Srila Prabhupada explains in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi Lila, Chapter 7, text 83:

"A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles given by the spiritual master. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads; in other words, the devotee becomes qualified in offenselessly chanting the holy name. When one is completely fit to chant the holy name in this way, he is eligible to make disciples all over the world, and he actually becomes jagad-guru. Then the entire world, under his influence, begins to chant the holy names of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra."

From these wonderful words of Srila Prabhupada we can see the amazing potency of Krishna's holy name. Simply by properly serving the holy name according to the instructions of the spiritual master, by the power of the holy name the sincere student becomes qualified to chant the holy name offenselessly and is thus eligible to make disciples all over the world and actually become jagad-guru by influencing the entire world to take up the sublime path of Krishna bhakti. What could be more astounding and sublime than this?


Sankarshan Das Adhikari

ISKCON--Los Angeles, California, USA

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Question: Why Krishna Sent Me to this Earth?

Please accept my humble obeisances, and also my apologies if I've been writing too many emails asking different questions to you from time to time. But I like to hear from you and somehow feel that you can show me the path. I'm very much thankful to you for all the answers you have been sending me.

The question that is coming to my mind even after hearing so many lectures and chanting daily is: Why Krishna sent me to this earth? From spiritual understanding I get the answer to realize myself and go back to His kingdom. From materialists I get the answer that everybody is sent here for purpose to achieve (dreams, goals, etc) something in life. I also heard in one of your lectures that we wanted to enjoy separately from Krishna. So does that mean we were not happy with Krishna? But Krishna is so merciful even in this world He has given us facilities to enjoy life in different ways (both materialistic and spiritual). Why we wanted to enjoy separately from Krishna? Were we not happy doing his service in the transcendental Vaikuntha world? If so, then it means we were not perfect. Then still how were we in Vaikuntha? Initially before the material world started everybody must have been in Vaikuntha. If the spiritual Vaikuntha world is our real home, why was this material world created?

Please enlighten me with your loving words and free me from my doubts as this has started affecting my sadhana, my devotional practices.

Thank you

Sushant
 

Answer:  To Fulfill Your Desire to Be God

I am very pleased by your inquiring. Please continue to do so until your intelligence is fully satisfied. Kindly note that the import of these teachings will become clarified according to the degree of our surrender at the Lord's lotus feet. Therefore always try to become more and more absorbed in the mood of bhakti. In this way your intelligence will become more and more transcendentally empowered.

Because love must be voluntary, it cannot be forced, part of the Lord's perfect arrangement is to give the living beings free will so they can have a genuine loving relationship with Him. Free will means the independence to love Him or leave Him. Although everyone has perfect happiness in the Vaikuntha realm, because everyone has independence sometimes someone may think that there might be more happiness in being the Supreme rather than serving the Supreme. When the living entity desires in this way, the Lord, as His affectionate father, fulfills that person's desire by giving him a world in which he can imagine that he is the Supreme. And then when the foolish living being realizes his mistake and wants to return to being the Lord's servant in the spiritual world, the Lord gives him all facility by providing him with a spiritual master, saintly teachers, and bona fide scriptures to illuminate his pathway back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
 

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