Experiencing Blissful Reality As It Is

It is very common for people to try to escape reality because they consider it to be cruel and inauspicious. They would rather close their eyes to the obvious miseries of birth, death, old age, and disease and live in a concocted dream world built upon the unstable platform of material society, friendship and love. They feel very safe and secure in their sand castle existence until the tide finally comes in and washes it away into the sea of the birth and death.

Those who are brave enough and intelligent enough to reject the so-called security of the mass psychosis are candidates for realizing truth in its original pure form. This highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth annihilates all the miseries of material existence and enables one to enter into reality as it is, a reality which is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How is Devotion Different from Love?...

You always mention that we have to chant the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra with love and devotion. Could you please explain what is the meaning of devotion and how is it different from love? Also, what is the meaning of devotional service, and how is it different form loving devotional service? Also, what is the meaning of Bhakti Yoga?

Also, while chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, what are we supposed to think apart from listening to the Maha Mantra?

I am very much confused with all these and would be glad to hear your explanations on the same.

Your Servant,

Bhakta Pradeep

Answer: Devotion is Love in Practice...

Devotion is love in practice. Love is a strong affection or admiration for someone. Devotion is when we are willing to do something for our beloved, that we do not simply passively admire our beloved.

Devotional service is the practical result of devotion. If you are devoted to someone, you will naturally serve them. Devotional service is automatically loving devotional service because wherever there is devotion love must automatically be there. Bhakti yoga is devotional service.

There is no need to think about anything else. All you have to do is focus your mind on clearly pronouncing and hearing the Hare Krishna Mahamantra:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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