What Do You Want?

Do you want to remain in the repetition of birth and death, or would you like to be liberated from it? The choice is yours. If you want liberation you will have to give up some things you would rather not give up and accept some things you would rather not accept. This is called austerity or sacrifice.

Just like, for example, if you want to take a dream vacation to the Fiji Islands, you will have to save every possible penny by cutting back on all of your unnecessary expenses. You will have to give up some of your usual petty luxuries in order to enable yourself to be able to set aside the money required for your excursion. If you are not willing to sacrifice in this way, the chances are that your dream vacation will always remain just that, a dream only.

So in a similar way, if we want to make attaining the supreme spiritual perfection a reality, we will have to practice the art of giving the senses only what they need for keeping body and soul together and not a pinch more than that. In this way our vital energy will be freed up for dovetailing our individual consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness, and we will quickly achieve the ultimate platform of spiritual enlightenment, pure Krishna bhakti.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Does God Exist?...

Kindly give me the answer for the following questions.

Does God exist?
If so, where does He exist?

With regards,

Ramaswamy Pillai

Answer: Of Course...

Yes, of course God exists. How could He not exist? If He did not exist, nothing could exist and you wouldn't exist to be able to ask me if He exists. The fact that you exist to ask me if He exists proves that He exists.

He exists in His own abode, in the hearts of all living beings, within every atom, and between the atoms. Because everything is His expanded energy, there is nowhere that He does not exist, and at the same time He is beyond everything.

Srila Prabhupada describes Krishna in this way:

"There is nothing but Sri Krishna, and yet nothing is Sri Krishna save and except His primeval personality."

So now you should qualify yourself to meet God face-to-face, eye-to-eye. In this way you will never confused ever again wondering if God exists and where He exists.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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