On the Blissful Road Again

Today we are heading out from Riga for a couple of days of spreading the rays of Lord Caitanya's benediction moon in Kaunas and Vilnius, Lithuania before heading on to Kaliningrad, Russia. No matter how sweet Krishna consciousness gets, it just keeps getting sweeter and sweeter and sweeter. This is the amazing nature of Krishna consciousness. It's an ever-increasing ocean of transcendental bliss, which can easily fill up the entire universe drowning everyone in unlimited happiness. There is no reason for even one person in the entire world to suffer even for another minute. Everyone can taste the highest happiness by embracing the process of Krishna consciousness today.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Flower Petal Tossing Farewell
Siauliai, Lithuania--4 April 2010Flower Petal Tossing Farewell

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: If You Can't Find a Guru...

Do you have to be a member of ISKCON to follow Krishna? If you can't find a guru, can you still chant the 16 rounds, follow the four regulative principles, worship the deities, and have A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada as your guru?

Jack

Answer: Krishna Will Reveal Who is Your Guru.

We invite everyone to accept Srila Prabhupada as their guru because Srila Prabhupada is indeed, jagad-guru, the spiritual master of the entire universe. A fortunate soul who is blessed with surrendering himself to Srila Prabhupada will naturally follow his instructions because surrendering to a guru means to follow his instructions. Without following his instructions there is no factual acceptance of the spiritual master. Everyone is encouraged to accept Srila Prabhupada as their siksha guru, their instructing spiritual master.

So what are the instructions of Srila Prabhupada for those persons who want to accept his teachings as the guiding principles in their life? He instructs that the disciple should chant at least 16 rounds daily of the Hare Krishna mahamantra on japa beads and that the disciple should strictly avoid illicit sex, intoxication, meat eating, and gambling. He instructs that the sincere student should seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him through the process known as initiation. When Srila Prabhupada was physically present he accepted those who came to his movement formally initiating them as his disciples. He told us that after his disappearance that those who come to this movement would be the disciples of his disciples. This means that the people now coming to this movement who are serious to fully surrender themselves unto Srila Prabhupada should accept one of Srila Prabhupada's disciples as their diksha guru, their initiating guru.

So as an act of surrender to Srila Prabhupada you should seek out a disciple of Srila Prabhupada who is willing to accept you as his disciple and surrender unto him through the process known as initiation.

You don't have to worry about finding a guru. Simply become now fully serious about completely surrendering to Krishna and the Lord within your heart will clearly reveal to you who is your guru.

We don't say that you have to become a member of ISKCON to become a pure devotee. But membership in ISKCON gives one the best facility for becoming a pure devotee as soon as possible because it gives you the best association and the best training. So why not take advantage of the great facility that ISKCON offers? Srila Prabhupada started ISKCON for the purpose of helping sincere souls such as yourself to become fully absorbed in pure bhakti. So why not take advantage of his special mercy? In this fallen age we need all the mercy we can get.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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