Torchlight of Ultimate Knowledge Illuminates the Sillamae Public Library

My spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, blessed me with the torchlight of ultimate knowledge and instructed me that I should travel all over this dark world to bring that torchlight of knowledge to all those who are blinded by ignorance. Public libraries are supposed to be places of knowledge. Unfortunately they are mostly filled up with books which glorify the flickering tidings of the material existence and thus keep the readers entangled in the cycle of birth and death. It is very rare to find a true book of transcendental knowledge in a public library. Therefore when the Sillamae devotees informed me that I was schedule to give some publicly advertised lectures at the Sillamae public library I was delighted. What more appropriate place to reveal the truth that will set the hearers free?

Sankarshan Prabhu Leads Kirtan and Lectures at the Sillamae Public Library

Sankarshan Das Leads Kirtan at the Sillamae Public Library,Estonia

Sankarshan Das Lectures at the Sillamae Public Library, Estonia

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why Did We Leave Krishna?...

Please accept my humble obeisances, dear Maharaja.

I have a question for you. When we say that Krishna is the reservoir of all pleasure, that it is all blissful in Vaikuntha, and that life there is free from all miseries, from where did our desire come to live apart from Krishna? Why did we have a doubt where there is no place for doubt? Why did the question come into our mind to be apart from Him when we were always experiencing the ecstatic pleasures of His blissful mercy?

2) Since Krishna accompanies us as the Supersoul through our millions of transmigrations in the cycle of birth and death I am wondering why He Himself wants to suffer being within this material existence? If He is all powerful, why does He not just clear our doubts and restore us to our original existence instead of suffering with us in the millions of lives that we take?

I will wait for your answers....thanks a lot

your servant,

Gaurav

Answer: Misuse of Independence...

Because Krishna is unlimitedly independent and because we are part and parcel of Him, the quality of independence also exists in us a to a small degree. Independence can be used or abused. This the meaning of independence. If we abuse it, we are imprisoned by the material nature. If we utilize it properly, we are delivered to our original liberated position in the spiritual sky. The choice is ours. Krishna does not force us because if we were forced, we would only be prisoners in the spiritual world without any love for the Lord. Therefore without a mood of loving service one cannot enter into the spiritual realm.

When Krishna comes to this material world He does not suffer. He clears the doubts of all those who submissively hear His message of the Bhagavad-gita. Krishna does not force His message upon us. This is love. The parent does not push the child by brute force. He gives His love to the child and if the child so chooses, he can reciprocate with the love of the parent by loving him back.

In this connection Lord Sri Krishna tells Arjuna in the Bhagavad-gita:

iti te jnanam akhyatam
guhyad guhyataram maya
vimrsyaitad asesena
yathecchasi tatha kuru

"Thus I have explained to you knowledge still more confidential. Deliberate on this fully, and then do what you wish to do."--Bhagavad-gita 18.63

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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