A Plea for Global Peace

The time has come for all human beings on planet earth and indeed throughout the entire universe to unite under the banner of Lord Caitanya's movement, the congregational chanting of the holy names of God. May all Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, atheists, and agnostics, etc. now become joined together in one huge loving global spiritual family based on this principle. This is what all the world leaders should now be pushing. Otherwise they should step down and let others who are pushing this agenda to take the leading roles in their respective countries. This is the only hope for today's rapidly disintegrating human society. I pray that everyone will hear this plea and that they will accept it by the thousands, millions, and billions. If they do so, we will very soon have heaven on earth.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Training the Next Generation How to Lead the World
September 15, 2014--Sri Vrindavana DhamaSankarshan Das Training the Next Generation How to Lead the World

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Is It True That There Is Life After Death?

Is it true that there exists a life after death? How can we believe in that?
And the other question is: In the present day i.e., Kali yuga, it is said that the purpose of every life is to surrender to Krishna. If it is so, then why do we have these many stages in life like childhood (where there is complete innocence), then teenage (lots and lots of passion), then young age (engaged in money and settlement), marriage (a separate family life), old age (lots of love as well as pain), and finally death?

Monica K.

Answer: Naturally the Eternal Self Survives Death of the Body

Since the real self, the soul, is eternal and the material body, which is a mere covering of the real self, is temporary, naturally the real self does not die when the body dies. One who revives his dormant Krishna consciousness will practically experience when he leaves his body that he will enter into the spiritual world and in his eternal spiritual body personally join Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His eternal, unlimitedly blissful transcendental pastimes.

For those who want to remain in illusion there are various types of illusion to keep them in ignorance at their different stages of life. But by the mercy of Krishna if one is fortunate enough to come into contact with a bona fide spiritual master, he can utilize any stage of life to liberate himself from the clutches of the material energy and thus become delivered from the vicious, miserable cycle of birth and death.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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