Don't Throw Away the Rarest Opportunity

This human form of life is the rarest opportunity because after transmigrating through 8,000,000 species in the lower forms of life one finally gets the opportunity to be a human being. In this human form one is gifted with the rare ability to inquire into what is the nature of the Absolute Truth. If one sincerely does so, he becomes factually situated on the human platform of spiritual awakening and through proper association and guidance gradually realizes his eternal identity in the transcendental kingdom of God. However, if one wastes his human form of life simply imitating the animals in a polished life of material sense gratification, he is fated to go back down to the lower species in his next birth in accordance with whatever type of material sense gratification he has become inclined towards. Therefore one should intelligently not throw away this rarest of all opportunities.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Explaining the Rarest Opportunity
Melbourne, Australia--29 December 2010Sankarshan Das Explaining the Rarest Opportunity

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: If I Continue Chanting Will I See Krishna?

If I continue chanting will I actually see Krishna? Will He actually appear while I'm chanting?

Shivash

Answer: Absolutely

It is absolutely a fact that by sincerely chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra one day you will see Krishna, face to face, eye to eye. So now you must qualify yourself for that day. Putting full faith in this process you must regularly associate with devotees, take shelter of and initiation from the bona fide spiritual master, and under his guidance give up all of your bad attitudes and habits. In this way you will become solidly fixed in Krishna consciousness, deriving from it the sweetest taste. You will become absolutely attached to Krishna experiencing ecstatic emotions in constant remembrance of Him. You will then reach the perfectional stage known as Krishna prema in which you will see Krishna constantly within and without and always be deeply absorbed in direct personal loving exchanges with Him.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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