Ultimate Strawberry Fields Forever

While staying in Arad, Romania from 21 to 23 May 2010 with my disciples, Mineketana Ramadasa and his wife, Anasini devi dasi and their two lovely daughers, Draupadi and Aruni, we got to experience the joy of being out in the fresh air, open spaces, and soothing morning sunshine picking strawberries in their bounteous garden for offering to our deities, Sri Sri Radha and Damodar. This is natural living, to produce one's own food with no anxiety about how much it costs in the grocery store. In the Vedic culture people produced their own food on their own family farms and didn't have to worry about getting a job to work in an unhealthy atmosphere to pay someone else to run an environmentally unsound agribusiness for producing huge quantities of artificially fertilized foods that are deficient in vitamin and mineral values.

The Beatles' 1967 hit song "Strawberry Fields Forever" presented strawberry fields as a wonderful place where you would like to go. And we have found the ultimate "strawberry fields" in the sublime process of offering everything in Krishna's service, even that empty space in your back yard, where you can grow succulent, healthy fruits and vegetables to be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna, the source of everything.

It was pretty ecstatic. The strawberries were in full season so we decided to take full advantage of this propitious opportunity.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Picking Strawberries for Krishna

Wonderful Strawberries!

Truly Amazing Strawberries!!

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Confirmation from a Scientist: The Scientists are Cheating

I again agree with your opinion about today's scientists. I myself am one of the unfortunate scientists. When the scientists write a theory or article, what is the driving force in presenting their theory? It is never or most of the times not in knowing or presenting the truth. The driving force is respect, money, and prestige. Even if they know in their heart that what they are presenting is not a correct theory, they will still present it because they think that they can fool the world and as a result they will get recognition. Scientists are not very much better than politicians. They present what the public will accept. On the contrary, the saints like Srila Vyasadeva are married to truth and are all the time wishing to help the public. These saints always speak the truth and have the pure desire of always pleasing Lord Krishna. Sometimes we are not able understand their words, but they are still true. Even though their words sometime seem very odd and difficult to understand, in due course of time the truth of all of their teachings will be seen.

Narendra B.

Answer: Thank You for Your Honesty

I very much appreciate your honest confession as an insider in the scientific community. I have heard similar other reports from other insiders in the scientific community. The Vedic sages are the most advanced scientists. By the perfection of their consciousness they are able to directly perceive the Supreme Truth. Sometimes in our blindness we foolishly imagine these Vedic sages to be deluded, but it is actually we who are deluded instead. The day will come when the material scientists will recognize and greatly appreciate the perfect scientific knowledge of the Vedic sages. Until then the world will continue suffering from what songwriter Roger McGuinn described in his song 5D (Fifth Dimension):

"And I saw the great blunder my teachers had made,
scientific delirium madness."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari