Serve Yourself, Not the Covering of Yourself

When one desires the satisfaction of eating ice cream does he stick his shirt sleeve in the ice cream, or does he put the ice cream into his mouth? The answer is obvious. To enjoy ice cream one does not feed the ice cream to the garment which covers him. Rather, he feeds the ice cream to himself.

In a similar way, try to understand that your body is not you. It is simply a covering, a garment that you, the spiritual being within, is temporarily wearing. In other words, gratifying your material senses does not really satisfy you because it is not you. So, if you seek genuine happiness, you should focus your energies on serving your actual self, the eternal spirit-soul temporarily residing in the perishable material body. The service to the spiritual self is to reconnect it with the supreme spiritual self who has unlimited names, forms, pastimes, and qualities, who is known to His most intimate devotees as Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When you do this you will finally for the first time in millions and billions of lifetimes actually experience genuine happiness.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Can I Honor Jesus Christ?

I want to thank you that you have given me so pure and sweet Krishna consciousness! May God bless you and all of us forever! Would you please answer my question?

I am Christian, and I thus feel a really close connection with Jesus Christ. So, is it okay if I honor Christ. He is God for me.

Thank you very much!
Sincerely yours, Vladimir
Bulgaria

Answer: Everyone Should Honor Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ should be honored not only by Christians but by everyone because he is a pure devotee of the Lord. Because He is the pure representative of God he is honored as good as God. This is our Vaisnava philosophy, that the pure representative of God should be honored as good as God.

Of course it is not that He is God the Father. He is the son of God the Father. But because he purely represents God the Father he is honored as good as God the Father.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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