Krishna Consciousness !

Once a devotee asked Srila Prabhupada that what is required for me to become Krishna Conscious?

Srila Prabhupada gave one word answer, desire. 

That is what required to become Krishna conscious. 

Everything is based on our desire. Even when we chant the holy names, Krishna responds according to our desire. When we are reading Shrimad Bhagvatam, Bhagvad Gita, Shri Chaitanya Charitamrita, Krishna reveals the essence of these messages according to our desire. By associating with devotees and hearing the glories of great devotees, it nourishes our desire.Desire to serve the Lord, desire to please the lord. When their is strong desire, Krishna empowers us to overcome all obsatcles. What was Srila Prabhupada's desire? At the age of 70, arriving at New York city after several heart attacks with no money, with no body, and even his god- brothers and his well wishers telling him come back, come back, it is impossible you cannot do it, you are too old. Sumati Moraji, she denied him passage on board, again and again. She said its impossible , its too cold and you are too old. Srila Prabhupada crossed over every possible obstacle; because of his desire. Krishna says those are on this path they are resolute and determined and their aim is one; desire. By the association we keep our sadhana, by our prayers we must cultivate this desire. Without that strong determined desire, their will so many conditioning come upon us; they will disturb out faith and disturb the execution of our service. So, this was Prabhupada's single answer. If you have that strong desire, if you have the right desire, Krishna will empower you to do everything. That is the mercy of Lord Chaitanya. Lord Chaitanya delivered Jagai and Madhai when they developed that desire. When he was travelling from Jaganath Puri to Vrindavan, through the Jharikhand forest, he awakened desire. A tiger was sleeping in the pathway. He kicked the tiger on the head. Jiv Jago! Jiv Jago! Because he was touched by the foot of Lord Chaitanya, a desire awakened in his heart by the association. Shri Chaitanya ordered the tiger, chant Haribol! The tiger lifted his arms and chanted Haribol! Tears pour from his eyes. He became a paramhamsa devotee. Mahaprabhu awoke that desire. He went to some tribal jungle and villages. From social point of view these people were out caste. They were considered people with no culture, with very little ethics and morality; practically not even allowed in the cities and villages. They were considerd untouchables by the society, but Lord Chaitanya, he awakened within their heart a desire. And because they had that desire, to be Krishna conscious just by his association, he gave them prema bhakti; Krishna prema, the highest perfection. No other incarnation has given such a high spiritual esctasy, so profusely. And all is required is the desire to accept it. Faith in the mercy of Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda and his Guru Maharaja , gave Srila Prabhupada the determination to travel all over the world. He give Gaur Nitai to everyone. 99% of the population in Bombay did not know who Lord Chaitanya was. But yet Srila Prabhupada had thousands of people worshipping Gaur Nitai in Africa, America, Russia, Ukraine, Khazakistan, Australia, Japan, Korea. 

Why is Maya so strong?

A young hippy asked Srila Prabhupada, "If our purpose is to go back to Godhead, why is Maya so strong?" Without the slightest hesitation Srila Prabhupada profoundly and poetically answered, "Because your purpose is not strong."

In other words Maya, the Lord's illusory energy, only has power over us to the extent that we are not determined to go back to home, back to Godhead. If we are determined to become fully Krishna conscious and not take birth here again in this material world, the material energy will be powerless to do anything to stop us from achieving our goal.

So instead of being weak in our determination, we must become powerful in our determination. How to do that? Srila Prabhupada taught us that over-indulgence in sense-gratification, especially sex life, makes us weak in our determination. This is why one of the most important regulative principles followed by a Krishna conscious person is "No illicit sex life." By limiting our sexual activities only to procreation we gain a great power of determination that makes us solidly fixed on the transcendental platform.

The great example of a devotee so fixed is Srila Haridas Thakur. He was engaged in chanting 300,000 names of God daily in a secluded hut. This was about 500 years ago in India. The Muslim political leaders were not happy to see that a converted former Muslim had now become recognized as a great Vaisnava saint. So they conspired to ruin his reputation by sending a beautiful prostitute to seduce him in the dead of night. The prostitute undressed herself before the sage and begged him for sexual intercourse. He tactfully told the lady that first he had to finish his chanting and he would then satisfy her desire. So he chanted all night without fulfilling her desire on the plea of not having finished his chanting. He then apologized telling her to come again on the 2nd night, that he would then satisfy her. The same thing happened on the 2nd night because he still had not completed his chanting. This time he assured her that if she came again on the 3rd night he would definitely fulfill her desire. On the third night the prostitute had become so purified by hearing the constant chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra from the lips of Haridas Thakur that in great shame she fell at his feet and begged forgiveness by having tried to pollute him. In this way by the great determination of Haridas Thakur to remain firmly fixed in his vows of chanting, he was able to withstand the attack of the material energy in the form of the prostitute.

Even if we are not so strong in our determination to chant 300,000 names of God daily and spend three nights all alone with a naked beautiful young prostitute without falling down, at least we can we chant 16 rounds daily and strictly follow the four regulative principles:

1. No illicit sex
2. No intoxication
3. No meat eating
4. No gambling

This will give us sufficient strong to remain fixed solidly in Krishna consciousness 24 hours daily and become fully qualified for going back to home, back to Godhead at the time of death.

KRSNA!

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna!

Krsna Krsna Hare Hare!!

Hare Ram Hare Ram! 

Ram Ram Hare Hare!!

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA ! KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE!! HARE RAMA HARE RAMA! RAMA RAMA HARE HARE !!

Hare Krishna Maha-mantra
Srila Prabhupada once announced, "The chanting of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's name is more essential than the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra." (1) One smart devotee then inquired whether we should therefore chant rounds of the Panca-tattva mantra to which Srila Prabhupada replied, "No — because Lord Caitanya's instruction was to chant Hare Krishna."

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare

The Hare Krishna maha-mantra is a very simple mantra consisting of only three words: Hare, Krishna, and Rama.
Hare means unto Mother Hara (i.e. Lord Krishna's personal pleasure potency, Srimati Radharani).
Krishna means the all-attractive Lord.
Rama means the source of all enjoyment.
When we chant Hare Krishna we are praying: "O energy of the Lord (Hare), O Lord (Krishna and Rama) please engage me in Your service!"
Maha-mantra means it is the Great Mantra Of Deliverance.
Lord Caitanya and the Vedas both recommend this process:

hare krishna hare krishna
krishna krishna hare hare
hare rama hare rama
rama rama hare hare
iti sodasakam namnam
kali-kalmasa-nasanam
natah parataropayah
sarva-vedesu drsyate

The sixteen words of the Hare Krishna mantra are especially meant for counteracting the contaminating influence of the age of Kali. After searching through all the Vedic literature, one cannot find a better method.

Footnote

(1) There are offenses to be considered in chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, but there are no such considerations in chanting the names of Gaura-Nityananda. Therefore, if one chants the Hare Krishna maha-mantra but his life is still full of sinful activities, it will be very difficult for him to achieve the platform of loving service to the Lord. But if in spite of being an offender one chants the holy names of Gaura-Nityananda, he is very quickly freed from the reactions to his offenses. Therefore, one should first approach Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, or worship Guru-Gauranga, and then come to the stage of worshiping Radha-Krishna.

One should first take shelter of Gaura-Nityananda in order to reach, ultimately, Radha-Krishna. … It should be noted in this connection that the holy names of Lord Krishna and Gaurasundara are both identical with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore one should not consider one name to be more potent than the other. Considering the position of the people of this age, however, the chanting of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s name is more essential than the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra because Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the most magnanimous incarnation and His mercy is very easily achieved. Therefore one must first take shelter of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu by chanting Sri-Krishna-Caitanya Prabhu Nityananda Sri Advaita Gadadhara Srivasadi Gaura Bhakta-Vrnda. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi 8.31 purport)

~HARE KRSNA~ !!

"The wise inhabitants of the heavenly regions know that the perfection
of the head is to offer obeisances to the Supreme Lord, the perfection
of the life-breath is to worship the Lord, the perfection of the mind
is to ponder the details of His transcendental qualities, and the
perfection of speech is to chant the glories of His qualities."

~HARE KRSNA~ !

hare krsna

One should try to keep himself satisfied in any condition of

life—whether distress or happiness—which is offered by the supreme

will. A person who endures in this way is able to cross over the

darkness of nescience very easily.

Hare Krsna,Hare Krsna! Krsna Krsna,Hare Hare!! Hare Ram,Hare Ram! RamRam,Hare Hare!!

Hare Krsna,Hare Krsna! Krsna Krsna,Hare Hare!! Hare Ram,Hare Ram! RamRam,Hare Hare!!

Krishna consciousness.

Fate can be changed by Krishna consciousness.  
Krishna says, "I shall give you protection from all the resultant actions of your sinful life."  
That is fate changed.  When you surrender to Krishna, 
He takes charge of squaring up all your sinful activities and their reaction.  
Surrender to Krishna; then your fate is changed.