the world i know: Its Not The Jar

Most People, not understanding the true nature of things often look on externals to speculate whats going on internal. Two words come to mind today- Conditioning, and Nature. First I'll start with nature. Our true nature, is that we are spiritual beings, belonging to a spiritual realm in a much more fascinating reality than this one. The goal in human life is to get back to that nature using the human form of body as a vehicle. Now like every machine made of matter, this body has a certain conditioning. Conditioning involves how the soul expresses its desires through a certain medium. A soul in the body of a dog sees the world differently than that person in the body of a tiger. Most animals live in a world controlled and protected by nature. Humans, on the other hand are given a little more freedom. Look around and notice people's clothing, cars, houses, etc. Each person shows one constant thing- individuality. But the conditioning makes it so that although two people may be identical twins even, they express themelves differently. If we all had on different colored glasses, we would all see the same world, trees, bees-everything, but in different shades. This makes for a hard struggle for existence outside the spiritual world where, in our natural state, we all, tho different, have one oject of affection. In the Spiritual world we all love Krishna, and we use our individuality to serve him. Being the all attractive personality of Godhead is an interesting concept then huh?

All of the above came as a nice realization as I read a webpage on Chinese Astrology. There are twelve animals in the zodiac and I took birth in the year of the horse. Now, thats my conditioning. Its like some rich neigbhorhood where everyone drives range rovers. So am I the same as everyone born in the year of hte horse? Nope. Similar natures, but due to overall individuality we express ourselves diferently (red rovers, black ones, silver ones, leather interiors, fur (eeww!) .)

So thats another task for a spiritualist- engaging people according to two things- their conditioning (called nature sometimes, or guna), and their Activities (karma). One becomes expert in this science by learning to connect with Krishna who is the knower of all sciences. As he says in the Bhagavad-Gita " from me comes rememberance, knowledge and forgetfulness."

The easiest way I'd recommend getting in touch wih Krishna now a day is through chanting his names. Its explained that in this age, Krishna appears in the fom of his name. For those of you who know how to chant, try chanting quietly and listen to the sound vibration. For those who have zero clue on what i just talked about, try this:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare