Last Day in Vrindavan

Today is our last full day in Vrindavan, the land where Krishna eternally resides engaged His sweetest and most intimate pastimes. It is surely a great blessing to be able to spend some days in this holiest of all holy places. Krishna has indeed been very kind to us to allow us to be there. So now we are taking the blessings of the holy dhama upon our heads. We are preparing to head for preaching in other parts of the world as we carry on with our mission of trying to Krishna this entire universe.

There's Nothing Sweeter Than Krishna's Vrindavan Lila

There's Nothing Sweeter Than Krishna's Vrindavan Lila

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Ecstatic Mangal Arati at Prabhupada's Samadhi

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Why Did We Fall Into Illusion?

Why are the living entities in illusion in the eternal energy, know as maya? Why is maya punishing us? Why did we forget Krishna? From where did we fall down? Krishna assures in the Bhagavad-gita that having attained His abode we will never fall again. So how is it that we could have fallen?

Your servant,
Hemanth

Answer: We Wanted to Be the Supreme

Every living being is originally with Krishna in the spiritual world. When the living being wants to be God, the center of all existence, this is not possible. So to satisfy his desire Krishna, through the agency of His illusory energy known as maya, gives the living being the illusion that he is God, the center of all existence.

Krishna assures that after falling and returning to Him we will never fall again. He does not assure that no one ever falls down in to the material world because out of his love for us He never keeps us against our will in his kingdom. The living entity may fall once. But having learned his lesson he will never fall again. In this connection is it said, "Once burned, twice shy."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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