Chastity of our consciousness …………..

"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"

Chastity of our consciousness ………….. Nectarean Mellows

Maitreya Muni herein describing so wonderfully what he has heard through submissive oral reception from his spiritual master; Maitreya Muni is giving us a very good lesson here that one should not have a consciousness which is unchaste. To be unchaste means to be exploited and polluted and also exploit others. When a person is unchaste in this world they just exploit others and they are also exploited; that's all. When a woman is chaste; she is protected, she is safe and secure if she has a proper husband or father or elder son but when a woman becomes unchaste (then) big, big problems to the whole society, cheaters and cheated, that's all. So similarly when our consciousness is unchaste we become exploited by maya and all of her representatives and in response we become exploiters even in the name of religion. Maitreya Rishi is describing that his chastity is that he heard submissively from his guru and he is simply repeating the glories of the Lord as he has heard from his spiritual master without interpretation or change; if you change the message you became unchaste, you don't do good to others but rather you exploit others. The conscious which is chaste understands it's real position that we are eternally the servants of Krsna; we are Krsna's property; therefore with our body, mind and words which comprise our very life, we are meant simply to repeat the glories of Krsna as it is and serve the Supreme Lord as He is. This is chastity of our consciousness because it is the natural position of our consciousness. As soon as we speak due to the ferocious uncontrolled tendencies of the conditioned tongue, those things, which are of the material world, which are not in service of Krsna; then we become unchaste to God.
H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj