Foolish Ass Carries So Much Burden on the Back

Foolish Ass Carries So Much Burden on the Back
Do you want to be like the ass who works hard all day carrying huge burdens on his back to simply to get a few morsels of grass from his master at the end of day, not realizing that unlimited grass is growing everywhere along the road on which he carries his burdens? Our modern day materialistic civilization is an ass-like civilization because we have created a world in which everyone has to work very hard struggling for hours and hours every day simply to get a place to sleep and some food to eat. When we put Krishna or God back in the center of the world civilization, everyone will be able to get their necessities of life much easier without so many daily hours and hours of struggle.

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Why Are We Responsible?

If everything is God's will, then why a person is responsible for his work?

Dr. Sunil Kumar

Answer: God Gives Us a Free Choice

My Dear Kumar,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Since love is voluntary, it cannot be forced. Thus God's will is that we have the freedom of choice whether we want to love Him or leave Him. If we choose to love Him, we live an eternal life full of bliss and knowledge in His eternal kingdom. And it we choose to leave Him, we repeatedly suffer the pangs of birth, death, old age, and disease in this material existence birth after birth after birth through the 8,400,000 different species of life. His will is that we should return to Him. But He does not drag us like prisoners back to His abode. He gives us perfect instructions in the Bhagavad-gita with the hope that we will hear and understand and voluntarily surrender ourselves unto Him so we can return to our original relationship we once had with Him before we so foolishly fell into this material existence.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Krishna's Will is that We Return to Him,
Are You Ready to Go?

Krishna's Will is that We Return to Him, Are You Ready to Go?
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari is one of the spiritual masters of the worldwide Hare Krishna Movement. He has dedicated the last 50 years of his life for bringing a spiritual revolution to planet earth by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna all over the world. He is based in Austin, Texas and when there is no pandemic regularly travels all over the world teaching his audiences how to attain Krishna consciousness, the highest stage of spiritual awakening. He is available for media interviews and to speak to groups and organizations either in person or via the internet.

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