Do Not Fruitlessly Spoil Your Life

Give up all notions of trying to enjoy this material world. Any attempt to do so is guaranteed to be a failure. Why waste your time uselessly beating your head against the rock of the material energy when you can instead easily enter an eternal existence of bliss and knowledge right now by sincerely chanting the holy names of God?

Understanding this simple truth does not require a doctorate degree. It simply requires s little common sense. The difficulty is that in today's modern so-called sophisticated society everyone considers themselves to be very intelligent when the real fact is that they are lacking even basic common sense. Therefore they foolishly and fruitlessly waste their entire lives in serving the senses of their temporary material bodies. At the end, when their body is finished by death, they have nothing to show for their lifetime of dedicated service to their senses.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Can a Person Start a New Religion?...

Can a person who is not one of the twelve great Mahajanas (exalted souls) start a new religion in addition to the ones existing like Islam, Christianity?

Also is Hinduism a religion? The Supreme court in India has remarked about Hinduism as a way of life.

Regards,

Your Student

Answer: There is No Such Thing as a New Religion...

There is no such thing as starting a new religion. Religion is one, to love God, and it is given to us by God. No man, even a great Mahajana, can start a new religion. When the great Mahajanas come they simply present according to time, place, and circumstance the one eternal universal religion.

Hindu is a word coined by the Muslims to describe those living east of the River Sindu. It is not an accurate word to describe any particular religious system. Religion cannot be divided into Hindu, Christian, Muslim, etc. Either one is a lover of God or not. The external designations of Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc. are superfluous to the living being.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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