Saturday, February 21, 2009

Preaching is Compassion!

Verse 1.6.13: Here, Srimad Bhagavatam is explaining the need of spreading the message of Krishna. It is not limited to a Sannyasi. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is telling that it is His order that everyone should travel and preach. Why is He telling us this, when He Himself can do it very easily? Actually we all know about Vasudeva Datta, who requested to be given all the sins of everyone, so that all the other living entities of this world can go back to Godhead. Caitanya Mahaprabhu then delivered all the conditioned souls into the spiritual world. Similarly, earlier too Lord Ramachandra did the same when He was going back to the spiritual world.

So not just the Sannyasi, we are also responsible for preaching. The Sannyasi is someone who is always preaching the message Lord Caitanya, not getting entangled in the material modes. Unless you preach, you cannot come to spiritual world. Why? Because preaching is compassion. Unless we have compassion, we cannot come to spiritual world. So do we have real compassion, no. We are only representing Srila Prabhupada's compassion. So we have to be very very fearless in distributing this compassion.

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