Suffering is for Fools

Since unlimited bliss is the constitutional position of the living beings it is only those who are ignorant of their actual identity who suffer. Therefore it behooves everyone who is desiring a life of the greatest possible happiness to revive their dormant Krishna consciousness. Of course, if someone prefers suffering over happiness, there is no need to revive their Krishna consciousness. If one chooses to do so, he can remain perpetually in the miserable cycle of repeated birth, death, old age, and disease. Everyone has a free choice. If one would like to revive his eternal unlimitedly blissful nature, he can do so. Or if he prefers perpetual suffering, that option is also fully available for him.

Which option do you choose?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sri Sri Radha Krishna in the Spiritual Sky

Sri Sri Radha Krishna in the Spiritual Sky

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Are the Vedas Bona Fide?

Hare Krishna,

I would like a ask few very simple questions.

Why should we believe the Hindu Vedic scriptures? How are they bona fide? Some people asked me, "How can you believe in what someone wrote thousands of years ago?" Were the Vedas for controlling the society by making the people fearful so that they would stay within their limits?

Prateek

Answer: Yes Because They Come from Krishna.

The Vedic scriptures are not Hindu. Hindu is a word coined by the Muslims. It does not appear in the Vedic scriptures.

The Vedas are bona fide because they are coming from God Himself as confirmed by Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita:

vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham

"By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedānta, and I am the knower of the Vedas."
-Bg 15.15

The fact that the Vedas are millions of years old and that they are still just as powerful and effective today as they were in ancient times proves their credibility.

The ancient Vedic civilization was controlled and directed by the Vedic scriptures as explained by the Vedic sages and implemented by the Vedic kings. It was not at all a fearful society. In fact it was quite to the contrary. It was a society completely free from fear, not like today's society where you cannot trust anybody. We can't even get on airplane without being searched for weapons.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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