Nothing Sweeter!
Today we are heading out from Kaunas to New Goloka en route to Riga, Latvia from where we will fly onwards to our home base in Austin, Texas. This concludes the first leg of our current around-the-world lecture series tour. After twelve days in Austin we will resume our world tour with a lecture series in Bulgaria and Romania and possibly Macedonia. From there it will be on to the Middle East and further eastward to India, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji before returning to North America.
What could be more enlivening than traveling and preaching all over the world for bringing life to a world which is drowning in ignorance? As confirmed in chapter 18 of the Bhagavad-gita there is nothing more pleasing to the Lord than this. Therefore there is also nothing more pleasing to the devotee. In other words as the Lord is the pleased, so the devotee is pleased. This is the secret of how to always taste unlimited happiness: Simply always give pleasure to the Lord 24 hours a day. Capitalizing on this ultimate success formula, throughout the ages great transcendentalists have given up the so-called comforts of home life for lives fully dedicated to awakening this sleeping world from the slumber of Maya or illusion. There is indeed nothing sweeter than this!
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
This thought has moved me, and more than anything it has left me confused. When you say, "I am completely optimistic that this entire planet will someday be completely engulfed in a tidal wave of Krishna prema, pure love for Krishna."
But many times I think that, given the influence of Kali Yuga, and the fact that as Kali Yuga progresses the more degraded we become, what room is there to have faith or hope in anything?
I am grateful for your attention.
Your servant,
Esteban
But yet this most wonderful and beautiful future for the world is indeed predicted in the Caitanya Caritamrita. The author of Caitanya Caritamrita, Krishnadas Kaviraj, is not an ordinary person of this world. He is a nitya-siddha, an eternally liberated soul, who descended on the order of the Lord to play an integral role in the respiritualization of the entire human society. He has predicted as follows:
saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa
prema-vanyāya ḍubāila jagatera jana
"The Krishna consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one be a gentleman, a rogue or even lame, invalid or blind."
-- Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 7.26
The words of the such souls as Krishnadas Kaviraj cannot go in vain. Such words must come true. So it is not a question of if they will come true. It is simply a question of when they will come true.
Therefore we have unlimited room for hope. We can expect that by Lord's mercy even this most inconceivable miracle can and will happen.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
What could be more enlivening than traveling and preaching all over the world for bringing life to a world which is drowning in ignorance? As confirmed in chapter 18 of the Bhagavad-gita there is nothing more pleasing to the Lord than this. Therefore there is also nothing more pleasing to the devotee. In other words as the Lord is the pleased, so the devotee is pleased. This is the secret of how to always taste unlimited happiness: Simply always give pleasure to the Lord 24 hours a day. Capitalizing on this ultimate success formula, throughout the ages great transcendentalists have given up the so-called comforts of home life for lives fully dedicated to awakening this sleeping world from the slumber of Maya or illusion. There is indeed nothing sweeter than this!
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
At the Vedic Culture Center in Kaunas:
Flying High on the Hare Krishna Mantra
Explicating the Vedic Science
Answers According to the Vedic Version:
Question: Room for Hope?
Hare Krishna, please accept my obeisances.This thought has moved me, and more than anything it has left me confused. When you say, "I am completely optimistic that this entire planet will someday be completely engulfed in a tidal wave of Krishna prema, pure love for Krishna."
But many times I think that, given the influence of Kali Yuga, and the fact that as Kali Yuga progresses the more degraded we become, what room is there to have faith or hope in anything?
I am grateful for your attention.
Your servant,
Esteban
Answer: Unlimited Room for Hope
From a material point of view, considering the ever-increasing degradation that we witness every day around us, it is certainly inconceivable that the entire world could become Krishna conscious.But yet this most wonderful and beautiful future for the world is indeed predicted in the Caitanya Caritamrita. The author of Caitanya Caritamrita, Krishnadas Kaviraj, is not an ordinary person of this world. He is a nitya-siddha, an eternally liberated soul, who descended on the order of the Lord to play an integral role in the respiritualization of the entire human society. He has predicted as follows:
saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa
prema-vanyāya ḍubāila jagatera jana
"The Krishna consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one be a gentleman, a rogue or even lame, invalid or blind."
-- Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 7.26
The words of the such souls as Krishnadas Kaviraj cannot go in vain. Such words must come true. So it is not a question of if they will come true. It is simply a question of when they will come true.
Therefore we have unlimited room for hope. We can expect that by Lord's mercy even this most inconceivable miracle can and will happen.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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