Dispenser of Mercy

Today we are heading out from Sydney to Melbourne. What an ecstatic life this is, to be a traveling dispenser of mercy! The entire planet is burning in a blazing fire of materialism. And Krishna consciousness is the beautiful dark blue rain cloud saturated with tons of water, which can completely extinguish this blazing fire of material existence. I cannot even begin to conceive how fortunate I am to have received this unlimited mercy from my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He blessed me unlimitedly with the science of Krishna bhakti and ordered to to make this knowledge available to the entire human society. Therefore I always remain busy answering an endless stream of emails and circling the globe again and again to share this inconceivably wonderful mercy as much as possible with everyone that I meet.

Here's a video of a recent kirtan I led in Sydney. Check it out: http://www.backtohome.com/video/Sydney_Kirtan.wmv

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Dispensing the Mercy in Sydney

Sankarshan Das Dispensing the Mercy in Sydney

Appreciative Audience in Sydney

Appreciative Audience in Sydney at Sankarshan Das lecture

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Who is the Doer?

Namaste. If we ourselves are not the doer, then we are so many puppets on strings pulled by God. We have no free will. Who, in fact, is the doer in my local field of activity? Is it me, or is it the Cosmic Puppeteer? I don't mean to sound offensive. I am simply confused. Please help me to understand the true nature of this reality, that of the doer in the field. Love always...

Tommi

Answer: Supreme Doer and Subordinate Doer

Both you and God are the doers. He is the supreme doer because He is the master programmer who has programmed both the spiritual world and the material world. And you are also the doer, the subordinate doer, because you have full freedom to flip between the two different channels at will. You are the subordinate doer because although you have complete total freedom to choose which program you want to be tuned into, it is God who makes the programs, not you.

Everyone is acting under the direction of God. That's a fact. But we have a choice how we want to be a directed. In a state the citizens have a choice of being law-abiding citizens or criminals. If they choose to be law-abiding citizens they voluntarily co-operate with the laws of the state and enjoy the full benefits of citizenship. But if they choose to be criminals, they are brought under the stringent control of the state by being placed in the prison.

So we have a choice. Do we want to voluntarily place ourselves under the Lord's direction, or do we want to try defy His authority and be placed under the stringent control of His material energy? In either case we are under the Lord's control. But the devotee chooses voluntarily to serve the Lord and thus relishes an eternal life full of knowledge of bliss while the non-devotee chooses to defy the Lord and thus suffers birth after birth in the cycle of birth, death, old age, and disease.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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