lord chaitanya is the most magnanimous

When we chant the holy names of the Lord, we are crying out for Krishna to save us. And how does Krishna save us? Because He is non-different from His name; because He is all pure, when we chant attentively within our heart, the name cleanses all of our illusions and all of our attachments. The holy name awakens the pure state of our original consciousness, and we are liberated form the web of material existence.

So Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, He came to give this name of Krishna without discrimination to everyone and to anyone. In fact, in the Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita it is described by Sri Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami, the author, that Lord Chaitanya is the topmost of all incarnations of God, that He is Krsna Himself from His original form.

But Lord Chaitanya is acting in a superior way, in the sense that He was magnanimous. This magnanimity is the special feature that makes Lord Chaitanya the most merciful of all incarnations. Krishna Das Kaviraj Goswami explains the meaning of Lord Chaitanya’s magnanimous nature: He is giving pure unalloyed selfless love of God, the ultimate happiness of the soul, to anyone and everyone without discrimination. He does not consider who is qualified and who is unqualified, the only qualification to receive the mercy of the Lord is simply the eagerness to accept it; that’s all. Whether you are sinful, whether you were born in kind of adverse conditions, it doesn’t even matter, what you have done or what you haven’t done.

Are we eagerly willing to accept the mercy when it comes? And what is that mercy?

To associate with the Lord and His devotees and to chant His holy names.

the most sincere welfare worker

When our enthusiasm is directed by great souls, our enthusiasm is then purely and truly engaged in God's service. This is the greatest wealth: the mercy of the great sadhus, and under their direction and inspiration we can serve the Lord and thus serve every living being.

By serving Krishna, by watering the root of the tree, the whole tree is nourished. One who loves God is the topmost well-wisher for every living being. He is the most compassionate, most charitable, most sincere welfare worker on the face of the earth. Why? Because he has genuine love for everyone, he has genuine concern for the suffering of all living beings, he is free from all selfishness, he is free form all fanaticism, he is a genuine friend for every being. These are the qualities of one who is genuinely enthusiastic in the service of God.

seek and ye shall find

Seek and you shall find. If you are looking for faults, you will find faults in everyone and everywhere. If you are looking for the good, you will find the good in everyone and everywhere. It is a question of what you want.

Krishna will reveal Himself according to how you approach Him. Shishupal only saw faults in Krishna, whereas Arjuna and Yudhishtir only saw the glory of Krishna. According to how each of these men approached Krishna, they were saved. Krishna is in the heart of everyone.

So to find faults with the devotees is a disease, it is a contagious disease, it is a sickening disease. And to see the good and virtue in devotees is an opulence, it’s a benediction. So we should not be diseased, we should not spread the disease; we should spread love and goodness.

the king of education

The self by nature is part of the Supreme Self, or God. In essence, you are eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss, saccidananada. Happiness is your nature. You suffer when you are not full of bliss, not full of knowledge, or if you are not in realization of your eternity. 

This means that you are in a diseased condition. You are in an unhealthy condition. You have forgotten the essence of your own being; the realization of you. Who are you? The consciousness within. Who is seeing me, right now? Your eyes, or your soul? Are you seeing through an eye, or  are you an eye? Are you your ear, or are you hearing me through your ear? So who are you? You don’t even know! Some mysterious Consciousness is witnessing this world through your body. But you think you are the body. You are flesh, or are you feeling through your flesh, but we don’t even know who that person is who is witnessing, that’s experiencing. There is a science of Physics to understand the flesh, right? There is science of psychiatry to understand the mind. 

Similarly, there is also a science of self-realization to understand the soul, the consciousness. It is a science. Today religion has become so degraded that everyone, simply says “I believe this, you believe that, whatever I believe is all right. Whatever you believe is all right. I think this and I think that”. And it is so unscientific and ridiculous that most of the educated class of people say, “Forget religion. It is so dogmatic and ritualistic."

But if you read the Vedas, religion is approached as a great science, raja vidya raja guhyam pavitram idam utamam - Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, that this is the king of education, the supreme science, because it gives one the direct perception of you, the self, through realization. 

So let us approach self-realization for what it is: it is a science. It must be understood systematically, in a scientific manner with our intelligence. Let us kick out all of this dogmatic, unscientific, un-philosophical belief system that goes in the name of religion. The nature of Consciousness is that it is eternal, it is full of knowledge and full of bliss. It is part of God, therefore all of the godly qualities are your inherent nature. But why are we not enjoying the very facilities that are our right to enjoy? Because we have forgotten, due to ignorance, our true nature.