We were visiting a devotee yesterday who has stomach cancer.
Not something we want to think about or even discuss really.
It came completely out of the blue.
She was having stomach pains for 2 years ... not really taken so seriously ... and than suddenly told a month or two ago that she has stomach cancer... .
What do you do now?
Seems we all need to wise up and start to take this process seriously.
Not being able to wake up early enough to chant a decent amount of rounds before school/work is kinda small compared to be told that you have a possible terminal illness.
Or maintaining grudges from the past - where only you are still hurting - is not really what the focus of our lives should be.
We need to become strong and shake off all the shackles of anarthas, impersonalism and false ego if we are serious about going Back to Godhead.
When the tests come (and they will definitely come) are you gonna be ready for them?
Will you have sufficient Krsna credit in the bank to draw upon?
Spiritual strength comes from good decent sadhana - regular and sincere.
This is the root of our creeper and the water and the growth food too.
If you don't call upon the Lord when you can and are able how will you develop sufficient desire and taste to do it when you cannot?
If you don't try to control the mind now while we can how will you do it when you are weak and sick and feeling lonely, in pain, confused and scared?
It is so important to become serious NOW ... and this does not mean becoming grave to the point of your personality dying !
Never smiling cos " I am a serious devotee and I only eat raw carrots for dinner"!
It means imbibing the message which Srila Prabhupada came to give - the message of 'Chant and Be HAPPY' !
This will keep you strong when afflicted by the terminal illness that comes with having a material body.
We are all gonna suffer from it - the question is ... ARE YOU READY FOR IT?
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