Back to Kuala Lumpur

After over seventeen hours of travel time we have arrived now in Kuala Lumpur. We were in chilly South Africa, and now we are in hot and humid Malaysia. Next week we will back in the cold again in Australia. Thus we have a golden opportunity to apply the teachings of Lord Krishna, who has so mercifully stated:

mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya
śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ
āgamāpāyino 'nityās
tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata

"O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."
--Bhagavad-gita 2.14

Whatever we have to tolerate while traveling and preaching is well worth it because there is nothing more enlivening than serving the order of my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, to spread the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Deities Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sri Sri Gaura Nitai Deities Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Are We In Danger Always?

My respected Gurudeva,

I just want your mercy for answering a humble question:

You have explained that we are eternally emanating from the Supreme Krishna. Then do we merge with Krishna finally and become one with the source, or do we continue to exist independently in Goloka dhama as His eternal servants? If we do not merge, is it not then that there exist always a real danger of ourselves again falling by some play of our independent will?

Your humble servant,

Anupam Saxena

Answer: After Returning to Godhead We Are Safe

After achieving perfection we do not merge into Krishna. If that were to happen, there would be no scope for giving Krishna the pleasure of having a loving relationship with us. Therefore we keep our individuality and serve Krishna in a state of perfect harmony.

Since we maintain our individuality in that liberated state there is always the potential of our misusing it. But as it stated, "Once burned, twice shy", once we have experienced the difference between the material and spiritual worlds we will not make the same mistake of leaving the spiritual world again. A foolish child may stick his hand in the fire once. But will he be foolish enough to do it again? No, he will not.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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