Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

i am concerned about this issue of swine flue. Everyone is talking so much about it in the last days. It has the power to overtake one’s mind and draw concentration on it. One one side, there is information being passed about its dangers, on the other side, there is information about the dangers of the vaccination. Fear of both is there and i have been asking myself, like many other people, what is the best thing to do…

Out of habit, we are used to take immediate, short-term actions to prevent ourselves from disease and sorrow. Mostly, we even try to only react against the syndrom rather than to prevent from it. In any case, our efforts are only short-term. So it is in regards to the actual swine flue issue.

But, be it swine flue or any other flue or disease, it is sure to come, no matter if we vaccinate now in this particular case or not. That is for sure and no one can tell otherwise. i am not telling that we shall become completely oblivious about what is happening and not to take any immediate actions. No. What i am rather saying is, that we shall become concious about the fact, why we are actually suffering again and again and how to prevent from it forever. We shall not forget about it, under any circumstence, neither now in the times of this flue issue.

And the actual cause of our perpetual suffering is our forgetfullness of the Supreme Lord.

krishna bhuli ’sei jiva anadi-bahirmukha

ataeva maya tare deya samsara-duhkha

“Forgetting Krishna, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy [maya] gives all kinds of misery in his material existence.”

As soon as the jiva, the individual soul turns away from the all-auspicious service to the Supreme Lord, it is immediately thrown into this painful material existence, of which a swine flue is only a tiny part of the immense suffering this material world can provide.

In Skanda Purana it is said:

bhumau skhalita-padanam

bhumir evavalambanam

tvayi jataparadhanam

tvam eva saranam prabho

“For those who have stumbled and fallen upon the ground, that very ground is the only support by which they can arise once again. Likewise, for those who have offended You, O Lord, You alone are their only refuge.”

We have turn our face away from the Lord. We are like the mischievous, ungrateful sons, who left their home with a desire to look alone for themselves and their future life prospect. But what we actually got, is repeated diseases and suffering.

But in the same way a good father accepts a misguided, distressful son again in his home and is ready to give him His protection happily, the Lord is always ready to accept His fallen and lost souls again in His association and protect them from all dangers and suffering. This is the nature of the Supreme Lord.

And to start turning our face to Him is not a big thing. It is not something far beyond and abstract as it may seem on the first look. The Lord is there in our heart, as He is also present everywhere. He even manifests here in this world in His Original Form and performs His Eternal Pastimes, as He did just 500 years ago in Shri Navadvipa Dhaama as Lord Gauranga and Lord Nityananda.

But as long as we are not situated in the spiritual world in the association of our Supreme Father, we have to take His association here in this material world. It is possible and the most practical and easiest way to do it is to remember Him always and this rememberence is done via continuous chanting of His Holy Names like Nityananda, Gauranga and Hare Krishna and hearing about His Divine Pastimes and Activities.

deha-dehiira, naama-naamiira krishne naahi ‘bheda’

“Sri Krishna’s body is Sri Krishna Himself. On the transcendental plane there is no categorical difference between the body and the being. There is no difference between the body of Krishna and Krishna

Himself. Similarly, there is no difference between the name of Krishna and Krishna Himself.”

So by chanting God’s Name one is definitely associating with Him directly. One may not feel it immediately due to one’s covered conciousness, but the results of the chanting are sure. The same way as butter melts more and more near the fire, the same way our conciousness gets purified and our suffering diminished when we continuously associate with the Lord via chanting His Holy Names like Nityananda, Gauranga and Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

This is definitely the best prevention against the current swine flue and all the flues to come in the future. The Holy Name gives You all protection, as it is non different from the Lord Himself.

simplynitaai