Mission Impossible

We have been given a mission by our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, to save the suffering humanity from the ignorance of material consciousness. When one sees how deeply entrenched the modern day civilization is in ignorance, one can easily conclude that it would be impossible for the world to be saved from such deep, deep ignorance. But possibility or impossibility is not an issue when it comes to the orders received from one's spiritual master. One must simply meditate upon and worship his orders and try one's very best to successfully carry them out. Then by grace of Sri Guru and Sri Krishna even the most impossible thing can easily become possible.

In this connection Srila Prabhupada states:

"A Krishna conscious being is always engaged in planning how to take all of suffering humanity back home, back to Godhead. Even if one is not successful in reclaiming all the fallen souls back to Godhead, still, because he is Krishna conscious, his path to Vaikunthaloka is open. He personally becomes qualified to enter the Vaikunthalokas, and if anyone follows such a devotee, he also enters into Vaikunthaloka."
--from purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 4.12.36

So a devotee is detached from the results of his activities, but he still tries his level best to bring about the enlightenmen

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Clarify God's Position...

Srila Prabhupada said that God is not Muslim, Christian, or Hindu, that God is God. Can you please clarify this?

Best regards,

Your very low servant

Daniel

Answer: God's Mercy is for All...

Just as the sun is not American, Russian, German, or Australian, in a similar way we cannot tie God down to a particular designation. He is Jagannatha, the Lord of the Universe. He is not described as only being the Lord of the Christians, the Muslims, or the Hindus. He is the God of all. Just as the sun shines everywhere, similarly God manifests His mercy upon all. Therefore He can be addressed by all of His names such as Allah, Christ, or Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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