Beyond the Hype

In this world everyone is looking for pleasure, but due to ignorance 99.99% of the people try to derive their pleasure from the interaction between the senses and the objects of the senses. This is a false platform because the body is not the actual self. It is simply a covering of the self. They do not realize that the actual pleasure is experienced only in the relationship between the self and the Supreme Self. Thus they fruitlessly waste their entire lives investing their time, intelligence, and energy pursuing goals that are not worth pursuing. And they end up at the end with nothing except an increased karmic debt which obliges them to enter into hellish situations in the lower species to burn off their karmic reactions.

Those who are fortunately enlightened in the Vedic wisdom are blessed with a vision that allows to see beyond the hype. Such liberated souls investe their consciousness in the self-realization process. They focus their energies on reawakening the dormant Krishna consciousness that is sleeping within in. As their Krishna consciousness becomes more and more awakened they experience more and more happiness, and out of a genuine sense of compassion they derive the ways and means to awaken the entire human society.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can a Devotee Function in this World?

In the introduction to the Bhagavad-gita Srila Prabhupada says that the false ego means thinking that "I am the lord of all that I survey". Theoretically this is very easy to understand, that I am not this body. But in our day to day lives we are forced to think that we are the lord of all we survey. I have seen that if I don't think like this I cannot function in this material world.

Please let me know how to simultaneously get rid of the ego and still be able to function.

Your servant,

Swaroop Kishan

Answer: Offer it to Krishna

If you see all that exists as the energy of Krishna and then endeavor to engage everything in Krishna's service, you will be more successful at engaging it than someone who operates on the false premise of himself being the Lord of it.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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