Sun Performs His Journey Mounting the Wheel of Time

Just after taking off from Helsinki on 12 November 2013 on a flight across the Gulf of Finland en route to London we beheld one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. This immediately reminded me of this verse from the Brahma-samhitā:

yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇāṁ
rājā samasta-sura-mūrtir aśeṣa-tejāḥ
yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakro
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

"The sun who is the king of all the planets, full of infinite effulgence, the image of the good soul, is as the eye of this world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, in pursuance of whose order the sun performs his journey mounting the wheel of time."
---Brahma-samhitā Text 5.52

By carefully studying the wisdom and seeing everything through it's eyes we can learn how to see everything in Krishna and Krishna in everyone and thus achieve unbounded happiness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Sunrise on Gulf of Finland--12 November 2013

Sunrise on Gulf of Finland

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Material World Does Not Seem Miserable?

As you have mentioned in many of your mails, and so does Krishna in Bhagavad-gita, that this material world is full of miseries. Why is it that we fail to understand and realize this? In other words, we aren't always sad or distressed. Why is it so?

Please enlighten me with your wisdom
Your servant,

Hitesh Khanna

Answer: We Imagine That Our Misery Is Happiness

You are wondering why the material world is described as a place of misery when we are only sad or distressed some of the time, not all of the time. Actually we are miserable all the time, but we don't realize it. That's because we've been suffering so much misery for so many millions of lifetimes in contradiction to our all-blissful natures that we have compensated by imagining that our suffering is enjoyment. It is like the novel by Richard Fariña entitled, "I've Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me." In other words the only reason we think that there is enjoyment in this material world is that we have forgotten what real enjoyment actually is. This may be very difficult to understand. But it can be practically realized by someone who has awakened their dormant Krishna consciousness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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