Perfect Peace and Harmony

The world is hankering for peace and harmony. But the difficulty is that we are hankering for a peace and harmony in each one of us is the center of enjoyment. As soon as I try to be the center of enjoyment I am in conflict with your agenda of being the center of enjoyment. In this way long lasting peace and harmony can never become a reality. We are doomed to a never ending history of conflict and wars. In fact I remember from my student life when we were studying American history. The entire study was organized around the wars: the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, etc. We were taught that history is a series of wars.

So if we want peace at all, a new attitude we must call. There is one supreme enjoyer, that amazing wonderful supreme person who is the source of all existence. Each of us will experience the topmost happiness, indeed an unending, ever-increasing ocean of happiness, when we agree to devote ourselves full to giving happiness to that supreme enjoyer. In this way the entire world will enter into a state of perfect peace and harmony.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Difficulty Praying to a Man

̇I have a hard time praying to and honoring Srila Prabhupada. I find it difficult praying to a man. However, I do pray to God. How do I get better with this? Is it necessary that I pray to Prabhupada?

Your confused student

Answer: Pray According to God's Order

Praying to God means that we should pray to Him to develop pure devotion. Praying to God for the fulfillment of material necessities is an unnecessary waste of time because He will take care of our necessities in any case.

So we should put 100% of our faith in God and try to revive our pure love for Him. Whatever God tells to do, is what we should do. This is what is truly meant by being full God conscious. And because it is confirmed in the scriptures that God is telling us to become devoted to those who are purely devoted to him, if we truly love Him, we will be happy to obey His order. We will take advantage of the association of His pure devotees like Srila Prabhupada and fully surrender ourselves to following their instructions. The pure devotees are the deliverers of the instructions which are coming from Krishna. Therefore we should honor them and obey them. And yes, we should pray to them because they can transmit to us the full blessings of Lord Sri Krishna. Krishna orders in the Srimad Bhagavatam (11.17.29): "One should always worship the spiritual master."

It is something like working in a big company. When we get hired we want to make sure that we are pleasing the owner of the company. But then he puts us under the direction of one of his department heads. It then becomes our duty to please that department head because when he is pleased the owner is pleased. If we say that we only want to report to the owner and no one else, we may find that we are out of a job.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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