Lecture Tour Reflections

It's 11:30am on Monday 2 July 2007. We are flying back to Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Austin, Texas after a super-ecstatic lecture tour which had me presenting the ultimate self-realization science in six different locations. I was the opening speaker at a spiritual unity conference in Vail, Colorado. Next were lectures at a home program in Boulder, Colorado and at Denver's Hare Krishna temple. Then we flew to British Columbia, Canada where I delivered a series of lectures at Vancouver's Hare Krishna Temple and spoke on the Srimad Bhagavatam at a home gathering in Saranagati, a rural Vedic community a four hour drive from Vancouver up in the mountains. The tour was capped off with a lecture series at Tucson, Arizona's Caitanya Culture Center.

There is no doubt about it. Krishna has blessed me with the greatest opportunity to spread the ultimate self-realization science all over the world at a time in history when is needed more than ever. Now more than ever the world is in desperate need of spiritual enlightenment to save it from the destruction course in which it is presently so inescapably entangled. Therefore I am praying to Lord Krishna and to my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, that my humble attempt to bring this highest knowledge to the leaders and general population of the world will be successful.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Getting God's Love?...


Is it possible to have material desires and also get God's Love?

Manohar

Answer: In Different Forms...

Everyone is getting God's unlimited love at every minute. Those who have material desires are getting His love in the form of the fulfillment of their material desires according to their karma. Those who have no material desires are getting His love in the form of the supreme reward of the Lord's direct association at every minute. So each of us decides what is more attractive to us, the Lord's material energy or the Lord Himself. In this connection Lord Sri Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita:

ye yatha mam prapadyante
tams tathaiva bhajamy aham
mama vartmanuvartante
manusyah partha sarvasah

"As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pritha."
---Bhagavad-gita 4.11

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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