Prioritizing Krishna Consciousness

As long as we have material bodies we will have so many duties to fulfill in order to maintain them nicely in a healthy state. But if we take bodily maintenance as the only purpose of our existence, we will remain stuck on the animal platform and will not be able to attain liberation from the cycle of birth and death. So if we are actually serious about liberation, we have to always remember that we are not these bodies and fully engage them very nicely in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this way by always prioritizing Krishna consciousness while in the midst of our material duties we will make steady progress on the path of self-realization, and we will become fully qualified someday to enter into that wondrous spiritual sky where life is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge.

Won't you come along?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sri Sri Radha Krishna in the Spiritual Sky

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Is this World the Greatest Obstacle?

I daily read your emails which I receive from you. thanks for these.

I know that what you write is what Lord Krishna has said thousand s of years back. But still we are suffering. We are not on the path of suggested /ordered by Lord.

As I am a Sikh, I read Guru Granth Sahib, which also says the same things. I read holy Bhagavad-gita, Ramayana, and other sacred granths. I try to follow the things that the gurus say. But Mr. Das, it is true that the world in which we are living is the greatest obstacle on the path of super consciousness?

Regards

Dr. G.S.

Answer: No. It's Our False Sense of Proprietorship.

The world we live in is not an obstacle on the path of super consciousness. The actual obstacle is our false sense of proprietorship, our lording-it-over mentality. This is what we must give up.

If someone walks into a bank to rob it, he is a thief. And if someone else walks into that bank and says, "I renounce this bank", he is a madman because the bank does not belong to him in the first place for him to renounce it. So it is not that we have to renounce this world thinking that it is an obstacle. We simply have to see this world as the property of God and utilize it fully in His service. In this way we will become completely free from the actual obstacle, which is our false sense of proprietorship.

Our fallacy is that even though we come into this world with nothing and we also leave it with nothing still we come foolishly in the middle and falsely claim that it belongs to us. This is my land; this my is wealth; this my house; this is my wife; this is my car, etc. This is maya. Nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to God. One who utilizes everything in God's service has achieved the perfection of super consciousness, pure Krishna bhakti.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari