Your Best Friends Are the Devotees

In this material world we are all seeking friendship. We can utilize this friendship tendency to awaken our dormant Krishna consciousness by making friends with the devotees and by giving our friendship to the non-devotees by helping them to become devotees. Friendships based on Krishna are eternal and ever-increasingly sweet, while friendships based on mutual sense gratification are temporary, disappointing, and unfulfilling.

George Harrison With His Hare Krishna Friends

George Harrison With His Hare Krishna Friends

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Do We Begin Bhakti With 0% Love of God?

On 16 March 2014 you wrote the following: ''No loss in this endeavor means that whatever spiritual advancement you make in this lifetime will be your eternal asset. In other words if you make 1% spiritual advancement in this life, in your next life you will pick up where you left off at 1%. You will not have to go back to 0%.''

Now it is a fact that before falling from spiritual world we were 100% Krishna conscious. So why should we begin our spiritual life from 0%, if spiritual advancement is our eternal asset? Why don't we begin our spiritual life from 100%?

Trying to be your servant,
V. Shah

Answer: Because We Are Covered by Lust

It is a fact that all us here in this material world are pure devotees of Krishna with 100% pure love of God within our hearts. But presently our asset of 100% pure love of God is frozen on account of our being covered over by lust. Now if we will totally surrender to Krishna without any hesitations or reservations, we will immediately come back to the position of activated 100% pure love of God. But because we are still foolishly hanging on to varying degrees of lust we are not yet fully reactivating the pure love of God within our hearts.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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