Curbing Down the Demon Within Your Heart

Everyone of us is actually a pure devotee of Krishna. But at the present moment we are covered by demoniac mentality, which has hijacked our original pure nature as devotees of Krishna. Therefore to regain our constitutional position as pure devotees we must conquer over the demoniac nature, which has invaded our hearts. We can do this by chanting the holy names of God as much as possible. So we should begin our day auspiciously every morning by making the chanting of the Lord's holy names our first activity immediately upon rising. This will set our mood for the entire day and help us greatly to curb down the demon within so that the devotee within can nicely manifest instead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Devotees Chanting in Ecstasy in New York City

Devotees Chanting in Ecstasy in New York City

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: What Does "Merging into Impersonal Brahman" Mean?

Please accept my humble obeisances.

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In the book "Nectar of Devotion", it is said that the happiness coming from becoming one with the impersonal Brahman is temporary. My questions are as follows:

(i) What does it mean that a soul becomes one with the impersonal Brahman?

(ii) Does that soul again come back into this material world?

(iii) What kind of happiness the soul gets there and why is that temporary?

Most fallen soul,

Saswata

Answer: An Imaginary State of Non-Existence

Becoming one with the impersonal Brahman is an imaginary state of non-existence in which one thinks that he has merged into the impersonal Brahman even though he still has his individual existence. After some time of imagining himself to be one with impersonal Brahman he falls back down again into material existence.

The only happiness he experiences in impersonal Brahman is a temporary sense of relief from the pains of material existence. He does not taste any real transcendental bliss. Therefore being deprived of spiritual happiness, he comes back down again into material existence to try to experience happiness in the material world. In other words, he becomes a materially conditioned soul once again

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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