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Super
Sweet Weekend in Russia
Uploaded from Kaliningrad, Russia |
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25
April 2011--Our visits to Russia are always super sweet
because the devotees in Russia so much open their hearts
to us. Every program during our short weekend stay here
has been unforgettably blissful as we dive deeper and deeper
into the sweet nectarean ocean of Krishna consciousness.
Even though the vast difference between Russian and
English sometimes creates a barrier for communication,
the ecstatic kirtans always bridge the gaps. Spring
is just beginning now during our short weekend visit.
Flower buds are coming out marking the end of the bleak, austere winter. In the
same way the splendorous spring of Krishna consciousness
is heralding a break from the bleak, desolate Kali yuga as it gradually transforms
into the Caitanya
Era, an amazing 10,000 year period during which this planet will
again become like Satya Yuga.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Memories of Russia:
Public Hall Program--24 April 2011
http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Spring/Public_Hall_Lecture.JPG
Overflow Audience at Bhakti Club--22 April
2011
http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Spring/overflow.JPG
Affectionate Farewell from Russia--25 April 2011
http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Spring/Departing_Russia.JPG
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: |
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Question: Is It Right to Dread Love? |
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Respected Srila Gurudeva,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I fall at your feet to kindly clear some doubts which
have arisen in my mind.
1. For quite sometime now, I have had a strong feeling that
material love only serves the purpose of continuing the
human race and nothing more than that. Consequently, I
have concluded that it is not at all love but only some
sort of illusion that we are put into. Ever since I got
this feeling, I tend to dread this "love." Are my
thoughts regarding this matter right?
2. I have heard of incidents that occurred in the past
when brahmanas asked the sudras to stay away from their
vicinity lest the latter's shadow fall on them. The
reason being they might get contaminated because of the
shadows. However, even if it was written in the
scriptures exactly in the same way, I guess the meaning
was, 'do not allow even a tinge of ignorance to
contaminate your consciousness.' Is this interpretation
right? If not, I humbly request you to tell me the
correct meaning.
Your humble student,
N.V.
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Answer: Don't Deny Love. Perfect It. |
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Yes, the sexual attraction
urge, which we call love, is nature's way of inducing us
to produce children for the continuation of the species.
Such love is not actually love. It is lust, the desire
to experience intense sensual pleasure. Such pleasure is
detrimental for our spiritual progress because it
strongly pulls us back into the false bodily conception
of the self and thus binds us to remain in the miserable
cycle of birth and death. Real love is selfless service
without any desire to receive anything in return. The
perfection of real love is when we give our love to the
Supreme Lord, the source of all existence, because by
loving Him, who is the root of all existence, we
factually give perfect love to all living beings.
Such brahmanas who ordered the sudras to stay away so
that they would not be contaminated by the shadow of the
sudras are not real brahmanas. Brahmana refers to a
liberal, broad-minded person. Such so-called brahmanas
who are cruel to others are designated as kripanas or
misers.
I have never heard that such injunctions are taught in
the scriptures. If they are, such scriptures are not for
those who want to be liberated from this material
existence. Such caste consciousness is the invention of
materialistically minded men who desired to exploit
others. The actual varnashram system of four social and
four spiritual orders is meant for elevating every
member of the human society, not for repressing them and
keeping them in ignorance.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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