How to Genuinely Enter into Vrindavana

One cannot enter into Sri Vrindavana Dhama by flying to New Delhi and catching a taxicab to Vrindavana. The only way to genuinely enter into and experience Vrindavana is to free one's mind completely from all forms of material contamination by taking complete shelter of the bona fide spiritual master and Lord Sri Krishna. In this connection Srila Narottama Dasa Thakur has sung as follows:

viṣaya chāriyā kabe śuddha ha 'be mana
kabe hāma herabo śrī-bṛndābana

"When my mind is completely purified, being freed from material anxieties and desires, then I shall be able to factually understand Vrindavana and the conjugal love of Radha and Krishna, and then my spiritual life will be successful."

Coming to the holy abode of Sri Vrindavana Dhama is an opportunity to cleanse one's mind and factually experience Vrindavana. To whatever extent we humbly take shelter of the Lord by absorbing ourselves in His service, to that extent and to that extent only will we be able to relish the unlimitedly sweet nectar of being in Lord Sri Krishna's transcendental Vrindavana abode.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Plea for Help: I Feel Like Ending this Life

Dear Gurudeva,

At every interface with reality in this life for the past 3-4 years, I've lost all hope to live. I've contemplated killing myself very often. Your words just seem like words then. I cannot feel peace. I cannot build complete faith in anything anymore. Neither you nor the Vedic teachings.

Regards,
S.A.

Answer: Stop Putting Faith in Your Mind

It is not possible to end your life because you are an eternal spiritual being. If you kill your body, the karmic reaction is that you will be a ghost in your next life with no gross body, only a subtle body. You will have gross desires, but no gross body with which to satisfy them. Imagine having an itch with no way to scratch it. Therefore the best thing is that you should tolerate whatever difficulties you are going through now seeing them as just rewards for your previous sinful activities. Simultaneously you should chant the Hare Krishna mantra as much as possible to purify your consciousness and free yourself from your previous karma.

Faith cannot never be destroyed. It is simply a matter of where we place it. At the present moment instead of placing your faith in guru and Krishna you are placing your faith in your imperfect mind, which has caused you nothing but suffering since time immemorial. If you would like to continue suffering, you are welcome to keep putting your faith in your mind. Or if you would like to become free from suffering, I suggest that you make an experiment of putting your faith in guru and Krishna and see what is the result. Then you can decide whether you want to go back to putting faith in your mind or whether you want to now put your faith in guru and Krishna instead. You should open-mindedly try both kinds of faith and see which type of faith you prefer. Then you can decide whether you would rather be dragged through hell by your rascal mind or whether you would like to be delivered by the spiritual master back to your original home in the land of unlimited bliss, the spiritual world. So now this your choice. Do what you like.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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