Redeeming Our Lost Selves and the Lost Pines

Just as we are lost here in this material existence so far from our original home in the spiritual world, in Central Texas there is a pine forest separated by more than 125 miles from the expansive Piney Woods that permeate East Texas. Because this pine forest is so much cut off from the Piney Woods of East Texas it has been designated as the Lost Pines forest. In a higher sense these pine trees are lost because they are souls who were originally devotees of the Lord in the spiritual world. Due to somehow or other developing a mode of independence they have been separated just like we have from their original home in the spiritual sky and have taken birth here in the Lost Pines forest as pine trees. By our coming here and doing a weekend Krishna conscious retreat we are helping both the lost pines and our lost selves to get back to our original home in the spiritual sky. Even if a tree is exposed to Hare Krishna kirtan is spiritual progress back to home, back to Godhead is greatly accelerated.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Lost Pines Forest Retreat
Near Bastrop, Texas USA--8 May 2009Sankarshan Das Lost Pines Forest Retreat

Sankarshan Das Lost Pines Forest Retreat

Sankarshan Das Lost Pines Forest Retreat

Sankarshan Das Lost Pines Forest Retreat

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can the Immobile Cause Mobility?

How do you explain the one Supreme Self with which the Bhagavad-gita began, a Self which is immutable, immobile, eternally free from all change or involution, unborn, unmanifested, the Brahman, but yet that from which everything is extended? If it is immobile how can it be the cause of mobility?

Rajan

Answer: The Supreme Self is Not Immobile

Whoever told you that the Supreme Self is immobile has grossly misguided you. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna is revealed as the Supreme Self. Just see how mobile He is: going all over Vrindavan, going to Mathura, going to Dwarka, going so many places. So Krishna is not immobile. He is the Supreme Mobile. Why are you trying to turn Krishna into a cripple? This is foolishness. And Krishna is not an "it". He is a person. How you would like it if I called you "it", if I were to say "Whoever told it that that Supreme Self is immobile has grossly misguided it"? Would it like to be addressed and referred to as an it? Nobody would like to be called an "it". So kindly stop referring to Krishna as an "it" and give Him the proper respect He deserves as the Supreme Person, the source of all existence. As soon as you do this your path of spiritual enlightenment will begin. You will realize the Highest Truth.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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