Ecstatic Chanting in Downtown Melbourne, Australia

Friday evening on 22 December 2017 we had the most ecstatic experience of participating in public chanting of the Krishna's holy names in downtown Melbourne, Australia. The downtown was packed with thousands of people, and so many of them expressed their appreciation for our public chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. Our chanting and dancing in downtown Melbourne was greatly beneficial for the many devotees who participated because it strengthened our own Krishna consciousness. And it was also greatly beneficial for everyone in downtown Melbourne who heard and saw our transcendental sankirtana party because it planted the seed of Krishna bhakti within their hearts. In this way the holy names of the Lord should always be chanted and heard every day in every town and village all over the world. If this can be done, it will mark the beginning of a new amazingly wonderful era of peace and prosperity for our entire global society. May that day come soon, real soon!

Super Ecstatic Hare Krishna Chanting in Melbourne, Australia--22 December 2017

Super Ecstatic Hare Krishna Chanting in Melbourne, Australia

Super Ecstatic Hare Krishna Chanting in Melbourne, Australia

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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Why A Devotee Should Leave Home?

Respected teacher, please accept my humble obeisances.

I have some questions about old devotees. Why when a devotee becomes old, he should leave his family to preach the Krishna conciousness outside?

We Chinese people know that we should respect the older generation and take care of them, because when a person is old he would be sick and be weak. How can the old devotees leave young men to preach outside alone? If he become sick, this can be danger for him. If a devotee does not have family or disciples, when he is old and sick, who will take care of him? Need he rely on other devotees? If there is no trusting devotees around him, what should he do to help himself?

Then, how about the old female devotees?

A fallen soul,
Lingling

Answer: Leaving Home is Not Required

In the Vedic culture when a man becomes old he adopts the order of sannyas in which he completely renounces material life. He leaves home and totally dedicates his life for spreading the Krishna consciousness movement all over the world. Such a renounced sannyasi is lovingly cared for by his disciples or by the members of the Vedic society. Therefore he is not in any difficulty for his material necessities of life.

However, if one’s home life is Krishna conscious, it is not necessary to take sannyasa and leave home. He can remain at home with his wife. Together he and his wife fully absorb themselves in Krishna consciousness preparing themselves for going back to home, back to Godhead so that at the time of death when they quit their material bodies they will immediately be transferred to the spiritual sky.

In the Vedic culture female devotees do not take sannyas. If their husband takes sannyas, they are lovingly cared for by their grown up sons.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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