How to Save the World

The entire human society is sound asleep in the clutches of maya. How to save them? How was Rome built? One brick at a time. So if we want to save the world we must do it one person at a time beginning with ourselves. After all, if I don't save myself how I can expect to save others? It is not possible. So our first priority is to save ourselves and then to try to give Krishna consciousness to each person that we meet. In this way gradually the entire world can be saved.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: No Taste from Bhakti. What to Do?

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I read your emails daily and they are very inspiring. You are doing really wonderful service.
My question is this: When I was a new devotee, Lord Krishna gave me so much taste and thus I was inspired from within to surrender more and more and thus I got initiated. But recently, I don't much taste at all. I do all my service with an attitude of duty only. But that is not the worst part. The worst part is that I feel no taste in chanting. Please tell me what I can do. 

Thank you so much. 

Your servant, 
K.B.

Answer: Continue Faithfully.

Unlimited Taste Will Come. You are being tested now to see if you are really doing devotional service out of duty or if you are still holding on to the desire to be the enjoyer. Taste or no taste, you must faithfully continue serving and chanting. If you will persevere through this period of spiritual drought, you will gradually enter into a wondrous spiritual paradise of unlimited eternal bliss and knowledge and become a spotlessly pure devotee of the Lord. Chanting and serving now, even when there is no taste, will bring you the greatest spiritual rewards. So whatever you do, don't give up. Try even harder now. This it what you must do.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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