You Must Be A Bona Fide Disciple
Just as it is of the utmost importance for you to find a bona fide guru, i.e. a spiritual master who is fully qualified to deliver you back to home, back to Godhead, it is also of the utmost importance that once you find him you must surrender yourself unto by always obeying him faithfully. That is to say you have to be a bona fide disciple. Otherwise what is the use of being a superficial so-called disciple? Pseudo disciples are not very much benefited by their show of devotional service. Anyone who wants the full benefit of escaping the cycle of birth and death has to become a bona fide disciple, otherwise they remain rotting in the cycle of birth and death.
Shubham Ghanghas
"Every living entity is destined to reach the Supreme Lord."
So it is a fact that every soul who has fallen into material existence will eventually go back home, back to Godhead. So one may wonder, "If I am destined to go back to Godhead why I should make any endeavor to do so? I can just let it happen naturally when it comes". But he will remain here perpetually until he makes the conscious decision to awaken his Krishna consciousness. In this connection in Melbourne, Australia in 1975 Srila Prabhupada was asked:
"Why do we have to speed up the process? Why not we just let things take their natural course of events if everyone's going back to Godhead ultimately?"
He replied:
"That is a 'good' suggestion, but you rot for the time being. Suppose you are going somewhere, walking, and somebody gives you opportunity, 'Come in my car,' why don't you take advantage of it? You will reach the destination by walking in six thousand years, but if you get the opportunity, in your country there is good. There is staircase and there is elevator. So if you want to go, that 'I shall go by the staircase and reach the upstair at the end of the day when office will be finished,' then you can do that. But if you are intelligent, you shall take the advantage of the elevator. Within a minute you go there. That is intelligence. 'I am going. I shall reach at the end of the day when every office will be closed. Then I will come down again.' If you see that, that you can do -- not very good intelligence. That is not intelligence. We have to take the speediest process. That is intelligence."
So the conclusion is that we should not take our eventual liberation for granted, that we do not have to struggle to attain it. The reality is that we will remain perpetually in the cycle of birth and death until we make the conscious endeavor to absorb ourselves in the devotional service of Lord Sri Krishna.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Srila Prabhupada Mercifully Initiates a Disciple
Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:
Question: Will Everyone Eventually Go Back to Godhead?
Will every soul who has fallen into material existence eventually go back to Godhead?Shubham Ghanghas
Answer: Yes, But Don't Take It For Granted. You Must Endeavor.
Srila Prabhupada states in his book The Teachings of Lord Caitanya:"Every living entity is destined to reach the Supreme Lord."
So it is a fact that every soul who has fallen into material existence will eventually go back home, back to Godhead. So one may wonder, "If I am destined to go back to Godhead why I should make any endeavor to do so? I can just let it happen naturally when it comes". But he will remain here perpetually until he makes the conscious decision to awaken his Krishna consciousness. In this connection in Melbourne, Australia in 1975 Srila Prabhupada was asked:
"Why do we have to speed up the process? Why not we just let things take their natural course of events if everyone's going back to Godhead ultimately?"
He replied:
"That is a 'good' suggestion, but you rot for the time being. Suppose you are going somewhere, walking, and somebody gives you opportunity, 'Come in my car,' why don't you take advantage of it? You will reach the destination by walking in six thousand years, but if you get the opportunity, in your country there is good. There is staircase and there is elevator. So if you want to go, that 'I shall go by the staircase and reach the upstair at the end of the day when office will be finished,' then you can do that. But if you are intelligent, you shall take the advantage of the elevator. Within a minute you go there. That is intelligence. 'I am going. I shall reach at the end of the day when every office will be closed. Then I will come down again.' If you see that, that you can do -- not very good intelligence. That is not intelligence. We have to take the speediest process. That is intelligence."
So the conclusion is that we should not take our eventual liberation for granted, that we do not have to struggle to attain it. The reality is that we will remain perpetually in the cycle of birth and death until we make the conscious endeavor to absorb ourselves in the devotional service of Lord Sri Krishna.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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