It's Time to Get Practical

It's time to get practical. Over the last century there has gradually evolved a world-wide socio-economic system based on a plentiful supply of oil, cheap oil. That era has now come to an end. There is no reason to panic. God is still in control. He will never let His devotees starve. But we must now immediately begin to reorient our global world order back towards an agrarian family farm model as it was a century ago. These mega cities whose residents survive on foods produced by petroleum powered tractors and trucked in from the agricultural fields by petroleum powered trucks can no longer continue to exist on the massive scale that they do now.

All the world governments should now take the initiative to facilitate their citizens who would like to take to an agrarian lifestyle. The basic survival skills of how to protect the cows and bulls and successfully work the land for producing one's eatables should now become available for all to learn in our public educational systems.

When we, the members of the human civilization, become reconnected with the land, the cow, and the bull and we practically realize how dependent we are on the God-given rains, there will be a natural resurgence of God consciousness all over the world. And as the use of petroleum powered automobiles decreases more and more, the earth's atmosphere will naturally become cleaner and cleaner. Global warming will no longer be an issue. Chopping firewood for staying warm in the winter will be the issue.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

When Gasoline Becomes History...

How We Will Survive?

Better We Learn Now How to Utilize the Land, the Bull, and the Cow. This Should Be Taught in the Schools.

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Who is Srila Prabhupada's Successor?

I want to ask a question that I think is very important: It is said that in order to follow the rules of the scriptures by engaging in practical service offered to the Lord, it is necessary to follow a spiritual master. Without following the instructions of a spiritual master coming in one of the bona fide disciplic successions originating with Krishna Himself, we cannot make any spiritual progress. The practices of bhakti-yoga are those given by the greatest spiritual master and representative of Krishna consciousness in our era, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He has thus given the true list of disciplic succession which is as follows:

1.Kṛṣṇa
2.Brahmā
3.Nārada
4.Vyāsa
5.Madhva
6.Padmanābha
7.Nṛhari
8.Mādhava
9. Akṣobhya
10. JayaTīrtha
11. Jñānasindhu
12. Dayānidhi
13. Vidyānidhi
14.Rājendra
15. Jayadharma
16. Puruṣottama
17.BrahmaṇyaTīrtha
18.VyāsaTīrtha
19. Lakṣmīpati
20. MādhavendraPurī
21.ĪśvaraPurī, (Nityānanda,Advaita)
22. Lord Caitanya
23.Rūpa, (Svarūpa,Sanātana)
24. Raghunātha,Jīva
25.Kṛṣṇadāsa
26. Narottama
27. Viśvanātha
28. (Baladeva)Jagannātha
29. Bhaktivinoda
30. Gaurakiśora
31. BhaktisiddhāntaSarasvatī
32. A. C. BhaktivedantaSvāmī Prabhupāda

Here is my question: Who is the successor of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada? There can be only one successor to respect the scriptures.

I thank you for your answer.

André / France

Answer: All of His Strictly Obedient Disciples

Your idea that there can only be one successor is incorrect. In the list you gave me kindly note #'s 21,23,24, and 28. In each of these cases there was more than one current link of the chain of disciplic succession.

Srila Prabhupada said that all of his disciples who are strictly following his instructions would be the next spiritual masters in the line of disciplic succession. So Srila Prabhupada is number 32 in the list beginning with Lord Krishna and those of his disciples who are strictly following his instructions are in position number 33.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari