A Most Auspicious Arrival in Mauritius

After a one hour flight from Austin to Dallas, an eight hour flight from Dallas to London, and an eleven hour flight from London to Mauritius we finally arrived on this paradisial island in the Indian Ocean. We landed at 5:45am during the most auspicious time of the day just before sunrise. We were greeted by an ecstatic band of about ten devotees, and we immediately headed out across the island to the ISKCON temple in Phoenix. While relishing the clean air and open spaces we also beheld a typical magnificent Mauritius sunrise. The sweetest thing of all was that we arrived at the temple just in time for the greeting of the deities, Sri Sri Radha Golokananda, at 7:00am. Seeing them was the perfection of the eyes because as soon as you see Krishna you are immediately resituated in your eternal constitutional position as a fully blissful, full cognizant servitor of the most amazing Supreme Personality of Godhead, Who is full of unlimited opulences.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

We Beheld a Splendorous Mauritius Sunrise

We Beheld a Splendorous Mauritius Sunrise

Even More Splendorous Darshan of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda--ISKCON Phoenix

Splendorous Darshan of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda at Phoenix

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Okay to Have a Test Tube Baby?

In the case of someone who has a medical issue and cannot acquire a baby through normal sex intercourse, is it allowed according to Vedic teachings to have a test tube baby?

Your servant,

V. Kumaran

Answer: If You Make the Child a Devotee

There is no harm if one has a child by the process of in vitro fertilization, a process by which an egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body, as long as the child is raised in Krishna consciousness. Making him a devotee is the important thing, not whether he was conceived inside the womb or outside of the womb.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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