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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
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual
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Don't Miss this Rarest of All Opportunities
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To
get a human birth is an opportunity that one only very
rarely gets in the evolutionary cycle, which spans
8,400,000 different types of species. Rarer still
is to be a human being who seriously pursues the pathway
of spiritual emancipation to gain release from the cycle
of birth and death. And even rarer than that is the
spiritual seeker who gets the shelter of a bona fide
spiritual master and thus is able to successfully gain
release from the material existence. So if you find
yourself in the category of someone who has been able to
get the shelter of a bona fide spiritual master, kindly
do not throw this opportunity away. Take advantage of
this rarest of all opportunities and make your life
truly and permanently successful.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Teaching Krishna Bhakti at a Ma Kali Temple
Solerino, Mauritius--16 December 2011
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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Why Did Sankara Spread Impersonalism? |
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Why did Sankara spread
impersonalism?
D.P.
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Answer: To Partially
Re-Establish Vedic Culture |
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Sankaracharya was an
incarnation of Lord Siva, who was ordered by his master,
Lord Krishna, to propagate Mayavadi philosophy,
impersonalism, for the purpose of defeating Buddhism and
re-establishing Vedic culture in India. The historical
reason for this was that after Krishna departed from
this planet 5,000 years ago India gradually degraded to
such an extent that the people were killing cows and
justifying it by a gross misinterpretation of the Vedic
scriptures. Therefore, being kind upon the poor cows,
Krishna appeared in the form of Lord Buddha to stop the
cow killing by teaching the principles of karma and
non-violence along with a voidistic philosophy which
denied the Vedas. Such emergency action saved the cows,
but Vedic culture was for the time being forgotten.
Therefore to restore Vedic culture Lord Krishna ordered
Lord Siva to appear as Sankaracharya, who presented a
compromised version of Vedic philosophy that was similar
to Buddhism. The Buddhist conception of the highest
truth is zero. And the impersonal conception of the
highest truth is impersonal oneness. Philosophically
they are very similar. Through expert grammatical word
jugglery Sankaracharya twisted the Vedic teachings to
make them appear impersonal so that the Buddhists would
find it acceptable to adopt the Vedic culture and
teachings. In this way Sankaracharya was successful in
defeating Buddhism and re-establishing Vedic culture.
But before leaving this world he renounced his earlier
impersonal Vedic misinterpretation and instructed his
followers to accept the ultimate Vedic conception, the
personal conception of God:
bhaja govindaṁ bhaja govindaṁ
bhaja govindam mūḍha-mate
samprāpte sannihite kāle
na hi na hi rakṣati ḍukṛñ-karaṇe
"You intellectual fools, just worship Govinda, just
worship Govinda, just worship Govinda. Your grammatical
knowledge and word jugglery will not save you at the
time of death."
Unfortunately his followers did not follow his final
instruction. Instead they tenaciously clung to
impersonalism because they felt gratified by the false
impersonal conception that the living being is God.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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