(1/7) Good Mind, Good Heart

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Kolkata—Worldwide, 10 January 2021, part 1

Hari bol. Dandavat.

Jay Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Visva-varenya Srila Guru Maharaj ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj ki jay.
Om Vishnupad Bhagavan Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur Prabhupad ki jay.
Rupanuga-guru-varga ki jay.
Namacharya Haridas Thakur ki jay.
Vrinda Devi, Tulasi Devi, Sri Bhakti Devi ki jay.
Sri Shyama Kunda, Radha Kunda, Sri Giri Govardhan ki jay.
Sri Mayapur Dham, Sri Nabadwip Dham, Sri Vrindavan, Mathura ki jay.
Sri Purusottam Ksetra ki jay.
Baladev, Subhadra, Jagannath jiu ki jay.
Akar Math-raj Sri Chaitanya Math, Mayapur, Yogapith ki jay.
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math ki jay.
All the assembled devotees ki jay.
All the worldwide devotees ki jay.
Harinam sankirtan ki jay.
Samagata Sri Gaura bhakta-vrinda ki jay.
Nitai Gaura premanande Hari bol.

Please accept my humble obeisance. I am meeting you all again after one week, and I am very fortunate to be always able to meet with you all, with all the devotees. ‘Vaisnava sangete mana anandita anuksana (বৈষ্ণব সঙ্গেতে মন আনন্দিত অনুক্ষণ). My heart rejoices in the association of Vaishnavs.’ When we get the association of Vaishnavs, the association of great souls, we always feel pleasure and all dirty things become removed from our hearts. That is why we always need good association.

We must always think good about everybody. If you think good about everybody, then Krishna will think good about you. It is important to understand this. We must think good about everybody – everybody can join Krishna consciousness, everybody can chant the Holy Name. I see that despite the situation now, all the devotees are OK, everybody is doing some service in some small way, everybody is joining this programme. It gives us happiness.

I went to the Bankura temple (Betur) yesterday, and from there I went to Ekachakra. I had some service there. The goshala in Ekachakra has become a little too small – some cows are living now in the big kitchen I made last year. So, today I started the works to extend the goshala a little. Three cows had calves, so the number of our cows in Ekachakra has increased, that is why I had some small job there to extend the goshala, and I am also arranging some preparation for the festival of Lord Nityananda Prabhu’s appearance.

It is Kali-yuga now, and everything is changing – when it is the winter season, winter does not come, and when it is the summer season, the summer weather does not come. So many things are happening in this world, and all these things are bound to happen, but our duty is to practise properly, to chant the Holy Name, to follow all the rules and regulations. For example, although it was ekadasi yesterday, I travelled three hundred kilometres, and I am fine. We must never stop our service.

I pray that all the devotees’ health remains good and that everybody stays very happy in their lives. Sometimes some problems come in family life, some things can happen, and it gives us a little pain, but when something bad comes, we should always ignore it.

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