On the Road Again

After a hiatus of several weeks here at our headquarters at Bhaktivedanta Ashram we are back on the road today this time to Pennsylvania and New Jersey. I will speaking at a university, some temples, and some home programs. After these few days for the most part we will remain in Austin up until our next around-the-world tour, which begins on 31 March with a lecture tour in Germany and then on to many other countries around the world. It's a wonderful, enlivened, surcharged, happy feeling to be out on the road spreading Krishna bhakti around the globe. The breaks are good for our health and also are a choice time to ruminate on how we can make our preaching tours more spiritually powerful and effective.

I hope to meet you all somewhere out there as I am traveling here and there. Please check out my lecture schedule below and try to rendezvous with me. I would love to meet you! Let me know that you are subscriber to my e-course.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Meaning of "Devotee"

What is a meaning of the term "devotee"?

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Answer: Someone Fully Devoted to Krishna

A devotee is someone who is fully dedicated to Krishna or God. Such a person is on the highest level of spiritual perfection. Those who are serious about awakening the dormant love of God within their hearts do not consider themselves to be devotees yet, in the full sense of the term. Rather they see themselves as persons who are striving to become devotees.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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