Connecting with the Perfect Channel

Just as the Ford Motor Company does not have to re-invent the wheel every time it produces a new car, the bona fide spiritual master does not have engage in the tedious task of inventing a new teaching. He simply has to faithfully repeat the message exactly as he has received it from his spiritual master and thus be a perfectly transparent channel for his spiritual master's message and mercy. In this way the bona fide spiritual is able to channel his spiritual master and through him all the previous acharyas up to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Himself. To come into contact with and surrender to such a bona fide spiritual master brings one the perfection of his existence in a perfect, loving, fully cognizant, supremely blissful relationship with the Almighty God. There is no attainment greater than this.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Does This Course Relate to Jesus Christ?

Does any of this relate to Jesus Christ? Part of the reason I enrolled was for spiritual guidance and to become closer to Jesus. I'm a little confused, about this.

Patricia

Answer: It Has Everything to Do with Jesus!

Thank you very much for your sincere inquiry. This course has everything to do with Jesus Christ, although it is taught from the perspective of the Bhagavad-gita, the main scripture which is followed in India. Christ went to India between the ages of 12 and 30 and brought back to Israel the science of devotion that he had learned in India. He presented it in terms that were comprehensible to his Jewish audience. But it is same science of devotion whether you study it from the Biblical perspective or the Bhagavad-gita perspective.

It is Jesus who inspired me to teach love of God from the perspective of the Bhagavad-gita. So I sincerely hope that you will stick with our course long enough to give it a good test drive, because I am sure that it will make you a better Christian.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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