How to Always Taste Transcendental Nectar

Everyone is hankering to taste the sweetest nectar at every minute, but hardly anyone knows the secret of how to do that. Therefore I am constantly traveling all over the world to reveal to as many people as possible the secret knowledge of how to do just that. There is nothing more enlivening and rewarding for me than when an entire hall full of people becomes electrified and transported into transcendental bliss by the sweet, nectarean waves of mercy emanating from the Hare Krishna mantra and the liberating philosophy of the Bhagavad-gita. Such a thing happened last Saturday night (17 November 2007) in Timisoara, Romania. As soon as I entered the room I could immediately feel the magic in the air. I knew right away that it was going to be another one of those unforgettable evenings. And sure enough, my premonition proved to be true. The Hare Krishna mantra took on new meaning as I experienced it in ways that I have never experienced it before. And my audience was right there with me diving deeper and deeper into the sweet, nectarean ocean of Lord Sri Krishna's names. The deeper I went, the deeper they went. This is what kirtan is all about.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Ecstatic Kirtan in Timisoara, Romania Takes Off Like a Rocket

Ecstatic Kirtan in Timisoara, Romania

Revealing the Supreme Secret

Sankarshan Das Revealing the Supreme Secret

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Does a Soul Re-incarnate?

How does a soul reincarnate? Why a soul has to take up one body after another? Why does soul go into ignorance? What happens exactly at the time of death? How to get out of the chain of action-inaction-reaction?

Awaiting your reply.

Thanks,

Parag

Answer: Carried by the Subtle Body

The soul is carried by the subtle body to his next gross body. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:

śarīraḿ yad avāpnoti
yac cāpy utkrāmatīśvarah
gṛhītvaitāni sam yāti
vāyur gandhān ivāśayāt

"The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another." Bhagavad-gita 15.8

śrotraḿ cakṣuḥ sparśanaḿ ca
rasanaḿ ghrāṇam eva ca
adhiṣṭhāya manaś cāyaḿ
viṣayān upasevate

"The living entity, thus taking another gross body, obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose and sense of touch, which are grouped about the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense objects." Bhagavad-gita 15.9

The soul does not have to take body after body after body. He only does so if he still has material desires at the time of death. In such a state he is awarded a particular type of body by which he can fulfill his desires. If his only desire is to be a loving servant of God, he does not take birth again in this material world. He instead enters into the transcendental kingdom of God to enjoy an eternal life full of bliss and knowledge in the direct personal association of Krishna or God.

The soul only goes into ignorance when he wants to be in ignorance. It is sometimes said, "Ignorance is bliss." There are certain persons who prefer the artificial comfort of ignorance over knowing and realizing the Truth as it is. For them ignorance is bliss, but not for the thoughtful person who is eager to know things as they actually are.

At the time of death the materially attached person is taken by the Yamadutas to the abode of Yamaraja where he accepts the karmic reactions for his past misdeeds before being carried by the subtle body to his next birth in accordance with what his mind was absorbed in at the time of death.

In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna gives us the formula how to escape from the cycle of birth and death:

sarva-dharmān parityajya
mām ekaḿ śaraṇaḿ vraja
ahaḿ tvāḿ sarva-pāpebhyo
mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ

"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."
--Bhagavad-gita 18.66

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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