Global Awakening

The whole world is waiting for spiritually realized leadership to emerge on this planet for bringing about the desperately needed global awakening of enlightened consciousness. Since the underlying problem of the entire planet is ignorance of the self, wide scale dissemination of the science of self realization will bring about the most amazing paradigm shift ever seen in world history. Everyone must be enlightened with the knowledge of who they are. The material formulas proposed by the politicians, economists, sociologists, environmentalists, etc. can do nothing more than give us a false sense of hope for solving the myriad of dilemmas we are currently facing. Therefore we should seek the guidance of those who are factually enlightened with transcendental knowledge, because it is only such enlightened beings who can lead us out of the present ever-increasingly chaotic quagmire.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Connected Without Initiation?

Initiation is required for those who want to advance in Krishna consciousness because without initiation one is not connected with Krishna.

So my question is: As I am only chanting 8 rounds instead of the 16 rounds minimum required for initiation, am I not connected to Krishna?

Please clear my confusion.

Your student

Answer: Partial Connection

There is no doubt that you are connected with Krishna by chanting 8 rounds of the Hare Krishna mahamantra every day on japa beads. I am very happy to hear that you are doing this. You are to be greatly congratulated for your sincere efforts on the path of bhakti. If you continue in this way, naturally because of the wonderful all-attractive nature of Krishna's holy names your chanting will increase to at least 16 rounds daily and you will become qualified for initiation.

Because Srila Prabhupada has stipulated we must chant at least 16 rounds daily for initiation and because Srila Rupa Goswami has stipulated we must initiated in order to achieve the perfectional stage of 100% connection with the Lord, as long as we are chanting less than 16 rounds daily we should understand that our connection will remain only a partial connection. But this should not a discouragement. This should give us the impetus to increase the chanting to at least 16 rounds daily so we progress through the higher levels and become 100% connected.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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