Krishna Consciousness is Supremely Wonderful

Krishna consciousness is so nice that we can be happy in any and all situations. This material world is a world of dualities in which we are constantly tossed on the waves of happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor, etc. But when we come to platform of Krishna consciousness we are situated beyond the waves of these dualities in a state of unbroken, ever-increasing happiness. Because Krishna is the supreme wonderful the Krishna consciousness process of connecting with Him is also supremely wonderful. It is factually realized by those who awakened their dormant Krishna consciousness that any consciousness other than Krishna consciousness is horrible.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Ecstatic Hare Krishna Kirtan Party in Mayapur, India--1975

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Krishna in Form of Buddha Taught Nirvana?

My Dear Gurudeva,

Dandavat Pranams!

Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga.

Thanks for showing your mercy upon us for answering many of our irrelevant questions and taking us into right path to progress and advance in Krishna Consciousness.

After reading your today's article posted in your website, I have a question.

As per Prabhupada's writing, Buddha is the incarnation of Supreme Lord Sri Krishna Then why Buddha should preach nirvana philosophy to the fallen conditioned souls?

Your servant,

Gurusankar

Answer: To Save the Animals from Slaughter

Srila Prabhupada explains as follows:

"Lord Buddha, a powerful incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, appeared in the province of Gaya (Bihar) as the son of Anjana, and he preached his own conception of nonviolence and deprecated even the animal sacrifices sanctioned in the Vedas. At the time when Lord Buddha appeared, the people in general were atheistic and preferred animal flesh to anything else. On the plea of Vedic sacrifice, every place was practically turned into a slaughterhouse, and animal-killing was indulged in unrestrictedly. Lord Buddha preached nonviolence, taking pity on the poor animals. He preached that he did not believe in the tenets of the Vedas and stressed the adverse psychological effects incurred by animal-killing. Less intelligent men of the age of Kali, who had no faith in God, followed his principle, and for the time being they were trained in moral discipline and nonviolence, the preliminary steps for proceeding further on the path of God realization. He deluded the atheists because such atheists who followed his principles did not believe in God, but they kept their absolute faith in Lord Buddha, who himself was the incarnation of God. Thus the faithless people were made to believe in God in the form of Lord Buddha. That was the mercy of Lord Buddha: he made the faithless faithful to him."

Lord Buddha taught voidism and nirvana to support His doctrine of non-violence. This was His transcendental mercy for saving the poor animals from being slaughtered.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari