Around-the-World Preaching Tour

Even though Gurumataji and I are both in our 70's and are not in the best of health because of our desire to serve Srila Prabhupada's order to deliver the world we are heading out today on an around-the-world preaching tour. We are simply depending on the mercy of Lord Sri Krishna to protect us. Here is our schedule:

September 9-12: Toronto, Ontario Canada
September 13-15: Kaunas, Lithuania
September 15-16: Riga, Latvia
September 15-21: Kaunas, Lithuania
September 22: Johannesburg, South Africa
September 22-28: Mauritius
September 28-29: South Africa
Sept 30-Oct 3: Pune, India
October 3-9: Vrindavan, India
October 10-15: Mayapur, India
Oct 15-Nov 2: Vrindavan, India
November 3-7: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 7-11: Melbourne, Australia
November 12-28: Fiji
November 28-29: Los Angeles, USA
Novembef 29: Return to Austin, Texas USA

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada Desires to Deliver the World

(Chanting with Hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco)

Srila Prabhupada, Golden Gate Park

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Loving Krishna, Knowing Krishna?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Kindly accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Your Grace and Srimati Gurumata, and All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Srila Gurudeva, the following is a section from last paragraph of Chapter 14, Teachings of Queen Kunti:

"So our concern should be simply to love Kṛṣṇa. The more we love Kṛṣṇa, the more we shall become perfect. It is not necessary to understand Kṛṣṇa and how He creates. Kṛṣṇa explains Himself in Bhagavad-gītā, and we should not try to understand much more. We should not bother very much to know Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible. We should simply increase our unalloyed love for Kṛṣṇa. That is the perfection of life."

Kindly enlighten on the meaning of this section. Is loving Lord Krishna independent of knowing Him?
How to understand that "We should simply increase our unalloyed love for Kṛṣṇa"?

Begging your blessings,
Your eternal servant,

Bhadra devi dasi

Answer: They are Interconnected

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Badra,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The more you know Him, the more you will love Him. And the more you love Him, the more He will reveal everything about Himself to you. So knowing Him and loving Him are interconnected.

In this connection Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita Chapter 7, Text 1:

mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha
yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ
asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ
yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu

"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."

That yoga is the yoga described in the last verseof Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 6, bhakti yoga, the yoga of loving devotional service to Krishna.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Most Urgent 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 most urgent world deliverance mission to save the suffering humanity from gliding down to the animal kingdom in their next births.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari email: sd@worldleader.com

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