Smooth Running Bhakti Express

On 27 September 1967 Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter to Devananda das, "Guru and Krishna are two parallel lines on which the spiritual express runs very smoothly." This is a most appropriate example because to advance in Krishna consciousness we must faithfully stick to both tracks: the spiritual master and Krishna. We must serve both of them simultaneously. If either of them is neglected, we become derailed from the pathway of Krishna bhakti. It is only by the mercy of Krishna that we get a bona fide spiritual master. And it is only by the mercy of the bona fide spiritual master that we can advance in Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

A Train Runs Smoothly on Two Tracks

A Train Runs Smoothly on Two Tracks

But When Derailed, It Is Finished

But When Derailed, It Is Finished

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Can Krishna Trace When We Fell?

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,

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

While reading "Easy Journey to Other Planets", this question came in my mind. Would you kindly clarify for me please?

Here's the quote from "Easy Journey to Other Planets":

"There is a spiritual sky, where there are innumerable spiritual planets and innumerable spiritual living entities, but those who are not fit to live in that spiritual world are sent to this material world. Voluntarily we have accepted this material body, but actually we are spirit souls who should not have accepted it. When and how we accepted it cannot be traced. No one can trace the history of when the conditioned soul first accepted the material body."

My question is that: Can even Krishna not trace when we first accepted the material body?

Thank you very much,

Your servant

Yogesh

Answer: There is No Question of When

Krishna, being the perfect knower of everything, knows exactly how we fell into this material existence. But there is no question of when because our fall down occurred in timelessness. In the spiritual world time is conspicuous by its absence. Therefore because we were originally situated in timelessness our original misuse of independence also occurred in timelessness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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