Hare Krshna
Dear Sadhaks,
I Am a single lonely man and depressed. I want to devote my rest of the life for Lord Sri Krishna in Iskcon. I want to be a part of Iskcon and want to stay there. But as my age is 40+, so I am not eligible to stay there for rest of my life.
Kindly advice what is the solution as per Our great religion
-Warm Regards
AR
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Whether you go to Iskcon or tothe Himalayas, you mind will remain always with you, and that mind itself is disease, the complaint. Make your mind filled with KRISHNA, there will be no need to go anywhere.
This realization has come from swamiji Himself.
HINDI
Chaahe ISCON jaaiye, chaahe HIMAALAYA jaaiye aapakaa man sadaa saath rahegaa aur man hee vyaadhi hai. Man ko Krishnamaya kar leejiye, kaheen jaane kee jaroorat naheen rahegee.
Swameejee se yahee anubhava liyaa hai.
astu.
Savinaya,
saadhaka.
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Dear AR,
You are NOT lonely. Reconfirm this.
B.S
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i would also like to know how to be a part of ISKON but i can not leave my home ,as my husband is almost bed ridden but i do want to do something for my next life .jai shree krishna
CN
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Loneliness … mid-life crisis … Freedom in Living ...
Feeling lonely is a natural, it is called mid-life crisis :). When you were a child, all attention was on you. Your parents made you the center of universe in their doting affection. When you were adolescent, all your attention was on your life partner. The whole universe did not matter as you were lost in the love for each other. When you were young, you felt empowered as if the world was under your rule. The children looked at you in awe and were so eager to emulate what you were. You were oozing with energy and enthusiasm. Your spouse wooed your command. So far your body was serving your ambitions being filled with energy and strength. It was acting as if you are its SOLE LORD!
You turn 40 … a miracle happens to bewilder you and rattle your very faith in living! The same spouse who wooed you might be scorning at you weighed down by his/her own baggage of life. You do not sound his/her queen/king anymore! The same children exposed to the rest of the world have identified themselves around other epicenters of the world. You are no more the ideal for them!! Your own body that acted as if it was under your total command starts giving hints of its own degeneration, particularly against your wish. The young, vibrant and adorable body is turning old, passive and pathetic. The same body seem to care its own path of decay rather than serving your ever-growing wishes anymore!!! In spite of all your effort to deny the reality, the reality of living marches ahead stampeding on all your aspirations. LONELINESS IS BUT NATURAL THEN :):):):):).
Yaavadvittopaarjanasaktah taavannijaparivaaroraktah |
Pashchaajjeevati jarjhara dehe vaartaa ko'pi na pricchhati gehe ||
... I can recite the whole Bhaja Govindam here.
My dear friend you are NOT ALONE in your loneliness! Being single seem to add to the loneliness when you feel lonely while being single. You would feel the same wrath (or probably more!) being with other people as well. Really speaking, nobody is left alone in this world. You are no exception. You are surrounded by people as well. Then why do you feel lonely?! The reason - THE LONE REASON - for loneliness is the lack of a mirror for your aspirations. The people around seem to be indifferent to your agenda in life ... they lapse to reflect your interests in them. One feels lonely when one does not see his/her own image in others ... when one fails to see respect for one's own wishes around ... when one continues to insist on one's own wishes over others in spite of being rejected again and again ...
This has happened because marriage never occurred to us. We never married in life. We chose to remain single. We never let ourselves be one with the life we are graced with. We kept the whole life under ransom as if it were in our command! We never developed appreciation toward everything that was offered in this marriage - the life that happily partook our existence. We never appreciated the body we are blessed as it is. We never appreciated our parents as they are. We never appreciated our spouses as they are. We never tried to understand our children as they are. Without anyone's permission we built a cage of images for all our relations based on our own wishful assumptions. The cage became so binding that we failed to acknowledge the situational reality around as well as within! We chose to freeze ourselves in these images and completely lost in touch with the ever-dynamic reality around and within!! My dear friend, you chose the cage and you insist to be within the same!!! Just try once ... just get out of the cage and take a fresh breath outside ... feel the freedom within ... feel your ever-lasting fusion with the world around ... feel your universal presence irrespective all the images that hound you from within ... who isolated you from your true self which IS ALL??? Think ... Recall ... Krato Smara ... Kritam Smara ...
How can you be alone when you are eternally connected to everything else in this universe?
How can you be lonely when you ARE ALL and everything is verily you as such??
When there is nothing but THAT how can there be any notion such as loneliness???
Trust me! Either way, you can't be lonely even if you try hard!! Loneliness is a notion generated by ignorance. The same individual pride or ego or identity that was created by this ignorance which you embraced with awe has turned into this depression of loneliness. Therefore, question the identities you admired, amassed and adored to their core with absolutely no passion. Break open the shackles of those identities encore. Loneliness has no place where FREEDOM alone remains. When FREEDOM alone remains the lonely entity OUGHT TO become THE FREEDOM as such ... THAT IS THE LAW! THAT IS THE ONLY LAW ... EVERYTHING IS THAT AS SUCH ...
Yada sarve prabhidyante hridayasyeha granthayah |
Atha martyo'mrito bhavati etaavadhyanushaasanam ||
Respects.
Naga Narayana.
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Hari Om
A guest came to a lonely sadhak's home and stated: You were alone and now I have come to give you company. Sadhak replied: I was not alone. I was with my God.
Now that you have come, I have become lonely. My God vanished as soon as you entered.
Jai Shree Krishna
Vyas N B
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Dear AR namaste!
One has to study religion to see how great it is! If you study it first, chances are you wouldn't be depressed!
One feels lonely because one thinks too much about oneself only isolating oneself from family, friends, society, scriptures by always thinking "what is in it for me?"
It is important to get out of depression first. Take the help of psycho therapy/medicine if chemically imbalanced!
Another surest way is to do self-less work, such as volunteering, getting involved with people!
Live a God-centered life, asking His help as often as you can to free you from loneliness! Trust Krishna to do it so!
Why depend on ISKON organization? You can do it right now!
It sounds like you are running away from situations of being lonely and that is why you are depressed!
Don't run away from situations of loneliness by going to places like ISCON, etc. Of course these may be great organizations!
Face them with courage! Situations are temporary, they come and go!
Once you are out of depression, then everything will fall in place!
Krishna will guide you to places if you need!
Namaskar...........Pratap Bhatt
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Dear Divine Sadhak,
An excellent opportunity for you to perform intense sadhna........loneliness, depression all are just feelings , look into it. You may find that you just are not enjoying your own company, that is why "feeling" lonely and depressed.
So to be with your self is the solution. Please start doing following things and you will soon be able to enjoy every moment of life-
1. Meditate, meditate and meditate: research on internet, try some meditations or get initiation into higher mediatation techniques.
2.Read Bhagwat Gitaji again and again. It is the book of life solutions. You will find yours.
3.Share your understanding with this group. This gita-talk group is a group of people who are living according to Krishna's teachings, they have deep insights ..........
4.Watch your breath, this is a 24 hr work, which will keep you out of negative emotions and will bring a new understanding, a new joy in you............
Do all of the above at least 21 days and share your experience with us.........
May all good and auspicious things manifest in your life.........
with love and regards,
Sadhna
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