Why Be a Hare Krishna?

At the Baltic Summer Vaisnava Festival after a super ecstatic kirtan that sent us flying through the stratosphere to the spiritual plane I asked the devotees, "Why be a Hare Krishna?" And then after a brief pause I gave the answer, "Because it is more fun." It is a fact. It is not exaggeration. There is truly nothing more enlivening than Krishna consciousness in all the three worlds. It is indeed a thrill at every moment!

Ecstatic Memories of Summer Vaisnava Festival
20 July 2012

How to Connect with Krishna in Love 24 Hours Daily

Sankarshan Das Teaches How to Connect with Krishna in Love,24/7

Many Devotees Stayed in a Tent Village

Devotees Stayed in a Tent Village, Baltic Summer Vaisnava Festival

The Oxcart Ride Was a Big Hit with the Kids

Oxcart Ride Was a Big Hit with the Kids, Summer Vaisnava Festival

Questions and Answers on the Supreme Science

Sankarshan Das, Questions and Answers on the Supreme Science

Distributing Prasadam after Seminar

Sankarshan Das Distributing Prasadam after Seminar

Meeting with Leaders of ISKCON Riga

Sankarshan Das Meeting with Leaders of ISKCON Riga

Meeting with Disciples

Sankarshan Das Meeting with Disciples

Meeting with B.B. Govinda Swami

Sankarshan Das Meeting with B.B. Govinda Swami

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How to Transcend the Modes of Nature?

Dear Gurudeva,
Namaste.

I would like to ask the following question:

Lord Krishna is beyond three modes of material nature. In order to awaken our original Krishna consciousness one has also to go beyond three modes. How to acquire knowledge, dispassion, and devotion to go beyond three modes of material nature?

Yours in Yoga

Janardan Mali

Answer: Chant Hare Krishna and Taste Prasadam

If you will accept Krishna prasadam, vegetarian foods offered to Lord Krishna with love and devotion, as your only foodstuff, and you will as much as much possible engage your tongue 24 hours a day in chanting Hare Krishna, you will easily transcend the modes of material nature and enter into the transcendental dimension, the spiritual plane, where life is eternal, full of knowledge, and overflowing with unlimited bliss.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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