Here's Why You Should Read This Every Day

In the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 9, Text 34 Lord Sri Krishna declares:

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ

"Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me."

So this is my goal here in Thought for the Day. Every day I want you to be connected with Krishna so that at the time of death you will naturally think of Krishna and thus be immediately transferred to the abode of Krishna, never to take birth again in this miserable world of birth, death, old age, and disease. I want to permanently free you from all misery.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Krishna Enlightens Arjuna

Krishna Enlightens Arjuna

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Take Shelter of Guru or Krishna?

Hare Krishna, Srila Gurudeva.
Please accept my obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada, to you, Srila Gurudeva, and to Gurumataji.

Srila Gurudeva, kindly enlighten me. I am confused as we know that we can't directly seek mercy from Sri Krishna. So then why do we hear that we should just pray to Lord Krishna and He will help and protect us and will shower all mercy upon us? We also hear that we must first approach the spiritual master to be able to engage ourselves in devotion to Lord Krishna. So then why is it said that we should just directly pray to Lord because He will listen to us and help and guide us?

Kindly enlighten me, Srila Gurudeva!
🙇‍♀️

Kanchan Khati

Answer: Both

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Kanchan,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We approach Krishna directly on the order of the spiritual master. And we take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master on the order of Krishna. So it is by the combined mercy of the spiritual master and Lord Sri Krishna that we become delivered from all material miseries.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

World Deliverance Mission

Sankarshan Das Adhikari
ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari has taken this order very seriously and is thus accepting disciples all over the world and has dedicated himself fully to the mission of making the entire world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. He requests your help in this world deliverance mission.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari email: sd@worldleader.com

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