We'd Love to Take You Home

You are very special to us. You are one of Lord Krishna's most dear children. Somehow or other you have wandered far away from home having become totally lost in the cycle of birth and death so much so that you no longer even remember your actual eternal identity. We were similarly lost as are you, but were rescued from the deep, dense, dungeon of delusion by the mercy of Krishna and his pure devotee, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Now on his order we have accepted the duty of trying to convince you to return with us to your and our original home in the spiritual world.

Are you willing to come? We certainly hope so. In this connection Lord Sri Krishna states in the Bhagavad-gita:

a-brahma-bhuvanal lokah
punar avartino 'rjuna
mam upetya tu kaunteya
punar janma na vidyate

"From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again."
---Bhagavad-gita 8.16

The time has come for a worldwide spiritual renaissance by the wide scale dissemination of this revolutionary knowledge. We sincerely hope that you will agree to be a take advantage of it.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Why God Didn't Do Better?...

I get very upset when I look at the animal kingdom. It affects me so badly when I watch documentaries on television. If God is beauty and He has made everything so beautiful on this earth, then why animals need to kill one another for their survival?

Yes, I agree everything is balanced because of these food chains, but I am not happy with the food chains. God is the source of intelligence. Why couldn't He come up with a different plan where there would be no blood mess?

His devotee

Ankita

Answer: He Did, but We Didn't Accept It....

God does have a different plan, the spiritual world. But we are such rascals we have not agreed to accept His plan. We wanted to manufacture our own plan. Hence we have a world where one living entity is food for another type of living entity:

jivo jivasya jivanam

"One living being is food for another."
--Srimad Bhagavatam 1.13.47

Now if we will utilize our God-given free will, we can leave behind this world of violence and enter into the all-peaceful spiritual world forever.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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