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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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A Skeptic Dropped Out of Our E-Course
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Recently
a subscriber who had been enrolled in our course for
almost two years dropped out. When asked the reason for
cancelling his subscription he said, "I am a skeptic."
Not wanting to let him miss the opportunity of achieving
life's goal of realizing the highest truth, I wrote him
as follows in response to his cancellation:
"We thank you very much for checking out our e-course
and have noted that you are dropping out because you are
a skeptic. Kindly note that if one takes skepticism to
its logical conclusion, one has to be ultimately be
skeptical about everything including even skepticism
itself. In other words after one has expanded his
skepticism to its final conclusion, he ultimately has to
reject skepticism in order to be true to the principle
of skepticism. And then it is at that point that he is
ready to be shown the inner meaning of reality. So
kindly take your skepticism to its ultimate conclusion.
Do not remain a half-baked skeptic. When you have
reached the logical conclusion of your skepticism,
kindly come back and we will teach you how to personally
experience the secrets of the universe and even the
amazing reality that lies beyond the universe."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Is Chanting Four Rounds Purely Enough? |
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What is the importance of following Srila Prabhupada's
order to chant at least 16 rounds daily of the Hare
Krishna mahamantra on japa mala beads? If a person
is so busy that he can only chant four rounds daily but
does it with purity, is this right or not?
Shailendra
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Answer: Pure Chanting
Naturally Increases |
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If the doctor prescribes
that you need a certain amount of medicine in order to
recover your health and you decide independently that
you know better than the doctor and you will cut the
dosage to one half or to one quarter, what will happen?
You will remain sick.
Similarly, when the spiritual master prescribes that you
need to chant at least 16 rounds daily in order to
recover from the disease known as the cycle of birth and
death, what will be the result? You will remain in the
cycle of birth and death.
Purity means to obey the spiritual master. If we disobey
the spiritual master that is impurity. There is no
question of purity when we disobey the spiritual master.
Are you too busy to eat? No. You will somehow or other
find time to eat, even if you are super busy. Eating is
feeding the body, which is a mere covering of the self.
Chanting 16 rounds is the basic diet for feeding the
soul, the actual self within. Therefore, if there is
purity, your taste for japa will automatically increase
and you will naturally find the time to increase
the number of your rounds to at least 16, just as you
always find time to eat. Pure chanting is not stagnant.
It is dynamic, ecstatic, and ever-increasing.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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