Sharing Srila Prabhupada's Love

These few days here at the ISKCON temple in Pune, India have been simply wonderful. The devotees here have manifested so many wonderful saintly qualities in their dealings with us. Their mood of service is of the highest standard. Even though Mataji and I have both been very sick, the devotees have treated us with so much love and have so much appreciated my humble attempt to share the love that I am receiving from Srila Prabhupada that is easy to transcend our suffering bodies and relish nicely the ever-increasingly sweet taste of Krishna consciousness in their association.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Our Responsibility of Karma

I have a confusion for a very long time, and would request you to please enlighten me on this...

As it is said that all that goes around in the world is His lila and nothing moves without His will. We all are here to play our role as per His wish. In that case how we become responsible for our karma? Is it not a role assigned to us, which may be of a hero or a villain? If everything is controlled by Him, why we need to take consequences of our karma from one birth to next? After all we were doing what He assigned us to do.....good or bad.

With regards

S.R.

Answer: Your Choice: Within Karma or Released from Karma

Krishna manifests His will through two different energies: the material energy and the spiritual energy. He gives us the free choice which energy we would like to be within.

If we choose to try to be an independent enjoyer by entering the material energy, we must accept the karmic reactions for all of our sinful and pious activities. And if we choose to be His eternal servant, we are liberated from all karma and enjoy an eternal life which is full of knowledge and full of bliss with Him in the spiritual world.

Krishna orchestrates the two different energies and at the same time gives us our choice which energy we would like to be within.

So now you should decide which energy you would like to serve and do the needful.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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