Realizations on the Road to Saltillo

What is the purpose of this human existence? Are we meant to simply gratify our senses until they stop functioning at the time of death? What kind of pointless existence would that be? Who wants to spend their entire life's energy simply serving the needs of a rotting lump of blood and flesh? The fact is that there an underlying spiritual existence beneath this desert of material existence.

We have a choice. We can remain dying of thirst in the desert of delusion foolishly identifying ourselves with that which we are not, these material bodies. Or we can go deep within and connect with our actual nature and taste unlimited bliss at every minute. The choice is ours. Nobody can force us to become self-realized.

On the road from Monterrey to Saltillo, Mexico we are seeing a small sample of a world in which everyone is asleep to the spiritual reality. It's a very sad and pathetic to see such a world where everyone is slaving for nothing. May the entire world now become awakened to Krishna consciousness so that everyone can be happy.

Questions and Answers

Krishna's Dynasty and His Incarnations...

1) If Krishna had over 100,000 children, do their descendants live today? How do we identify them? Are these descendants enlightened or miserable human beings?

2) Many spiritual persons, even though they themselves may not claim so, their devotees say are incarnation of Krishna or Shiva etc. Is there any scriptural evidence of Krishna / Shiva living amongst us in the present day? Is there any soul that has the consciousness equal to that of Krishna / Shiva?

Sridhar

Departed Dynasty and Dangerous Deception...

Krishna arranged for the complete annihilation of His dynasty before His departure. Therefore none of His descendents are in this material world. In this connection Srila Prabhupada explains, "The Yadu dynasty was annihilated by the will of the Lord because its members had to return home with the Lord. The annihilation of the Yadu dynasty was a material show created by the Supreme Lord; otherwise the Lord and the members of the Yadu dynasty are all eternal associates."
(purport to SB 2.4.20)

The bona fide spiritual master will never allow his disciples to promote him as an incarnation. According to the authorized scriptures the last incarnation was Lord Caitanya 500 years ago and the next one is Kalki Avatar 427,000 years from now. Any claims made now that someone is an incarnation are completely false. For want of religious government such cheating bogus incarnations are engaged in their dangerous deception and the innocent people are being misguided. It is a very, very sad state of affairs at the present moment.

No living entity of this world can have consciousness equal to that of Lord Krishna or Lord Shiva. We should immediately reject any claims to the contrary.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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