The Krishna Consciousness Renaissance

Struggling hard for nothing is the asinine quality of our modern civilization. There is so much completely unnecessary endeavor. God has given us everything we need to be happy. But because we have invented our own ideas of what we need to be happy, we struggle like anything to fulfill our artificial desires. We have constructed an entire world civilization based on the principle of material sense gratification, the philosophy that we can be happy by satisfying the demands of the gross material body and the subtle mind, intelligence, and ego.

But nothing could be further from the truth, because the body is not us, nor are the mind, intelligence, and false ego us. The real self is the eternal spiritual being who dwells within the subtle and gross material bodies. It's only when we focus on satisfying the needs of the real self that our world culture will arise out of the present Dark Age into the light of the Krishna Consciousness Renaissance.

Questions and Answers

Can God Make a Rock That Is So Big That He Cannot Lift It?...

I have been presenting the Vedic viewpoint on a questions and answers forum over the internet in recent weeks, one question that I am sure you have encountered many times, is the paradox that some atheists present in a question, in an attempt to defeat the establishment of an omnipotent God, the question presented is a meaningless one, that contradicts itself in a paradox, for example "Can God make a rock that is so big, that he could not lift it?' or "Can God write a sentence so long, that he cannot read it" and recently due to the "Homer Simpson" society that we live in " Can God make a burrito so hot, that he couldn't eat it?

The short answer to these question's is No, or another answer is that this would produce an infinite regression of causality, or another answer is that the limited cannot understand the limits of the unlimited, because there aren't any. The question is of course circular reasoning, when an immovable object meets an irrepressible force what happens? In the spiritual world, I understand that one plus one equals one and one minus one equals one. Is there anyway to defeat this somewhat challenging question in another way?

With much respect and affection.

Your servant,

Bhakta Michael Gatt

God Can Do Anything Conceivable or Inconceivable...

The fact is that God CAN make a rock that is so big that He cannot lift it. And then He can also lift it. In other words He can lift it and He cannot lift it simultaneously. This amazing nature of God is described very nicely in the Sri Isopanisad Mantra 5 as follows:

tad ejati tan naijati
tad dure tad v antike
tad antar asya sarvasya
tad u sarvasyasya bahyatah

"The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very near as well. He is within everything, and yet He is outside of everything."

In this connection our ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada describes as follows:

"Here is a description of some of the Supreme Lord's transcendental activities, executed by His inconceivable potencies. The contradictions given here prove the inconceivable potencies of the Lord. 'He walks, and He does not walk.' Ordinarily, if someone can walk, it is illogical to say he cannot walk. But in reference to God, such a contradiction simply serves to indicate His inconceivable power. With our limited fund of knowledge we cannot accommodate such contradictions, and therefore we conceive of the Lord in terms of our limited powers of understanding."

So in conclusion we can understand therefore that there is absolutely nothing that is impossible for the Lord to accomplish. If God does not possess inconceivable potency, there is no meaning to His being called "God." The fact is that Lord Krishna has acintya shakti, inconceivable power to do anything and everything both within our conception and even far, far beyond what we can conceive of in our wildest imagination.

The atheist who thinks that he has trapped and defeated the theist by such asinine arguments does nothing except to make an ass out of himself.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari