Further Help for Our Subscription Drive

Yesterday we requested everyone's help to expand the number of our subscribers by ten times up to 160,000. The continual ongoing expansion of the Krishna conscious movement and of our subscriber base is of utmost importance for the deliverance of fallen souls of this age from the clutches of birth and death. So we hope that all of you will take our request seriously and do as much as possible on a regularly ongoing basis from now on to get more and more subscribers for our e-course.

Today we have another request. We request all of you to write testimonials that we can post on our website and in Thought for the Day explaining how much his course has benefitted your life. You can send your testimonials directly to me at my email address: sda@backtohome.com

You can also send your photograph as an email attachment so that we can present your testimonial in very personal way.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Happy Hare Krishna Devotees

Happy Hare Krishna Devotees

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: How Much Practice to Reach Anartha-Nivritti Stage?

Most often I had been listening to your lectures. In one of your lectures you had mentioned about the bhakti yoga advanced stages of anartha-nivritti (clearing out all the weeds from the hear), nishta (fixity in Krishna consciousness), and ruci (transcendental taste). I really liked the concept of the weeds of lust, greed, anger, madness, illusion and envy being thrown completely out from the core of the heart at the root level. How much practice of Krishna consciousness is required for a neophyte devotee to reach the stage of anartha-nivritti?

Thank you,

Hare Krishna,

Radha Ramana

Answer: An Entire Lifetime of Practice

Typically it will take the neophyte devotee his entire lifetime to get completely free from these anarthas or weeds. By taking complete shelter of Lord Krishna at the time a death he can finally cast away all of the lust, greed, anger, madness, illusion, and envy that has tortured him for millions of lifetimes. In rare cases this stage of complete freedom from all the dirt in the heart can be accomplished even within the devotee's life before he leaves his body.

One who enthusiastically embraces the struggle of conquering his anarthas is as good as liberated even while he continues with his endeavor to purify all of his senses. In other words he experiences ever-increasing transcendental bliss as he proceeds step by step closer and closer to Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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