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Online Satsang with Jeffrey Carr
September 16, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Jeffrey Carr, Senior AMS Teacher
Gururaj Ananda Yogi
Satsang & Reading from
‘The Smile of Krishna’
Monday, September 16th, 2019
8 – 9 pm East Coast Time
7 – 8 pm Midwest Time
5 – 6 pm West Coast Time
ZOOM MEETING ID: 152 161 228
Excerpt from ‘The Smile of Krishna’
Gururaj Ananda Yogi:
The smile of Krishna is rather more a theme for poetry than the subject for a talk. The smile of Krishna is the smile that smiles through the entire universe, because his smile is the creation of the universe. Because Krishna or Christ smiles, this universe, as we know it, is created. Now, to me, Christ or Krishna or Buddha means the same: I’m more interested in Krishna consciousness or Christ consciousness. And that very consciousness is a smile. For consciousness, with its cognition of the universe, cannot but help to smile. It’s a pity we haven’t got Jesus’ picture here. All the pictures you have seen of Jesus are all totally false, just artist’s impressions. When I was a young lad I had visions of him, and I used to see him totally clearly. And he never had that sad face with all the tears running down his cheeks. He was a cheerful person; therefore, he taught: be of good cheer. If he was crying all the time, like the pictures depict him, he would not have taught ‘be of good cheer’. So that is the Christ smile. That is the Krishna smile: to be of good cheer.
And everything is cheerful if you know how to recognize the cheer. Cheer, or the smile, becomes distorted because of your mind. Your mind is that which distorts cheerfulness into cheerlessness. So, if you look around you, everything is smiling all the time. The flowers are smiling, the plants are smiling, this thing is smiling: everything just smiles. But that recognition of the smile of Krishna, or the smile of life, must come from you. You have to recognize it in order to know it. Have you really seen Krishna’s smile? Of course you have. Every time I smile at you that’s Krishna’s smile, because I do not find any difference between his consciousness apart from mine. It’s just one consciousness. And I am smiling through his smile, and he smiles through my smile. And yet, if you should watch the smile carefully, you would feel it bubbling over. For I never smile with my lips, I just pull them. I smile with my eyes- and there lies the beauty of a smile; not the pulling of the lips or whichever way. With every time the lips are formed into a smile, your eyes must sparkle with the radiance. Then only is it a smile.
HOW TO JOIN ONLINE
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