Expand Your Good Fortune Unlimitedly

We see all over the world that people are very eager to expand whatever good fortune they have to a greater and greater extent. Unfortunately their understanding of good fortune is incorrect. They are thinking in terms of temporary material things. Why not accumulate one's good fortune in eternal spiritual things? This is called real intelligence. Any material fortune I may accumulate is here today and gone tomorrow. But whatever spiritual fortune I may be blessed with will stay with me for all of eternity.

If you will chant Hare Krishna every day, you will expand your good fortune more and more and more without limit, and you will never lose it.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Krishna Can Have a Personal Form?

I am somehow able to understand the universal form of lord Krishna that the whole universe, all the living beings, demigods and everything rests upon Him just as the pearls are strung on a thread. But I am not able to understand his personal form as Shyamasundara, blackish-blue in color with flute in his hand.

Now I am reading Bhagavad-gita As It Is Ninth chapter. I am kindly requesting you to give the way to understand his personal form. What do I have to do to realize his personal form in my mind?

Venkatesh

Answer: He Cannot Be Without Anything

Is God limited or unlimited? He must be unlimited, otherwise how He can be God. Therefore He cannot be without anything.

If you can have a personal form, do you think the unlimited God is under some limit that does not allow Him to have a personal form? Just try to understand that you cannot be greater than God. God must at least have everything that have and of course much, much more without limit. So if you can have a personal form, it is logical to understand that God must also have one. The difference is that you are limited by your personal form while God is not limited by His personal form.

He can one place doing something while simultaneously He is everywhere, but you can only in place doing something. This is the difference between you and God. Now do you understand?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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