The Secret of Success in Spiritual Life
Do you know what is the secret of success in spiritual life? It is very simple. Do not do your devotional activities mechanically as some kind of mundane routine. Do them with feeling as an offering of love to your spiritual master and Krishna. This point is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 9, Verse 26 in which Lord Sri Krishna declares:
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ
yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam
aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
TRANSLATION
"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it."
So the key is "bhaktyā" which means "with devotion." If we do our service mechanically, Krishna will not accept it and we will not be satisfied. But if we do it with love, Krishna will be satisfied and we will be swimming in the ocean of unlimited bliss. So we should keep this mood going 24 hours a day whether we are offering an arati, cooking an offering, taking darshan, singing and dancing in kirtan, reading scripture, preaching, or even cleaning the toilet. In this way an ocean of love will erupt from our hearts with sufficient capacity to flood the entire universe drowning everyone in the ocean of pure love of God.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sarita Arya
My Dear Sarita,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Variety is the mother of enjoyment. The more there is variety, the more we enjoy. Therefore to enjoy unlimitedly Krishna is manifesting an infinite number of living beings from Himself in order to enjoy an infinite variety of different types of loving relationships. Which each living being He experiences a different taste of loving relationship that is unique to that specific relationship.
As He enjoys loving us, our ultimate, unlimited enjoyment is to love Him in return.
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ
yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam
aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ
TRANSLATION
"If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it."
So the key is "bhaktyā" which means "with devotion." If we do our service mechanically, Krishna will not accept it and we will not be satisfied. But if we do it with love, Krishna will be satisfied and we will be swimming in the ocean of unlimited bliss. So we should keep this mood going 24 hours a day whether we are offering an arati, cooking an offering, taking darshan, singing and dancing in kirtan, reading scripture, preaching, or even cleaning the toilet. In this way an ocean of love will erupt from our hearts with sufficient capacity to flood the entire universe drowning everyone in the ocean of pure love of God.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Srila Prabhupada Serves Krishna With Love
Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom
Question: Why So Many Jivas?
Why did God make so many jivas if He is the supreme enjoyer. If He made everything for His own enjoyment, then why did he make jivas who also want to enjoy like Him?Sarita Arya
Answer: For Unlimited Enjoyment
From: MayapurMy Dear Sarita,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Variety is the mother of enjoyment. The more there is variety, the more we enjoy. Therefore to enjoy unlimitedly Krishna is manifesting an infinite number of living beings from Himself in order to enjoy an infinite variety of different types of loving relationships. Which each living being He experiences a different taste of loving relationship that is unique to that specific relationship.
As He enjoys loving us, our ultimate, unlimited enjoyment is to love Him in return.
I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
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
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
The Most Urgent World Deliverance Mission
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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