Supreme of All Delights

Early this morning we hit the road again for Krishna. This time the road will be water. We will make a three hour journey by boat crossing the Gulf of Finland to Tallinn, Estonia and will then traveling another two hours by car to a small Estonian town named Sillamae near the Russian border. In Sillamae there is a wonderful small community of Krishna devotees who gather regularly in residences to hear and chant the glories of Lord Sri Krishna. I am eagerly awaiting diving into this supreme of all delights in the company of such wonderful transcendentalists.

We can experience in Sillamae that Krishna consciousness does not depend on temple buildings. It simply depends upon an enthusiasm to hear and chant the glories of the Lord. But of course, temples of Lord Krishna in which bona fide spiritual masters teach are the ideal place to get a taste for this topmost nectar.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: 4 Regs

My question is one regarding the four regulative principles. Specifically no intoxication. I have had much success with the other three but continuously struggle with the last. Please advise what the best way to defeat this problem is.

Your Humble Servant,

Robert

Answer: The Supreme Intoxication

If you can dive more deeply into the supreme intoxication, hearing and chanting the glories of Lord Sri Krishna, you will lose all interest in low class types of intoxication.

Just imagine if I gave you $100,000. That would be very enlivening for you, would it not? But if I said that now you must return the $100,000 to me, this would no doubt be disappointing. But then if I said I will give you one billion dollars in exchange for the $100,000, you could very easily give up the $100,000.

So whatever intoxication you are attached to right now is a measly $100,000. It is mere pocket change compared to the one billion dollars worth of pleasure that can easily be experienced through the supreme intoxication of chanting:

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

One realization I have also had is that if we casually described the four regulative principles as the "4 regs" as you did in the subject line of your email, it makes it harder to follow them. If we instead always respectfully refer them as Srila Prabhupada always described them as "the four regulative principles", by this act of honoring them it becomes much easier to follow them.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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