How to Become Free From All Suffering
Since all suffering is due to bodily misidentification, if we will properly understand and realize our factual eternal identities beyond these temporary material bodies as spiritual beings who are the eternal servants of Krishna, the three fold material miseries will never be able to pinch us again. When they come, as they often do, they will just be something out there in the material energy. They won't effect us. We saw this perfect example in our most beloved Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I was discussing with a Mayavadi the other day the argument that Krishna is the Supreme. He said Shiva and Krishna are equal. I tried explaining that Shiva is devotee of Krishna, but he could not accept and believed that they are equal. He would also not accept the yogurt and milk example, saying that I just wasn't to a full understanding yet. I even told him Lord Brahma is describing Krishna as the Supreme in the Brahma-samhita, not Shiva. Is there a way to defeat this using sāstra? Or will they just counter the argument saying Shiva is equal no matter what?
Bhakta Blaise
My Dear Bhakta Blaise,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
In the Brahma-Samhita, it is confirmed by Lord Brahma, a topmost Vedic authority that Shiva is a transformation from Lord Krishna for the work of destruction just as milk is transformed into yogurt:
Brahma-samhita 5.45
kṣīraṁ yathā dadhi vikāra-viśeṣa-yogāt
sañjāyate na hi tataḥ pṛthag asti hetoḥ
yaḥ śambhutām api tathā samupaiti kāryād
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
"Just as milk is transformed into curd by the action of acids, but yet the effect curd is neither same as, nor different from, its cause, viz., milk, so I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whom the state of Śambhu, Lord Shiva, is a transformation for the performance of the work of destruction."
This same point is confirmed again and again in Srila Prabhupada's purports. Click the link before to read his explanations:
Srila Prabhupada explains the relationship between Krishna and Shiva
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Worshipping Srila Prabhupada
(I was there standing behind the sannyasis.)
Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom
Question: How to Defeat this Mayavadi Argument?
Dear Srila Gurudeva,Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
I was discussing with a Mayavadi the other day the argument that Krishna is the Supreme. He said Shiva and Krishna are equal. I tried explaining that Shiva is devotee of Krishna, but he could not accept and believed that they are equal. He would also not accept the yogurt and milk example, saying that I just wasn't to a full understanding yet. I even told him Lord Brahma is describing Krishna as the Supreme in the Brahma-samhita, not Shiva. Is there a way to defeat this using sāstra? Or will they just counter the argument saying Shiva is equal no matter what?
Bhakta Blaise
Answer: The Authoritative Statement of Lord Brahma
From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USAMy Dear Bhakta Blaise,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
In the Brahma-Samhita, it is confirmed by Lord Brahma, a topmost Vedic authority that Shiva is a transformation from Lord Krishna for the work of destruction just as milk is transformed into yogurt:
Brahma-samhita 5.45
kṣīraṁ yathā dadhi vikāra-viśeṣa-yogāt
sañjāyate na hi tataḥ pṛthag asti hetoḥ
yaḥ śambhutām api tathā samupaiti kāryād
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
"Just as milk is transformed into curd by the action of acids, but yet the effect curd is neither same as, nor different from, its cause, viz., milk, so I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whom the state of Śambhu, Lord Shiva, is a transformation for the performance of the work of destruction."
This same point is confirmed again and again in Srila Prabhupada's purports. Click the link before to read his explanations:
Srila Prabhupada explains the relationship between Krishna and Shiva
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.
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