Ecstasy and Challenges

Melbourne has been a most wonderful stop on our lecture tour. Whether speaking at the temple or in home programs I found the audiences to be extremely receptive. They joined in kirtan with great enthusiasm, attentively listened to the lectures, and asked many thought provoking questions.

Krishna blessed us with enough of the dualities of material nature to help us remain sober about our current situation in the cycle of birth and death. The difficulty we experienced was with the electricity. At various intervals this meant no heat in our room in the midst of a cold winter and also no light. One evening I had a meeting with one of my students in my pitch black living quarters when the utility company turned off all the power to the temple to repair the temple fuse box. We got a little bit of illumination from my flashlight. But of course, we got unlimited illumination from Krishna. It was an ecstatic evening.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Teaching Bhakti Science in a Home
Melbourne, Australia--1 July 2010Sankarshan Das Teaching Bhakti Science in a Home

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Wrong to Love a Girl?

Is it wrong for a devotee boy to love a girl?

Vanuvamalai

Answer: Krishna Conscious Marriage

Love between boys and girls is natural because it is originally there between Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. So if a boy loves a girl and a girl loves a boy, they should get married and live together peacefully in Krishna consciousness in accordance with the regulative principles of Krishna conscious married life. In this way by offering their married life in the service of Krishna they will become spiritually perfect and qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead at the end of this lifetime.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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