Unbelievably Crazy Mess

It's 2:45 pm on 19 September 2008. We are now on a four hour drive from Sofia, Bulgaria to Silven, Bulgaria where I will be giving a lecture in a public hall tonight, and there will be a Ratha Yatra festival tomorrow. It's very enlivening to be traveling all over the world to present the science of bhakti for the benefit of everyone. We've got to try our best to revolutionize this planet. Because it is lacking in Krishna consciousness it has become an unbelievably crazy mess. Krishna consciousness can solve all the problems of the world if the people can learn about it. Therefore we must try our level best to teach everyone this sublime science.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Writing Thought-for-the-Day En Route to SilvenSankarshan Das Writing Thought-for-the-Day En Route to Silven

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Krishna's Descent is Not Its True Being?

I have read from one book of Radha Soami Beyas in India that in the Bhagvad-gita Krishna descends by his divine prakriti and that this descent is not its true being, that it is only apparent. Please clear my doubts regarding that.

Rajan Das

Answer: Krishna Is Not An It

It is very offensive to refer to Krishna as it. How would you like it if people starting referring to you as it? Krishna is a person. He is the original person from Whom all other persons emanate.

Krishna directly states in the Bhagavad-gita that He personally comes to this world to re-establish religious principles. And these commentators who are envious of His supremacy say He does not actually come, that His descent is only apparent, that it is not His true being.

They say that it is not His true being because they consider His true being to be impersonal oneness. Their philosophy is known as Mayavadi philosophy because they say that the form of Krishna is maya, an illusion. They do not accept that Krishna has a form and a personality. But the Vedic wisdom solidly and repeatedly affirms that Krishna has a form and personality.

Do not waste your time reading such bogus books that will do nothing except confuse you. If you want to get the proper information for escaping the cycle of birth and death, you should simply read Bhagavad-gita As It Is by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Then you will get the proper understanding.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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