On a Mission to Save the World

We are on a mission to save the rapidly deteriorating world civilization from an eventual collapse into total anarchy, by educating the entire human civilization in the science of Krishna consciousness. This is the duty given to us by our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, that we must deliver the world. Although it seems impossible to accomplish, this most Herculean task, still we joyfully embrace this goal and endeavor with patience, enthusiasm and determination to try to make it happen. By endeavoring in this way at least our spiritual perfection is guaranteed, and any one who follows us will also achieve spiritual perfection. And who knows? The impossible does sometimes become possible. Global respiritualization could by the inconceivable potency of Krishna indeed happen. The whole world could take to pure, genuine spiritualy. So let's try for it. What a glorious life!

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Question: Why Do You Say that God is Person?

Please accept my respect to you Guruji.

With reference to what you written in a recent Thought for the Day, I understand that the origin of the word "God" is from the Vedas. Trillion years ago the name of Krishna was not mentioned in the Vedas. The Vedas states that God is one, He does not have a picture, statue, nor a mirror, nor a body like us.

I wanted to know why must we pray Krishna in a human form? Should we pray a God who resembles us physically? Should we pray a God who took birth and then died like all human beings? Thank you for giving a reasonable and scientific answer.

Thanks and Regards,
Khushal Sing Beekoo

Answer: Because We Are Persons, God Must Be a Person.

It is not that are imagining that God has a form like ours. It is the just the opposite. Because we are persons, God must therefore also be person. A person who possesses a human form gives birth to a child who also has a human form. Because we are the children of God we have forms that are similar to His form.

At the very beginning of universe 155 trillion years ago Lord Brahma spoke the following words:

iśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Krishna, who has a body of eternity, knowledge and bliss. He has no beginning, for He is the beginning of everything. He is the cause of all causes."

So it is not that Krishna has a body composed of blood and flesh that gets old, rots, and dies like our bodies. No. His ever youthful body never dies. It is made out eternity, and knowledge, and bliss.

You have misunderstood the Vedas. When the Vedas say that God has no form this means that He does NOT have a material form that is subject to birth, death, old age, and disease. It does not mean that He has no form at all.

Krishna does not take birth and death. He appeared in this world without any seminal injection, and He departed from this world on the occasion when a hunter shot Him in the foot with an arrow. It should be noted carefully in this connection that the arrow did not pierce His skin. It simply bounced off of His foot. So Krishna was not killed. He simply decided that it was time for Him to return to His eternal abode in the spiritual sky. He then flew back there without the help of an airplane or a space ship penetrating all the covers of the universe.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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