Waking up to Reality

Most people do not want to wake up to reality because they do not know how beautiful reality actually is. They see the ugly world around them and they want to drown themselves in forgetfulness by indulging in multi-varieties of sense gratification. The difficulty with sense gratification is that it gives one some temporary sense of relief but then leaves one feeling even more miserable than he was before.

So the bottom line is that sense gratification is not worth it. It takes too much endeavor and does not yield any lasting result.

Why then settle for a half-baked solution when you can get the real thing? This is intelligence. We are offering you the actual solution for all the miseries of material existence. Kindly take our solution and be happy. Awaken now and become fully enlightened in pure Krishna consciousness.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: What Should Be Done First?...

Kindly guide me. What one should be done first to make progress on the path of devotion. Should one stop doing all all things such a gambling? Or should one stop eating eating non-vegetarian food as well aso1nion garlic etc? or make chanting more strong?

an aspiring devotee

Vikas Verma

Answer: Chanting Gives the Higher Taste...

The first thing is to chant because by chanting you will experience a higher taste and easily be able to give up the lower tastes such as gambling, onions, garlic, and non-vegetarian food.

Chanting is more strong if you rise early and complete 16 rounds before the sun rise.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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