Affirmations

by David Norman Willmott


• This moment—now—is all there is, and this moment will last forever. (So be aware, not mental)
• I want to please Krsna now.
• The past is gone and the future is imagination. Neither one has substance in the world that is present. “Forget the past that sleeps and never the future dream at all, but keep with thee all times present and progress ye shall call”.
• All there is is Krsna now.
• Pay attention to Krsna now.
• I can't determine the future by being in anxiety over it, thinking about it as if I should be in it now — as if it's going on somehow and I'm missing out on it and can't get to it. NO. All I can ever do is work with the present. What can I do right now? That's all there is. Even if I'm dreaming of the future (or the past or some-thing some-where), I'm dreaming it NOW. So is that the best use of my now? — To not use now to make the future come to the present? I have to have faith in now to act to make a desire come true. Truth is now (because now is existence). Now is the centre, now is king. I must bring desire to the present. That means patience, but that makes me feel free, like I've nothing to worry about because there'll always be now to work with. The only thing that is actually useful in meeting a goal is always available to me (i.e. now is always here). All I have to do is accept it gratefully.
• As the moon appears to move with the passing of clouds across its face, so we seem to move through time. But time moves past us. Being me now is always assured. Only what comes in front of me changes.
• Now is Krsna. I should always be serving Krsna. Therefore I should always be conscious to be doing what's the appropriate service now, even if it be even contemplating a goal that I'm confident in acting for.
• Stressing about the future because I'm worried about being the doer who might have problems getting it done hardly constitutes service to Krsna. Therefore if becoming a devotee is important to me, I won't stress. I'll concern myself to do what I need to do now.
• Krsna is the doer. I am an instrument.
• I am Krsna's servant.
• I'm an instrumental servant of Krsna.
• Devotion is life. Devotion is action, not result.
• The result is always already Krsna's. He doesn't need me to get what he already has.
• I need to serve the order of Guru, come rain or shine, hell or high water.
• Obstacles are not a problem. The environment is not a problem. Results or the lack of them are not problems. The only problem is that I'm attached to the result.
• The result is not mine; nor can I control it, get it, grab it when or how I like.
• The result is for Krsna to determine.
• All I can do is use all my energy and intelligence in WORKING for Krsna's result. If the result is big or small, it belongs to Krsna. And if it doesn't come at all, I'll still work to get it (if it's still needed), or I'll still be working hard to get some other thing for Krsna.
• Each and every moment is in pursuance of the service activity I've been given to discharge for Krsna. What else matters?

• If He is pleased with my service attitude, the result can be there or not, as He likes, for He is the Enjoyer.
• Krsna is my mother, father, child, wife. And my mother, father, child, and wife are Krsna's. They belong to Krsna. They are Krsna's mother, father, child, wife. He appears to me in these forms and qualities. I must treat them as Krsna likes to be treated. I am simply the instrument of their caretaking, the instrument for their interaction.
• The Lord's potencies are flowing, meeting, engaging. I can be a conduit. I can take part. I can be an instrument for the right potency if I want. I can be a player in the Lord's drama.
• I must play my part well so that the other cast members are inspired to play their parts.
• This drama is for Krsna's pleasure. Why would Krsna be pleased with our drama? Krsna likes good drama. Krsna is the writer & director, and He has set His cast of characters. He has said what "husband" is. So if you want the director to be happy, play the husband as a husband.
• We will work nicely with Brahman & Paramatma to please Bhagavan.
• I want to please Krsna by this drama. But I want that one day Krsna will want to play in my drama — or rather that He will have me in His.
• All the things that I want to be involved in I want that they serve Krsna’s purpose; and I want that He would be pleased to be involved with me in them. I want to play on his team.
• I am like a helpless child in the midst of this vast place. And still I think I’m moving and shaking, causing effects, creating results and experiences. But I’m like an infant being carried by mother, directed by father. All I have is desire. If I make enough noise, if I cry loud and long, if I show how much I want something, then mother and father can pacify me but keep me out of harm’s way. Krsna makes dreams come true — when there’s faith in those dreams. If I want my spiritual dreams to come true, I have to need them, cry for them, insist on them, beg Him. That I can do. That’s really all I can do.