Here is My Life's Goal

Here is My Life's Goal
My most beloved spiritual master, ISKCON Founder-Acharya His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, has so wonderfully written as follows in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila, Chapter 7, Text 83 as follows:

"A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles given by the spiritual master. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads; in other words, the devotee becomes qualified in offenselessly chanting the holy name. When one is completely fit to chant the holy name in this way, he is eligible to make disciples all over the world, and he actually becomes jagad-guru. Then the entire world, under his influence, begins to chant the holy names of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra."

This is my goal in life. I want to come to the stage of chanting Hare Krishna with such purity that I can influence everyone throughout the entire world to take up the chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra. If I cannot achieve this in my present lifetime, I want to take birth after birth until I can successfully accomplish what my most beloved spiritual master has so wonderfully described in this purport.

If you all, my readers and disciples, will also kindly sincerely take up the attempt to be offenseless chanters of the Hare Krishna mantra, it will be greatly benefit the world. So kindly do this. This is my humble request to all of you. Your lives will be glorious, and the whole world will become more and more blessed with Krishna consciousness the more that more and more devotees are endeavoring to be pure chanters of Krishna's holy name.

Lecture Given in Austin 18 December 2020

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Accept Prabhupada as My Spiritual Master?

Hare Krishna, Maharaja.
Dandavat Pranaam 🙏.

Can a person accept a spiritual master who has already left this material world, like accepting Srila Prabhupada as a spiritual master and following his instructions strictly and making our way back home, back to Godhead? Is it possible without accepting a spiritual master who is physically present?

Your insignificant servant,
Suraj Bhujbal

Answer: Follow Srila Prabhupada's Instruction

My Dear Suraj,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Accepting Srila Prabhupada as your guru and molding your life according to his instructions is wonderful. Not only is it wonderful. It is simply wonderful! Indeed it is the perfection of your existence. Those who truly follow him accept his instruction that after his departure his followers should take initiation from one of his disciples. In this way the one who initiates you is your initiating guru (diksha guru) and your siksha guru (instructing guru) is Srila Prabhupada. This is how you will factually be connected with Srila Prabhupada.

If you do not follow his instruction to become the disciple of his disciple, you are not perfect and complete in your following of him. Therefore to become the fully dedicated disciple of Srila Prabhupada on his order you should take initiation from one of his disciples and become fully dedicated to following that guru's instructions. This will make you a first class follower of Srila Prabhupada. This will truly be the perfection of your existence.

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

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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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