Life is Short. Go For the Lifeboat.

Life is very short, especially in the Kali yuga. Even though we are supposed to live to be 100, hardly anyone makes it that far these days. You never know when you are going to meet with calamitous death from disease, a stroke or a heart attack, an automobile accident, a terrorist attack, or from any other of a myriad of other possible means of untimely death. Therefore, since life is very short we should try to squeeze as much Krishna bhakti as possible into each and every 24 hour period to maximize our chances of remembering Krishna at the time of death thus enabling ourselves to go back to home, back to Godhead never to take birth again in this miserable world.

Some foolish people criticize us for being pessimistic. If you are on a sinking ship, it is better to know that you are sinking so you can abandon the ship and get into a lifeboat? Or is it better to ignore the fact that you are sinking and go on naively trying to enjoy yourself on the ship? Is the person who chooses the lifeboat a pessimist, or is he an optimist?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Develop Humility?

What is the best definition of humility and how does one develop it? I really desire to be more humble, but sometimes it gets difficult and false ego gets in the way. Please bless me to become more humble.

Thank you,
Hare Krishna

Daniel

Answer: Serve Guru and Vaisnavas

Humility means to consider oneself to be lower than the straw in the street and to offer all respect to others without expecting any respect for oneself. Humility is the most wonderful quality to develop because in that state of mind one is able to chant the holy names of the Lord constantly deriving ever-increasing pleasure from such chanting.

The way to become humble is to always go out of your way to render service to Guru and Vaisnavas.

Please accept my blessings that you may become perfect in humility.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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