I was
attaining Saturday Festival at VISA, Vaikuntha International Spiritual Academy. It was
already late when I reached there. His Grace Patri Prabhu
was giving Bhagavad-Gita class to all assembled devotees there. I came
to listen the same. His class was such a juicy that more we drank more
we wanted. His wonderful speech, style and matured devotion were the
basic reason for heart transformation of attendants. We were encouraged
us to participate in the global movement of spreading Krishna
Consciousness. Many times he was repeating one verse ‘if you don’t stand
for something you’ll fall down for nothing’.
Really, he was stressing on this verse frequently but I was a bit slower to understand its meaning. He was giving his wonderful class and everybody were listening him with deep concentration but at later half of his wonderful class , my mind couldn’t focus on his lecture but the same verse which he said earlier attracted my mind. My mind was repeating the same verse time and again. It touched my heart as I had come across some incidence in my life which were teaching me the same message which prabhuji was giving.
Really, he was stressing on this verse frequently but I was a bit slower to understand its meaning. He was giving his wonderful class and everybody were listening him with deep concentration but at later half of his wonderful class , my mind couldn’t focus on his lecture but the same verse which he said earlier attracted my mind. My mind was repeating the same verse time and again. It touched my heart as I had come across some incidence in my life which were teaching me the same message which prabhuji was giving.
Last
year I met a friend who was my school friend some three years ago. We
started to talk about the events which took place in that three years
interval. I was thinking that he’d finished intermediate level education
but mine expectation failed as he said that he couldn’t read in those
three years. Reason behind this was neither the financial nor family
obstacle but this was due to his careless behavior. He was explaining
the reason to me. I came to know that he was not serious in study and just doing anythings.
Really as he was not determined for some special (to say study) he was
running behind the nonsense which is at all nothing.
Similarly,
if we don’t get determined to do something special we will pass our
time for similar nonsense activities which in turn may ruin our
beautiful life. Scriptures say that our life (human life) is very rare and if
we don’t stand for cultivating Krishna consciousness (god
consciousness) we will be dragged to the clutches of illusion (Maya).
Thus if we don’t stand for Krishna consciousness we will fall down to
serve the illusion and we is nothing but the meaning of same verse ‘If
we don’t stand for something you’ll fall down for nothing.’
