The Vast Desolate Wasteland

We are seeing first hand what a vast desolate wasteland is this material existence. Where is that place where you can connect with your actual eternal nature? Everywhere the illusion of material existence is being reinforced. All the thoughts, words, and deeds of the people are simply reinforcing the false notion, "I am this body." Therefore no one is actually happy.

Sometimes people imagine that they are happy. They foolishly take the illusion of happiness to be real happiness.

We want to wake them up to give them the real happiness, but they are so much enamored by the illusory happiness that they cannot hear our message. What to do? We must simply keep trying to wake them up, hoping and praying that someday they will heed our message and thus be delivered from the cycle of birth and death.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Are Sinful Activities from Krishna?...

Since Krishna is the cause of all causes, is He the cause of all sinful activities such as murder, rape, illicit sex, etc.?

Thank you for your wonderful work in the service of your spiritual master.

Your student,

Tobenna

Answer: We Are the Cause of Our Sinful Activities,

Not Lord Krishna...
We are the cause of our sinful activities, not Lord Krishna. When we decide not to live in harmony with the Lord and thus deviate from our original pure spiritual nature, we engage in all varieties of sinful activities. But we are never satisfied, no matter how much we may endeavor to enjoy.

It is very nice that you are my appreciating my humble attempt to serve my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. But in this connection please note that I can take no credit for what I am doing in his service. It is only by his grace that I have somehow or other been engaged in the ultimate lifestyle, Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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