Going Nowhere Fast

We have now arrived in Germany. My disciple Hari Kripa devi dasi and her husband Eddy picked us up yesterday at the Frankfurt airport. I was amazed at how fast we covered the 80 kilometers from Frankfurt to Heidlberg. It is no small wonder when we consider how fast one is allowed to drive here on Germany's Autobahn. We were driving sometimes at over 100 miles per hour (160 Kilometers per hour). And even while we were cruising at such high speeds that would be unthinkable in the USA, cars were passing us like we standing still.

High speed travel can no doubt be used in the service of Krishna. I am regularly flying here and there all over the world. But if we travel at such high speeds simply for the purpose of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending what are we accomplishing? We are simply going nowhere fast down into the lower species of life. What is the value of life in the fast lane if all we are doing is accelerating our devolution? Human life is meant for evolution. Not devolution.

Cruising the Autobahn

Sankarshan Das Cruising the Autobahn in Germany

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Achintya Bhedabheda Tattva...

What is the meaning of "achintya bhedabheda tattva"?

Nalaka Weerasuriya

Answer: Simultaneously One And Different....

Acintya Bhedabheda Tattva means that the Absolute Truth is simultaneously, inconceivably one and different. Just as a drop of the Atlantic ocean is qualitatively one with the Atlantic Ocean and quantitatively different from it, the living being is qualitatively one with God and quantitatively different from God.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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