Thanks to You

Getting back out on the road was pretty intense. A hacker took over our secondary email server rendering it useless, thus wickedly depriving some of our readers from receiving "Thought the Day". Now with this problem still unresolved I am en route from the USA to Germany. At the present moment I am on a transit stop at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. By Krishna's mercy I was able to land a computer work station to access my email and to write "Thought for the Day" before we board our flight to Frankfurt.

Thanks to all of you, my beloved readers. By your dedicated reading you are blessing me with the most auspicious opportunity to describe every day the glories of the sublime Krishna consciousness science.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

A Brief Hiatus at the Dallas-Fort Worth AirportSankarshan Das Making A Brief Hiatus at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Don't You Fly By Mystic Power?

Why don't devotees like you pray to the Lord to carry you everywhere immediately with mystic power so that you can preach everywhere without riding airplanes. Such a praying is not for your personal enjoyment, rather, it is for the benefit of all. And it will save time and money also.

Yechen Zhang

Answer: Engaging Others in Service

The devotee does not ask Krishna to serve him. He simply prays for the service of Krishna. If Krishna wants to empower his devotee to fly without an airplane, He can easily do this as He does in the case of Sri Narada Muni, the liberated spaceman. The devotee leaves this up to Krishna and does not petition the Lord in such a way.

By my current means of travel--via airplanes, ships, and cars--Krishna is giving so many others the opportunity to engage in devotional service by assisting me in my travels.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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