Sporting in the Waves of Bhakti Bliss

A person can be tested how much they are advanced in Krishna consciousness by how much they are detached from material sense gratification. Just like someone who has eaten will not feel hungry, a person who is advanced in Krishna consciousness will not be attracted by material sense gratification. Even if you offer him some nice sumptuous food, he will not be interested in eating because he is already full. Similarly a person who is full in Krishna consciousness will not feel any appetite for material sense gratification because he is already fully satisfied.

If someone is still attached to material sense enjoyment and at the same time poses himself as a great devotee, he is cheating. "Great devotee" means that one is no longer disturbed by material desires. We may put a dog on a throne and crown him as king. But when someone throws a bone he will jump off the throne and immediately run for the bone. Many a charlatan guru was exposed when they were found to be having illicit sex with one of their disciples.

Lord Caitanya taught us the standard for pure devotional service. He said that He had no desire for wealth, women, followers, or even for liberation from the cycle of birth and death, that the only thing He desired was devotional service birth after birth. This is the standard of pure bhakti. When we are truly advanced we will no longer be allured by anything in this material world because of our constant sporting in the waves of the unlimited ocean of bhakti bliss.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Blissful Devotees in Russia

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Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: If Jesus Allows Meat Eating...

I have been having conversations with my colleagues at work about vegetarianism and certain verses from the Bible that promotes this. However, one of my colleagues says that Jesus gave his disciples fish to eat so that's why they do not condemn meat-eating. If Jesus could do it then why would it be wrong for them to eat meat? I could not reply to this and told them that I would find out about this.

Can you please assist me in answering their query?

Hare Krishna

Amesh

Answer: Jesus Does Not Allow It

Jesus may have under circumstance, when he and his followers were in the desert with no other food available, allowed his followers to eat fish. This does not mean that he has given us license to eat our finned, winged, and four-legged little brothers when there is an ample supply of fruits, vegetables, dairy products, and grains available in the market place.

The Biblical injunction upheld by Jesus is "Thou shalt not kill." Therefore if they want to eat meat, they should let the animals die naturally and then devour their flesh. In this way they will not be guilty of the sin of killing an innocent creature. Such killing of an innocent creature obliges the killer and those who pay the killer by purchasing the meat, to take birth in the species of the animal that was murdered to themselves be murdered and have their flesh devoured by the very same animal that they killed and/or devoured in a previous lifetime.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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