Arrival in the USA

It's now 5:22pm on 23rd January 2007. We arrived at 1:50pm this afternoon here in the USA at Los Angeles. Of all the nations on the face this planet, this particular nation is very special. Srila Prabhupada said that India was his motherland and the USA was his fatherland. Why did he so much appreciate this country? Because out of all the nations on the face of this planet it was here that Srila Prabhupada was given the best facility for starting and expanding his movement all over the world. He said that because of America's leading position in the world, if even 1 percent of the American nation takes to Krishna consciousness, the whole world will be changed for the better. Next to India, our Ultimate Self Realization Course is the most popular in the USA. This gives me great hope for the future salvation of the human society.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: If One Has No Information about Krishna Consciousness...

In a recent "Thought for the Day" you wrote that God gives us everything we need, but because we do not follow him we are suffering. But what if one's karma is such that one is not able to get any information about Krishna-Consciousness or anything spiritual? Is such forced suffering in which we cannot even free ourselves, no matter how much we would want to, just another kind of karma?

Thank You

Jukka

Answer: Krishna Will Send Him a Guru...

Anyone who is sincerely seeking the highest truth beyond all suffering will be blessed by coming in contact with a devotee of the Lord, who will then reveal the Truth to him. In other words the Lord within knows the person's desire to realize the highest truth and thus sends the spiritual master to plant the seed of bhakti within their heart. Anytime someone wants to become free from their karma, all they have to do is desire that freedom and then obey the instructions of the spiritual master who is sent by the Lord to deliver them.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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