On the Krishnanet in Romania

We arrived here in Romania yesterday after flying in from Sofia, Bulgaria via Milan, Italy. We were greeted at the airport by the leader of the local ISKCON center, Sriman Murari Krishna Prabhu. While riding in the car from the airport I asked him how he joined the Krishna consciousness movement. He explained to me how he joined right here in Timisoara in 1990 just after communism loosened its grip on Romania.

For the first time open religious meetings could be held. Devotees were traveling across Romania holding programs in many locations to openly present the ultimate self realization science, Krishna consciousness, to people who had for long been held under the totalitarian grip of Communism. He purchased an English Bhagavad-gita As It Is and was so impressed that here was spiritual knowledge being presented in a scientific way that he immediately joined the movement and has been active ever since. In addition to being the temple president of the ISKCON Timisoara temple he is also a full time computer science professor at the local university.

The devotees received us very warmly and as usual my first business was to see how I could not connect to the internet here. After an aborted attempt at high speed and an expensive emergency download via my mobile phone we opted for dial-up. It's slow. But it's affordable and reliable.

Always better than the Internet is the Krishnanet. You can connect any time, any place with no hassle. And once you're online with Krishna you're connected with everything and everyone. All you have to do to connect is to chant Hare Krishna or remember Lord Krishna. Is there anything more sublime than this?

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How to Think of Krishna?...

I offer my dandavats unto your lotus feet.

I am an regular reader of your "Thought for the day". In most of your mails you have mentioned that we must always think of Krishna. But I wonder how this is possible. As a student one has to think how to excel in studies. Once out of school he has to think of getting into a good job. After getting into a good job he thinks of getting a good position and so on. Once he is in a good post, he starts think of getting married. Once married, he likes to have children and starts thinking how to maintain them. In this way a person is always thinking of different things in his life. Now the question is how can one think of Krishna, when he has so many other engagements and thoughts?

I would be very happy if you instruct me on these issues.

Hare Krishna,

Thanks and regards,

Your Student

Prashant

Response: Offer Everything to Krishna...

The only way you can think of Krishna while doing so many things is to do them for Krishna. Doing them for Krishna means that whatever fruits are gained as a result of those activities should all be offered to Krishna. In this fact if you factually offer the results of all your activities to Krishna, you can easily think of Krishna no matter you may be doing, whether as a student, a career man, or a family man.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari