Don't Remain in the Misery of Material Sense Gratification

As long as we continue to serve our senses we must remain entangled in the cycle of birth and death perpetually suffering in one material body after another until we finally wake up and realize what fools we have been to accept the covering of the self to be the actual self. Therefore instead of foolishly torturing ourselves for a moment longer we should take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master who can liberate us from this material existence and take us back to our original position as pure spirit-soul servitors of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, in His most amazingly sweet transcendental abode, Goloka Vrindavana, the topmost planet in the unlimited spiritual sky.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Teaching the Amazing Science of Krishna Bhakti

Samosa Preaching Center--Kaunas, Lithuania--23 October 2013
Sankarshan Das Teaching the Amazing Science of Krishna Bhakti

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can I Regain My Lost Faith in Chanting?

I don't feel anything when I chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra. I am simply mechanically repeating the mantra with no feelings. I have lost my faith in the benefit of chanting Hare Krishna. How can I get my faith back?

Please help.

Your student.

Answer: Faith or No Faith Keep Chanting

When we are sick our doctor prescribes a medicine to be taken on a regular daily basis. Although we do not feel any immediate benefit from the medicine we take it any way on his order knowing fully well that in due course of time the medicine will cure us. And that is what indeed does happen. Therefore immediate result or no immediate result, simply go on chanting, go on chanting, go on chanting and that day will come when you will become completely cleansed of all the impurities accumulated within your heart.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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