the kirtan and lecture. Started the lecture with question that who I am and who is the owner of our body? He asked to everyone and one by one everybody explained​  about the owner of the body. Few devotees told that nature is the owner and others said Krishna is the owner and someone said that the Soul is the owner of our body. After listening to everybody's thoughts, HG Shudha Nitai prabhuji explained. 

Life we're living now is not our only one. We've been through many. The spark of awareness within us– the self, or soul, or whatever you want to call it– has no beginning and no end. But that spark of life keeps moving on from one body to the next. At one time you have the body of a child. Then you move on to a young person's body. Then to a middle-aged body and then to the body of an old person. Yet in all those bodies you feel yourself to be the same you. Because you are the same you. Only your body has changed. You are not your body. The final change of body is what we call “death”. But it's not really final. It's only another transition, another move.

We are the soul (Nitya Jiv) and came from the Bhagavad Dham because of our desire and according to shree Chaitainya Mahaprabhu we are eternal servent of the Lord Krishna but God has given us the freewill to do any type of Karma. Krishna has provided the 84 lakhs yoniya's for the soul that to live the life on the earth. Just like we change our cloths time to time, our soul also change the bodies based on the karma. Krishna has given the body(uniform for soul) on rent to us for some time to live in material world. Till back to Godhead, we are bound to change our body according to our karma Bandhan again and again. As far as, Karma is applicable on Humans only, animals and other species are not bound by karma because they live their life according to the nature's law and they will get the higher body everytime after death. But God has given the special privilege to humans, only humans can understand the God through the transcendental knowledge of spirituality. If not used the body in service of God, then we might get down graded our body to other species.

God has given us the opportunity to realize oneself that who I am and what is the purpose of our life. If we understand the Krishna as the supreme personality of Godhead through our scriptures and Acharyas than we can go Back to Godhead by doing the Bhakti shadhana. 

We wear the Tilak to establish Krishna in our body just like in a temple. Our body is a temple and we should take care our body very seriously because this is the only body through which we can enlighten our spiritual knowledge. If we have any type of attachment or desire of the material world while leaving this body, then we have to come again to this world, so leave as much as attachments or desires and should do everything according to the scriptures like to eat only Krishna Prasad, listen Krishna Katha, speak about the Krishna Lila and take the Darshan of Krishna deities and follow the Acharyas and Vaishnav etiquettes. All initiated devotees of the Hare Krishna movement vow to follow four rules: No gambling, No intoxication, No meat-eating and No illicit sex. 

Do the chanting and kirtan of HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA, KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE, HARE RAMA HARE RAMA, RAMA RAMA HARE HARE and be happy!

Thank you HG Akhil Guru Das prabhuji and Mataji for a wonderful program and deliciuos prasadam.

Hare Krishna! Your feedback will be valuable to me for advancement of my Krishna consciousness.
-Rajeev Kag 

Teachings of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu- HG Shudha Nitai Prabhuji

On Saturday 4th, March 17, spiritual program was organized by Dheeraj Prabhuji at his home. HG Shudha Nitai Prabhuji lead the kirtan and lecture. The Kirtan was very soothing to our mind and soul. Lecture more like a discussion about the upcoming Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's birth anniversary (Gaura-purnima on 12th March) and Past-times Lila and teachings. HG Shudha Nitai prabhiji given the chance to everyone to tell about the Gour Nitai. Started from HG Kapil Avatar prabhu, HG Padmanayan Prabhu, HG Akhil Prabhu, HG Haripad prabhu and Varsha mataji. Everyone very nice explained and told about the Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. From time to time (yuga) whenever Adharma increases in the society, Lord come to kill the evils like  Ravan, Kans, Putna, Bakasur, Aghasur... to save the Dharma. In Kaliyuga, evil is everybody's inside, in the form of Kaam, Krodha, Lobh, Moh and Ahankar. HG Shudha Nitai prabhu, motivated us to leave the any one attachement to the material world by the teachings of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Around 500 years ago, God took the avatar of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to give the mercy of Prema Bhakti and to teach us how to get rid from inside evil. The Lord himself is in the Bhav of Shrimati Radharani. First, he gave the theoretical knowledge of Bhakti yoga and then he taught us how to do the perfectly Bhakti.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism. He is Krishna himself, who appeared in the form of His own devotee in order to teach The people of this world the process of Bhakti and how to attain the perfection in life. He is considered as the most merciful manifestation of Krishna. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was the proponent of the Vaishnava school of Bhakti yoga, based on Bhagavata Purana and Bhagavad Gita. Of various incarnations of Vishnu, he is revered as Krishna, popularized the chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra and composed the Siksastakam in Sanskrit. His birthday is celebrated as Gaura-purnima.

In Jagai Madhai story, Once while chanting the name of Krishna in the streets, Nitai was attacked by Jagai and Madhai. Madhai threw an earthen pot which cut his forehead. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu heard of the episode, and wanted to kill the brothers with his divine Chakra. Nitai begged him to pardon them and they became Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's disciples, converted by Nitai's compassion. Even though, he is in prema avtar, but if any wrong things happen to his devotees then lord saved his devotees with aggression.

Teachings - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has given us the Siksastakam. Below few points -

1. Krishna is the Supreme Absolute Truth.
2. Krishna is endowed with all energies.
3. Krishna is the ocean of rasa (theology).
4. The jivas (individual souls) are all separated parts of the Lord.
5. In bound state the jivas are under the influence of matter, due to their tatastha nature.
6. In the liberated state the jivas are free from the influence of matter, due to their tatastha nature.
7. The jivas and the material world are both different from and identical to the Lord.
8. Pure devotion is the practice of the jivas.
9. Pure love of Krishna is the ultimate goal.
10. Krishna is the only lovable blessing to be received.   

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu selected Six Gosvamis of Vrindavan to systematically present the theology of bhakti he had taught to them in their own writings. The six saints and theologians were Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami, Gopala Bhatta Goswami, Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami, Raghunatha dasa Goswami and Jiva Goswami, a nephew of brothers Rupa and Sanatana. These individuals were responsible for systematising Gaudiya Vaishnava theology.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu announced that,

prithivite ache yato nagaradi grama
sarvatra pracara hoibe mora nama
[Caitanya Bhagavata Antya-khaṇḍa 4.126]

In every corner of the world, every village of the world will be nama-sankirtan. HDG Srila Prabhupad  started the Hare Krishna Sankirtan movement and now almost all over the world movement is going on with its full potential.

Hare Krishna!
Rajeev Kag