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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,
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
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From Denmark to Finland to Estonia
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26
September 2011 was a full travel day for us. Immediately
after mangala arati at 4:30am at the ISKCON temple in
Copenhagen, Denmark we headed out to the airport to
check in for an early morning flight to Helsinki,
Finland. After landing in Helsinki, devotees from
ISKCON's Helsinki temple picked us up and drove us to
the Helsinki temple for lunch. After lunch we rested for
a bit, and then we took a ship across the Gulf of
Finland to Tallinn, Estonia, where the devotees greeted
us with a super ecstatic kirtan and where we will be
teaching the science of bhakti for a week both in and
outside of Tallinn.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
26 September 2011
After Crossing the Gulf of Finland...
http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Fall/Tallinn_Gulf.JPG
We Had an Ecstatic Kirtan Arrival in Tallinn, Estonia
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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Are the Vedas Mythology? |
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Dear Guru,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I pray that I am not asking a question that was covered
before I became a member of the course or that I am
doing anything to offend you or Lord Krishna. But I was
watching a BBC production today on the history of India.
They talked about the great battle that happened 5,000
years ago with Arjuna and Lord Krishna. They said that
the battle was nothing more than Indian mythology and
that Krishna was a king at that time. What proof is
there that Lord Sri Krishna is who we know Him to be,
and not just a man of the time? Or are we to take this
on faith? In mythology people are said to be able to do
great magical things, but it does not necessarily mean
that they are true. For example in one of the early
cantos of the Srimad Bhagavatam it says the because of
all the mining for gold the earth fell into a place of
greater evil ( if you like) and that if we do not stop
our oil drilling the same thing could happen to us. The
Bhagavatam explains that Lord Krishna out of His
infinite compassion changed Himself into a gigantic boar
and lifted the earth into its proper orbit with His
tusks. Please help me with my dilemma. I would like to
take these things at face value, but some of them seem a
bit of a stretch for me. If I cannot believe all of
them, which parts should I accept as historical fact and
which as mythology?
Your humble servant,
Bruce
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Answer: The Vedas Are
History, Not Myth. |
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Because the Vedic
histories describe many events that are beyond the
limited experience and comprehension of modern day men,
we often hear the foolish mundaners claim that the Vedic
histories are mythology. But where is the proof of such
a claim? There is no proof. The Supreme Personality of
Godhead is unlimitedly powerful and can do anything both
conceivable and inconceivable. So-called intellectuals
blindly reject the authority of the Vedic literatures,
but someone who is actually intelligent does not blindly
accept or reject anything. All the descriptions given in
the Vedic scriptures, even the most inconceivable ones,
can be personally confirmed by anyone who awakens their
original divine consciousness. The fools blindly say
that only those things that are empirically verifiable
can be accepted as true, even though the truth of this
philosophical principle is not empirically verifiable.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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