Get Trained Up or Step Down

Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita that the saintly kings were educated in the science of the Bhagavad-gita. Because these leaders were properly trained in this way there was peace and prosperity throughout the entire human society. In fact their leadership was so powerful and sublime that nature reciprocated with them by providing their kingdom with pleasant climatic conditions, the proper amount of rainfall, absence of disease, etc.

Such ideal leadership is inconceivable in these so-called advanced times. What are we advanced in? We are simply advanced in nescience because at the present time we are plagued with the leadership of selfish, greedy men who hang onto their posts as long as possible for the sake of their own personal sense gratification. Because of the improper leadership of such unenlightened men, the entire planet earth has been plunged into an ever-increasingly chaotic condition. The natural environment is disturbed by blizzards, drought, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding, pestilence, famine, etc. And the society is so disturbed that people sometimes become so frustrated that they go on killing sprees.

In light of the above we are therefore calling upon the current slate of world leaders to either get properly trained up in the science of the Bhagavad-gita or to step down from their positions and allow spiritually enlightened leaders to take their place.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Appreciation: Definition of Causeless Mercy

You are the definition of causeless mercy! I really need your association and shelter.

Your servant

Reply: Mercy of My Guru Maharaja

Thank you for your words of appreciation. I humbly accept them on behalf of my Guru Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada. I am nothing but his humble servant. But if you are able to connect with his causeless mercy through me, this is the proof of his inconceivably great spiritual power, that he can empower a useless dog to act as a spiritual master and deliver his mercy to others.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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