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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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If You Want to Taste the Bliss
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If
you want to taste the bliss, you must dovetail your
consciousness with the supreme person, who is the source
of everything. It is absolutely impossible that you will
ever find permanent happiness if you are not connected
with Him. So why waste time looking for happiness in
this material world through so many millions of
varieties of avenues, which are nothing but dead end
streets because they do not connect to Krishna? The
smart thing to do is to immediately come to the plane of
transcendental bliss beyond all the miseries of material
existence through the simple act of surrendering to
Krishna.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Srila Prabhupada Relishing the Bliss of
Krishna Consciousness
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Question: Why this Opinion Circulating in ISKCON? |
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My humble obeisances to
Your Grace,
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,
Dear Gurudeva,
I was delighted to read the contents under the heading,
"We were originally in Krishna’s pastimes". This is
because, a few weeks back, a visiting devotee was giving
the Sunday morning lecture at the temple hall in ISKCON,
Juhu, Mumbai. At the end of his lecture, during the
question – answer time, one of the devotees asked him
how we fell from spiritual world. He answered that we
were never in the spiritual world, we came instead from
the tatastha shakti. Then when he was asked that in
various books of Srila Prabhupada it is mentioned that
we were originally in the spiritual world, he denied
that this information is in Prabhupada's books.
Honestly, Gurudeva, I was a bit surprised by this
statement of that devotee, who I presume is a very
senior devotee.
Anyway, I am very glad to receive the clarification,
thru "Thought for the Day" dated 11th May ’12.
I am only wondering why this new opinion is doing the
rounds! Is this also a lila of Krishna?
Your humble servant,
Krishna Kumar,
Mumbai.
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Answer: Devotees Not
Reading Prabhupada's Books |
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Yes, the
idea that we did not fall from the spiritual world, but
instead fell from the tatastha shakti is incorrect. Lord
Caitanya has taught us:
jīvera 'svarūpa'
haya—kṛṣṇera 'nitya-dāsa'
kṛṣṇera 'taṭasthā-śakti' 'bhedābheda-prakāśa
"It is the living entity's constitutional position to be
an eternal servant of Krishna because he is the
tatastha-shakti (marginal energy) of Krishna and a
manifestation simultaneously one and different from the
Lord."
--Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya 20.108
So it is not that we fell from the tatastha shakti. We
ARE tatastha shakti or marginal energy. This is part of
our constitutional nature. Tatastha shakti means the
even though we are Krishna's eternal servants
originating in the spiritual world, as confirmed by
Srila Prabhupada in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam
4.28.54, we have a borderline tendency that facilitates
our either remaining in Krishna's pastimes or foolishly
leaving Krishna's pastimes to try to enjoy separately
here in this material world.
This new opinion is making the rounds in ISKCON because
devotees are not carefully and thoroughly reading Srila
Prabhupada's books. This rumor mill is not a pastime of
Krishna. Therefore our ISKCON managers should take care
to only allow those devotes to give class who have
properly understood Srila Prabhupada's books.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari |
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