The Zenith of Spiritual Perfection

There are many systems of elevating the consciousness that will bring the practitioner to varying degrees of spiritual advancement. But if one is desires to achieve the topmost platform, the zenith of spiritual perfection, he should heed the words of Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita. The Lord reveals in Bhagavad-gita 6:47 that of all yogis or transcendentalists the one who serves Him in pure love is on the highest level of spiritual perfection. Krishna acknowledges and reciprocates with all varieties of transcendentalists, but His special mercy is exclusively for those transcendentalists who are fully devoted to Him.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Ecstatic Transcendental Greeting in Sofia, Bulgaria
13 September 2010Ecstatic Transcendental Greeting in Sofia, Bulgaria

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why We Fell from the Spiritual World?

It leaves me to wonder that if Krishna is all attractive, how is it that we fall from the spiritual world? How can we get attracted to a world of suffering, old age, and disease?

Also, Krishna says that once we are with him in his abode we don't come back.


Your humble servant,

Pooja

Answer: Our First Business is to Go Back

If someone shoots an arrow into your chest, what will be your first business? To see where the arrow came from or to pull it out?

You are inquiring why you have fallen into this material world, but your first business should be to inquire how to get back to spiritual world, not how you fell. Just as once you pull the arrow out of your chest you can then investigate to see where it came from, in a similar way once you are back in spiritual world you will easily see how you fell so that you will not make the same mistake again.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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