Is Krishna Cruel?

Recently one of our dear subscribers dropped out of our course because she felt that we are not presenting here a God of unconditional love. She could not understand how a God of unconditional love could sanction a person's becoming an animal in his next life. She must have thought that such a God would be cruel. What she did not understand is that those who are more inclined towards animalistic activities are given by the Lord a better facility in their next life to fulfill their material desires. So such animal birth is for them a boon because they are getting the better facility for sense gratification that they desired. So, Krishna is not cruel. Like a loving father He is fully facilitating His beloved children according to their desires to enjoy and at the same time giving them all help in reviving their eternal relationship with Him.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Transcendental Bliss Like an Erupting Volcano?

Please accept my loving and humble obeisances,
May Your Mercy and Blessings always be on me,

Is it true that the transcendental bliss experienced by a devotee of Lord Krishna can be compared to volcanic eruption? If yes, then is the intensity of transcendental bliss constant in an advanced devotee of Lord Krishna?

Regards,

Sunil

Answer: Yes, and It is Ever-Increasing.

Every living being is a pure devotee of Krishna. But the conditioned souls in this material world have completely forgotten about their loving relationship with the Lord. Therefore their natural transcendental bliss of pure devotion is currently in a dormant state within them just like a sleeping volcano. But when they revive their Krishna consciousness, the natural love of God and its concomitant transcendental bliss come again to the surface of their consciousness just like the awakening of a sleeping volcano.

Srila Prabhupada explains in his book "Renunciation Through Wisdom" that the transcendental bliss in an advanced devotee is ever increasing:

"As the devotee realizes this transcendental knowledge, he feels ever-increasing spiritual ecstasy overwhelming his heart. This spiritual joy expands at every moment."

Therefore if we are actually intelligent, we will fully absorb our lives in awakening our dormant Krishna consciousness because there is no greater attainment than this to be had anywhere within all of existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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