Lord Jagannath at Hoppers Crossing

On 17 June 2012 I was a guest speaker at a Ratha Yatra festival in Hoppers Crossing, Australia. Although we did not see any kangaroos hopping through the area, we were blessed with the most auspicious opportunity to see Lord Jagannath, who is Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord of the universe. It was a wonderful opportunity to share my recollection of the first time I heard my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, speak. It was at the Ratha Yatra festival held on 27 June, 1971 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Srila Prabhupada told us on that most glorious occasion that if we would simply remember that Krishna is the taste of the water, we would immediately become Krishna conscious. He said that becoming Krishna conscious is not a difficult job; it simply requires practice.

Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture at ISKCON Temple
Melbourne, Australia-17 June 2012

Sankarshan Das Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture,Melbourne, Australia

Lecture at Ratha Yatra Festival
Hoppers Crossing, Australia-17 June 2012

Sankarshan Das Lecture at Ratha Yatra Festival, Australia

Audience at Ratha Yatra Festival

Audience at Ratha Yatra Festival, Hoppers Crossing, Australia

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How to Travel to Other Planets?

I have been attending the ISKCON lectures both in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, where I am living presently. Please I want to know how to travel to other planets. I have read a lot from books. Now I need a practical approach to it.

Thanks for your love.
David

Answer: Worship the Planet's Presiding Deity

All you have to do to travel to other planets and gain residency on them is devote yourself to the presiding deity of that particular planet. Just like here on this planet, if you want to enter a country, you must have a visa from the government of that country. If you try to enter by force, you will not be allowed. So, if you want to go to the moon, worship the moon god. Or if you want to go the sun, worship the sun god. Because the astronauts were not devotees of the moon god, they had no moon visa and were thus not to able to gain admittance to the moon civilization.

But it should be carefully noted in this connection that there is no planet in this material world worth going to because they are all places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. If you want to travel to other planets, which is a healthy, natural desire for a human being, you should worship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and thus qualify yourself for permanent residency on His planet, Goloka Vrindavan, which the topmost planet in the spiritual sky. This will be the perfection of your desire to travel to other planets.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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