Be True to Your Guru

You should always be true to your spiritual master by always remaining his dedicated servant. Your spiritual master, the one who has initiated you as his disciple, has taken the full responsibility to deliver you back to home, back to Godhead, even if he has to take birth after birth to do so. Therefore, as a simple matter of loving reciprocation, just as he has fully dedicated himself to you, you should also fully dedicate yourself to him. It is this pure, total, complete dedication to your spiritual master which qualifies you to go back to Godhead at the time of your passing out of your present material body. So why not take advantage of this process and regain your original position in the spiritual world?

Ecstatic Send Off Kirtan--Kaunas, Lithuania--5 September 2017

Ecstatic Send Off Kirtan--Kaunas, Lithuania

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Why Call God Krishna?

You're are big inspiration to me and I really admire your devotion.
I have a question about Vedas. For a few years I have been blindly believing the knowledge of Vedas. However, recently I asked myself how do I know, how do any of us know whether what's written in Vedas is really true? I know that there is God, I can feel Him, but is His name really Krishna? How can God have a name to begin with?. Who named Him? Vedas were written a few thousands of years ago. The era was so much different from now. How do we know that those people didn't make up Vedas, or if they didn't add their subjective opinion into those scripts? How do we know Vedas were written objectively purely by the influence of God?

Best regards,
Victoria K.

Answer: Because He is All-Attractive

God has no one particular name because He is unlimited. Since He has unlimited qualities, activities, and relationships He has unlimited names which describe these qualifies, activities, and relationships. If there is one particular name which includes all of these qualities, activities, and relationships that name would be "Krishna" because "Krishna" mean "all-attractive." In other words, every quality, activity, and relationship connected with God is very attractive. If you combine them all into one, there is someone who is all-attractive. This is why we call God “Krishna.”

Krishna directly states in the Bhagavad-gita:

vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham

"By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas."

This is why we know that the Vedic wisdom is absolute, beyond time and space. And we know that the Bhagavad-gita is bona fide because it delivers us back to the spiritual world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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