It's Time for a Global Bhakti Revolution

It's time to really get serious now about revolutionizing this planet with a tidal wave of bhakti, devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Kali yuga is getting fiercer and uglier every day, so it is time to amp up our counter attack by first of all improving the quality of our chanting and secondly by becoming much more aggressive to enlighten the illusioned souls in the science of the Supreme Reality. Burying our heads in the sands of sense gratification will not help us or help anyone. Only a dedicated, concerted effort to counteract darkness with light will be effective in uplifting the global consciousness. As above indicated, that upliftment must begin with ourselves by a staunch determination to root all of the impurities out of hearts and become fully absorbed twenty hours daily in pure devotional service.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Who Is Qualified to Be a Spiritual Master?

What is meant by accepting spiritual master? Who is qualified to be a spiritual master?

In the first canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam it is explained that one should catch the truth and hold the lotus feet of Lord Vasudeva and beg from Him for devotional service. In this conditioned state of life, not knowing what is good for me and what is bad for me, I cannot see God. How can I engage myself in devotional and good/pious activities?

What is the difference between karma and karma yoga?

Thanks,

Parag

Answer: Only One Who is Thus Ordered by His Spiritual Master

Accepting a spiritual master means to fully surrender oneself unto him accepting his instructions as one's very life and soul. The only person who is qualified to be a spiritual master is that person who is fully surrendered to his spiritual master and has been ordered by his spiritual master to become a spiritual master.

Even though in our conditioned state of consciousness we cannot see God, if we carefully follow the instructions of the spiritual master, the sages, and the scriptures we will be properly situated on the pathway of spiritual perfection.

Karma means to act for our personal sense gratification and to thus remain entangled birth after birth in the reactions to our pious and impious activities. Karma yoga means in a mood of devotion to offer the results of our work to the Supreme Lord and to thus become delivered from the cycle of birth and death back to our eternal position in the spiritual world in the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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