Why Do You Exist?

Do you know why you exist? You did not manifest yourself out of nothing. You exist because Krishna or God is emanating you from His transcendental body. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita. Why is He emanating you? He wants the pleasure of having a loving relationship with you. So the very purpose of your existence is to have a loving relationship with God. This is why unless you develop love of God you can never be happy, no matter how much material success you may enjoy. And this is why if you purely, totally love God you will be unlimitedly happy, no matter what is your situation in this world.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How Can You Award Percentage Marks to the Great Personalities?...

It is interesting to read your answer to the question of a 14 year old boy awarding percentage to great personalities like Lord Shiva and Lord Narayana, that they possess only a certain percentage of the qualities of God.

How can you as the spiritual master, a human being, award marks to the super natural power prevalent in these great personalities? Are there such percentage marks in any part of the Vedas?

With pranams

Your student

Answer: I Cannot. But the Vedic Literatures Do...

The spiritual master has no personal authority to concoct some grading system for the great personalities like Lord Krishna, Lord Narayana, and Lord Shiva. He is potent as a spiritual master because he simply repeats what is given in the authorized Vedic literatures without any addition or any subtraction.

As clearly explained by Srila Rupa Goswami in the Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu compiled from researching the Vedic scriptures--Lord Narayana has 60 of out 64 of Krishna's qualities and Lord Shiva possesses 55 out of Krishna's qualities. In other words the complete list of qualities of Lord Krishna are only partially found in Lord Narayana and are even less found in Lord Shiva.

For example, one quality possessed by Krishna is that He attracts all living entities with His flute playing. We have never seen any scriptural reference to Lord Narayana or Lord Shiva playing a flute. This flute-playing quality to attract all living entities by the sound of His flute is only found in Krishna. Krishna possesses all qualities in full. Others only have them in part.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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