Don't Despair

Don't despair if you run up against an obstacle which seems hopelessly insurmountable. Krishna's infinite kindness is always there for His devotee. Therefore all you have to do is humbly take complete shelter of the Lord. Then you will be amazed at how wonderfully the obstacle melts away and you are escorted by the Lord into a new dimension of higher level Krishna consciousness. In other words, if you will simply fix your mind in Krishna consciousness, all apparent stumbling blocks will be experienced as stepping stones taking you to higher and higher planes of enlightened consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Can the Soul Lose Its Individuality?

Please accept this most fallen soul's respectful obeisances unto you, Gurudeva.

Can the soul, if he wishes, become void, not even entering into brahman effulgence, completely null with total loss of individuality?

I know its a foolish thing to think about it. But I just want to know whether God provides us our free choice. I mean if he doesn't offer that option, how can we call it a complete independence?

Please forgive me if you think I am offending God, Gurudeva. It's just that have this doubt that I wanted to clarify.

Oh, twice born please enlighten me.

Deepu

Answer: Only in His Imagination

It is not possible for the soul to merge into nothingness because there is no such thing as nothingness. Nothingness is only a concept, and since even concepts are something, the concept "nothingness" is indeed also something. In other words even nothingness is not true nothingness.

If the soul is too much frustrated with existence and executes the required penances, he is allowed to attain a type of liberation known as sayujya mukti in which he no longer has the sense of individual existence. But because this is only an imagined, unnatural position he eventually falls down sayujya mukti and again becomes entangled in the cycle of birth and death.

Would we accuse a parent a being a tyrant for not allowing his child to kill himself? Of course not. So how we can accuse God of being a tyrant for not allowing us the option of non-existence? Thus it is a ludicrous idea to think that independence requires the freedom to annihilate one's existence. Real independence means the choice to love God or leave Him.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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