call for emergency!

This material world is a miserable place. Everyday we suffer in the modes of nature but still we think this suffering to be enjoyment. Once Srila Prabhupada was on a morning walk with his disciples and happened to see a camel and it was chewing thorns. The camel was bleeding in its mouth due to the chewing of the thorns but yet it was continuing with its chewing relishing its own blood. Our material life is like this, we relish our own blood by constantly chewing the chewed (thorns of material life). We make grandiose plans as if we will live here for eternity. Why this stupid and foolish mentality?

The answer is very simple, our desire to be the enjoyer, our desire to lord over material things, our desire to be sense of controller and doer. This mentality is so deeply entrenched in our consciousness it is practically impossible to get out of it. This enjoying mentality vacillates within the three modes of material nature. Therefore we are kicked by maya here and there, up and down and we are running behind that “promised” enjoyment that we have been incubating and seeking for eons and eons of lifetimes. But yet…what we get is just a farthing. We start out for a treasure hunt but end up with scrap metal…that is all we can find in this wretched place called “mrtyuloka”…that’s right, the scriptures call this place earth a place of death and rightly so…simply because we are eternally caught up in this samsara of birth and death.

Therefore, with our memory bewildered, intelligence lost, there is no chance for us to untie the hard knots of maya. The only way we can be untied is by a person who is not tied or in other words who is free or liberated. That person is our spiritual master. By submitting and taking shelter at the lotus feet of our spiritual master, we can cross this ocean of material distress and go back home back to godhead.

So, please everyone, this is a call for emergency, we can be saved to the degree we take shelter of Guru and Krishna.

Krishna says in the Gita

daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī
mama māyā duratyayā
mām eva ye prapadyante
māyām etāḿ taranti te
BG 7.14

This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.

This is our only hope, surrender unto the Lotus Feet of Lord Krishna can save us from all dangers of this world.

samāśritā ye pada-pallava-plavaḿ
mahat-padaḿ puṇya-yaśo murāreḥ
bhavāmbudhir vatsa-padaḿ paraḿ padaḿ
padaḿ padaḿ yad vipadāḿ na teṣām
SB 10.14.58

For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murāri, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoof-print. Their goal is paraḿ padam, Vaikuṇṭha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.