You Are What You Read and Listen To.

There are hundreds and thousands of sources for distributing mundane news of the world, and the people of the world are very eagerly receiving it. But such gramya-katha or mundane news is static. It is stationary and lifeless because it does not take you anywhere. It keeps you bound up in the cycle of birth and death. Transcendental news, on the other hand, is dynamic and ecstatic because it carries you like an airplane to the transcendental world where life is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. You are what you read and listen to. If you are absorbed in mundane news, you remain a mundaner, and if you turn your attention to transcendental news, you become a great transcendentalist.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Absorb Yourself in Transcendental News. You Will Naturally Become a Great Transcendentalist

Absorb Yourself in Transcendental News.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Brahma or Krishna Born First?

I have a doubt. Whether Brahma is born first or Sri Krishna? I have heard that all the avatars of Sri Krishna were created by Brahma only. My knowledge is that all the living beings are created by Brahma and one among them is Sri Krishna who is the seventh avatar after the birth of the fish incarnation (Matsya), the tortoise incarnation (Kurma) etc. If Brahma has created all these living entities, how Sri Krishna could have born first?

Prasanth

Answer: Krishna is the Source of Lord Brahma

Krishna is not born. He is the unborn source of all existence. Nor are His avatars created by Brahma. Rather it is Brahma who is born from an expansion of an expansion of an expansion of an expansion of an expansion of an expansion of Krishna. In other words from Krishna comes Balarama; from Balarama comes Sankarsana; from Sankarsana comes Narayana; from Narayana, the second Sankarsana; from the second Sankarsana, Maha-Vishnu; from Maha-Vishnu, Garbhodakasayi Vishnu from whom Lord Brahma takes his birth. Although Krishna appears in different forms corresponding to the 8,400,000 species created by Lord Brahma, He does so by His own free will out of His causeless mercy upon the fallen souls of this world, not by the creative power of Lord Brahma.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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