On the Road Again for Krishna

Today I am heading out again on the road via Amsterdam carrying many sweet memories in my heart of these last two months of spreading the ultimate bliss in many areas of Europe. And to think that I can do this for all of eternity...what an enlivening thought!

Upon leaving this body I will simply be on the road once again traveling to another destination where I can share the unlimited glories of our beautiful, sublime Lord Krishna with His part-and-parcel expansions, the living beings. Whether I am in this universe or that universe, this dimension or that dimension, my business is the same. I have nothing else to do except to hear, chant, and remember the transcendental names, fame, forms, pastimes, entourage, paraphernalia, qualities, abode, and teachings of that wondrously attractive Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Spiritual Life, a Razor's Edge?...

Why when Krishna descends do all of His Vishnu Tattva expansions enter in His body? Is Krishna Himself not sufficient?

Also in one of Srila Prabhupada's lectures I heard that spiritual life is like a razor's edge. If not carefully dealt with, it will cause harm. Could you kindly explain?

Your student,

Kishan

Answer: Slight Inattention, One Can Fall Down...

Lord Krishna is fully self-sufficient. He requires nothing else. All of His Vishnu-tattva expansions are eternally existing within Him. He does not depend on Them. They depend on Him.

It is a fact that trying to become a fully self-realized Krishna conscious being while living in this material world is just like shaving with a straight-edge razor. When one is shaving, if one is even a little inattentive there can be blood. Similarly, even if one is slightly inattentive in their devotional practices they can fall away from the path and become dangerously implicated once again in the cycle of repeated birth and death.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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