Happy English New Year
Swamiji distributing sweets
Message from Swamiji on English New Year 2006
"Priya Bhagavad Bandhus !
Jai Srimannarayana !
WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2006 !
There came two tele calls ! One from Hell and one from Heaven! The call from Hell says “ O! Man come here, you have so many things to enjoy here and everything is free. There are many wicked things to do and many maniac things to relish to the best of your satisfaction¦.you can enjoy bodily whatever you can think¦ every taste of all your senses can be stuffed with the material pleasures¦. Now you can enjoy¦ why should we care for the later births ? God¦ Traditions, Temples, rules etc., are only to control people and their activities. Why don't you seek instant gain for you as well as to God ? Why you are late? Come¦ New year gift¦ special instant offers¦ come on¦ come on¦
Saying so, the hell dwellers eagerly wait upon, to enjoy their feast upon these humans, who easily fall prey for their call, who succumb to the bait of instant pleasures, thus spreading the sins all over the world as, easily and freely available offers. They have very many channels and much of media to lure people with attractive ads and very many programmes, to which most of the masses and ordinary people fall easily ¦
The other call is from Heaven. It says¦ Welcome¦ Human beings !. Be a best human loved by one and all ! Share the joy of serving the divine devotees ! Give up hatred ! To become so¦ chant the Divine name of Lord. Give up your narrow mindedness and open up your heart to give divine Love as Divine gift. Get Relinquished from the clutches of ego demon. Give up the false prestige and false pride that was imposed upon unknowingly, due to wealth, due to power, due to material knowledge, due to family succession and also due to worldly skills. Bow before God and His devotees. Surrender to the lotus feet of great Acharyas of Lord Srimannarayana's Guru lineage. Strictly abide by and follow their Divya:jna, divine instructions !. Do all your righteous duties and Dedicate all your thoughts to God only. Not only in this body, even after leaving this body¦ you will always enjoy only Bliss wherever you go ! You can play with God and God loves to do so ! Think steadily and take wise decision. 2006 has already come !
They hardly depend on other media, but keep themselves striving hard going ahead with their divine mission, with the support of devoted and dedicated pure hearts of those devotees who really participate, serve and enjoy the divine activities. Those who realize Time as a form of God, run to attend the divine call of Lord. The Lotus feet of Lord Narayana is none else than our Guru. Sasthras revealed who is a real Guru ! Wait not ! Our life span is getting shortened every moment ! Should we really celebrate the new year or weep for the fast approaching death !
Only, those who did not do in this life what they are supposed to do in this given time, will be afraid of fast approaching death. See a student, who studied well, will feel more and more happy as the exams are approaching. While a student who didn't study and wasted his time on other things will feel more and more tense and become very much afraid of the forthcoming exams. Similarly, when students finish writing exams, those who wrote well will feel happy if the day of publishing results soon approach and those who didn't do what they are supposed to, will feel worried and afraid as the results date approaches.
So also is this life. If you want to celebrate the new time, new year then be finished with all that you need to have done in this life and wait upon until the body falls by itself. Of course until then, one should take every care of one's body and its responsibilities. Then, one need not be afraid of death ever. The only thing that a person needs to do, is to abide by the instructions of God ! And instructions of God come from the Gurus who carry Him always in their heart, who speak spell-bound the fountain of His divine attributes. To such Divine feet (Acharyas) one should surrender and do every worldly duty, as service exclusively unto Him. All His devotees are His direct dwelling places for our ready access. So serve them respectively so as to enrich the Divine wealth. This is surrendering to Lord Narayana. Protect the original traditions and the temples that preserve them, blessed by such Acharyas. It is not our egos to satisfy ! We live today and leave the other day, but the divine instructions and the traditions should be carried forward all through the years to come so that every one can enjoy the divine bliss !!. But, for such great Acharyas like Bhagavad Ramanuja, this knowledge would not have come to us ! All Compassionate Lord, promised that He takes care of those who completely surrender to Him ? When we are in His care, then we can celebrate every new year, every new day and every new moment.
Let us pray to Lord srimannarayana on this occasion to bless the wicked, the selfish and the egoists such that their mind and thoughts get purified and realize the Divine joy and Divine service in its true sense. Let the hatred and jealousies clear off from the human minds. Let every one dedicate all their strength and wealth in serving the Divine Cause. Let the devotees praise and serve Lord in a great grand manner unitedly. Let all of us UNITE, JOIN TOGETHER with the grace of our Great Acharya Bhagavad ramanuja who blessed this divine knowledge and accommodated the entire world in a corner of His compassionate heart. Let all those in the hell also be released and enjoy the Divine bliss. Like, when Nachikethas, a small boy, son of a sage, went to Hell and during the few days he stayed there, all the beings in the hell have enjoyed bliss forgetting their sufferings !!. Let us realize the Presence of Lord allover and take Him always with us every moment !
We offer our Mangalasasanams to you all on this occasion of this English new year 2006 to be blessed with divine wealth and strength to protect it.
Jai Srimannarayana !"