Don't Cheat Yourself

When we think or do anything outside of the realm of purely serving Krishna with love and devotion we are only cheating ourselves by denying ourselves the highest happiness of being intimately connected with the Supreme All-Attractive One, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. So it's up to us whether we want to cheat ourselves or not. No one can force us to be Krishna conscious. It's a decision that we make completely on our own.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Questions: How to Converse With the Supersoul?

Please explain how to connect to and converse with the Supersoul who is within sitting by my soul?

Your humble servant,

Mallapureddi

Answer: First Sharpen Your Consciousness

Srila Prabhupada has very nicely answered your question as follows:

By serving the guru and inquiring from him, we can come to the point where Krishna will enlighten us from within. Krishna, the supreme guru, first imparted knowledge into the heart of Brahma, the original person in the universe (tene brahma hṛdā ādi-kavaye [SB 1.1.1]). Krishna is situated in everyone's heart as the Supersoul, and as you become purified He speaks to you from within. Actually, He is always speaking to us, but in our impure condition we cannot hear Him. In the Bhagavad-gita (15.15) Krishna confirms that He is the source of our knowledge: sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca. "I am situated within the heart of everyone, and from Me come all remembrance, knowledge, and forgetfulness." So as Paramatma, the Supersoul, Krishna is always prepared to help every one of us, provided we serve Him and take His instruction. He says in the Bhagavad-gita (10.10):

teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ yena mām upayānti te

"To those who are always engaged in serving Me with great love and devotion, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."

If we want to know the Absolute Truth, we have to follow the proper process, and that process is simply to engage oneself in the loving service of the Lord. That will enable us one day to directly perceive the Absolute Truth. With our present blunt material senses we cannot perceive the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For example, with a blunt knife you cannot cut anything. You must sharpen it first; then it cuts very nicely. Similarly, to understand the Absolute Truth you must sharpen and purify your senses by engaging them in the service of the Lord. Now you cannot see God, or Krishna. But if you purify your eyes and your other senses, you will be able to see God, to hear God, to talk with God—everything. That is possible by the process of bhakti.


From this wonderful answer of Srila Prabhupada we can understand that in order to converse with the Supersoul we must first sharpen our blunt consciousness through the purificatory process of devotional service.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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