Truth Must Be Spoken

If you want to be happy, you must love Krishna. There is no two ways about it. Some people object when we speak so strongly, but what can we do? We are obliged to speak the truth. Just as a doctor has to honestly tell you what is the condition of your health, we are also duty bound to speak the truth, even if people find it to be unpalatable. Of course, we always endeavor to make it as palatable as possible. But sometimes in spite of all our best efforts to present the truth in the most palatable way, people will find it to be unpalatable.

No One Is More Beautiful or Wonderful Than Krishna

No One Is More Beautiful or Wonderful Than Krishna

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: What's Wrong With Material Sense Gratification?

Dear Gurudeva,

I'm having problems/doubts about instructions regarding sense gratification and why this is necessarily wrong and to be avoided. I almost feel it is a slap in the face to the Creator. I hope you can help me with these doubts. Thank you for your patience.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

Answer: Put Ice Cream In Your Mouth, Not In Your Pocket

Unless one has gotten the higher taste of transcendental pleasure the instructions regarding giving up material sense gratification will undoubtedly be very hard to understand and accept. For example, I may give you a million dollars, and you may be very happy with the million dollars. And then when I tell you to give up the million dollars you will become very disappointed. But when I tell that if you give up the million dollars, I will give you one billion dollars, you will be delighted like anything to give up your million dollars. Sense gratification is the million dollars, and Krishna consciousness is the billion dollars. 

How else can understand this?

By accepting the higher pleasure and giving up the lower pleasure, we are embracing the Creator not slapping Him in the face. Why? Because we are meant by the very constitution of our divine natures to relish transcendental bliss, not the cheap thrills of momentary, fleeting sense pleasure. Sense pleasure does not stimulate the soul. It simply titillates the covering of the self, the material body. If I give you a bowl full of delightful homemade organicstrawberry ice cream, will you put it in your shirt pocket, or will you put it in your mouth? Sense gratification is putting the ice cream in your pocket and Krishna consciousness is putting the ice cream in your mouth. The shirt pocket is compared to the covering of the self, namely the material body, and the mouth is compared to the actual self, the eternal spiritual body who never gets sick, gets old, or dies.

Please continue to flood me with your doubts. I can help you kill all of them. 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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