Entering the Eternal Present

We keep thinking that our complete happiness and fulfillment is somewhere out there in the future because we are forgetting that liberation or pure Krishna consciousness is a state of being completely beyond the influence of time. In other words there is no amount of manipulation of the material energy even up to the point of becoming Brahmaji, the topmost energy manipulator in this universe, which can ever give us real and lasting satisfaction. Our only real happiness is to awaken our original, pure loving relationship with that supreme all-attractive person, who is the well-wisher of all, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Simply we have to resume our original relationship with Him as His eternal servants. This reality is fully available for us right now. All we have to do is enter into it.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sankarshan Das Adhikari Teaches Pure Bhakti
at ISKCON New Delhi, India--3 October 2010Sankarshan Das Adhikari Teaches Pure Bhakti

Questions and Answers After the ClassSankarshan Das Questions and Answers After the Class

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Can the Mind Focus on Something Besides Krishna?

Dear teacher:

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Some yogis focus their vision and mind on the candle flame. This is called Trataka Asana or candle flame meditation. Is it really possible for a human's mind to focus on something other than Krishna's name, like the candle flame? Or is is that only Krishna's name can prevent the mind from wavering? Is it mind's nature to jump frequently from one thing to another? Can the mind focus on impersonal brahmajyoti? How about the perfect impersonalists, like the four Kumaras? Before they met Krishna, were they focused on impersonal brahmajyoti?

Your humble servant.
Yechen Zhang

Answer: Not Permanently

The fickle, ever-wandering mind can never become permanently fixed on anything other Krishna or Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Any other objects of meditation will ultimately prove to be unsatisfying. This is why those who achieve impersonal liberation eventually fall down from that position back into material existence. In some rare cases, such as in the case of the four Kumaras, the realized impersonalist can progress further to stage of personal realization. But as a rule they fall back into material existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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