Your Choice: Misery or Bliss

Do you want to be miserable or blissful? The choice is yours. It's simply a matter of adjusting your perspective. There is an underlying beauty to everything manifesting from the Supreme Beautiful Person who is the source of all existence. If you can adjust your vision to see everything from His perspective, you will experience joy and beauty in all times, places, and circumstances. It is not difficult to make such an adjustment of consciousness because that Supreme Person has so kindly revealed His perspective in the Bhagavad-gita. You simply have to study and apply the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita under the expert guidance of a person who is realized in the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita. In this way misery will never touch you. You will be impervious to all the miseries of material existence.

Devotees Relish the Bliss of Krishna's Name in Miami

Devotees Relish the Bliss of Krishna's Name in Miami

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How to Become Detached from this Material World?

Srila Gurudeva, one of my friends told me that because Krishna is beyond this material world unless you are detached from this material world you cannot realize Krishna. So I would just like to ask you: How can I become detached from this material world?

Thank you,

Your servant,

Mayapur Chandra Das

Answer: Cultivate Attachment, Not Detachment

In Krishna consciousness we are not interested in detachment. Our program is attachment. We simply want to become more and more attached to Krishna by engaging this entire world in His service. In this way we are automatically detached from everything, seeing it all as His property. In other words, the more you become attached to Krishna, the more you become simultaneously detached from everything. You become a liberated soul fully qualified to enter the spiritual kingdom.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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