“Because this material world is a great ocean of nescience, darkness. This is the nature. Just like at night you see, this space is a great ocean of darkness. That is the nature. Therefore it is called tama. This world’s nature…Here we require the sunlight, the moonlight, the electricity; otherwise it is dark. By nature it is dark. So you are put into the darkness. There is no light. But there is another nature, which is full of light. Therefore Vedic injunction is tamasi ma jyotir gamah: “Don’t remain in this darkness. Try to come out to the light.” That is spiritual world. That is spiritual world. Jyotir gamah tamasi ma. Don’t remain in this darkness. So the whole process is how to get out of this darkness. How to get out of this darkness.”
Lecture
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Montreal, October 26, 1968
pamho agtACBSP HG sriman haridas prabhu ki jai
yes we missed such a special star in Krsna consciousness, he is right, beware of darkness mind your real business.
It is a question of dieing to live forever by chanting Hare Krsna maha mantra properly. The people who care about us at the end of this journey on this planet of death is only SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA and not ordinary people dressed as sannyasis which has become a fashion in kali-yuga.
I saw a sudra in underground here in london dressed like that because i asked him how things are going on Ekadasi and he didn’t know even what i was talking about.
Then i told him why you are dressing like a devotee without knowing what is Ekadasi? Anyway this is darkness to imitate someone who is liberated from birth and death.
Unless we find good sadhu-sanga it is better to stay alone in this dark age and chant or read Prabhupada’s books.
So many lives are already gone in darkness – nobody cares.
Now here is the sun, kali kale nama rupe krishna avatar, C.C adi-lila 17.22. A lot of people die everyday in darkness therefore it is better to not lose this chance to get out of darkness, there is no benefit by argueing and fighting.
Mind your real business, become greedy to know who we really are – eternal servants of God – that’s all.
ys seva das
haribol