Teachings to Mind

These verses are from Bhakti Vinod Thakurs Book " Dusta Mana"

• Oh mind, What is the value of contemplating day and night your plans for enjoying wealth and women? All these things are only temporary.
  


• Oh mind,When you claim wealth as your own, it creates in you ever-increasing desires for material enjoyment. Your riches should be used for serving Mädhava, the Lord of all wealth. Neither is it your proper place to indulge in lust for women, whose only true proprietor is Lord Yädava.



• The demon Rävana (lust-incarnate) fought with Lord Rämachandra (love-incarnate) in order to gain the tree of worldly reputation-but that oasis turned out to be but a mirage cast in the desert wasteland of the Lord's illusory material potency.



• Oh mind,please cultivate fixed determination to attain only the steady and solid platform whereupon a Vaishnava ever stands. If you neglect worshiping the Lord from this position, then you will ultimately attain a hellish existence.



• Oh mind,Why do you needlessly suffer the torment of blaspheming the devotees of Lord Hari, attempting to achieve their eminence, thereby only proving your own fruitless foolishness?



• The desire for spiritual eminence is easily fulfilled when one becomes a devotee of the Lord, for eternal fame automatically follows the heels of a Vaishnava. And that fame is never to be considered a temporary worldly opulence.



• The prestige of so-called popularity in the material realm is compared to a treacherous dog-eating witch.



• One is truly a Vashnava who has given up the habit of falling victim to the ferocious tigress of wealth, beauty, and fame. Such a soul is factually detached from material life, and is known as a pure devotee. Someone with this consciousness of detachment has thereby become victorious over the mundane world of birth and death.



• O mind, please reject the company of two types of persons-those desiring impersonal liberation from the material world, and those who desire to enjoy the pleasure of material sense objects. Both of these are equally non-devotees.



• One who falsely gives up things that could actually be used in the Lord's service proudly calls himself a 'renunciate,' but unfortunately he can never become a Vaishnava by such an attitude.



• Ever engage yourself in the service of Sri Radhan, and keep aloof from the vicious snake of materialistic sense gratification. The glory of participating in the Lord's kirtan is not meant to bolster anyone's ambitions for personal recognition.



• Oh mind, Never occupy yourself with begging for worthless material reputation, which is cherished only by the living dead.

Sri Manaha Siksha by Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami.

• O MY UNCOMPREHENDING INNER SELF, my dear brother mind, I humbly prostrate myself before you.



• Taking hold of your feet, I beseech you, please give up all pride and surrender fully to Sri Guru, to the spiritual abode of Vraja-dhama, to the residents of Vraja, to all the Vaisnava devotees of the Lord, to the sattvika-brahmanas, to the holy name of the Supreme Lord, and to the ever-fresh and youthful Divine Couple of blossoming beauty, Sri-Sri Radha and Krsna, and in this way quickly develop sublime attachment to Them.



• O my dear mind, please do not perform the religious activities described in the Vedas, or the sinful activities also designated in the scriptures.



• The ultimate conclusion of the Vedic literatures is that the Divine Couple Sri-Sri Radha and Krsna is the supreme object of worship, and that loving service to Them is the most relishable experience of all.



• Therefore, O mind, engage yourself fully in serving Them with love and devotion.



• Always meditate on Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the son of Mother Saci, understanding Him to be absolutely non-different from Sri Krsna, the son of Maharaja Nanda.



• O mind, meditate as well on Sri Guru, who is the dearmost devotee of Lord Mukunda, Krsna.
  


• My dear mind, if you are eager to reside in Vraja-dhama and execute devotional service , as well as to yearn for direct service to Sri-Sri Radha and Krsna, then simply desire to remember and worship birth after birth the lotus feet of Sri Svarupa Damodara, Srila Rupa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami and all the other associates of Sri Caitanya, who are the recipients of His mercy.




• My dear mind, you must categorically relinquish all frivolous and mundane talk, which is like a prostitute who steals all your intelligence and resolve.



• My dear mind, in this material life you are attacked by lust, which is like a gang of thugs that waylay innocent pilgrims, strangling you with strong terrible ropes in the form of distress, pain, and futile endeavors. In this condition you must cry out piteously and invoke the mercy of the unalloyed devotees of Sri Krsna, the killer of the demon Bakasura. They will surely protect you from this dilemma.



• My dear mind, you have embraced the path of self realization, yet you foolishly think that you are cleansing yourself by bathing in the pretentiously fierce qualities of deceit and fault-finding, which are compared to impure donkey urine. Factually, you are incinerating yourself and dragging an infinitesimal spirit soul like me into the conflagration. Stop this suicidal course! Dive into the immortal ocean of sublime ambrosia that awaits you in loving devotional service at the lotus feet of Sri-Sri Radha and Krsna. Resuscitate my very being and thus give both of us endless happiness.



• My dear brother mind, the despicable desire for material honor and distinction is compared to a shameless and low-born prostitute who eats dog meat—yet she is flagrantly dancing in my heart. How, then, can the pristine love of pure devotion to Sri Krsna ever find a place in my heart?



• You will simply have to serve the unalloyed devotees of the Lord, who are His intimate associates and stalwart supporters. They alone can drive out this prostitute and enthrone pure love of Godhead within my heart.


• MY DEAR MIND, always remain absorbed in Lord Krsna, the glowing moon of Vrndavana, for He is the most beloved of my worshipable mistress Srimati Radharani, the Queen of Vraja. Absorb yourself, dear mind, in Srimati Lalita-devi, for she is a matchless gopi and a bosom friend of my mistress, the Queen of Vraja. Absorb yourself, my dear mind, in Srimati Visakha-devi, for she is my instructing spiritual preceptor; in Radha-kunda, Radhika's favorite pond; and in Sri Govardhana Hill, for they all increase my loving attraction to the Divine Couple and Their sublime pastimes.
• O DEAR MIND, In order to receive the direct service of Srimati Radharani and Giridhari [Krsna], who are intoxicated with and attracted to amorous pastimes with each other, and of Their confidential and eternal associates, simply take shelter of Srila Rupa Gosvami, following his instructions of relishing the five types of ambrosial service to Lord Krsna according to proper standards, namely: worshipping, glorification, meditation, hearing, and offering obeisances [arcana, kirtana, dhyana, sravana, and pranama]. And simultaneously serve Govardhana Hill.