Memories of an Ecstatic Preaching Tour

10 January 2009--This is the last day of our fall 2008 around-the-world preaching tour. Fraught with adventure, sometimes exhilarating sometimes harrowing, as usual it has been a truly enlightening, edifying, and uplifting experience. The more we give Krishna, the more we get Krishna. Therefore there is truly nothing sweeter than being fully absorbed in serving the mission of Lord Caitanya to bring about a complete total respiritualization of the entire human society. Our tour encompassed 5 continents and 17 countries (USA, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, China, India, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, and Peru). We deepened many existing loving relationships with so many wonderful souls and began many new relationships in our humble attempt do whatever we can to bring about a revival of the original Vedic culture which thrived for 3,772,000 years on this planet up until the advent of the Kali Yuga 5,000 years ago.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: No Bliss in Chanting

Hare Krishna, Srila Gurudeva.

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

I am beginning to understand that the root cause of all difficulties, with my being on the platform of the mind, is that I cannot taste the bliss of chanting. I see that I am not focused on hearing the mahamantra when I am chanting and most of the time I do not feel bliss in chanting. What to do ?

Thank you you for your kindness to answer me.

Your servant,
Bhakta Ivo

Answer: Get Bliss by Giving Bliss

There is nothing more important than developing a taste for chanting Lord Sri Krishna's names. If this taste is developed, one will automatically lose his taste for all forms of material sense gratification and will become fully qualified for going back home, back to Godhead. The secret of success in chanting is to not try to get taste from the names. In other words instead of trying to get taste from the names try to give taste to Lord Krishna by sincerely calling out His names with love. Try to chant in such a way that Lord Krishna will greatly relish your chanting. The reason this technique is effective is that we only derive taste from our chanting to the extent that Krishna relishes our chanting. So if we focus on giving taste to Krishna through our chanting instead of trying to get taste from the names, we will happily discover that we are developing an incredibly wonderful taste for Krishna's names.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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