Sharing Good Fortune with All

There's a lot of nescience out there in the material world. Those who are fortunate are released from it. Those who are not so fortunate are knowingly or unknowingly simply awaiting that opportune moment when they will become fortunate enough to also become released from it. Those who are fortunate are constantly immersed in the compassionate mood of how to make the unfortunate fortunate. Up until their last dying breath when they most fortunately make their departure from this unfortunate abode they do everything possible to flood this world with unlimited good fortune.

Sharing Unlimited Good Fortune in Hannover, Germany

Sankarshan Das Sharing unlimited Good Fortune in Hannover

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Dhotis and Saris?...

Today I read "Thought for the Day" and the answer to the person who asked the reason for the Indian clothes and Indian names. Personally I love seeing people dressed like that and with names which all have a meaning connected with Krishna.

Can you please explain how it helps facilitate their Krishna consciousness? I did not understand that part.

I have heard a follower say that a sari is a spiritual dress and it should never touch the ground and that is Vaishnava etiquette. But why is a sari a spiritual dress? And is a dhoti a spiritual dress too?

Is there a book which I can read on Vaishnava etiquette? I would like very much to learn more.

Sincerely,

Gita

Answer: Spiritual World Acculturation...

Sometimes people mistakenly think that saris, dhotis and devotional names are Indian. The real fact is that these are the culture of the spiritual world. Because Indian culture was formerly strongly connected with the culture of the spiritual world, saris, dhotis, and devotional names were also the fashion of the ancient Indian culture.

The ultimate self-realization science, Krishna consciousness, is process of reviving one's original eternal identity as a resident of the spiritual world. Just as one who is going to relocate to a foreign country can prepare himself nicely for going there by practicing the language and culture of that country, one who would like to achieve the spiritual world can practice the culture of the spiritual world even while residing here in the material world by chanting Hare Krishna and by adopting the style of the spiritual world.

It is not the system to choose a spiritual name for yourself. The spiritual name is given by the spiritual master at the time of initiation. Srila Prabhupada revealed to us that a devotee's spiritual name is so potent that if he can simply remember his own spiritual name of the time of death, he will attain the supreme spiritual perfection of going back to home, back to Godhead.

The best guide book on Vaisnava etiquette is the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita. In it you can read how the followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu associated with each other in an amazingly transcendental way that was totally beyond this material world.

And, although if you become solidly fixed in Krishna consciousness you will feel that you are never touching the ground, there is no rule that a sari or dhoti cannot touch the ground.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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