Life is for Learning

Human life is meant for learning. If we are intelligent enough to acknowledge our ignorance and thus always stay open to learning, we can be fortunate enough to come into contact with a bona fide spiritual master who can enlighten us how to conquer over death and regain our eternal forms in the spiritual world. But if we proudly think that we know everything and thus do not maintain a learning mood, we will not be able to take advantage of being enlightened by the bona fide spiritual master, and thus our lives will be failures and we will thus be obliged to take birth again here in this land of repeated birth and death. Therefore we should always remain in a learning mood, always remembering that life is for learning.

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Vilnius, Lithuania Airport--23 May 2019

Sankarshan Das with disciples at Vilnius Lithuania Airport

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Question: How Can I Serve You?

How can I serve you?

Goeran Holm

Answer: Follow Instructions and Do Not Concoct

From: Helsinki, Finland

My Dear Goeran,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Serving the spiritual master means doing whatever he instructs you to do without any concoctions. In this connection Srila Prabhupada has wonderfully stated as follows:

Service means you must take order from the master. That is service. Otherwise it is mental concoction. Actually, the servant requests, "How can I serve you?" So when the master orders, "You serve me like this," then you do that, that is service. And if you manufacture your service, that is not service. That is your sense gratification. Yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah. You have to see how he is pleased. Now if he wants a glass of water and if you bring a nice glass of milk, you can say milk is better than water, you take it. That is not service. He wants water, you give him water. Don't manufacture better thing. Just like Krishna wanted Arjuna to fight, and he became a nonviolent saint, "No, Krishna, I'll not fight." That is disobedience. Krishna says fight, you must fight. Don't bring philosophy of nonviolence. That is nonsense. What He says, do it. That is service. That he did later on. Sometimes they misunderstand Bhagavad-gita, that Arjuna is not willing to fight and Krishna is inducing him to fight. They misunderstand that Arjuna is better than Krsna. But that's not the fact. What Krishna says, we have to execute that. We should not manufacture our own ideas. That is not service.

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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