Real Happiness is Ever-Expanding

Real happiness is ever-expanding. Therefore if the happiness you are experiencing is not ever-expanding, it is only pseudo happiness. It is not real happiness. Real happiness begins from the liberated platform of realizing that you are not your body and engaging your senses in the service of the master of the senses, Lord Sri Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Bliss Just Keeps On Expanding

ISKCON Center--Kaunas, Lithuania--25 October 2013
Sankarshan Das lecture on The Bliss Just Keeps On Expanding

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can You Have Disciples? Only Jesus is Guru.

Hare Krishna.
You mentioned that you have disciples. A lot of people seem to think that a person like Jesus Christ, is the only person on this planet whom is worthy of having spiritual disciples. Every other self proclaimed Godman is simply material and without any real observable power. Other Godmen have only knowledge handed done word for word and repetitive mantras that seem material in comparison to Jesus and his immortality.

Thank you for reading this .

Sincerely
Prema

Answer: We Are Simply Obeying the Order of our Spiritual Master

Thank you for expressing your concern about someone becoming a self-proclaimed guru. Such self-proclaimed gurus who do not teach according to the scriptures are a great source of disturbance in the modern day society. The original guru is the Supreme Lord, Sri Krishna, Himself. He reappeared 500 years ago as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and ordered all of His followers to become gurus by teaching the science of Krishna to everyone. It is not that one can become a self-proclaimed guru. One can only become a guru and accept disciples when he is ordered by his guru to do so. Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples to become gurus and accept disciples. So kindly understand that we are not acting independently as self-proclaimed so-called Godmen. We are simply acting as humble servants of our beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The Hare Krishna mantra, that has been handed down from master to disciple over many thousands of years, is not material. Since Krishna or God is absolute, His name and He Himself are the one the same. When the spiritual master initiates his disciple into the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra, he is directly connecting his disciple with God Himself. Such bona fide spiritual masters are also immortal just as Jesus Christ is immortal. They live eternally for spreading the teachings of Krishna everywhere.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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