Want to Be a Hero?

As I sit here writing "Thought for the Day" in my room on Sunday afternoon 16 March 2008 at the Bhaktivedanta Ashram in Austin, Texas USA, I am looking out on a world that is completely absorbed in ignorance. No one knows where they are coming from, where they are meant to go, nor how they are to get there. Practically all the members of the human population are running around aimlessly like dogs chasing their tails going here, going there with no real purpose in life other than the gratification of the temporary senses. They are simply trying to keep themselves busy so they don't have to think about death. What the world needs now more than ever are heroes who are willing to sacrifice everything for realizing and spreading the Supreme Deathless Truth to a world that now desperately needs it more than ever at any other time in world history. Are you willing to live the heroic life of total dedication to the Supreme Absolute Truth?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Do We Worship Idols?

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances, my sincere thanks for your daily inspirations and for all that you have done for me and many others via the internet. It is wonderful having a guru with whom you can communicate with day or night and from anywhere in the world.

Please explain what is the difference between our deity and idols? Are they not idols too since we worship them?.
Why do we do like this when it is stated in the bible that one should not worship idols? I have read some amounts of this subject in the book Krishna Consciousness and Christianity, but I am not really clear on the subject.

Excited to finally meet you in Atlanta in July 2008.

Thank you
Sami

Answer: Krishna Appears as the Deity

An idol is an unauthorized form which someone concocts according to their imagination. A deity is an authorized form which is fashioned according to the directions given in the revealed scriptures and by the acharyas.

Just as we can save the trouble of going to the post office by depositing our mail in a nearby post box, Krishna--even though situated far, far away in the spiritual world--makes Himself easily available to us by fully manifesting Himself in the form of the Deity.

The biggest idols nowadays are sex and money. The entire world population is running madly in the worship of these false gods. If they want to end this idolatry, they can easily do so by getting the higher taste of Krishna consciousness.

Just as you are looking forward to meeting me, I am also looking forward to meeting you when I in Atlanta the first week of July.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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