Unfailing in All Circumstances

Being a devotee of Lord Krishna means 24 hours daily. In other words there is no such thing as a part time devotee. If someone is a devotee, he will always remain a devotee in all circumstances. It's not that when he is at the temple his a devotee and that when he goes home or to work that he becomes a non-devotee. Krishna clearly states in the Bhagavad-gita that devotional service means unfailing in all circumstances.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Buddhists Are Atheists?

I am very lucky to have a master who is helping with my questions. If Lord Buddha achieved self realization, He must have been Krishna conscious or God consciousness. But yet the Buddhists don't believe in God. Why is this?

Thank you

KC

Answer: Unknowingly Buddhists Are Theists

It is amazing that even without knowing it the Buddhists are theists, that they are God conscious. This is because Lord Buddha is an incarnation of Krishna. At the time of Lord Buddha's advent the people had become so degraded that they were justifying cow killing with a completely distorted misunderstanding of the Vedic wisdom. Out of kindness upon the poor cows, Lord Buddha appeared and taught an atheistic philosophy, which denied the Vedas but taught that if one causes suffering to others that the same suffering will come back to the person who caused it. In this way Lord Buddha stopped the cow killing by teaching karma and non-violence. This was amazing because God Himself was teaching atheism. Why did He do this? It was for the higher cause of saving the poor cows and making the people pious so that later on pure Krishna bhakti could be re-introduced.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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