What Matters is Our Consciousness
Radhanath Swami
Spiritual Activist | Author | Philanthropist. Account run by the office of His Holiness Radhanath Swami
The famous writer Paulo Coelho once said, “There is always a gap between our intention and action.” This holds true in our lives. How we present things or in what ways we present is definitely important and critical, but if we deeply analyze the matter, it’s the intention or consciousness behind it that matters.
In Vedic scriptures the nature of the God is defined as bhava-grahi, i.e. he is interested in the consciousness that we have invested in the service rather than the externals of exactly how it is done. Because of today’s lifestyle that focuses more on external facade, we have lost the essence of giving importance to the motive behind our deeds; rather we focus on the glamorous and peripheral presentation of it.
My spiritual master Srila Prabhupada used to say, “Giving importance to details is a sign of love.” He taught us that if we are striving to serve God and humanity, the best possible way is to get absorbed in our services. Whatever we are doing, we should do with our full heart, with our full consciousness because it is in the service of God and Humanity.
God is the ultimate creator, maintainer, enjoyer, and proprietor of this entire cosmos and everything is emanating from him. So what exactly can we give him? Everything already belongs to him; we are just the caretakers, that too just for time being. So, he will be pleased with our love, and our consciousness; he doesn’t care for other things. It is just like a child who buys a beautiful birthday gift for his father from his father’s money, still the father can feel and appreciate the love and affection of his son through that gift, which he can easily afford himself.
Similar is our relationship with our supreme father and in that relationship it’s not the things that matter but what matters is our consciousness and our attitude.
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4yWell said Maharaj we need to understand the purpose of our duration of life on this planet earth through our conscious being and be sensitive to other human animals and plants then only we can hopefully become servant of the Lord. Lord Brahma down till today we need to understand who we are what is the purpose of our life and where we want to go then only we can set goal of the life and then work towards achieving the same I remember an incident when we were together in new Vrindavan mounds Valley in West Virginia you said Dr Pawan let’s go up the hill to find something very unique and it took me to Sheila Prabhu pass Golden Temple Samadhi and showed me the beautiful newly met Radha Brindavan Chandre temple which was being inaugurated and said these are not mere marble stones and expensive glasses but manifestation of inner mood of Lord which can help us at our goal and give us direction in life which helps me personally to grow and think whatever we have got education wealth fame is all temporary and if we use it in the service of the divinity and his people through my work by discovery of a novel immunity booster from cows first milk call colostrum which Shalla Narayana Maharaj wanted to take it to every home to save the world
Hare Krishna, thank you for sharing this spiritual gem.
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