The Ultimate Drug

Nowadays many persons are taking different types of dangerous illegal drugs to try to uplift their consciousness so that they feel better. But this is a big mistake. They are turning to something material to try to free themselves from the pain of material existence. By doing so they simply prolong their difficulties in the cycle of birth by becoming even more entangled within the material nature. If they want relief from the miseries of material existence, they must realize that by its very nature material existence is miserable, and that therefore there is no material adjustment for making it blissful. The easy solution for this quagmire is to elevate one's consciousness beyond this material existence into the spiritual stratum. The easy system for doing this is to chant the Hare Krishna mantra. This should be done on a regular daily basis. By doing so one will gradually become completely transcendental to all the miseries of material existence and will taste the sweetest happiness at every minute. This is the ultimate drug. 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Get Interest for Chanting?

I believe in God, but I am not doing the chanting right now. Previously I was chanting 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mahamantra daily, but for the last one year I have not chanted a single round. However I do visit the temple on all occasions such as disappearance days and appearance days. I keep the Ekadasi fast and the four regulative principles also. At my home my wife chants 16 rounds, my daughter chants 6 rounds. But I do not take interest to chant. Please suggest how I can get the interest for chanting.

Sanjeet

Answer: Chant Now, Interest Will Come

Interest or no interest you must chant. It is the order of the Supreme Authority, Lord Sri Krishna, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita. If you will surrender to Krishna's order and chant the Hare Krishna mantra on japa beads at least 16 rounds daily, you will develop such a strong taste for chanting that you will never want to ever again give up the chanting.

It is compared to a person with jaundice who is instructed by his physician to treat his jaundice by taking sugar candy. For one who has jaundice sugar candy tastes very bitter. But yet he takes it on the order of his physician because taking sugar candy is the way to become cured from jaundice. What happens as he begins taking it is that it gradually tastes less bitter and less bitter until finally it starts to taste slightly sweet and then more and more sweet until it finally becomes very sweet and his jaundice is cured. The chanting works like sugar candy to cure the jaundice-like disease of material consciousness.

So now you are suffering from a jaundice-like condition in which the chanting has no taste for you. But if you will chant anyway on the order of Krishna, gradually the sweet taste will come and you will wonder how you could ever been so foolish as to give up chanting the Lord's unlimitedly sweet holy names.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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