Your Life Will Be Ecstatic!

We are not meant to live selfishly and irresponsibly. In this human form of life we are meant to live for the welfare of al living beings. How do we do that? We should make ourselves spiritually perfect and then engage in the supreme welfare activity of the spiritual enlightenment of all living beings. Such a life of selfless service is millions and billions of times more satisfying than a life dedicated to sense gratification. In fact, there is really no comparison at all. "Millions and billions of times more satisfying" is simply a crude approximation to give us a rough idea of the difference between material sense gratification and Krishna consciousness. It does not come even close to an accurate comparison of the difference. The only way to really comprehend the difference is to personally taste the supreme nectar of Krishna consciousness. This taste defies classification and intellectualization. If you want to know it and understand it, you must taste it. There is no other way to realize it. So try tasting it today. Chant these names with pure love and devotion:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

You'll be glad you did! Your life will be ecstatic!

Answers According to the Vedic Version

I Want to to Merge with Krishna...

Respected Sir,

My humble salutations to you. Sir, I am in a very pathetic condition due to Krishna's wish. I wanted someone who could give me light hence joined your esteemed course.

Sir, I know what I want to ask may show my ego but that is the truth. I want unison with Krishna. I don't have any other wish except for merging with Him completely.

Kindly, provide light and forgive me if I said something wrong.

Regards and humble salutations,

Your student

Answer: Serving Him is the Ultimate Perfection...

Kindly allow me to enlighten you with the transcendental wisdom that is revealed by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita. Our pathetic condition in this material existence is not due to the wishes of Krishna. It is due to our foolish misuse of our independence.

Your desire of unison or becoming one with Krishna is a desire which is against the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita. In that most esteemed of all holy books Sri Krishna states that we are all eternally existing as individuals. Therefore the desire for unison is unnatural and impossible and will keep you always in a state of frustration. The actual goal of spiritual liberation is not a state of unison with God. It is rather a state of harmony with God. In that perfectional stage both you and God exist side by side in a state of perfect loving relationship.

So now if you want to come out of all varieties of suffering conditions within this material existence, all you have to do is fully surrender yourself unto Lord Krishna as His eternal servant according to the instructions that He gives in the Bhagavad-gita. This will make you completely satisfied.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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