Gym, aerobatics, etc running etc for health is all faster running to death. There is a saying, \u201cFast runners are (to) death runners\u201d: Srila Prabhup\u0101da: \u201cWe have got a limited number of breathings. The heart is palpitating. it has got a limited number of palpitations. Just like if you have got a bank balance, so if you go on drawing it daily, so very quickly it is finished. But if you don’t draw it, keep it, balance, then you can continue for several years, several months, as you like.\u201d (Bhagavad-gita 4.26\u201330, January 13, 1969, Los Angeles)<\/p>\n
We\u2019d better dance, alone, or in sankirtana with our family, or friends, making our own music or go on internet to find a flow, rhythm, beat, swing, good time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must know the vijn\u0101na, how practically. That is taught by the Gosv\u0101m\u012bs, k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ot-k\u012brtana-g\u0101na-nartana: always chanting the glories of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. K\u012brtana, g\u0101na, nartana. Nartana means dancing. Dancing is very good. The more you dance, the more you become light; means the burden of material contamination becomes reduced. Dancing is so nice.<\/p>\n
Even if you don’t feel ecstasy, if you dance by force, that will also help us. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ot-k\u012brtana-g\u0101na-nartanau-parau prem\u0101m\u1e5bt\u0101mbho-nidh\u012b. By dancing, dancing, we shall develop our dormant K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, love for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. This is a nice process. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47ot-k\u012brtana-g\u0101na-nartana-parau prem\u0101m\u1e5bt\u0101mbho-nidh\u012b. Then you will merge into the ocean of love for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. So this is the highest stage of ecstasy for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, always chanting K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a’s name, dancing in ecstasy, and to be merged in the ocean of love for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. These are the perfections.\u201d (Srila Prabhupada lecture on The Nectar of Devotion\u2014January 8, 1973, Bombay)<\/p>\n
Our comment. \u201cdance by force\u2026by dancing, dancing\u201d means this is a vaidhi \u2013 bhakti \u2013 sadhana, a must, rules and regulations bhakti, devotional service, which becomes raghanuga \u2013 sadhana, spontaneous bhakti: \u201cdancing in ecstasy\u2026.(in) K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, love for K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u201d.
\nWe are to dance, not to get or be healthy, but as part of the Krishna conscious, spiritual health of the soul program, plan of action, order of the day, solution, routine, play.
\nThe health of the body will be a corollary or technical externality.
\nThus, instead of going out of your temple home to your coffin on the graveyard, make your home more and more a Temple of Radha Krishna, Gaura Nitai, as Srivasa Thakura\u2019s house in the Golden Gauranga avatari, became as the Rasa \u2013 Lila Dance forest, province, park, grove.<\/p>\n
As Srila Prabhupada lectures on The Nectar of Devotion, October 28, 1972, V\u1e5bndavana: \u201cBut when this function will be done spontaneously, “Oh, this is the time to offer ma\u1e45gala \u0101r\u0101trika to my Lord…” That is wanted. That is wanted. Not that “Oh, it is a heavy burden to rise early in the morning and to offer ma\u1e45gala \u0101r\u0101trika.” That is not spontaneous. But one has to act under the direction of spiritual master and \u015b\u0101stra, which is called vidhi-bhakti, regulative devotional service. So after one is being trained in regulative devotional service, he comes to the platform of spontaneous service.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four aratrika\u2019s (4.30. 7.00, 12.30, 18.30 h) and\/or a (few) kirtana festival(s) a day, keeps all bodily and mental diseases away.<\/p>\n
His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada gave the universe an all-round, all-around, well-rounded solution for everything problematic, difficult, hard, problematical, taxing, troublesome, awkward, controversial, complicated, complex, knotty, thorny, prickly, intricate, vexed, paradoxical, puzzling.<\/p>\n
Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!
\nHare Krishna.<\/p>\n
ys: Radha Mukunda das<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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