Tasting the Supreme Happiness, a Thrilling Adventure at Every Minute

There is no life like the Krishna conscious life because it is a thrilling adventure at every moment. There is nothing boring about Krishna consciousness. As one dovetails all of one's thoughts, words, and deeds with the Supreme Consciousness, one enters into the ultimate happiness as one gradually unlocks one's divine consciousness that has been sleeping within one's heart since time immemorial. Thus one attains the zenith of expanded consciousness, higher even than what is attained by the Brahmavadis, who strive to merge with the Supreme, or the yogis, who develop the eight types of mystic powers.

Especially exciting is to take up the revolutionary mission of spreading Krishna consciousness all over the world. Even if one is circumstantially not able to do that, if he will assist those who are, he will experience the same inconceivably nectarean result.

Why is it so nectarean? Because the more you give Krishna, the more you get Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari expounds the Krishna science at Suva's ISKCON temple on 14 January 2007

Sankarshan Das expounds the Krishna science at Suva, Fiji

Sankarshan Das expounds the Krishna science at Suva, Fiji

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Are Krishna and His Expansions the Same Person?...

Could you please tell me whether the various expansions of Lord Krishna are each a separate personality, or are they all the same One, the same person?

Thank you.
Love always...

Tommi

Answer: Simultaneously One and Different...

The answer is that they are advaita, they are non-different. They are one and the same person, yet at the same time that one Supreme Person manifests Himself as different personalities for the sake of unlimitedly expanding His enjoyment.

For example, Lord Balarama is Krishna Himself, yet He is manifested as a different person so that Krishna can enjoy having a brother. In this material world many people enjoy having a brother. So would we think that the God is lacking something, that He cannot enjoy having a brother? No. God cannot be lacking in any way. Therefore even though everything that exists is nothing but His own personal expanded energy, He manifests it full of unlimited variety of personal relationships for the unlimited expansion of His personal pleasure.

The Lord manifests two types of expansions. The integrated expansions, such as Lord Balarama and Lord Ramacandra, are the same person as Krishna. The separated expansions are the living entities such as us. We are distinct individual persons. We are not Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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