What is a Vaishnava???

In Eastern philosophy terms and the people who were the most written about are Devotees of Lord Krishna that thought only about Krishna with unwavering Love and Devotion. No matter what happened to them or what situation they were in they new Krishna would protect them and He only had the best intentions for them to get closer to Him.

Vaishnavas can be simplified even more as a believing that there is only God that permeates everything and everything is Sustained by The Lord. Under The Supreme Lord reside many Demi Gods that perform many duties.

So a Vaishnava then is someone who loves with pure unconditional Love and Devotion the Supreme Lord. They realise that they can be friends with the Lord and can even become the Lords Lover. This is shown in cases like Meera the Queen Saint who loved Krishna so much and that she eventually ran towards the Murti of Krishna and merged with it.

But Vaishnavism can be extended to all religions and faiths as anybody who loves God. Whether the person is Christian, Muslim or Hindu is irrelevant. The love and devotion that you have for Him is important though.

Is their more to it than just Love and Devotion, which in itself is something that does not come easily to mankind?

Pure unconditional love and devotion that is free of the Mind. The Mind adds limitations and expectations that put the Love and Devotion inside a box. The expectations come with if “I Love God” or if “God does this for me” then I will be this or do that. When we sit down to meditate we have expectations about something we should feel or experience.

Leave all that behind and really feel God in your heart and soul. Just feel the love for God in your heart, let that start to spread throughout your body. After awhile of doing it you will simply have to think of God and the Love will immediately flow.

All of the Incarnations, whether you love Jesus, Krishna, Ram etc thay all had the same message love. Love not only for them but love for all humans. They all said how can you Love me when you don’t love your fellow human. I am inside of you and your neighbour, so to love Me you need only love your neighbour.

There is a beautiful story of a simple shepherd who was looking after his sheep.
One day a great sage came past. The shepherd stopped the saint and asked him. “Oh great sage, I am but a simple person with no knowledge of the scriptures” “How can I find God, please help me”.

The Sage looked at the shepherd and said “One does not need to know the scriptures or be a great mind to find God” “Simply love God, love him with all your heart and soul”.
The Shepherd then replied “Oh Great Sage how can I love what I do not know or have not seen”.

Seeing the Shepherd’s sincerity the Sage replied “Take something which you love no matter if it is human or animal and love that unconditionally”.
The shepherd said to the Sage “Oh Great Sage all I have is my sheep”. To which the Sage Replied “That’s fine love them unconditionally”.

The Sage departed and the Shepherd followed the Sage’s direction.

After a couple of months the Sage returned and stopped where the Shepherd was sitting with his sheep.

The Shepherd got up and said “Oh Great Sage, I have been doing as you said, but when I look at my sheep all I see is this 4 armed figured instead of my sheep”. “Who is that and how can I love my sheep and find God when That is all I see”.

The Sage Smiled and said “you have already found God”

Lets us spread the message of Love and Humility between mankind, no matter your beliefs or faith. Let us love and not judge, let us move from the mind to the heart.

We all want great minds and we want more knowledge when in fact we struggle to understand the simplest 4 letter word in the world “Love”.

If we all operated from the heart without judgement we will find ourselves closer to God then we could have ever imagined.