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The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri
Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati
Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in
the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri
Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to
rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger
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Our Mission: To help everyone awaken
their original Krishna consciousness, which is
eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss.
Such a global awakening will, in one stroke,
solve all the problems of the world society
bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and
prosperity for all. May that day, which the
world so desperately needs, come very soon. We
request you to participate in this mission by
reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and
assisting us in spreading this science all over
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Dedicated with love to
ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His
Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and
to you, our dear readers. |
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Sofia Airport Resounds with Ecstatic
Chanting
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There's
nothing sweeter than arriving in a foreign country and
being greeted with a joyful, exuberant Hare Krishna
kirtan which is so attractive and enthusiastic that it
draws the attention of everybody in the airport. This
was our experience upon landing in Sofia the other day.
The whole world should be like this: filled up with
lively singing of the Lord's names along with ecstatic
dancing. Nobody will have time for war anymore. They
will be too busy chanting and dancing.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Ecstatic Arrival Kirtan--Sofia Airport-26 May 2011
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: |
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Complaint:
Your Limited Beliefs Spread Sickness |
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I
have subscribed to your e-course and have been following
the answers that you have been providing. Though some of
the answers are good, I feel really apprehensive of
certain other answers, and I feel some are dogmatic with
the limited belief system you have in your mind.
As religion is a way of life and Christianity proposes a
super-power as God and the mortals are sinners, they
plant guilt in the consciousness. You too, in the name
of Krishna, are spreading the same sickness from a Hindu
point of view. Since belief systems and the emotional
constituents vary from person to person, there are a lot
of perspectives to look at: God as a friend, as a
mother, as a father, as a master (in a master disciple
relationship) not a master-servant as you state in your
replies. This way of answers shows supremacy to
something you shout as Krishna and instill fear,
inferiority and guilt to your followers.
You wrote,
The second point is: There is no verse in the
Bhagavad-gita which upholds the principle that Dr.
Hawking and everyone else is a form of God. Rather we
are all the tiny servants of God.
Need clarification here:
Please quote the verse that say we are all tiny servants
of God. We are part and parcel of the same God (as the
Gita says, we are within God (ref. Chapter 7 verse 12).
Since a drop of the Infinite is infinite, a part of God
is God stands true to each and everyone of us in our
true essence is God)
I hope you reply and stop fooling people around with
your views as the views of Krishna.
Hare Krishna.
Best Regards,
V.N.
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Answer: If the Gita is
Sickness, We are Surely Guilty |
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Thank you
very much for chanting Hare Krishna. This has pleased me
greatly. In regards to the philosophical issues you have
raised, kindly consider the followings points which are
offered to you in a mood of loving service:
We don't present our own views. We simply present the
message of Krishna as He has so mercifully revealed in
the Bhagavad-gita and as has been further confirmed
throughout the Vedic scriptures and by all the great
acharyas such as Devarshi Narada, Asita, Devala, and
Vyas. If this transcendental knowledge is sickness, we
are certainly guilty, as you say, of spreading sickness.
Indeed we have spread it so much that we are now in
danger of a global epidemic.
We admit that we teach that we are inferior to God
because this is a fact as confirmed by Krishna in the
Bhagavad-gita when He orders us to surrender to Him. If
you think this is a wrong concept, then prove to us that
you are as powerful as God by manifesting all the
universes from your body.
Krishna consciousness is not a process of making people
feel guilty and morose. It is a process of connecting
everyone with the unlimited mercy of God so that they
can enter into an eternal existence of blissful
celebration.
Servant means one who engages in service to the master.
In forty-six verses of the Bhagavad-gita Krishna
directly mentions this service. In the 18th chapter,
verse 66 He directly orders us to surrender to Him. This
means that we are meant to give up serving maya or
illusion and serve Him instead.
"Within God" does not meant that we are God. Just like a
man who lives in India is within India, but this does
not mean that he is India. Although he is Indian, he is
not India. In the same way because we are within God we
are "Godians", but we are not God.
You cannot find one point we make that is not confirmed
in the Vedic scriptures because we do not present our
own views. Our only business is to present the view of
Krishna, which is, by the way, the supreme view since
Krishna is the origin of all that exists, as confirmed
in the Bhagavad-gita.
If you don't like Krishna's views, that is your free
choice. You are entitled to have whatever views suit
you. But a thoughtful man carefully analyzes what are
the various results derived from various viewpoints and
adopts that viewpoint which will deliver him from the
cycle of birth and death. In this regard we wish you the
very best.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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