Transforming this World into a Paradise

Last Thursday I visited the shop of a mobile phone merchant from Lebanon with whom I had previously done business. I asked him how his friends and family were doing in Lebanon, if they were safe. He explained to me that they lived in a small mountainous village of 4,000 people in the north of Lebanon and that although the bridges surrounding the village had all been destroyed by bombing raids, the people had not been injured or killed. I expressed my relief.

Then I introduced the topic of why we have conflicts in this world. I explained it is due to a false sense of proprietorship that we needlessly fight with one another. He immediately agreed and told the story of many years ago when he was standing one day on the family farm in Lebanon with his father he said, "This is our land." His father immediately corrected him, "Did you ever hear me talk like that?" The father pointed out to his young son that we come into this world with nothing and we leave with nothing. "So how we can we claim that the land belongs to us?" I expressed my appreciation for his father's wisdom.

This is the fact. We come with nothing. We leave with nothing. But yet in the middle we claim, "I am the owner," and we fight to the death for no purpose.

The real owner is Krishna or God. All we have to do is acknowledge His proprietorship and engage everything in His service. The whole world will become a paradise.

Questions and Answers

How Can We Recognize a Bona Fide Spiritual Master?...

How can we get to know that a person is the bona fide spiritual master? What are the qualities of a bona fide spiritual master and how can we recognize him?

Deepak Kumar

His Words Extinguish the Blazing Fire of Material Existence...

You can get to know if a person is a bona fide spiritual master or not by carefully hearing what he teaches and comparing it with what Krishna teaches in the Bhagavad-gita. The bona fide spiritual master will never deviate from the teachings of Krishna. Not in his thoughts. Not in his words. And not is his actions.

The bona fide spiritual master is that person who, by his words, can penetrate into the heart of the suffering person and inject transcendental knowledge, which alone can extinguish the blazing, miserable fire of material existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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