Karttika – Spiritual Opportunism for Krishna’s pleasure

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Hare Krishna on the occasion of the supremely sacred month of Kartik let us understand how Krishna provides us his mercy in this month and how we can use this benefit from this mercy, rejoice in this mercy Krishna manifests in various ways in this world he manifests as the deity that is the I say Darubrahm or the Jagannath is inward or he can be in stone he can manifest in various ways similarly Krishna manifests as Shabda, as the Vedic sound vibration especially as the holy name similarly Krishna also manifests in space and time so in space he manifests as the dhams and in time he manifests as the holy days in the Chaitanya Charitamrit on the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu celebrating that occasion Krishna’s Karanagama Swami offers obeisances to that sacred day on which Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared now we may wonder how can you offer obeisances to a day what do you do, do in front of a calendar and offer obeisances no, the idea is that everything connected with Krishna is sacred and it is not just sacred because it is connected with Krishna actually that day itself becomes spiritualized filled with spiritual potency so that’s why the holy days especially the days connected with the lord’s pastimes they are the manifestation of Krishna’s time every moment in those days is very special surcharge with spiritual potency so we have like that one two days throughout the year but Kartik is a full month which is filled with the lord’s potency Kartik is a month which is very dear to Srimati Radharani and Radharani is the dear most devotee of Sri Krishna so Krishna’s mercy Krishna’s love goes greatest to Radharani and to all other souls devotion and mercy comes through Radharani so by cherishing and relishing that which is her gift to us Kartik is actually her gift to us, it is a month dear to us and when we have the opportunity to perform devotions in that month that is our great fortune so by relishing and cherishing that opportunity we can make extraordinary spiritual advancement now Kartik is not just a very sacred month but actually it is itself if we have a graph something which is a giant peak as compared to the normal level so Kartik is like that as compared to the rest of the year, it’s a giant peak in spiritual peak of spiritual potency but it’s not just a peak, it’s like a plateau and within it’s a giant plateau and within that plateau there are further peaks so there are so many holy days within Kartik starting from Govardhan Puja and the Damodar pastime and then the disappearance of Shri Prabhupada and so many festivals Deepadhan also so all these festivals the whole Kartik month is like a peak of spiritual potency and within that peak that peak becomes like a plateau and then there are further peaks so every single one of these days of Kartik and even within them the special days on which there are festivals they are all surcharge of potency and Shri Prabhupada said that devotees can be like spiritual opportunists wherever there is an opportunity so we grab that opportunity we don’t want to grab that opportunity so that we can benefit ourselves actually we want to grab the opportunity to gain more and more Krishna’s mercy for what sake not just so that we can become free from the miseries of material existence or that we can go back to Godhead that is not our goal, our goal is that we want to become purer so that we can serve Krishna better so every opportunity for purification we grab so that we can when we are purer we can serve Krishna better so even in our opportunism for self purification there is selflessness and in that selflessness there is a supreme satisfaction so the opportunity of Kartik, the month of Damodara is an opportunity to make tremendous spiritual advancement and increase our service to Krishna for His pleasure and through that for our own supreme fulfillment Thank you Kartik Ma’s Ki Jaale