Serving Pure Devotees

If we want to achieve the spiritual world at the time of death, we must absorb ourselves fully in thoughts of the Lord at the time of passing out of our bodies. In order for us to be blessed with such consciousness at this ultimately important junction we must cultivate within ourselves an overriding taste to always be absorbed in hearing and chanting His glories.

If we are lacking such taste, is there a way that we can easily attain it? According to the authoritative Srimad Bhagavatam, the answer is a resounding "yes." All we have to do to acquire such taste is to serve the pure devotees, those devotees who are completely free from all vice. Such service will enable to quickly enter the wonderful world of ecstatic 24 hours a day absorption in Krishna consciousness and guarantee our entering into the spiritual world at the time of death.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Did You Choose the Vedic Version of Reality?

Namaste. May I ask what was it that made you decide that the Vedic version of reality was the one you would live by and preach? How did this come about? I am making a study of the various religions and spiritualities. I find a great amount of agreement throughout the various paths. What a wonderful world Lord Krishna has given us to try and understand! Thank you for all you do to help others come to God.

Love always...

Tommi

Answer: There is No Question of Choosing a Version of Reality

There is no question of choosing a version of reality.

Do we decide which version of the sunrise we want to see? No. The sunrise is the sunrise. There is no question of deciding which version of the sunrise we want to see. If we want to see the sunrise, we simply gaze at the eastern horizon at dawn. That's all. It's as simple as that.

Similarly there is no question of deciding which version of reality we want to live by, because there is no such thing as different versions of reality. Reality is reality. That's all. There cannot two different versions of reality. If there is some discussion about different versions of reality, we can understand that such discussion is utter foolishness. "Different versions of reality" means "unreality."

So I did not choose any version of reality. Simply I desired to be enlightened, and I intensely begged the Lord to enlighten me. Out of His causeless compassion upon me, He kindly enlightened me with the knowledge by which all nescience is destroyed, just as the sun lights up everything in the daytime. Along with my unlimited good fortune comes the automatic responsibility to share this knowledge with a world which is almost completely bereft of spiritual enlightenment. Therefore I have fully dedicated my life for educating the entire human society in the science of reality.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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