Living in a World of Eternity, Knowledge, and Bliss

Before coming to Krishna consciousness I was ardently searching for spiritual enlightenment and for a means of giving spiritual enlightenment to the entire human society. In this pursuit I encountered many different teachings and systems of self-realization. I was frustrated by one technique after another because in spite of so much flowery language promising me that I could become God they failed to deliver me to the transcendental platform. I needed a practical system that would tangibly elevate my consciousness completely beyond the miseries of material existence. Finally after five years of struggle I was blessed by Srila Prabhupada and his followers with the transcendental science of Krishna consciousness. Since then I have been living in an entirely different world, a world where life is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss.

Spreading Krishna Consciousness, the Ultimate Self Realization Science, in Riga, Latvia

Sankarshan Das Spreading Krishna Consiousness,in Riga, Latvia

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Are Jesus and Krishna the Same?

Hare Krishna. According to the science of self-realization are Jesus Christ and Krishna the same?

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Answer: Simultaneously the Same and Different

According to the Vedic teachings, which present the highest level understanding of the self-realization science, Jesus Christ and Lord Krishna are simultaneously the same and different. How do we draw this conclusion? According to the Vedic science the bona fide spiritual master, ie. that person who is purely teaching the science of God, is taken to be as good as God Himself because hearing from him has the same potency as hearing from God Himself. Therefore, Jesus Christ, being a bona fide spiritual master, is as good as God because he purely transmits the message of God. This is why when the Christians call him, God the son we have no difficulty accepting this Biblical concept. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna presents Himself as God, the father. So we have no difficulty understanding and accepting the harmonious relationship between the father and the son.

So in conclusion even though the father and the son are two different persons, they are also the same because they are both teaching the pure science of devotion to the Supreme Person, the source of all existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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