Life on the Road

It is now 2:47 am on Sunday 10 May. We are heading out this morning to resume our around-the-world preaching tour. We will be on the road for the next two months. I'll be lecturing in Bulgaria, Macedonia, London, Mauritius, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Canada. Sometimes I wonder why I am taking so much trouble to do these lecture tours. And then I remember how my spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, circled the globe and again and again for the sake of sharing the mercy of Krishna with his disciples all over the world. This was his compassion to bring encouragement to his disciples to persevere in their practice of Krishna consciousness. He instructed us that we should become gurus and deliver the world. So I although I consider myself to be completely unfit to do so, on his order I am trying to do whatever I can to assist him in spreading this Krishna consciousness movement all over the world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada on a World Preaching Tour

Srila Prabhupada on a World Preaching Tour

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Chanting?

You all really seem to emphasize chanting. What do you think of of meditation and yoga?

a reader and student.

Travis

Answer: The Perfection of Yoga and Meditation

Chanting Hare Krishna is the highest form of meditation because God Himself appears in the form of His holy names. Therefore when we absorb ourselves in these holy names we attain the ultimate perfection of consciousness. This is known as Bhagavan realization.

According to statement of Lord Sri Krishna, the supreme master of all types of yoga systems, the bhakti yoga system is the highest perfection of the yoga system. Bhakti means devotion and yoga means to link with God. So when one links with God through devotion he attains the highest stage of yoga. This bhakti yoga system is what we practice. This is the elevator that quickly takes us to the topmost rung of the yoga ladder. Why take the stairs slowly, slowly when we can quickly become perfect yogis?

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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