No Gap for Maya

5pm-Friday 10 November-With a little over a week left before we resume the final two months of our 2006-2007 Around-the-World Lecture Tour, there are so many things that have to be done here at our headquarters. This is a real challenge. I have to produce four TV programs for our local weekly TV show. I have my regular daily email correspondence to answer and the weekly lesson to write. I have to begin putting together a course on pure devotional service that I will be teaching in September 2007 at Bhaktivedanta College in Belgium at Radhadesh. I spent a hour this morning simply putting together a list of all the things that have to be done before we resume traveling on 20 November. Several hours were spent this morning on accounting work. There is our regular morning devotional program and lecture, plus a preaching engagement in Houston next week. There is one thing after another after another. But the beauty of this whole thing is that it is all for the service of Lord Krishna. This makes it absolutely ecstatic!

This the key of how to be Krishna conscious. Cram your day so full of service to Krishna that there is not even a single second's gap for Maya.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Are Vegetable Eaters Killers?

Since plants also have life, doesn't eating vegetables also entail killing living beings?

Your student,
Prafulla

Answer: Obeying the Lord is Sinlessness...

In this material world even by breathing we are killing so many microbial germs. And eating vegetables is also killing. In this world there is the law that one living being is food for another living being.

jivo jivasya jivanam
"One living being is food for another."

We simply have to take what is allotted to us by the Lord as our quota and offer it to Him first before eating. This will free us from the sin of killing. The Lord has allotted human beings to take fruits, milk products, vegetables, and grains provided we offer them first to Him before eating. We cannot take meat, fish, and eggs because these have not been allotted to us as our quota.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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