Connecting with Lord Caitanya in His Holy Dhama

To be here in Sridham Mayapur is truly the most auspicious opportunity that one could get in millions and billions of lifetimes. Lord Caitanya and His intimate associates are still present in this most holy of all holy places blessing with pure love of God all the devotees who come here as well the devotes all over the world who are trying to awaken the world to Krishna consciousness. This is the place from where the inundation of love of God is billowing out like a volcanic eruption to drown everyone throughout the universe in an ocean of love of God. Srila Prabhupada has written regarding Mayapur in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 5.19.24:

"The Krishna consciousness movement has established its center in Mayapur, the birthsite of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, to give men the great opportunity to go there and perform a constant festival of sankirtana-yajna, as recommended herein (yajnesa-makha mahotsavah) and to distribute prasada to millions of hungry people hankering for spiritual emancipation. This is the mission of the Krishna consciousness movement." 

So do yourself a favor. Come to Mayapur as soon as possible and receive the special mercy of Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda.

Srila Prabhupada Instructs Disciples at Mayapur

Srila Prabhupada Instructs Disciples at Mayapur

Super Ecstatic Sankirtana Party at Mayapur

Super Ecstatic Sankirtana Party at Mayapur

Srila Prabhupada's Puspa Samadhi at Mayapur

Srila Prabhupada's Puspa Samadhi at Mayapur

Beautiful Sunset Over the Sacred Ganges River at Mayapur

Beautiful Sunset Over the Sacred Ganges River at Mayapur

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Does Self-Esteem Matter?

Am I to have self-esteem? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Kamalnathan

Answer: Self-Esteem is Required

Self-esteem is confidence in your own worth. It's good. You and everybody else should have it. The difficulty is that in this material world we are taught to have a false sense of self-esteem based on the temporary material body. Since the material body is not the actual self, being only a covering of the self like a garment, to have self-esteem based on thinking oneself to be the material body cannot bring actual satisfaction to the self.

Therefore in Vedic culture, self-esteem or confidence in one's own worth is based on the actual identity of the self as an eternal spiritual being. This is real self-esteem, to understand that I am the eternal servant of God. Such a sense of genuine self-esteem brings eternal peace and happiness to the self, while the false self-esteem based on the material body brings in the end complete psychological devastation.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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