Frustrated as Hell in this Material World

This material world is a miserable place. It is as frustrating as hell to be stuck in this situation where birth, death, old age, and disease are crammed down your throat even though you want to live an eternal, healthy, youthful life. So what to do to get out this misery? You have to revive your original divine consciousness, your innate primordial identity as a servant of the Supreme. By reconnecting with that Original Person who has unlimited names you will transcend all the boundaries of material existence and happily find yourself situated in the realm of Krishna consciousness, unlimited transcendental bliss, forever.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Lord Sri Krishna Relieves You from All FrustrationLord Sri Krishna Relieves You from All Frustration

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Can We Be Considered Supreme?

Let me offer my obeisances unto you.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I'm confused about a verse I came across in Srimad Bhagavatam that seem to equate the living entity with the supreme brahman. The verse is 12.5.11:

ahaṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma
 brahmāhaṁ paramaṁ padam
evaṁ samīkṣya cātmānam
 ātmany ādhāya niṣkale

"You should consider, 'I am nondifferent from the Absolute Truth, the supreme abode, and that Absolute Truth, the supreme destination, is nondifferent from me.'"

Doesn't this say that we should see ourselves to be the supreme abode, param dhama and the supreme destination, paramam padam. If the word samiksya means that we should only consider this, what is the reason for doing that? If Krishna is supreme, which must be accepted, then why should we see ourselves to be supreme? Isn't that what mayavadis/impersonalists do, see themselves as the supreme?

Excuse me for my misunderstandings, faults and limited understanding.

Jimi W.

Answer: Qualitatively But Not Quantitatively

Although quantitatively we are different from the Supreme, qualitatively we are one with Him. The drop of ocean water is qualitatively one with the ocean because it has the exact same chemical composition as the entire ocean. But quantitatively there is a huge gulf of difference between the drop of ocean water and the entire ocean. You can float a battleship in the entire ocean, but you cannot float that battleship in the drop of water in the palm of your hand.

This verse is referring to qualitatively oneness, not quantitative oneness.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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