Never-Ending Adventure

A Krishna conscious life is a never-ending adventure, in which one experiences newer and newer sweetness on a regular on-going basis. This can very roughly compared to a kid in a candy shop. When the world population wakes up and realizes how much nectar it is missing by not being Krishna conscious, the entire world will take to this process. May that day come soon. May that day come soon.

Teaching Krishna Bhakti--21 May 2016--Vilnius, Lithuania

Teaching Krishna Bhakti--21 May 2016--Vilnius, Lithuania

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Difference Between Pious and Devotional Activities?

Dear Srila Gurudeva, is there any difference between pious activities and devotional activities?

Your worthless servant

Vandana

Answer: Material Rewards or Returning to the Spiritual World

Pious activities are in the material mode of goodness. When you engage in pious activities you are obliged to take birth again in the material world to enjoy the good karmic results. For example, if you open a charity hospital which gives free medical care to so many poor people, you will be karmically obliged to accept in the future free medical from all the poor people you served. This will keep you in material world for many births to get free medical care from the thousands of people that you served.

Devotional service, on the other hand, does not oblige you to take birth again in this material world. By serving Krishna you become liberated from all karmic results of previous pious and impious activities that you performed in thousands and millions of lifetimes, and you will return to your original home in Lord Sri Krishna’s eternal abode.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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