Connecting with the ISKCON-Net

It's really nice to be back with the wonderful ISKCON devotees here in Heidelberg, Germany. We are staying in a small preaching center serenely situated inside Heidelberg town on the side of a forested mountain. The devotees are so warm and friendly. We don't feel like strangers here because the devotees welcome us just like family members who have been away for a long time. Srila Prabhupada has created such a warm, loving international network of sincere devotees all the world. He has named that network as ISKCON, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This ISKCON-Net is far more exciting and beneficial than the Internet. Of course, the Internet is also nice. Through it you are getting connected right now with the highest level ISKCON-Net.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Each Person Seek His Own Truth?

My trouble is that I am not able to answer the queries of my dearest friend. He believes that we have to pay for our karma in this lifespan only and there is no proof of rebirth. He says doing our karma properly is the foremost thing and devotional or spiritual activities are pursued by those who want to escape from doing hard work or by those who do not find any engaging or fruitful activity to pursue. He says, "What good are we doing by wasting our time in chanting and other devotional activities? Everyone should be engaged in doing his karma responsibly to contribute to make this world better place. Every person has to seek his truth by himself and there is no benefit in blindly following the theories of a sect like ISKCON."

Kindly enlighten me on this so that I can revive my shaken faith in Krishna consciousness.

Thanks and regards

Hare Krishna

Saurabh

Answer: That is Not Absolute Truth

Your friend is wrong. Those who are spiritually awakened work harder than anyone else. They are engaged 24/7 for the deliverance of the suffering humanity from the clutches of illusion.

Regarding rebirth your friend should try to understand that we are being reborn at every minute, because at every minute within the body the old blood corpuscles are dying and new ones are taking their place.

A foolish child may think that going to school is a waste of time. He thinks that it would be nicer to run and play all day. But his parents can see his future need and therefore send him to school. Similarly those who have the vision to see the future need of the living beings instruct that they must engage in devotional activities.

We can see at the present moment that the hard work of those who are spiritually blind is transforming this planet into more and more of a hell. I am not very impressed by their hard work. Every day they are making our air and water and the atmosphere in which we live more and more dirty.

The absolute truth is one. If each individual has a different truth, this is relative truth. It is not absolute truth.

ISKCON is not a sect. ISKCON is composed of persons who are eager to transcend the relative sectarian "truths" of this world of conflict and realize the absolute truth that will bring lasting peace and happiness for every man, woman, and child on this planet.

In ISKCON we condemn blind following. It is not allowed. We train our members how to intelligently understand and then practically realize what is spirit, what is matter, and Who is the controller of both.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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