Become Beautiful by Serving the Beautiful
Just as the Supreme Soul Lord Sri Krishna is splendorously beautiful, the individual spirit-soul being part and parcel of Him also possesses the qualify of amazing beauty. However, if the spirit-soul falls into material existence, his naturally beautiful divine effulgence becomes covered by the three modes of material nature. But when that spirit-soul chooses to revive his primordial Krishna conscious nature, he will be reinstated in his original beatific nature qualitatively one with Krishna Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all beauty. This transition requires the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master, the saintly devotees of the Lord, and the authorized Vedic scriptures such as the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad Bhagavatam.
As I know and as the world accepts that service to man is service to God I am getting doubt and thoughts will come in my mind frequently that why we are doing the abhishekam (bathing of the temple deities) with the milk, rice, honey, yogurt, water, etc.? If the same items can be given to the poor who are waiting for food, this would be very good, according to my understanding. But in this world it is not happening, even in the temples. No temple priests will do that? Why?
Thanks & regards,
Mallesh
If we want to actually benefit the starving people of this world, we should distribute to them massive quantities of healthy, tasty, Krishna prasadam so that their material hunger will be relieved while they simultaneously experience the reawakening of love of God within their hearts. This is real welfare work for the poor people on this planet. Kindly understand that poverty means to not be absorbed in pure love of God. Therefore the entire world civilization is currently in a state of poverty, and oftentimes the richest people are the poorest of all because their wealth makes them blind to the existence of God.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Answers According to the Vedic Version
Question: Why Worship God When We Should Be Serving Man?
Respected Sir,As I know and as the world accepts that service to man is service to God I am getting doubt and thoughts will come in my mind frequently that why we are doing the abhishekam (bathing of the temple deities) with the milk, rice, honey, yogurt, water, etc.? If the same items can be given to the poor who are waiting for food, this would be very good, according to my understanding. But in this world it is not happening, even in the temples. No temple priests will do that? Why?
Thanks & regards,
Mallesh
Answer: We Cannot Serve Man Unless We Serve God.
Just as we water a tree by watering its roots, the way to serve man is to serve God because He is the root of the entire creation. If we simply try to serve man without serving God, it is like trying to water a tree by watering only its leaves. It will not be successful. The tree will die. This why in spite of so many welfare programs all over the world to serve man, nobody is happy. We are neglecting service to God. Therefore in spite of all welfare people are miserable.If we want to actually benefit the starving people of this world, we should distribute to them massive quantities of healthy, tasty, Krishna prasadam so that their material hunger will be relieved while they simultaneously experience the reawakening of love of God within their hearts. This is real welfare work for the poor people on this planet. Kindly understand that poverty means to not be absorbed in pure love of God. Therefore the entire world civilization is currently in a state of poverty, and oftentimes the richest people are the poorest of all because their wealth makes them blind to the existence of God.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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