Sweet Transcendental Existence

Even though I've been very, very sick for the last several days I've been using it to my best advantage. Sickness is a natural time when one can become more introspective and deeply thoughtful. It is therefore a golden opportunity for those whose lives are fully dedicated to transcendental realization. Such days wonderfully serve as graphic reminders of the miserable nature of material existence and are golden opportunities to intensity one's mediation of on Lord Sri Krishna and the transcendental existence He is offering to all of us. That sweet transcendental realm is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. It is far, far removed from the cycle of birth, death, old age, and disease in which we are currently rotating lifetime after lifetime. If we can simply fully utilize this one lifetime in Krishna's service, we will easily enter into that sweet transcendental existence in which we never have to get sick again.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Is Krishna Blue Because He is Vast?...

Maybe Sri Krishna is pictured as blue because He is as vast as the blue ocean and as vast as the blue skies. Could this be the reason?

Nisha

Singapore

Answer: No. He Desires to Be Blue...

I am very happy to hear from you, as you are one of my very dear students who is rendering me tangible service to assist me in my mission.

Srila Prabhupada amazed us, his disciples, when he told us about Krishna's color. He told us that because the sky is a reflection of Krishna's bodily effulgence; therefore it is blue.

In other words, it's that not we imagine Krishna as being blue because He is vast like the sky or the ocean. No, it's the other way around. Because the sky and ocean are reflections of Krishna, therefore they are blue. Everything originates in God. All of the colors of the rainbow are present in Him. He can be any color that He desires to be. He manifests a bluish complexion because that is what He likes the best and that is what His intimate devotees like the best.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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