Offsetting the Global Carbon Footprint

A couple of people have recently criticized our upcoming around the world lecture tour because of it's expense and its carbon footprint. While billions of dollars are being spent every day on nonsense material sense gratification, which is degrading the human society more and more and bringing it to the brink of the complete collapse, if we try to travel as humble servants of the suffering humanity to help them to become truly happy, we are demonized. What can be done? This is the Kali yuga. People no longer understand what is good and what is bad. In this connection there is a Hindi verse by one devotee in which he states that this Kali-yuga is so abominable that if you speak truth, then people will come with some rod to beat you. But if you cheat them, bluff them they will like it.

There is so much concern now about global warming and about everybody reducing and offsetting their carbon footprint. But the fact is that the Krishna consciousness movement can completely neutralize the carbon footprint of the entire global society and bring perfect peace and prosperity for every man, woman, and child on the face of this planet. Therefore is must be continually propagated all over the world with great vigor by as many traveling preachers as possible.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Origin of the Soul

What is the origin of the soul? Does it fall down from the brahmajyoti or the spiritual world?

Raghav

Answer: Krishna is the Origin of the Soul

Since Krishna declares Himself in the Bhagavad-gita to be the origin of everything, we can therefore understand that Krishna is the origin of the individual souls also. And since Krishna eternally exists in the spiritual world and the souls are emanating from His body, we can also understand that the souls are also originally existing in the spiritual world.

In the Krishna Book, Chapter 87 Srila Prabhupada confirms that the living entities fall into the material world from the spiritual world:

"The innumerable living entities are prone to fall down to the material world from the spiritual world when influenced by the illusory energy, and it is also possible for the living entity to be liberated again when by cultivation of real knowledge he becomes completely freed from the contamination of the material world."

Srila Prabhupada explains that there is no question of falling down from the brahmajyoti because being in the brahmajyoti is a fallen position. Those who situated in the brahmajyoti are already fallen. So there is no question of falling down from a position that is already fallen down.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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