The Unlimited Treasure Within

Buried deep within your heart is everything that you've been looking for since time immemorial through millions and millions of births. You don't have to go anywhere. You've already got everything you need for an eternal, blissful, fully cognizant existence. Simply you must learn how to awaken your actual self by reconnecting with the Supreme Self.

Lord Sri Krishna very nicely describes in the Bhagavad-gita:

yo 'ntah-sukho 'ntar-aramas
tathantar-jyotir eva yah
sa yogi brahma-nirvanam
brahma-bhuto 'dhigacchati

"One whose happiness is within, who is active and rejoices within, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme."
---Bhagavad-gita 5.24

By carefully applying the bhakti-yoga system you can internalize or spiritualize your every thought, word, and deed. If you will fully thus absorb yourself on the transcendental plane, even while engaged in normal every day activities such as school or work, your spiritual perfection of going back home, back to Godhead is assured.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Is Krishna Consciousness Austerity or Joy?...

Is Krishna Consciousness a practice in austerity or joy and happiness?

Your humble servant,

Ameeta

Answer: It's Both...

The answer is that it is both. Krishna consciousness is simultaneously austere and supremely joyful. It is described in the Srimad Bhagavatam that austerity is the wealth of those who are renounced from this world.

Just as a businessman becomes more and more enlivened the more that he accumulates wealth, similarly the Krishna conscious person relishes the austerities of practicing Krishna consciousness as the sweetest, most sublime nectar.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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