Self Realization or Bodily Maintenance?

No matter how nicely you maintain your body it will still get sick, get old, and die. In other words, your material body is ultimately a losing proposition. On the other hand, the spirit-soul who resides within your body is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge. That spirit-soul is your actual self, and your material body is simply a garment that you are wearing temporarily. Self-realization is the process of reviving your original spiritual consciousness, which is transcendental to birth, death, old age, and disease. While it is important to keep the body in a healthy state so that you can do your duties properly, it is even more important that you revive your original spiritual consciousness or Krishna consciousness that is currently sleeping within you. This is your ultimate duty. Krishna consciousness is the perfection of self-realization.

Devotees Chant Japa to Attain Ultimate Self Realization

Devotees Chant Japa to Attain Ultimate Self Realization

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How I Came to Krishna Consciousness

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Question: How to Become Free from the Three Modes of Nature?

Please accept my humble obeisances.
Hare Krishna.

Can someone shed light on God and His incarnations, please? How do the three modes affect living entities? Is there any way to resolve the three modes permanently?

Regards,
Parag R. Rane

Answer: Surrender to Krishna Under Guru's Guiadance.

To gain knowledge about the incarnations of God carefully study Chapter 3 of the First Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam.

Lord Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 14, Text 9 that the mode of goodness conditions one to so-called material happiness; passion conditions one to fruitive action; and ignorance, covering one's knowledge, binds one to madness.

There is only one way to escape the influence of these modes. One must fully surrender himself
to Lord Sri Krishna under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master. By doing so one will transcend the influence of these modes and never be deluded by them again.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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