Reharmonizing with Father and Mother
Our entire global society is in a perilous state because we have based our economic system on cheap petroleum and ever-increasing sense gratification. With the tremendous current crisis of economic recession, water and air pollution, global warming, and gargantuan masses of garbage accumulating all over the planet both in the ocean and on the land--we are ever more tightly entangled in an unsustainable economic nightmare based on an ever-increasing exploitation of the earth's resources.
In other words instead of living in a loving relationship with Mother Earth, we are living off of her as rapists. Therefore Mother Earth is restricting her supply more and more of resources that were formerly readily available such as water, cultivatable land, and a pleasant climate. Every year more and more land is transformed into desert land. For example, it has been predicted that in Africa, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the continent will be able to feed only 25% of its population by 2025. We are sitting on the brink of an unimaginable global disaster.
But it is not too late. If we want to see peace and prosperity for our children and our children's children we have to get back to a loving relationship with Mother Earth. We need to get back to a more agrarian God conscious, family farm-based economy utilizing the cow and the bull. The governments should be providing an incentive for this. If a family has land, a cow, and a bull all of their economic problems are solved. They never have to worry about the family breadwinners getting laid off. We need to show Mother Earth how we are abandoning our eco-abusive ways and become solidly eco-friendly. This is the way of the Vedic God-centered society. It's time to seriously start revolutionizing this planet right now. Not in ten minutes or tomorrow. From this very instant and henceforward we must be fully committed to reharmonizing ourselves and this entire planet with the Supreme Father and with Mother Earth.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Dear teacher:
Please accept my most humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Today when I listen to the recording of Prabhupada's chanting Hare Krishna mantra, I realize that Srila Prabhupada's devotion to Lord Krishna is unfathomable, that how mechanical my own japa is. I should have chanted with more intense feeling, I should have called Krishna's names with more humility and devotion.
I find that I have so many defects in performing devotional service. Thinking of the difficulties of life and my spiritual practice, I suddenly refreshed the feeling that material life of sense enjoyment is so meaningless, that spiritual life is the real thing. I beg for your mercy and the mercy of Srila Prabhupada that I could negotiate the hardships and obstacles in spiritual life and reach the final destination.
Well, how do you overcome obstacles (many, especially in the mind) in spiritual life?
Your most humble servant
Yechen
Just like when an airplane encounters a storm the pilot will take the airplane to a higher elevation above the storm, you can overcome all obstacles by absorbing your consciousness more intensely in the sound of the mahamantra. In this way your consciousness will be elevated to that plane of consciousness where all obstacles are conspicuous by their absence. What was previously experienced as an obstacle will then be experienced as a stepping stone.
In this connection, when Dhruva Maharaja came to the end of his life the greatest obstacle, i.e. death, came to him. But instead of being bewildered by death he stepped on the head of death and entered a Vaikuntha Airplane, which then took him back to the spiritual world.
So in this way instead of becoming bewildered by obstacles we should step on them using them as stepping stones to the eternal existence beyond birth and death.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
In other words instead of living in a loving relationship with Mother Earth, we are living off of her as rapists. Therefore Mother Earth is restricting her supply more and more of resources that were formerly readily available such as water, cultivatable land, and a pleasant climate. Every year more and more land is transformed into desert land. For example, it has been predicted that in Africa, if current trends of soil degradation continue, the continent will be able to feed only 25% of its population by 2025. We are sitting on the brink of an unimaginable global disaster.
But it is not too late. If we want to see peace and prosperity for our children and our children's children we have to get back to a loving relationship with Mother Earth. We need to get back to a more agrarian God conscious, family farm-based economy utilizing the cow and the bull. The governments should be providing an incentive for this. If a family has land, a cow, and a bull all of their economic problems are solved. They never have to worry about the family breadwinners getting laid off. We need to show Mother Earth how we are abandoning our eco-abusive ways and become solidly eco-friendly. This is the way of the Vedic God-centered society. It's time to seriously start revolutionizing this planet right now. Not in ten minutes or tomorrow. From this very instant and henceforward we must be fully committed to reharmonizing ourselves and this entire planet with the Supreme Father and with Mother Earth.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Answers According to the Vedic Version:
Question: How to Overcome Obstacles?
From ChinaDear teacher:
Please accept my most humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Today when I listen to the recording of Prabhupada's chanting Hare Krishna mantra, I realize that Srila Prabhupada's devotion to Lord Krishna is unfathomable, that how mechanical my own japa is. I should have chanted with more intense feeling, I should have called Krishna's names with more humility and devotion.
I find that I have so many defects in performing devotional service. Thinking of the difficulties of life and my spiritual practice, I suddenly refreshed the feeling that material life of sense enjoyment is so meaningless, that spiritual life is the real thing. I beg for your mercy and the mercy of Srila Prabhupada that I could negotiate the hardships and obstacles in spiritual life and reach the final destination.
Well, how do you overcome obstacles (many, especially in the mind) in spiritual life?
Your most humble servant
Yechen
Answer: Step On Them
Your realizations are very nice. Regarding the conquering of obstacles kindly consider this:Just like when an airplane encounters a storm the pilot will take the airplane to a higher elevation above the storm, you can overcome all obstacles by absorbing your consciousness more intensely in the sound of the mahamantra. In this way your consciousness will be elevated to that plane of consciousness where all obstacles are conspicuous by their absence. What was previously experienced as an obstacle will then be experienced as a stepping stone.
In this connection, when Dhruva Maharaja came to the end of his life the greatest obstacle, i.e. death, came to him. But instead of being bewildered by death he stepped on the head of death and entered a Vaikuntha Airplane, which then took him back to the spiritual world.
So in this way instead of becoming bewildered by obstacles we should step on them using them as stepping stones to the eternal existence beyond birth and death.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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