Friday, September 26, 2008

We the souls want to enjoy 
with our senses 
then Enjoy!! the eternal beauty of
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                            Reforming the reformer
In the following article Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur describes Krishna consciousness
as the only genuine reform process. He says that anyone who takes shelter of any other process to
reform society is in need of reform themselves.
By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada
The world stands in no need of any reformer. The world has a very competent person for guiding
its minutest happenings. The person who determines that there is scope for reform of the world,
himself stands in need of reform. The world goes on in its own perfect way. No person can deflect
it even the breadth of a hair from the course chalked out for it by providence. When we perceive
any change being actually effected in the course of events of this world by the agency of any
particular individual, we must know very well that the agent possesses no real power at any stage.
The agent finds himself driven forward by a force belonging to a different category from himself.
The course of the world does not require to be changed by the agency of any person. What is
necessary is to change our outlook on this world. This was done for the contemporary generation
by the mercy of Sri Chaitanya. It can only be known to recipients of his mercy. The scriptures
declare that it is only necessary to listen with an open mind to the name of Krishna from the lips of
a bona fide devotee. As soon as Krishna enters the listening ear, he clears up the vision of the
listener so that he no longer has any ambition of ever acting the part of a reformer of any other
person, because he finds that nobody is left without the very highest guidance. It is therefore his
own reform, by the grace of God, whose supreme necessity and nature he is increasingly able to
realize, by the eternally continuing mercy of the Supreme Lord.
From The Harmonist, May 1932, issue number 11. Article originally titled, "Sree Chaitanya in
South India". Pages 325-326.

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