Wake up sleeping soul

"Wake up sleeping soul!"

This is the plea of Lord Caitanya.

• This human form of life which you have achieved with great difficulty over millions of lifetimes of evolution through the lower your species is currently slipping through your fingers soon to be lost unless you seriously utilize it starting right now to awaken your eternal enlightened blissful consciousness as a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence. Do not be lulled into the sense of material sense gratification, either subtle or gross. Utilize this human life for what it is meant for, and experience the supreme benefit of an eternal life, full of knowledge, and full of bliss.

we find ourselves so fortunate to have the association of a devotee of the Lord

Just as a fish comes from a watery environment and cannot be satisfied unless he is in a watery environment, in a similar way since we are all the emanations of Krishna and therefore share His nature of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, we can never be satisfied unless we are back in contact with Him. Sometimes when a fish is washed onto the beach and cannot get back into the water, he is lying there suffering like anything in complete total anxiety. Despite his desperate flopping motions to try to get himself back into the water, he is not successful in doing so. However if a kind-hearted person happens to come walking along the beach and sees the poor fish's plight, he can very easily pick him up and toss him back into the water. 

This is the kindness of the devotee of the Lord upon those souls who are captivated by this material existence. If we find ourselves in such a pitiable condition as that fish, and if we find ourselves to be so fortunate as to have the association of a devotee of the Lord, we should understand how fortunate we are and take full advantage of our good fortune by learning from the Lord's devotee how we can also become the Lord's devotee. The devotee will teach us to how to perfect the bhakti yoga system, devotional service to the Lord.

There are other processes for elevating the consciousness beyond this material existence such as jnana yoga and hatha yoga. But in order for these other processes to take us all the way to complete spiritual perfection it is required that one have no further dealings with the material world. However, the bhakti yoga system is so powerful that one can remain active within this material world and at the same time become completely transcendental to it.

What is KARMA, how can it affect our lives?

as received in my email

1)What is KARMA

2) how can it affect our lives?

3)Is there anything we can do to change our KARMA?

The answers are as under:-

1) Karma is a matter/substance having physical existence and which fuses with soul and is carried to next life .Bad karma is represented by black matter/substance and good karma is white matter/substance. Karma is a living (alive) matter and attracts similar matter and resists opposite matter. As such, it is difficult for persons having black matter/bad karma to listen to good advice or take action for spiritual development.

2) Persons carrying bad karma (black matter) will be uneasy and unhappy irrespective of financial or social position. Further, persons carrying bad karma (black matter) will suffer physically ,emotionally and mentally to the extent of load of karma .It creates obstacle in path of happiness.

3)Certainly ,we can do a lot to change our Karma, as under:-

a) The first rule for changing bad karma to good karma is not to hurt any one ,not to harm any one so that additional bad karma is not accumulated.

b) The second rule is to practice compassion , kindness and benevolence. Carrying a thought that everybody should benefit from me and doing something for everyone daily reduces bad karma and accumulates good karma.

c) The third rule is patience and tolerance. One must not react immediately in anger. By suffering silently without reacting dissolves bad karma.

The understanding of the above and starting to practice in daily life will produce result immediately. The result will be you will start singing or dancing or both.