This world has become a completely crazy madhouse. The mass population is totally misguided, unfortunate and always disturbed because they have not been enlightened in the transcendental science of the relationship between the self and the Supreme Self. Therefore there is no greater need for the human society than the wide scale introduction of the science of Krishna consciousness in all spheres of the human society. We are therefore requesting that all the government leaders and all the other leaders throughout the world should now give full facility for the Krishna consciousness movement to educate all the people in the higher values of human life.


Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Home Program Arrival Kirtan
17 April 2011, Riga, Latvia

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Revealing the Cure for the Global Madness
Home Program--17 April 2011, Riga, Latvia

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Question: Does God Exist?

Dear Gurudeva,

I would like to put my question humbly. I am not a Krishna devotee, but I was introduced to the Gita by a friend. When I started reading with interest, I started asking myself a lot of questions, the first one being:  Does God exist?

And then more:

Has anyone been to heaven or hell before?
How do we know heaven and hell exist?
Why do we do puja and recite mantras? How does this help?

Isn't life about thinking positive, doing the good things, and respecting others, etc?

How do we know there is a world out there where we will be going if we think of Krishna all the time?

I started thinking very much that God is an energy which has formed this science based world. I have never seen the existence of God.

I do a lot of charity, at the same time I like to be honest that I work very hard to earn a good living for my family and myself. I have begun to realize that you can't buy anything in this world without money. I have big ambitions in life. I wish everyday to achieve all my dreams and at the same time I contribute to charitable organizations instead of the temple. I don't know if what I am doing is wrong. I don't pray like I used to in the temple, because I believe God is an energy and He is everywhere.

I don't want you to think I am arrogant or I will learn someday the hard truth. I am just clueless and I want to know.

S.R.
 

Answer: Every Machine Needs an Operator

If we want to know of God, we must approach this subject matter scientifically, not sentimentally. We can scientifically observe that every machine requires an operator. And we can also scientifically observe that the universe is a gigantic machine. Therefore we can scientifically conclude that there must a operator for this gigantic universal machine. That operator is known by many names. God is one of those names.

Just as we find heavenly and hellish atmospheres on this planet, there are also heavenly and hellish planets within this universe, which can thus be designated as heaven and hell. And just as this earth is populated, those heavenly and hellish planets are also populated.

Most people do puja and chant mantras for material purposes. This is a useless waste of time. This human form of life is meant for getting out of the cycle of birth and death, not for prolonging our sojourn here. If pujas and mantra chanting are done properly under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, they immediately liberate the practitioner from the vicious cycle of birth and death.

You are 100% correct that life is meant for positive thinking, doing good, and respecting others. Therefore we have to stop identifying with our rotting material bodies and indentify instead as the eternal spiritual beings that we are. Any identification with the material body is the most negative type of thinking that we can have. Doing good means to do that which liberates us and others from the cycle of birth and death. Anything which does not further the purpose of liberation from birth and death is actually bad, although it may appear to be good. Respecting others means to see them as the eternal spiritual beings that they are. To see anyone as their material body is the greatest disrespect. When we see and treat everyone as spiritual beings that is the greatest respect.

When you are connected with the root cause of the total reality, Lord Sri Krishna, you are perfectly connected with everyone and everything. Therefore only the devotee of Krishna is fully attuned to the world in which he lives.

If you want to be sure about the existence of the transcendental kingdom of God, we invite you to come there so that you can fully substantiate its existence. If you agree to follow our teachings, we will personally take you to that most amazing of all places.

When you anoint your eyes with the salve of love, you will see that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, is everywhere and that He is not just the energy. He is indeed the very source of all the energy.

There is no harm in earning money. It is the energy of Krishna and is therefore meant to be employed in His service. But you should know that we are not maintained by money. When was the last time you sat down and ate a salad made out of Indian rupees? Those things on which we are actually dependent--such as air, water, food, and the raw materials that make our homes and clothes--are all given to us by God. They are not the product of money.

If you want to do charity work, you should help that charity which is actually doing permanent good for the suffering population by delivering them out of this miserable material existence, back to the spiritual world. That charitable organization is the Krishna consciousness movement.

I do not find you to be arrogant. Rather I appreciate that you
are following the proper system of approaching a spiritual master
to get proper answers for the most perplexing and important
questions of life.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
 

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