Krishna's Mercy Floods the Suva Market

Yesterday Krishna's mercy flooded the the Suva Market when dozens of devotees armed with the sweet sound of Krishna's holy names and pots full of Krishna prasadam for free distribution showed up there. As soon as the devotees began chanting a crowd of onlookers immediately gathered around us some of whom joined us in chanting the holy names. The devotees blessed me with the opportunity to lead the kirtan. It was so uplifting and enlivening to sing the unlimitedly sweet Hare Krishna Mahamantra for the deliverance of the souls who happened to be at the right place at the right to be blessed with the sweet sound of Krishna's holy names:

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Sankarshan Das Leads the Hare Krishna Kirtan, Suva Market, Fiji

Sankarshan Das Leads the Hare Krishna Kirtan, Suva Market, Fiji

May the entire universe become flooded these nectarean transcendental sound vibrations.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Is Jesus the Only Way?...

My name is Alok and I am doing my M.C.A in Christ College in Bangalore. I have been on a search for God from the past 2 years. People say that God is in us, and we need not search. The Bible says to seek God with all your heart and all your soul. I am a brahmin, and in this search I have been in with Jesus and Shri Krishna, and I have a bit of knowledge about the Quran. My doubt is, "Will all these paths lead to the same God? Or is it according to what the Bible says that one can reach god only through Jesus Christ?".

Alok

Answer: A Label Will Not Save You...

The ultimate perfection of all spiritual paths is to develop pure love for God. Therefore love for God is the original pure essence of existence. Anything else besides pure love for God is either helping us to attain it, or taking us further away from it.

There is only true path of spiritual progress. And that is whatever is taking us closer to pure love of God. Anyone who teaches that is the way. Since Jesus Christ is teaching pure love for God, we certainly accept that his path is the only way. But he is not the only one who is teaching the only way. Anyone who is teaching us the only way is the only way. Therefore we can joyfully and gratefully accept the wonderful loving guidance of all the great masters. They are all teaching us how to develop pure love for God.

The difficulty nowadays that so many people claim to be saved simply by designating themselves as the followers of this path or that path. Spiritual perfection is not such a cheap thing that I can simply label myself as a this or a that and expect to be saved.

We see in practically every case that the "rubber-stamped" so-called followers have not understood or captured the essence of the path they claim to be following, to develop pure love for God. We see that they remain completely entangled in their material desires with hardly a pinch of genuine love for God.

And they tell us that they are saved and that everyone else is going to hell. In this regards there is a nice Bengali saying:

pagale ki na bole, chagale ki na khaya

"A madman, what does he not speak? And a goat, what does he not eat?"

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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