Embarking on Our Re-Spiritualization Tour

This morning we are heading out before dawn on our world tour for the re-spiritualization of the human society. I am praying to Lord Krishna that He will kindly make my consciousness perfectly pure and clean so that I may peacefully worship Him and successfully spread the ultimate peace, Krishna consciousness, all over the world. In this connection my spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, has given us the perfect instructions:

"Srimad-Bhagavatam and bhagavata-dharma are meant for persons who are completely free of envy (parama-nirmatsaranam). Therefore Prahlada Maharaja prays in this verse, khalah prasidatam: 'May all the envious persons be pacified.' The material world is full of envious persons, but if one frees himself of envy, he becomes liberal in his social dealings and can think of others' welfare. Anyone who takes up Krishna consciousness and engages himself completely in the service of the Lord cleanses his mind of all envy (manas ca bhadram bhajatad adhoksaje). Therefore we should pray to Lord Nrsimhadeva to sit in our hearts. We should pray, bahir nrsimho hrdaye nrsimhah: 'Let Lord Nrsimhadeva sit in the core of my heart, killing all my bad propensities. Let my mind become clean so that I may peacefully worship the Lord and bring peace to the entire world.'"
---from Srila Prabhupada's purport to SB 5.18.9

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Did Krishna Send Christ and Mohammad?...

Why was Christ and Mohammad sent by Krishna to teach religion when He alone could have taught the science of God to people all over the world through the way we understand from the Vedic literatures?

His devotee,

Ankita

Answer: Elementary and Advanced Level Understandings of the One Absolute Truth...

Throughout history we see that Krishna sometimes personally comes and also sometimes sends His pure devotees to assist Him in spreading dharma, the pure original essence of religion. It is not that He has to personally do all the preaching by Himself. At certain times in history He or His servants reveal dharma in a more covered way because that is all that the population can take at that time. And then later on when the atmosphere is more conducive, He reveals the complete understanding of dharma. We are most fortunate to be living at a time when the full understanding of the Vedic wisdom has been made available by Lord Sri Krishna by sending His pure devotee, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, to this world to write so many volumes of books in which the Supreme Absolute Truth is described so very clearly and completely.

The Bible and Koran are teaching the same principle we find in the Vedas, complete total surrender unto the will of the Supreme Person. However, they are both presenting the one truth, the one universal religion on a more elementary level. This is compared to the difference between a pocket dictionary and the unabridged dictionary. Both are true, but the unabridged dictionary goes into full details while the pocket dictionary does not. Similarly the Bible and the Koran give an introductory understanding of God while the Vedic literatures give the full, complete understanding. Just as beginning math students are taught 1 + 1 = 2, and advanced math students are taught calculus, Krishna directly and indirectly reveals the Absolute Truth according the comprehending capacity of the people.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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