Surrender to Krishna Frees You From All Anxieties

Fully surrendering to Krishna is so wonderful that it immediately frees you from all anxieties. As long as you maintain your own agenda, your own set plan on how you want things to happen, you must necessarily be in anxiety because you will have to always defend your agenda from all opposing agendas. Sometimes you will be successful, and sometimes you will not. But when you fully surrender to the amazing Supreme Lord Krishna by totally embracing His agenda as your own, there is nothing that can ever interrupt the happiness and satisfaction that you derive from your ongoing loving reciprocation with Him.

Srila Prabhupada Teaches Full Surrender in Melbourne, Australia

Srila Prabhupada Teaches Full Surrender in Melbourne, Australia

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: What Is Ritvik Philosophy?

I have started practicing Krishna consciousness from 6 months ago. And recently I have heard about ritvik philosophy. What is it? This is disturbing the entire devotee world.

Shreenivasa

Answer: A Sour Grapes Concoction of the Envious

Ritvik philosophy is not disturbing the entire devotee world. It only creates confusion in the minds of those who are not fully trained up in Krishna consciousness. The ritvik philosophy is a concocted philosophy, which is not in accord with the Vedic teachings and the orders of our movement's Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

According to ritvik philosophy Srila Prabhupada is the final guru in the line of disciplic succession, which has been going on for thousands of years. The Vedic system is that the line of disciplic succession continues. It does not stop. One who is now the disciple becomes the next spiritual master. Srila Prabhupada confirmed this in his instructions to his disciples that in the future after his disappearance they would become spiritual masters and accept their own disciples.

The ritvik philosophy is propagated by envious neophyte devotees who are not qualified to be spiritual masters. Their logic is, "If I cannot be a spiritual master, nobody can be a spiritual master." Their philosophy is sour grapes philosophy. There was once a fox who saw some delicious looking grapes situated on a branch beyond his reach. He starting jumping higher and higher to try to reach the grapes, but he could not do so. Therefore because he could not reach the grapes he concluded that they were sour and went away. In the same way some envious neophyte devotees who are not qualified to become spiritual masters say that no one can become a spiritual master.

Envy is what brought us into this material world in the first place. So if a devotee holds onto his envy, especially envy against other devotees, he will not be qualified to go back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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