Waterfalls Remind Us of Great Saintly Persons

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter 20, Text 36 great saintly person are compared to waterfalls:

girayo mumucus toyaṁ
kvacin na mumucuḥ śivam
yathā jñānāmṛtaṁ kāle
jñānino dadate na vā

"Sometimes in autumn the water falls down from the tops of the hills to supply clean water, and sometimes the water stops. Similarly, sometimes great saintly persons distribute clear knowledge, and sometimes they are silent."
So when we stopped by a Fijian waterfall on 17 November and took our mid-day bath we could be reminded of these great saintly persons.

Here's the waterfall: https://youtu.be/P9jioQN_iTk

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Fijian Waterfall

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: When I Feel Like Quitting Krishna Consciousness?

Hare Krishna, Dear Guru Maharaja,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
Guru Maharaja, sometimes I find my mind oscillating in Krishna bhakti. Sometimes I feel Krishna doesn't hear my prayers and He keeps giving me trouble after trouble. Despite chanting and following the regulative principles, I feel He is not giving me His shelter and thus I feel like giving up Krishna Consciousness. Please advice me what to do.

Your servant,
Miya

Answer: Krishna Never Stops His Mercy

From: Tavua, Fiji

My Dear Miya,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Krishna never gives up showering His mercy on His devotees. The difficulty we have is that we are not fully taking shelter of Krishna. We are still taking shelter of the material energy, which
means we continue to suffer some portion of the karmic reactions from our previous sinful activities. When we finally kick out all of our material desires we will find ourselves in a state of ever-increasing bliss in spite of the four fold miseries of material
existence (birth, death, old age, and disease) still acting on our material bodies.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,
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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.

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