Are You Convinced that You Are Not Your Body?

The difficulty we all have is that we keep trying to be what we are not. We keep trying to be our bodies. But we can't be are our bodies any more than the driver of a car can be his car. But yet when another another driver smashes into his car the driver of the hit car complains to the other driver, "You hit me," as if he was hit and not his car was hit. In this same way we keep misidentifying with our bodies. Therefore the first step in self realization is to be convinced that you are not your body.

Are you convinced that you are not your body?



Sankarshan Das Adhikari.

The Driver Is Not His Car


But Yet He Says, "You Hit Me"

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Why are Pure Devotees Called Swans?

Guru Maharaja,
I have a question.
Why are pure exalted devotees compared with swans and called paramahamsa? Is there any special quality in a swam?

Your fallen, rascal servant,
Sahil

Answer: Because They Are Like Swans

From: Austin, Texas USA

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

You have asked a very nice question: Why are pure devotees compared with swans? The pure devotees are called paramahamsas, which means "supreme swans." The reason
they are compared with swans is that just as the swan with its beak can extract the milk from a mixture of milk and water, in the same way the pure devotee of Krishna can extract Krishna from within the material existence in all times, places, and circumstances.

Lord Sri Krishna describe the paramahamsa in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 6, Text 30 as follows:

yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra
sarvaṁ ca mayi paśyati
tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśyāmi
sa ca me na praṇaśyati

"For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me."

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


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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