Flying High in the Spiritual Sky

The platform of liberation from material existence is not difficult to achieve. All you really have to do is to find out what Krishna wants you to do and then do that. Finding out what Krishna wants is also not that difficult. All you have to do is to carefully study the Bhagavad-gita and inquire from Krishna's representative, the bona fide spiritual master. In this way if you constantly keep your mind focused in the midst of all activities on always thinking, speaking, and acting in that manner which is most pleasing to Krishna, you will be flying high in the spiritual sky at every minute. You will never again touch down in this temporary, miserable, illusory material existence.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Roam the World Seeking God?...

If God is within us why roam around the world in search? Please explain.

With Regards,

Rishi Kumar Aggarwal,
Chartered Engineer, Delhi

Answer: Realize God at Home...

It's a fact that God is within us. He dwells within us in the form of the four-armed Paramatma, the Supersoul. But we are not able to perceive and hear Him because at the present moment our consciousness is completely covered over by the three modes of material nature. This point is confirmed as follows by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:

tribhir guna-mayair bhavair
ebhih sarvam idam jagat
mohitam nabhijanati
mam ebhyah param avyayam

"Deluded by the three modes [goodness, passion and ignorance], the whole world does not know Me, who am above the modes and inexhaustible."
---Bhagavad-gita 7.13

Since we have been covered by these modes since time immemorial it is no easy task to become free from their influence. However, if we will surrender ourselves to God according to the instructions He gives us in the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord will deliver us from covering influence of the modes of material nature and reveal Himself to us according to the degree of our surrender.

daivi hy esa guna-mayi
mama maya duratyaya
mam eva ye prapadyante
mayam etam taranti te

"This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it."
---Bhagavad-gita 7.14

Therefore, you are right in stating that there is no need to roam all over the world seeking God. All we have to do is surrender unto Him at home as He instructs us to in the Bhagavad-gita. In this way our lives will be successful. The method He gives for realizing Him is to approach the bona fide spiritual master, inquire submissively from him, and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can empower us to realize God because he has seen the truth.

Since the entire world is suffering greatly due a lack of God consciousness, that person who has realized God voluntarily leaves aside the comforts of home life and accepts the austerity of traveling extensively all over the world for enlightening people in this most sublime transcendental science of how to realize God. There is no greater kindness, no greater compassion than this.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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