Amazement in South Africa

Last night we arrived here in Johannesburg, South Africa for an overnight stop in transit from Mauritius to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Some South African devotees who are subscribers to our e-course had expressed via email a desire to meet us. So I expected to meet one or two devotees here. Much to my amazement when we came through customs we were greeted by a party of ten devotees who then offered both Mataji and me beautiful, fresh, fragrant flower garlands. They were holding kirtan for our arrival, but the airport police ordered them to stop the kirtan. So we invited them to our hotel room where we had ecstatic kirtan and a Bhagavad-gita class. They had brought us some prasadam for our ongoing flights, but since it was enough for twenty devotees we distributed most of it back to them keeping a little bit for ourselves. They so much opened their hearts to us in such a sweet loving way that we promised them that we would come back to South Africa and spend few a days with them.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Hotel Room Transformed in Vrindavan by Kirtan

Hotel Room Transformed in Vrindavan by Kirtan

With Ecstatic South Africa Devotees

Sankarshan Das With Ecstatic South Africa Devotees

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: All But Bhakti is Bogus?

Are you saying that all paths but bhakti yoga are imitations and bogus?

Indu Pati

Answer: For Perfection Bhakti is Required

There are different systems which contain varying degrees of the truth. Some are completely bogus and misleading containing practically no truth. And some of them contain certain degrees of truth and have some benefit for the gradual elevation of the living beings. But unless through these various systems one reaches the point of loving service to the Supreme Person he will be unsuccessful in his attempt to attain spiritual perfection. For example, if follows the path of jnana yoga, his endeavor will be unsuccessful unless he overcoats his jnana with bhakti. And if he practices astanga yoga his practice of astanga yoga will prove to be unsuccessful unless he overcoats it with bhakti. Since bhakti must ultimately added in order for any system to be successful, the intelligent person does not waste precious time. He chooses to practice bhakti from the very beginning so that he can attain spiritual perfection in the quickest and easiest way possible.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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