Glorifying Krishna

Krishna instructs us in the Bhagavad-gita to always be glorifying Him 24 hours a day. Therefore for those who are devoted to Him there is nothing to do except to constantly glorify Him. One type of glorification is on the lips only, to say that Krishna is great, but fail to follow His instructions. That sort of glorification is not very important. The real glorification is to be engaged 24 hour in executing the orders of the Lord. So what has the Lord ordered? He has appeared 500 years ago as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and ordered us to inundate this entire world in a tidal wave of Krishna bhakti. So if we are actually serious about glorifying Krishna, we must obey His order and sacrifice everything for bringing about a complete spiritual revolution on this planet.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Complaint: Forgive Me If I Am Wrong

Respected Guruji,

Please accept my humble obeisances. I am reading your mails daily and they guide me a lot spiritually. Sometimes, I feel the issue of bona fide master is taking more importance than is necessary. Forgive me please. We have accepted you as our Guru unconditionally and we seek to gain more knowledge from your mails. I wish there is more about Sri Krishna, more from Bhagavad-gita and more from Srimad Bhagavatam in your mails so it will keep us thinking only about Krishna till the next day when we can read some more of the loving God. Forgive me if I am wrong. But my request is on behalf of all those devotees who have accepted you as their bona fide spiritual master.

Thank you,
Yours obediently,

Chitra

Answer: You Are Forgiven

Our business is to do nothing but glorify Krishna 24 hours daily. The teachings of Krishna are just as much Krishna as His pastimes, names, and qualities. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita:

acaryopasanam

"One should worship an acharya, a spiritual master who knows things as they are." Bhagavad-gita 13.8

So whether we describe Krishna's pastime of lifting Govardhan Hill or elaborate on His instruction that one must take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master, it is the same. It is artificial and incorrect to make a distinction between the instructions of Krishna and the pastimes of Krishna because they are both on the same absolute level. So you are wrong, but I forgive you.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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