Remembering My Most Beloved Srila Prabhupada

The dearmost person in my life is my beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. It is he who, with the help of his agents such as His Holiness Vishnujana Swami, so mercifully rescued me from the most dangerous ocean of birth, death, old age, and disease. I have many super ecstatic memories of associating with Srila Prabhupada in various ways. The value of every moment in his association is inestimable, indeed worth more than of the wealth of this entire material world magnified many quadrillions of times. One such memory is given below in today's Video for the Day.

There is Truly No One Kinder than Srila Prabhupada

There is Truly No One Kinder than Srila Prabhupada

Vishnujana Swami Chanting Hare Krishna in Pease Park in Austin, Texas USA in 1971

Vishnujana Swami Chanting Hare Krishna in Pease Park in Austin, Texas USA in 1971

Video for the Day

Sweet Memory of Srila Prabhupada's Unlimited Mercy


Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Can We Be Like God?

So you are regarding God as a person. If that is the philosophy, then the Supreme was/ is one among us but of the highest value. So what stops a devotee to become like Him/Her?

Manash Bhakta

Answer: Simultaneously One and Different

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Manash,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

God is the original person. Everything that exists except for Him is His  manifested energy. We are the like the spark and He is like the fire from where the spark has come. Since heat and light are present both in th fire and in the spark we are qualitatively one with God. But since the amount
of heat and light present in the fire and the spark are vastly different, we are quantitatively different from God. This the philosophy know as acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, God or the Absolute Truth is simultaneously, inconceivably one and different.

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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