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Here's How Anxiety Can Be Blissful

9 February 2025

Anxiety can be blissful. Srila Prabhupada explained how in a Bhagavad lecture given on February 7, 1975 in Honolulu, Hawaii:

Just like in our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, the movement, all the activities, they are not material. They're all spiritual. But still, because it is being enacted in the material world, we have also so much anxiety because we are in the material world, although that anxiety also bhakti. That is nothing else. That is not material. When we are anxious how to protect a property, how to push on this movement, how people will take it, what line of action we shall take, this is also anxiety, but that anxiety is for Kṛṣṇa. Therefore it is bhakti.
Anxiety... Even in Vṛndāvana there is anxiety. Rādhārāṇī is in anxiety that "Kṛṣṇa is not here. How Kṛṣṇa will come?" The gopīs are also in anxiety. Gopīs are so in anxiety that about them it is said that when Kṛṣṇa used to go to the forest for tending the cows, so gopīs were thinking at home that "Kṛṣṇa's feet is so soft that we hesitate to take His feet on our breast, but He is now walking in the forest, and there were so many stones and pricks, and they are giving pain to the Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet." And thinking like this, they fainted. This is gopī. Kṛṣṇa is out of the village, and they are at home, and they are thinking of Kṛṣṇa and they fainted. This is also anxiety, so much anxiety that fainted. But that is for Kṛṣṇa. Therefore gopīs are exalted. Ramya kecid upāsanā vraja-vadhu-varga vīrya kalpita. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He recommends, "There is no better type of worshiping Kṛṣṇa than it was planned by the gopīs." So there is also anxiety. So anxiety is spiritual anxiety and material anxiety. Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill.

So let us always be in anxiety how to push forward this Krishna consciousness movement for the deliverance of the suffering souls of this material world back to home, back to Godhead. In this way we will relish unlimited bliss and become fully qualified to enter Goloka Vrindavana.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Transcendental Correspondence

My Dear Respected Gurudeva.

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I am listening Prabhupada's lecture series on Nectar of Devotion. Prabhupada says Krishna is real friend of everyone. Then how to understand that Krishna kills me coming down as cruel death.

Sincerely yours
KG

Answer

From: Sri Vrindavan Dhama, India

My Dear KG,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

For a devotee death is the greatest blessing. It is taking off an airplane to enter the spiritual world.

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

Sankarshan Das Adhikari


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