How to Get Great Faith

Faith is the foundation of bhakti. Without faith one cannot make progress. So how does one get faith? We get faith in this process by associating with those who are advanced in it. In this way we are able to witness and experience first hand the wonderful saintly qualities and blissful consciousness that they have developed by becoming advanced in Krishna consciousness. This enthuses us and gives us great faith because we realize that if we do what they have done we will achieve the same amazing results.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Is the Material World Merely Symbolic?

Srila Gurudeva

The explanations of modern science regarding solar eclipse etc do not match what is stated in the holy text, the Srimad Bhagavatam. So is our world a duplicate or maya of the original spiritual world in which things are happening here symbolically only?

Kindly clear my doubt.

Your humble servant,
Sudheer

Answer: It is Real, But Temporary.

This material world is real. It is not imaginary. But we are under the illusion that it will go on forever, when in fact in due course of time it will be destroyed. And we are also under the illusion that we can find lasting happiness here. Whatever happiness we can find here is only temporary. Therefore we can never be fully satisfied here.

Although modern science has come up with a way of explaining the solar eclipses which is different from the traditional Vedic way of explaining them, Vedic science has been accurately predicting solar and lunar eclipses for thousands of years. Therefore the modern way does not negate the traditional way. It is merely observing the same thing from a different angle of vision.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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