Who Wouldn't Want to Relish this Nectar?

It's wonderful to be on the transcendental road again--traveling and preaching Krishna consciousness. There is truly no nectar sweeter than this. It is now 7:31pm on Sunday 11 February 2007. I am in the back seat of a van en route from Orlando, Florida to Tampa, Florida for an overnight stop before we fly back to Austin, Texas tomorrow morning to make arrangements for the up coming Gaura Purnima festival and to get ready for two and half months of traveling and preaching throughout Europe.

This mini lecture tour in Florida has been very sublime. Short, but very sweet. Wednesday, the day we arrived, I gave a lecture at Tampa's Hare Krishna temple. Thursday I gave a well received lecture at the University of South Florida. Friday night was an ecstatic program in the home of Suresh Marakhi. Saturday was a kirtan and lecture at ISKCON's Vedic Culture Center in Tallahassee with a follow up lecture on the Srimad Bhagavatam this Sunday morning. Now this Sunday afternoon I have just finished giving a lecture in Orlando. There was round of applause and I was requested to return. I agreed. Who wouldn't want to come back again to taste more and more of this ultimate nectar, hearing and chanting the glories of Lord Sri Krishna in the association of His devotees?

A special thanks to Anup Sharma and his wife Vilasini devi dasi, who paid our airfare, arranged and drove us to all of the preaching engagements, while feeding and housing us for four nights us at their home in Tampa. Ramiya Prabhu facilitated us for one night in Tallahassee.

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Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Isn't that a Contradiction?...

The soul is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss, but the independence of the soul is minute. Isn't that a contradiction?

Sudhir

Answer: The Absolute Truth Must Be Devoid of Contradiction...

You have asked, "The soul is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss, but the independence of the soul is minute. Isn't that a contradiction?"

The Absolute Truth must be devoid of contradiction. Therefore the answer is that it is not a contradiction.

How so?

Here's how:

The amount of water in the ocean is so vast that it is immeasurable. And the amount of water in a tiny drop of ocean water is minute, easily measurable. In spite of the minuteness of the drop of ocean water and the vastness of the entire ocean, both of them share the same chemical composition. This is easily understood.

So in the same way, the Lord, like the ocean, is inconceivably vast, unlimitedly independent while the living entity like the drop of ocean water is tiny, minutely independent. But yet both of them share the same chemical composition of being eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss.

Is there any difficulty for you to understand this simple explanation?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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