Enlightening Conversation at the Houston Airport

What is the meaning of that marking on your forehead?", the curious, friendly woman at the Continental Airplanes counter asked us at the boarding gate for our flight from Houston, Texas to Monterrey, Mexico. When I explained that it is the sign of someone who has conquered over death, she was amazed. She asked if I had conquered over death and I told her I had. Then I told her that I could teach her how to conquer over death also.

She then wanted to know if this was Hinduism. and I explained to her that this is religion in its original, pure form. I told her, "Just as we human beings have artificially divided the planet earth into so many nations and then we fight over the so-called boundaries, we have in the same way taken the original pure form of Religion and divided it into so many so-called religions over which we fight and sometimes even kill one another. We are teaching the original pure form of knowing and living the truth which enables one to become completely free from all forms of anxiety."

"But I am already free from anxiety," she countered.

I pointed out, "Yes, you are free from anxiety right now, but we are teaching a system of how to be free from anxiety even when it comes to you."

This made sense to her because she understood that anxieties do come to all of us. She was very favorably impressed with our philosophy and joyfully accepted my invitation card for joining our free e-course, the Ultimate Self Realization Course. Hopefully she will sign up and take this process seriously. This will be my greatest happiness.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Who Will Save Us from Kali Yuga?...

Can you tell me is this Kali Yuga? What is the significance of Krishna in the Kali Yuga?. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna says:

yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamy aham

"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion -- at that time I descend Myself."

But in Kali Yuga we see that religious principles are destroyed. We need a prophet to help us. Who will come to save us from the Kali Yuga?

Nidheesh

Answer: Krishna...

Kali Yuga is the present age of quarrel and hypocrisy. It began 5,000 years ago, and it destroys all the good qualities of the human beings. But to relieve us from the crippling effects of this age, Krishna very kindly appears in the form of ISKCON, the Hare Krishna Movement, to save us from the devastating effects of this age.

Krishna also sends the prophet, the bona fide spiritual master, to rescue those sincere souls who want to escape the influence of this age and return to their original home in the Spiritual Sky. Anyone who fully surrenders themselves at the lotus feet of the bona fide spiritual master become spiritually perfect and is saved from the influence of this degrading age.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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