Back to Sri Vrindavan Dham

25 November 2007. This afternoon we will fly out from Doha. After a five hour transit stop in Dubai we will take an overnight flight to Delhi where our driver will be waiting to take us on a three hour drive to the most sacred ground in the entire universe, Sri Vrindavan Dham, the holy land of Lord Sri Krishna. It was in Vrindavan Dham 5,000 years ago that Krishna exhibited for the benefit all of the conditioned souls in this universe His sweetest and most intimate childhood pastimes. By His inconceivable charms He completely captured the hearts of the residents of Vrindavan so much so that all they could do was think about Krishna, talk about Krishna, and relish participating in the pastimes of Lord Sri Krishna 24 hours a day. Visiting Krishna's holy land and associating constantly with its holy dustnaturally awakens in one's heart the innate tendency to be constantly dovetailed with the supreme source of all existence, Lord Sri Krishna, by always chanting, hearing, and remembering His transcendental name, fame, form, pastimes, entourage, philosophy, and paraphernalia.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Holy Land of Sri Vrindavan Dham

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Krishna Consciousness Static?
Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances!

No one can understand Krishna in all His manifestations completely. So does it mean that even in the spiritual world the jivas, the spirit-souls, know only a part of the knowledge about God? And does everyone in the spiritual world simply know his own perspective of Krishna, or do they all have a whole general vision of God?

And is this knowledge static or transient?

Your servant,
Anna

Answer: No. It is Ecstatic!

Because Krishna's glories are expanding unlimitedly at every second, even Lord Krishna with His unlimited ability to know everything has a hard time expanding His Krishna consciousness fast enough to keep pace with His ever-expanding glories. So what to speak of the jivas, who are His tiny parts and parcels. They are eternally engaged in expanding their Krishna consciousness more and more and more for all of eternity. The conclusion is that Krishna consciousness in never static. It is always ecstatic, expanding more and more for all of eternity.

Another aspect on this answer is that everyone perceives Krishna in terms of their own particular relationship with Him. This feature of different jivas, different spirit-souls, perceiving Krishna in different ways was prominently manifested when Krishna was in the wrestling arena of King Kamsa. This amazing pastime is described as follows in the Krishna book:

When Krishna entered the wrestling arena with Balarama and Their friends, He appeared differently to different people according to their different relationships (rasas) with Him. Krishna is the reservoir of all pleasure and all kinds of rasas, both favorable and unfavorable. He appeared to the wrestlers exactly like a thunderbolt. To the people in general He appeared as the most beautiful personality. To the females He appeared to be the most attractive male, Cupid personified, and thus He increased their lust. The cowherd men who were present there looked upon Krishna as their own kinsman, coming from the same village of Vrindavana. The impious ksatriya kings who were present saw Him as the strongest ruler and their chastiser. To the parents of Krishna, Nanda and Yasoda, He appeared to be the most loving child. To Kamsa, the king of the Bhoja dynasty, He appeared to be death personified. To the unintelligent, He appeared to be an incapable personality. To the yogis present, He appeared to be the Supersoul. To the members of the Vrishni dynasty He appeared to be the most celebrated descendant. Thus appreciated differently by different kinds of people present, Krishna entered the wrestling arena with Balarama and His cowherd boyfriends. Having heard that Krishna had already killed the elephant Kuvalayapida, Kamsa knew beyond doubt that Krishna was formidable. He thus became very much afraid of Him. Krishna and Balarama had long arms. They were beautifully dressed, and They were attractive to all the people assembled there. They were dressed as if They were going to act on a dramatic stage, and They drew the attention of all people.
--end of quote from Krishna book--

So Krishna is so amazingly wonderful that everyone has their own personal unique relationship with Him, which continues to grow and deeper and deeper becoming sweeter and sweeter for all of eternity.

I remember in Kaliningrad when you expressed that you found this Krishna consciousness to be interesting. I can assure you that there is nothing more interesting than this. It is so unlimitedly interesting that it continues becoming more and more interesting for all of eternity. And what makes it even more interesting is that it is uniquely interesting for each and every devotee and thus becomes even more interesting when the devotees share their realizations of Krishna with each other. This point is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:

mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā
bodhayantaḥ parasparam
kathayantaś ca māḿ nityaḿ
tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca

"The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me." BG 10:9

So kindly fully dedicate yourself to an eternal life full of Krishna consciousness. I can assure that you will find nothing more interesting in all the fourteen worlds.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari