Heart Melting Experience in the Baltics

Our lecture tour in Latvia, Lithuania, and Kaliningrad, Russia was truly a heart melting experience. It was diving into an ocean of unlimited loving exchanges with Vaisnavas, the devotees of the Lord. This is the key how to make rapid spiritual advancement. The more we have loving exchanges with devotees, the more our hearts dance in the sweet ecstasy of love of Godhead. Therefore wherever we are in the world we should find out where are the devotees of Krishna and engage in loving relationships with them as much as possible. This will guarantee our rapid spiritual advancement back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Final Lecture at the Vilnius Airport 13 May 2013--Vilnius, Lithuania

Sankarshan Das Final Lecture at the Vilnius Airport Lithuania

Farewell Kirtan at Airport as We Enter Security 13 May 2013--Vilnius, Lithuania

Farewell Kirtan at Airport Vilnius, Lithuania

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can the Eternal Soul Ever Be Created?

In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Sri Krishna says:

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."

But He also says that He is the seed giving father and the source of everything. This does not make sense, because if the souls are ever-existing they would always be there with Him in the spiritual world. How can Krishna be the source of the souls when they are ever-existing? It's inconceivable how the souls could be ever-existing when they were created by Him because if they were ever-existing there could be no time when they could have been created by Him.

Shreyas

Answer: He's the Eternal Emanation of Krishna

Since Krishna is our source and we are eternally existing, the obvious conclusion is that we are being eternally emanated from Krishna. In fact we are being emanated from Him right now. We do not have an independent existence. We have always been emanating from Him in the past. We are emanating from Him now. And we will always be emanating from Him in the future. In other words, we are eternally dependent upon Him for our existence.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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