Back to Helsinki

Our short overnight visit to Helsinki was indeed wonderful. Whenever I am at our ISKCON temple in Helsinki, Finland I feel that I am at home. It is being expertly and wonderfully managed by Sriman Tattvavada Das Brahmacari, a very dedicated preacher of Srila Prabhupada's movement. There is substantial crew of about 20 full time ashram members. These highly dedicated men and women work together extremely well in an ongoing program of serving the temple deities, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai and preaching Krishna conscious in Helsinki and throughout Finland. The ashram members also regularly go for training and inspiration to the most holy places in the entire universe, Sri Mayapur Dham and Sri Vrindavan Dham, which are apparently (though not factually) located in India. It is always a most delightful experience for me to association with a community of devotees who are strictly following the instructions of ISKCON Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Ecstatic Devotees Sharing the Bliss of Krishna Consciousness in Downtown Helsinki, Finland

Ecstatic Devotees Sharing the Bliss of Krishna Consciousness

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Krishna the Doer of Our Misdeeds?

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet.

You mention that not even a blade of grass moves without Krishna's will. Does this also mean that whatever bad we do or behave is because Krishna is doing it and not ourselves? Can we just blame Him and continue doing it? Please, Guru Maharaja, explain it to me as I find it very difficult to understand.

Sdooraree

Answer: We are the Doers of Our Misdeeds

What happens to you is under the sanction of Krishna. But what you do, whether you choose to obey the orders of Krishna or disobey those orders, is under your control. If you disobey His orders, you will suffer. And if you choose to obey His orders, you will reap the unlimited benefit of realizing and being fully reinstated in your eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss identity as His servant in that most wondrous spiritual sky.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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