Diksha - A Divine Transformation

November
26, 2017
All glory to Śrī Guru and Śrī Gaurāṅga
Dīkṣā, or initiation is a Divine
Transformation
Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj explains how we
can transform ourselves and our environment from mundane to
divine through adjustment to the plane of dedication.
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We can make the whole environment in our favour. That is necessary
and when we will be successful to do that every time all the time, that
must be happy time for us. Understand?
We shall try to make the whole environment happy for everybody.
Before Jesus Christ was crucified, he prayed to God, “God they do not
know what they are doing. You forgive their offences.” Jesus is going
for crucifixion and before that is praying for the sinners: “They do not
know what they have done and are doing. But they are unqualified
and you are qualified; You forgive their offence.” That is the mood of
the Vaishnavas.
I heard one English expression from Guru Maharaj: “to err is human,
but to forgive is divine.” Then we will always try to live in the divine
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plane. Why will we go to the plane of error? That is where we are
living. The plane of error means the plane of exploitation. But we will
leave that plane and we will transform that plane to the divine plane.
And it is possible; Bhakti Vinod Thakur said it, in his song.
ye-dina grihe, bhajana dekhi, grihete goloka bhaya
charana-sidhu, dekhiya ganga, sukha na sima paya
“When I see that all my children, my husband, my wife, all the
relatives, are chanting and servicing Lord Krishna, I feel I am living in
Goloka Vrindavan.”
Bhakti Vinod Thakur said it in his song. We want to stay in that plane,
and that is our real plane, the plane of dedication, the plane of divine
dedication.
Diksa, initiation, means we offer ourselves to Krishna. And that is
called dedication. I want to throw myself in the plane of dedication.
And in that throwing nothing will be lost. If I throw one apple from
here to there, the apple will get some loss from the hitting. But thrown
to the lotus feet of Krishna it will get much energy and life: just the
opposite. That is the divine plane. And initiation means surrender to
Krishna as well as surrender to Guru.
Guru is Krishna appearing in front of me in the form of a human. That
is Guru. I see that Guru is holding a human body and there are many
things wrong in the body, but that is not clean vision. Clean vision
will come another way; Sanatan Goswami said to Mahaprabhu and
Mahaprabhu gave answer to him: “You are a devotee of Krishna, and
Krishna is testing Me by putting some skin disease on your body.
Krishna is trying to test Me, whether I shall embrace you or not. But I
know your body is transcendental and I must embrace you.” And
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again Mahaprabhu embraced Sanatan Goswami and the skin disease
disappeared. That is real vision.
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