Adding the Missing Ingredient

26 September 2007--Today we head out on the highway from Sillamae, Estonia to Riga, Latvia. This traveling for spreading the ultimate self-realization science is truly ecstatic. It is a living meditation. The deeper you get into it, the sweeter it gets. And the sweeter it gets, the more you become inspired to go even deeper and deeper into it ad infinitum.

Of course this unlimited gold mine of nectar is not only available to itinerant preachers. It is also fully and equally available to anybody in any walk of life. It is simply a matter of adding the missing ingredient, Krishna, to the recipe of your life.

Krishna bhakti is an unlimited ocean of nectar. You can dive deeper and deeper and deeper into it for all of eternity. Wherever you are, no matter what your occupation is, you can dive deeper and deeper into the ocean of bhakti each and every day. Simply chant these names and regain your original eternal idenity:

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

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why So Many Religions?

I wanted to ask that why Lord Krishna made so many religions despite the fact that liberation from cycle of birth, old age, disease and death can only be obtained by chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra.

Abhinav

Answer: There is Only One Religion

Krishna has not made so many religions. There is only one religion, to reconnect with God. It does not matter if one is designated as a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, or a Jew. If he is reconnected with God, he has attained the perfection of religion. The word "religion" comes from the Latin word "religare", which means to reconnect. Reconnecting with God is reconnecting with God. It has nothing to do with this label or that label.

The attempt to make religion the exclusive property of this group or that group is a bastardization of religion. It is not actual religion. This a concoction of materialistically minded men. It is not what has been given to us by God.

We never say that one can become delivered only by chanting Hare Krishna. In this connection Lord Caitanya has authoritatively described in His Siksastakam prayers:

nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis
tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ
etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavān mamāpi
durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

"O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names, like Kṛiṣhṇa and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them."

Although the Hare Krishna mantra is recommended in the Vedas as the most powerful and effective of all mantras, we never say that it is the only mantra.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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