Deep Within the Ocean of Bhakti

If we want to relieved from all anxieties and free to love all living beings with a pure heart, we need to dive deep within the ocean of bhakti, the ocean of pure love of Krishna or God. This is where we will all find the real nectar of existence. All programs for achieving happiness in this material world will ultimately prove to be a failure because we have nothing to do with these material coverings known as our material bodies. They are simply garments that we wear from some time and then discard when they become worn out. If we hear submissively from the bona fide spiritual master, by his mercy we will be carried deep, deep, deep within the ocean of bhakti where life is inconceivably sublime.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Hare Krishna Land Oasis in the Mumbai Desert

Hare Krishna Land Oasis in the Mumbai Desert

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Self-Will versus God's Will

I have several friends who talk a lot about "self-will versus God's will". What, in fact, is the will? How can we know what is God's will for us? How can we harmonize the two (apparently) conflicting wills?

Thank you.
Love always...Tommi

Answer: The Same on the Perfectional Stage

Doing what we want to do is our will. Doing what God wants us to do is executing His will. Sometimes people foolishly think that they are God and that therefore by doing what they want to do they are executing God's will. Nothing could be further from the truth. God's will is revealed to us through the medium of the bona fide spiritual master. All we have to do to know and execute the will of God is place ourselves fully under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master.

In material consciousness we foolishly think that we can be happy by doing what we want to do, not necessarily what God wants us to do. But when we become spiritually awakened we realize that we can only become happy by doing what God wants us to do. When we are in material consciousness there is a difference between our will and God's will. But when we become fully spiritually enlightened our will and God's will become one and the same although the personalities still remain two.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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