Another Adventurous Day

We are living in a world of dualities. Therefore we face cold and heat, happiness and distress, honor and dishonor, etc. This morning when we checked in at Canberra for our flight to Sydney connecting with a flight a Suva, Fiji we got a stark reminder of the dualities. We were informed that that the flight from Sydney to Suva was cancelled. As I write this we are flying from Canberra to Sydney not knowing what will happen when we get to Sydney. Will we be able to get another flight to Fiji? Or will we be stuck in Sydney? When the situation was explained to us at the Canberra airport I knew that today was going to be another one of those adventurous days when you don't know what is going to unfold and you just have to completely depend on Krishna to take care of you.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

P.S. Krishna covered for us. We got on another flight to Fiji. Krishna blessed with us with another to take shelter of Him.

Composing Thought for the Day
Flying from Canberra to Sydney, AustraliaSankarshan Das Composing Thought for the Day

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Male/Female Love

I want to know what is the value of the real love (not attraction) which any lady feels for any man as lover. As we read in books that anyone can fall in love anytime with anybody. Is it just maya or illusion? Loving anyone is not in our hands for it is coming from our heart itself. What does the Vedic wisdom tell about such love? Is feeling such love good or bad?

Suchitra

Answer: The Perfection of Love

Man/woman love in this world is temporary and illusory because it is based on the false identification with the material body. That person that someone is so madly in love with is not that male or female body. Males are attracted to females and females and attracted to males. But factually they are neither male nor female. So this male/female attraction is maya or illusion.

The real attraction is actually for the soul within. We know this is a fact because we are not attracted to the dead body of the opposite sex. It is the spirit-soul, the living force within, which is the actual attractive principle. And that spirit-soul is a mere particle of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So the ultimate object of our love is in fact the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When we directly connect with Him in a pure loving relationship we can then purely love all living beings throughout the entire existence. This is the perfection of love.

Of course, as long as we are embodied it is natural to feel this male/female love. So we should properly utilize this in the service of God by marriage and producing saintly children.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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