The Greatest of All Miracles

In Los Angeles on December 18, 1973 my spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, ordered his disciples to become gurus and to deliver the whole world. With on order like this sitting on our heads how can we ever feel that we have fully carried out our duty? In other words, we cannot rest easy until every man, woman, and child on the face of this planet have seriously taken up the pathway of spiritual perfection. How is it possible that we can bring about such a seemingly impossible spiritual revolution on this planet? It can only happen by the inconceivable grace of Lord Sri Krishna. We certainly we do not have the potency for ushering in such an unparalleled transformation of world history. But we can pray and endeavor to be the fully surrendered servants in the hands of Sri Guru and Sri Krishna so that they may use us as their instruments for bringing about this greatest of all miracles.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Challenge: Hare Krishna is Just Another Religion

I am being straightforward here in explaining what I think about all I have gone through with you and other authors. After reading everything you write, reading various Hare Krishna books by Prabhupada I still think Hare Krishna is just another religion.

All religions:
Have a framework that is the same
Talk like other religions
Promise big
Blame the past and sins
Never use any 'common' logic whatsoever
Only use 'their' logic, which is nothing to do with logic at all

Here Hare Krishna becomes just another illogical religion. This is sad. The reason is obvious in our reply.

1. Krishna gives us free will
2. We can use it against Krishna (though it is bad..)

This makes 'us' stronger than Krishna. And, in my view, impossible. Krishna is the ultimate. If you say you can use the free will given by Krishna, against His will, your logic has some 'ozone holes'.

Love to hear from you

James

Answer: You Do Not Understand What is Religion

I appreciate very much that your statement, "Krishna is the ultimate." This means that you have gotten a very good realization.

However, when you say "just another religion" you are automatically buying into the misconceptions that there are many religions. The word "religion" comes from the Latin word "religare", which means to reconnect. The essential truth is that one is either connected with God or not connected with God. Just like if you want your lamp to illuminate your room, it has to be connected to the electricity. Being connected with the electricity is being connected with the electricity. There is no question of a Christian connection, a Muslim connection, a Jewish connection, or a Hindu connection. If you are connected with God or your lamp is connected with the electricity, you get illumination.

Real logic much exist outside of the confines of sectarian dogma. I challenge you to lay aside all of your prejudices and biases and become purely logical.

Just as a master taking his dog for a walk gives the dog some free rein to play around by supplying him with a long leash, similarly Krishna or God has given us a long leash to allow us some facility to express what we consider to be our independence. But as soon as we reach the end of our leash we can immediately see that we are not at all independent. We are under the stringent laws of God. Just as the leashed dog is always under the control of the master who can rein in him at any time, we are always under the control of Krishna or God. Because we are on a long leash sometimes we foolishly think that we are independent. But actually we are never independent. We can be reined it in at any time.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari