Suffering: Springboard to Unlimited Happiness

In this material world we suffer a lot more than we would like to. In fact, we don't want to suffer at all, not even for a minute. The problem is that because this material world is a place of misery, suffering is unavoidable. Even though suffering is totally undesirable, we are forced by the laws of nature to repeatedly and perpetually undergo it birth after birth. However when one is truly Krishna conscious his perspective is completely different. He sees suffering as his good friend instead of his enemy. He capitalizes on his suffering, using it as a springboard to situate himself in sobriety, a state of not being carried away by the false glitter of material happiness. And from this sober state he then connects himself with the real, unlimitedly blissful happiness of Krishna consciousness which goes on increasing forever.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Inquiry from Christian: Who to You Is the Real God?

Thanks for replying to my mail out of the work and busy schedule that you have. Sure we can have a meaningful discussion. Can you please explain to me on what basis you said "Hindu" is a Muslim-invented term. I have never heard of anything like this before. Also, if you say that God is one and that by becoming a devotee of Krishna you have not stopped your devotion to Jesus Christ, what is it that you worship now, and exactly who according to you is the real God?

Prasanth v

Answer: The Father of Jesus is the Real God

Jesus presents himself as the son God. He presents his father as the real God. This is the God that I accept. Jesus says that the name of his father is holy. Therefore I regularly chant the holy name of God. I worship both the son and the father by dedicating my life fully for their mission of bringing about the respiritualization of the ever-increasingly decadent human society. The idea of God the father is given in the Bible in an introductory way, with the details of that same God being revealed in the Bhagavad-gita.

Regarding the designation Hindu, this term that was coined by the Muslims. The Indus river is known in Sanskrit as the Sindhu river. That river is still existing now in Pakistan. Outside the border of India, the Muslims used to call those who lived east of the Sindhu river as fsHindus. Because they pronounce "s" as "h" they called them Hindus instead of Sindhus. So this is the origin. Hindu is a title given by the Muslims. It is not found anywhere in the Vedic literature.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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