Coming to the Transcendental Platform

How do we come off of the material plane and become solidly situated on the transcendental plane? This is essential if we want to become actually happy because the material plane, in spite of all its phantasmagorical propaganda, has nothing of any lasting value to offer us. In the ultimate analysis, although bottled in so many varieties of seemingly attractive ways the material nature boils down to nothing more than the same old wine of birth, death, old age, and diseases. The way to get off the material plane is simply to take shelter of Krishna. He will save us.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Attain Equanimity?

I have a question. We know that Hare Krishna devotees chant a minimum of 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra every day. If we get really busy at work , how do we still do the chant for the prescribed rounds? Is it okay on those days to do less than 16 rounds and add the missed rounds to our backlog so we can make them up on free days?

Also one more thing: Our mind fluctuates depending on circumstances. We are in a good mood one day and irritated other day. On bad days, how do we do our sadhana, as our mind is not steady and we might not do chanting/praying with that much fervor as "good mood" days?

How do we keep equanimity in all these circumstances-good or bad? Krishna has instructed us in the Bhagavad-gita about this, but it is very difficult to follow. Do enlighten me as I regularly pass through these stages.

Hare Krishna

Ambrish

Answer: Practice Krishna Consciousness as a Matter of Duty

Under emergency conditions one can make up missed rounds on the following day. The best thing is to rise early and complete all rounds before leaving the house.

Do you stay home from your job when you are in bad mood? No, you go to work every day out of duty. In the same way, you must always be steady in your sadhana, your devotional practice. By this steady practice of Krishna consciousness, you will gradually reach a stage in which you are never in a bad mood ever again. Just as you must practice equanimity to keep your job, you must also practice equanimity to advance steadily on the pathway back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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