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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
the world. |
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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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Today's Thought: |
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My Eternal Spiritual Master Saved Me
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I
will forever, literally for all of eternity, remain the
subordinate servant of my spiritual master, His Divine
Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It is by his
causeless mercy that I have been restored to my original
pure identity as a servant of Krishna. For countless
eons I was lost in the cycle of birth of death sometimes
thinking myself to be a demigod, sometimes a human,
sometimes a plant, and sometimes an animal. But now, by
the pure loving kindness of Srila Prabhupada I have been
freed from my prison sentence in this material existence
and allowed to re-enter into the divine association of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna.
How can I ever repay the debt I owe to Srila Prabhupada?
It is impossible. Therefore I must simply serve him for
all of eternity as a small token of gratitude for his
having saved me from the unlimited miseries of material
existence by bringing me into the most blissful,
ever-expandingly more exciting adventure of Krishna
consciousness.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Srila
Prabhupada With Sankarshan Das
(standing directly behind Srila Prabhupada)
(Photo is from the early 1970's)
http://www.backtohome.com/images/Personal/Prabhupada-SD.jpg
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: |
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Question:
How Can We Fall from the Spiritual Sky? |
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Thanks for all your answers daily. I appreciate all your
efforts in helping people to become Krishna conscious. I
am trying my best to live a Krishna conscious life and
hope I will have your blessings.
How to understand that we, the living beings, could ever
fall from the spiritual world? In his purport to
Srimad Bhagavatam 3.16.26 Srila Prabhupada
explains:
"The conclusion is that no one falls from the spiritual
world, or Vaikuntha planet, for it is the eternal
abode."
But in a lecture he gave on the Bhagavad-gita on 6
August 1973 Srila Prabhupada states:
“We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and
millions of years ago.”
I am bit confused by this. Can you please enlighten me
in the right direction?
AK
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Answer: We Only Dream That We
are Not There |
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You most certainly always
have my blessings for your rapid advancement in Krishna
consciousness. I am trying my best to awaken the
sleeping souls of this planet to their actual identities
as the eternal servants of Krishna, but when someone
wants to remain asleep it is difficult to awaken them.
Even though the two statements you have quoted appear to
be contradictory, they are nonetheless both true. Such a
phenomenon is known in philosophy as a paradox. Instead
of thinking that one statement is correct and that the
other is incorrect, we have to understand how both of
them are true.
You are wondering how we could have fallen from
Vaikuntha if no one falls from Vaikuntha. The answer is
that both statements are true. We simply have to
understand from the authoritative statements of Srila
Prabhupada how both of them are true. Srila
Prabhupada has explained this paradox as follows in his
answer to a question by a disciple, Bhaktijana Das. This
question was answered at the end of a Caitanya
Caritamrita Lecture given on 18 February 1967 in San
Francisco:
"You are liberated. You are liberated. Simply just a
cloud has covered you. Drive away the cloud. There is no
question that you were ever (conditioned). You are
ever-liberated. That, the sky is always spiritual, but
it is sometimes overcrowded with cloud, this maya. This
is called maya. Actually, you are not conditioned. You
are thinking. Just like in the dream you are thinking
that tiger is eating you. You were never eaten by tiger.
There is no tiger. So we have to get out of this dream.
Don't you sometimes dream that tiger is eating you? Is
there any tiger? You are simply thinking. So if you keep
in Krishna consciousness, that nonsense thinking will go
away. Therefore we have to keep ourselves always in
Krishna thinking so that this dream will never come. If
you are always awakened, then dream never comes. So keep
yourself always awakened by Krishna consciousness."
In other words, no one really falls from Vaikuntha.
Instead we have simply entered into a dreamlike
condition in which we think ourselves to be somewhere
else. We are dreaming ourselves to be in this material
world. That's all. When we awaken from this dream by
reviving our dormant Krishna consciousness, we will see
that actually we were in Vaikuntha, the spiritual world,
the entire time, that we never left the Lord's
resplendent kingdom. We will then pick up where we left
off. We will resume our activities as intimate
associates of the Lord in His unlimitedly astonishing
transcendental pastimes.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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