Relish the Bliss Within

The self-realized soul is not disturbed by the dualities of this material existence such as pain an pleasure, honor and dishonor, poverty and wealth, sickness and health, youth and old age, happiness and distress because he is constantly relishing within his heart the unlimited bliss of his loving relationship with Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The happiness of that loving relationship far exceeds by unlimited millions and billions of times any happiness that can be derived in this material world even up to the point of becoming Lord Brahma, the predominating demigod of our material universe. So why go anywhere else besides Lord Krishna to find satisfaction in life?

The Pure Devotee Relishes Unlimited Bliss

Srila Prabhupada: The Pure Devotee Relishes Unlimited Bliss

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Question: Heaven or Krishna's Abode?

When does a person goes to heaven? If a person goes to heaven after death, can he go to Krishna's abode by chanting Krishna's bhajan in heaven?

Arun Kumar

Answer: Deathlessness Only in Krishna's Abode

From: Sri Mayapur Dhama, India

My Dear Arun,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Heaven is the upper planets within this material world. It is the destination of those who are very pious. However, since heaven is still within this material world, even those who go to heaven must eventually die there. But if one chants Hare Krishna in heaven, he can be elevated to the topmost planet in the spiritual world, the planet of Krishna where there is no birth, no death, no old age and no disease. But the danger is that there is so much pleasure in heaven that one may forget Krishna and get totally absorbed in material sense gratification. Therefore the devotees on the earth planet have no interest to go to heaven. Instead of trying to go to heaven, they chant Hare Krishna throughout their lives so that at the moment of death they will automatically remember Lord Sri Krishna and immediately be transferred to Krishna’s planet, Krishnaloka, in that most wondrous spiritual sky.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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