Whirlwind Preaching Tour in New Delhi, India

Here in New Delhi I am engaged in a whirlwind preaching tour, going here and there to various temples and preaching centers throughout the local vicinity. We are often caught up in immense tortuous traffic jams, which force us to take a very long time to travel a short distance. The day we arrived it took us longer to get to the temple from the airport than it did to fly to Delhi all the way from south India. The material atmosphere is very dense here in this city of ten million with the world's worst air pollution. Everywhere we see people hopelessly, blinding trying to squeeze some happiness out of a life of material sense gratification, even though there is no real happiness to be found here. It is quite insane indeed and makes you very sad. But it is wonderful to see how more and more people here are getting into Krishna consciousness. It encourages you that there will as matter of fact come a day when the entire world will become Krishna conscious. We just have to keep preaching up a storm and working towards that glorious day. The miracles will be happening.

Bhagavad-gita Lecture--New Delhi, India--23 October 2015

Sankarshan Das Adhikari - Bhagavad-gita Lecture--New Delhi, India

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why is Krishna Consciousness So Important?

On our way back from the temple, our son asked me why is Krishna Consciousness so important? I had to think for a minute what to tell him at his level because I didn't want to give him a mundane answer. I told him that we are trying to attain Krishna prema (pure love of God) by purifying our soul so that we don't suffer the pangs of millions of life cycles! He did not reply, I don't think I made sense to him. How would you explain this to a child?

Your insignificant servant,
P.B.

Answer: It Makes You Happy in All Circumstances

Tell him that we are practicing Krishna consciousness so that we can always be happy in all situations.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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