Realizations on the Train across Germany

10 September 2006--1:40pm
We are now traveling by train across Germany from Leipzig to Hamburg. The trip is for over three hours, so I am happy to have to some precious quality time for Krishna conscious writing. Looking out on a world that is completely enwrapped in illusion I am thinking deeply and praying to Krishna to please bless me with the proper words to attract the people to take complete total shelter at His lotus feet. I am also begging Him to bless me with the means of attracting them to read the words.
Of course, it is not that my words can save anyone. It is because I am honestly without any adulteration conveying the teachings of Lord Krishna as I have heard them from my spiritual master, that I have great hope that I may be able to do something to push forward this Krishna consciousness movement begun 500 years ago by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: The Origin of the Jiva...

There are some questions that have always been haunting me since I started understanding myself through Srila Prabhupada's ultimate guidance. The questions are, "From which abode does the jiva (the individual spiritual being) come into existence?" and "Immediately after the jiva comes into existence, out of four types of rasas (relationships of servitude, friendship, parenthood, or conjugal), in what kind of rasa is he situated?"

Your servant,

Parashuram

Answer: He is an Eternal Emanation of the Lord...

There is no time that the jiva, the individual spiritual being comes into existence, because he always exists as an eternal emanation of the Lord. This is confirmed in the 2nd Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita that there was never a time that the jiva did not exist.

Each individual being has his own unique rasa or relationship with the Lord. Just as there are no two snow flakes that are exactly alike, there no two jiva souls who have exactly the same rasa or relationship with the Lord. According to their particular relationship they have their particular eternal place of residence either in Goloka Vrindavan (the topmost planet of the spiritual world where the Lord is served with great intimacy) or on one of the unlimited number of Vaikuntha planets where the Lord is served with great awe and reverence.

Forgetting their eternal relationship as a servant of the Lord, they foolishly struggle to be happy in a dungeon of demons, but no matter how much they may appear to be happy and successful here, they are ultimately frustrated. Therefore the sane person takes shelter of the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna and returns to his eternal position in the spiritual world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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