It Was Worth It!

On Friday 12 October, we headed out by car on a three hour drive to Visaginas, a small Lithuanian town way out in the forest. It was a dark, dreary, rainy, cold, nasty day. This was a stark reminder of the nature of this material existence. After we arrived I was wondering why we had taken so much trouble to come to this remote place. After all, we were comfortably situated in Kaunas, and my lecture series was being very nicely received there.

But once the devotees assembled in the apartment of Dina Bandhu Prabhu and I led Hare Krishna kirtan and started explaining the timeless message of the Bhagavad-gita, the transcendental magic once again happened and I could feel how we were entering into the transcendental dimension beyond time and space. And I knew that it was worth it! Why did I ever doubt it?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Teaching Bhagavad-gita in Visaginas, Lithuania

Sankarshan Das Teaching Bhagavad-gita in Visaginas, Lithuania

Eager Hearers

Eager Hearers to Sankarshan Das

There is Nothing Sweeter

There is Nothing Sweeter

Loving Farewell

Loving Farewell to Sankarshan Das

We Can Never Forget Such Sweet Devotees

We Can Never Forget Such Sweet Devotees

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Feel the Spiritual World?

By the grace of Krishna consciousness, I now have tangible feeling that this material world is not my home. It's just a miserable camp for losers. But I have not tangible feeling that the spiritual world is my hometown. When can I get a real, tangible feeling of this?

I want to take a part-time job to make some money to buy Krishna consciousness books, or donate money to pure devotees. I sometimes try to find a part-time job during college. But it seems that Krishna put so many obstacles to prevent me from finding a job, so I am still not financially independent yet. Why? What's Krishna's arrangement?

Your most humble servant

Yechen Zhang
Chongqing, China

Answer: Dive into the Names

Krishna has greatly blessed you with the knowledge and the feeling that this material world is not your home. And although He has also blessed you with the knowledge that the spiritual world is your actual home, you are not yet feeling that it is your home. My best advice to you regarding how you can get this strong feeling in your heart is that you should dive deeper and deeper into the sweet nectar of Lord Krishna's holy names by chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra with love as much as possible every day. The Lord's holy names and His transcendental abode are one and the same, so if you will focus your mind on diving deeper and deeper into the holy names of God, you will feel how you are living in the spiritual world at every minute, and you will see that the material world is just something happening out there in the Lord's external energy.

We cannot always understand how the arrangement of the Lord is for our ultimate benefit, but yet it always is 100% of the time. Keep trying for the part time job and see what Krishna arranges.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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