Without Krishna What Would This Life Be

Without Krishna what then would this life be?
What would this life be?
What kind of reality?
We'd be drowning in an ocean of bitter sorrow
With no hope at all of better brighter tomorrow.
Without Krishna bitter life.
Without Krishna only strife.

Without Krishna how then could we survive?
What meaning to derive?
How could we be alive
When stranded in existential crazy voidness
With no escape from this deadly prison madness?
Without Krishna how would we be?
In only painful misery.

Without Krishna nothing at all would be.
There'd be no you or me
Or any reality.
So we thank Him for giving us our existence
And the means of our very subsistence.
Now with Krishna we'll be free
In ecstatic eternity.
Now with Krishna blissfully
In nectarean eternity.

Sunday Feast Lecture--8 June 2014--Phoenix, Mauritius

Sankarshan Das Adhikari Sunday Feast Lecture, Mauritius

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Difference Between Catholic and Vaisnava Philosophy

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We have a question and answer section in the Krishna.lv web site. Sometimes people ask hard questions for me to answer. Could you please help to answer those questions?

Elizabeth asks these questions:

What is the difference between Vaishnava philosophy and Catholic philosophy? And why exactly are you right? If we live only one time, why should I do all what you do (or what you are preaching: about karma, life after death in God's kingdom, about eternal devotional service)?

Thank you very much!

Jaimini-pati Das

Answer: Essentially the Same

Vaisnava philosophy and Catholic philosophy are essentially the same because Jesus is a Vaisnava, a devotee of the Supreme Lord. I am right because it is confirmed in the Bible.

We don't live only once. This is confirmed in the Bible which describes how John the Baptist is a reincarnation of the prophet Elijah. Reincarnation is also confirmed in John 9:1-2 as follows:

"As he went along he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 

The disciples are asking Jesus if the man was born blind because he was sinful in his previous lifetime or because his parents were sinful. This proves that original Christians accepted the existence of reincarnation.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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