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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.
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Don't Be a Rascal. Come Back to Krishna
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For
countless lifetimes we have been acting as rascals by
defying the authority of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Because of our foolish rascal mentality we have
needlessly suffered in the cycle of birth and death. So
instead of punishing ourselves, we should be kind to
ourselves by returning to our original, healthy, innate
state of consciousness. In other words, we should give
up our rascaldom and come back to Krishna consciousness.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Krishna
is Inviting You to Come Home
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Question: How Can We Not Merge Back into God? |
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How is it possible that
when Lord mentions he is the Source of everything, that
I can be part and parcel of him and still be separate
from Him? If He is the source, we were all in Him at
some point and thus at some point will merge back with
Him. In this way, the vasishtadvaita philosophy of
Ramanuja looks logically correct!
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Answer: We Were Never Merged &
Will Never Merge |
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Just as the center of a
circle and all other points on the circle are
inseparably one because they are all part of the same
circle, but at the same time are distinctly different
because of their varying locations on the circle, in a
similar way the Lord and the living beings are
inseparably one and at the same time distinctly
different. The circle must have a central point. It
cannot be without a central point. And all points on the
circle besides the central point are distinctly
different from the central point, even though they are
all one because they are all part of the circle. They
all have locations in the circle relative to the central
point.
Even though Krishna is the source of everything, this
does mean that we were originally merged in Him and then
became unmerged when He decided to emanate us from
Himself. This is so because we are eternally being
emanated from Him. There was never a time that we did
not exist as His emanated separated expansions. Nor will
there ever be a time in the future when we will not
exist as Krishna-emanated individuals. This point is
confirmed in Bhagavad-gita 2:12.
You have misunderstood Sri Ramanujacharya's philosophy
known as Visitadvaita. According to his teaching
although the Lord and His energies are one, each keeps
his individuality. The Sanskrit word vasistya means
individuality. A nice example in this connection is the
sun and sunshine. The sunshine is nothing but the sun.
But at the same time it is different. When the sunshine
enters our room, we may say the sun has come. But if the
sun planet had entered, we would be burned to a crisp
immediately. So the sun and the sunshine, although one,
are different. Just as the sunshine, although also sun,
is the sun's separated energy, in a similar way the
living beings are non-different from God because they
are nothing but His energy, and at the same time they
are different because they cannot emanate everything
from themselves as God is able to emanate everything
from Himself.
I hope this clears up your understanding.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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