Training the Youth

I was requested by the ISKCON leadership in Kolkata, India to give two training sessions for the local youth on how they can properly take up responsibility in the great world deliverance mission of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. There were well over 100 young men at the first session. I spoke for few minutes and then opened up for questions. For almost two hours these sincere souls were so hungry for knowledge and guidance that they asked question after question and question. Then after we officially ended the meeting many came forward and continued inquiring from both me and Gurumata. This went on for an additional hour. If all the youth of the world can adopt this inquisitive mood to understand the science of Krishna, there will manifest on this planet the greatest era of peace and prosperity that the world has ever known.

Kolkata Youth Program

Sankarshan Das Kolkata Youth Program

Sankarshan Das Kolkata Youth Program

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Proper Mood?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,

What should be our mood or consciousness when we visit the temple or the Lord's holy dhamas such as Vrindavan and Mayapur?

Your worthless servant,
Vasundhara Devi Dasi

Answer: Total Humility

From: Kolkata, India

My Dear Vasundhara,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

When entering the temple or the holy dhama we bow down on the ground and offer our respectful obeisances in a mood of total, complete humility considering ourselves to be lower than the garbage in the street. In this way we can fully enter into the spiritual atmosphere there and receive the unlimited all-merciful blessings of Lord Sri Krishna and the all the Vaisnava acharyas.

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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