Playing the Ultimate Sport

Just as the taste of a small child who loves playing marbles gradually transforms as he grows older into a taste for playing other sports such as baseball or basketball, similarly those who take to the transcendental self-realization pathway will find that their sporting propensity gradually and naturally evolves into a taste for what can be described as the ultimate sport. 

So, what is that ultimate sport?

Most sports involve one party competing with an opposing party to try to exert the most control over a ball. Whichever party can succeed at doing that emerges from the game as a winner. In this regard the ultimate sport is no exception.

At the present moment the gigantic ball, planet earth, is being controlled by those who are in the darkness of ignorance. Because of this the present world society has been plunged into a very, very precarious situation. Therefore, the ultimate sport is to enlighten the world with transcendental knowledge.

The Vedic injunction in this connection is "tamasi ma jyotir gama--Come out of the darkness into the light." Those who embrace spiritual perfection as their life's goal and fully dedicate themselves to the enlightenment of the world society experience a thrill at every moment as they engage in the ultimate sport of battling it out with the forces of darkness to firmly establish spiritual enlightenment as the guiding principle for human existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari playing the ultimate sport of pushing forward the self-realization science while flying from Sydney to Melbourne on 30 December 2006.

Sankarshan Das pushing forward the self-realization science

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: What is More Important?...

What is more important: to love Krishna or to take knowledge about Krishna?

Abhijit

Answer: To Know Him is to Love Him...

Love of Krishna is the ultimate perfection of existence, but knowledge of Krishna is essential because it helps us to love Him. To know Him is to love Him. How can you love somebody you don't know?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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