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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
reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and
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Dedicated with love to
ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His
Divine Grace A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and
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Dive into this Ocean of Bliss
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Have
you heard the news? We are celebrating like anything
right now because the greatest victory in the history of
the universe has now been won. Our greatest enemy,
death, is now conquered. Come and dive with us into the
ocean of immortal bliss and become deathless. You've got
nothing to stop you except for your lack of faith. So
throw off the shackles of faithlessness and dive into
the ocean of bliss today. It's not difficult. All you
have to do is unabashedly chant and dance the holy names
of God along with us. You will taste the jubilation.
Your eternal spiritual identity will be rejuvenated. Do
not miss this greatest of all opportunities. Dive into
this ocean of unlimited bliss right now.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Departure
Kirtan--Riga, Latvia--May 3, 2011
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Answers According to the Vedic Version: | |
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Question: Can God Create a Rock He Cannot Lift? |
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I have been asked two
questions:
1.Can God create a rock that He can't lift? If God can't
do this, then He isn't omnipotent, and if He can, then
He still isn't omnipotent, because then there is
something, that He can't do - i.e. lift the rock.
2.God is supposed to be omniscient (all-knowing), and
humans supposedly have a free will. But how can humans
have a free will, if God in advance knows what is going
to happen? There can be no choice in any meaningful
sense of the word, if there is only one possible outcome
to each and every situation (that is the outcome that
God has foreseen). When in the Srimad Bhagavatam He says
that in the age of kali (Kali yuga) lots of bad
thing are bound to happen how do we possess free will?
A.M.
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Answer: Yes, and Then He
Can Lift It |
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The first question you
have raised is one of the questions that is often used
to express a classical issue known in philosophy as the
omnipotence paradox. This paradox has vexed philosophers
for many centuries.
Wikipedia has defined it as follows:
"The omnipotence paradox is a family of related
paradoxes addressing the question of whether the
existence of an omnipotent entity is logically possible.
The paradox states that if a being can perform any
action, then it should be able to create a task it is
unable to perform, and hence, it cannot perform all
actions. Yet, on the other hand, if it cannot create a
task it is unable to perform, then there exists
something it cannot do."
As long as one remains a mental speculator one will
continue to be vexed by this paradox. But when one
awakens to the transcendental self-realization plane the
paradox evaporates. The answer is that there is an
omnipotent entity who can do absolutely anything, even
if it is logically impossible. What is the proof? Lord Sri
Krishna has demonstrated such omnipotency in His
transcendental pastimes. For example, being all-powerful
there is no one that can bring Him under their control.
But yet we see that Mother Yasoda was able to bring Him
completely under her control when she bound Him with
ropes.
Your second question is also puzzling to the mental
speculators. How can one truly have free will if God
knows what he is going to do? In this connection one
need only become aware that from the absolute
perspective there is no such thing as past, present, or
future. In other words, there is nothing you can do that
you have not already done. Your free will is to decide
whether you want to remain in the realm of relativity as
a slave of birth, death, old age, and disease, or
whether you want to be a liberated soul relishing an
eternal life, full of bliss, and knowledge in the
association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Actually even though you are not aware of it, you are
already in that transcendental existence. Now you simply
must awaken from the dream of relativity and fully
realize who you are and where you are by fully
surrendering yourself to the Lord.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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