The Hardest Part of Coming to Vrindavana

The hardest part of coming to Vrindavana is leaving Vrindavana. This is the actual place where 5,000 years ago Krishna had His most intimate pastimes with His most confidential devotees. That same Krishna is still personally present here continuing to relish His divine pastimes. Every particle of dust here is non-different from Krishna Himself. So once having come here, how could one ever leave? It seems completely insane.

But yet because Lord Caitanya has ordered us to save the world, we therefore travel outside of Vrindavan to save the suffering souls of this world from their nightmarish entanglement in the cycle of repeated birth and death. In this way by surrendering to Lord Caitanya's order we are living constantly in Vrindavan because we carry Vrindavana within our hearts for sharing this most sublime mood and atmosphere with everyone that we meet.

As I write these words it is 6am on 13 October 2016. In three hours we will depart from this most sacred of all holy places. But we will be back for another super-invigorating visit in April of 2017. This thought gives us great joy.

Bhagavatam Class on the Bank of the Sacred River Yamuna

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Is It Good to Ask Questions that Seem Silly?

I have been attending Bhaktivedanta Manor in Hertfordshire, UK for the past 2 years. I have been reading Srila Prabhupada's books, as well as watching lectures from many spiritual masters, and have come to have many questions. Is it good to ask questions even if they may seem silly or not full of knowledge? Should we always keep learning and asking until we feel we know enough? On this note, as I am still asking questions, can I call myself a devotee ? I am not following al of the four regulations yet, but I feel this will come with time.

Any help would be very much appreciated.
Hare Krishna

Answer: Only Silly Question is the One You Did Not Ask

It is sometimes said that the only silly question is the one that you did not ask. In other words, anyone who is serious about awakening their dormant Krishna consciousness is encouraged to continue asking questions until their intelligence is fully satisfied.

There is no question of ever knowing enough. Even Lord Sri Krishna, who is the perfect of knower of everything, remains incomplete in His knowledge of Himself because His glories are expanding exponentially at every minute. Krishna is able to fully understand His glories, but at every moment as He fully understands His glories they have expanded exponentially again. Thus He has to constantly catch up with His understanding of Himself. In this way He is constantly growing in His Krishna consciousness.

You are eternally the devotee of Krishna. Simply you have forgotten it. Now by inquiring about your actual identity you can revive it. Because I can see that you are a very sincere soul desiring to re-establish your lost relationship with Krishna, I am sure that you can now begin to follow the four regulative principles and chant at least 16 rounds of Hare Krishna japa mala daily. In this way you will qualify yourself very soon to be initiated by the bona fide spiritual master and receive your passage back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari