Ever-Increasing Enthusiasm

It's foolish and completely unnecessary to suffer in this material existence. All you have to do is reconnect yourself with your original spiritual nature. The easiest way to do that is by chanting the holy names of God with love and devotion. The holy names of the Lord are so wonderful that the mere sound of the holy name--Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare---everlastingly increases the enthusiasm of the chanter.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Do You Sightsee?... 

I was wondering: do you ever get to sightsee the places that you travel to preach?

Nisha Bhatt 

Answer: We Are the Ultimate Sightseers... 

We certainly naturally see whatever sights are along the way wherever we go for preaching work. And we appreciate the amazing wonder of Krishna's material creation. When there are so many amazing sights in this material world, we can hardly begin to imagine how amazing must be the spiritual world. 

 But we do not go out of our way for any mundane sightseeing. For example I have been regularly going to India for the last 25 years. Every time I go to India I go to Vrindavan, which is very close to the famous Taj Mahal. But in all these many visits I have never gone to see the Taj Mahal because it has nothing to do with Krishna consciousness. Even one time I went for preaching in Agra, the very city in which the Taj Mahal is located. But still I did not think it worth my time and energy to see the Taj Mahal. 

The most beautiful sight wherever I go is the smiling faces of Krishna's devotees and the beautiful form of the Lord's deity forms in the temples. This is the ultimate sightseeing, to have the darshan of Krishna and Vaisnavas. 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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