Most Auspicious Appearance Day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

What day could be more auspicious than today? This is the transcendental appearance day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Sri Krishna Himself, who so mercifully appeared a little over 500 years ago in Bengal, India in the form of His devotee to bestow what no incarnation had ever freely, unconditionally given away before, pure love of Godhead. He inaugurated the Hare Krishna movement by chanting and dancing Hare Krishna all other India inundating it with tidal waves of pure love of Godhead. He is so potent that by His influence even the wild animals in the forest of Jarikhanda took to singing and dancing the Hare Krishna mantra in ecstasy in His presence. Therefore there is great hope that by the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu the people in this unfortunate age can take to the process of Krishna consciousness and become truly happy and fortunate.

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu--1486-1534
The Most Magnanimous Incarnation of God

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu- Most Magnanimous Incarnation of God

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Love of Krishna Brings Finer Understanding?

Please accept my humble and loving obeisances,

May Your mercy and blessings always be on me.

Is it true that when a person develops love for Lord Krishna then he or she automatically develops the intelligence to understand even the finer points in Krishna Consciousness?

Warm regards,
Sunil

Answer: Yes, and Finer Understanding Brings Love of Krishna.

Yes, it is a fact that the more a person loves Krishna, the more he will understand the finer points of Krishna consciousness. "Finer points" means that the deeper you go into this science, the more Krishna will reveal Himself to you. And it is also true that more one knows Krishna by hearing about Him from the revealed scriptures and realized souls, the more he will be attracted to give his love to Krishna.

So whether we approach Krishna through knowledge or love, in either way we will be sucked into His wonderful whirlpool of ever-deepening sweet loving rasa or relationship.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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