Which type of pleasure do you prefer?

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"Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience."

Krishna

Which Type of Pleasure Do You Prefer?

Is it better to get instant, cheap, limited, temporary, but very thrilling pleasure from your tongue, belly, and genitals? Or is it better to taste pleasure that requires cultivation and patience but is unlimited, eternal, and ever-increasingly thrilling? The first option is material sense gratification, especially sex life, and the second option is Krishna consciousness. Now it is up to you to decide which kind of pleasure that you prefer.
 
I hope you make the right choice. The first choice will take you down to animal kingdom in your next birth where there is better facility for sense pleasure. (The hog can enjoy sex with his mother, sister, or daughter with no discrimination.) The second option will take you back to your original eternal, ever-youthful form, which is full of knowledge and unlimited bliss in the spiritual world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Questions and Answers

Hare Krishna Srila Gurudev,
Please accept my humble obeisances
All glories to Your Grace and Gurumataji
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Hope you are having a wonderful preaching tour.
I have 2 questions:

1) In BG 17.5-6 it is mentioned that demonic people perform severe austerities and torture the Supersoul within. Lord Krishna has previously explained in the Bhagavad Gita that He is unaffected by the material modes and by the actions of the living entities in the material world. Then why is He “tortured” by the demons?

2) If someone asks for proof that the Bhagavad Gita was indeed spoken by God Himself and not just written by an ordinary person - what should I say?

Thank you for your help.

Hare Krishna!

Your eternal servant,
Alakananda Devi Dasi

Answer

From: Melbourne, Australia

My Dear Alakananda,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

When a child runs away from home the parents are greatly disturbed. Thus Krishna is pained by those runaways who deny His existence.

The words of a ordinary man do not the power to transform the lives of millions of people over the last 5,000 years enabling them to escape the cycle of birth and death and return to their original home in the spiritual world.

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

Sankarshan Das Adhikari


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