Be Strong in Your Determination​​

If you want to teach God consciousness to the materialistic and pseudo spiritualistic global society in which you find yourself, you must be strong and unflinching in your determination because you will face so many opposing elements. In this connection Srila Prabhupada has stated in a morning walk conversation in LosAngeles on 11 December 1973:

"You must know that everybody will disagree with you, and it is your preaching work that you will make him agree with you. That is your preaching work."

Srila Prabhupada Preaches Strongly


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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Why Other Names?

Dear Guru Maharaj,

Please pardon me for any of my fault.

A question came to my mind that if Krishna is the Supreme, why shouldn't we take only His name in the Japa and prayer.? Why and what is the necessity of the name of Rama and Hare(Radha) in Japa?

Please be kind enough to enlighten me.

Your obedient
Biswanath Sahoo

Answer: To Get More Spiritual Power

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Biswanath,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are not liberated souls. We are conditioned souls in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore to be delivered from our suffering, ignorant position we follow the Vedic injunctions such as the following injunction from the Kali Santarana Upanisad:

hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare
iti ṣoḍaśakaṁ nāmnāṁ
kali-kalmaṣa-nāśanaṁ
nātaḥ parataropāyaḥ
sarva-vedeṣu dṛśyate

”After searching through all the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for this age than the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra.”

Chanting the entire Hare Krishna mantra is more powerful than simply chanting the name "Krishna."

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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