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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
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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,
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bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and
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Can Scientists Produce Something from
Nothing?
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Some
would have us believe that the scientists can produce
something from nothing. But when we ask for proof they
only give us a post dated check that in the future the
scientists will be able to do it. If someone offered you
a billion dollars for your house, you would probably
take it. But what if the check was post dated? What if
they tell you that they only have $50 in their account
today but by tomorrow afternoon they will have a billion
dollars in their bank account. Will you sign over
your house to them? So why should we accept a post dated
check that in the future the scientists will be able to
produce something out of nothing? Only a completely
gullible fool would be mesmerized by such world
jugglery.
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Does Sincere Work Purify the Heart? |
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Please
accept my respectful obeisances,
I read Bhagavad-gita As It Is 3.8: "Perform your
prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not
working. One cannot even maintain one's physical body
without work." The following question came to my
mind: Is it true that by doing one's job sincerely one
gets purified of material impurities?
Sunil
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Answer: Work Minus Bhakti
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When reading scripture one
must always read the verses in context in order to get
the proper meaning. If you had carefully considered
verse 9, you would have had a clear understanding of
verse 8. In verse 9 it is stated:
"Work done as a sacrifice for Vishnu has to be
performed; otherwise work causes bondage in this
material world. Therefore, O son of Kunti, perform your
prescribed duties for His satisfaction, and in that way
you will always remain free from bondage."
Offering the fruit of your work to Vishnu or Krishna is
the only way to become pure. If you do not do this as
devotional service to the Lord, there is no way you will
become free from impurities simply by sincerely working
a job.
If doing one's job sincerely rids one of all material
impurities, practically the entire world would be
Krishna conscious. There would be no crime, no
terrorism, no wars, no cow killing, and no baby killing,
and the entire planet earth would be transformed into
heaven on earth. Because the world situation is quite
the opposite, we can easily understand that one does not
become free from all impurities simply by doing one's
job sincerely.
Only if one engages in devotional service to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead can he become completely free
from the dirt in the heart for properly understanding
Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is
confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita 18.55 as follows:
bhaktyā mām
abhijānāti
yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ
tato māṁ tattvato jñātvā
viśate tad-anantaram
"One can understand Me as I am, as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, only by devotional service. And
when one is in full consciousness of Me by such
devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God.
In conclusion, working sincerely for material sense
gratification does not purify the heart. Rather it
further contaminates the heart.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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