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Why is it that God does not just manifest Himself? Wouldn’t that end all the disbelief in the Lord?
Wouldn’t that end atheism completely? I am trying to comprehend this matter Wouldn’t it be a
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Your question is a very good one. Why does Krishna not just appear before us.
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The thing is we do not have the eyes to see Krishna. Krishna does sometimes appear before us in the Preaching
material world but only the devotees recognize Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You may Book Distribution
think it strange but when Krishna was present on this planet 5000 years ago in India very few people
recognized Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He displayed so many pastimes impossible for any
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When Lord Caitanya appeared 500 years ago in India also He was not recognized by many as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. He purposely did not manifest the opulence’s of the Supreme Personality of
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The problem is that if people see Krishna appear in this world they will imitate and claim to be Krishna also
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Basically we are here in this material world because of our desire to imitate Krishna. Krishna has all
opulence’s in full. Krishna has all knowledge, all wealth, all strength, all fame, all beauty and at the same
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extraordinary in this world is showing us a small hint of the opulence’s of Krishna. Guru in ISKCON
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in the taste of water, he sees Krishna in the light of the Sun and the Moon, he sees Krishna when he hears
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October 20, 2014 at 4:38 am
Hare Krishna
No, this human form of life is a very great gift. The human form of life is a
great boat that can be used to cross over this ocean of necience. But you
have to learn how do properly utilize this human form of life and you can
learn that by READING SRILA PRABHUPADA’S BOOKS.
It is so fortunate to have the human form of life. Do not miss this great
opportunity.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Lukas Dohnal says:
May 9, 2015 at 10:08 am
In Brahmasaṃhitā, it is clearly stated that Kṛṣṇa is the origin of all and the prime
cause of all causes. This implies that He is the origin and cause of our desires as
well, which indirectly makes Him the cause of our situation here in the material world
(since you yourself said that we are here because of our desires). Thus, the question
of why did he put us in this situation still stands.
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May 27, 2015 at 7:04 pm
Hare Krishna Lukas
You don’t understand…
We are just like Krishna. But Krishna is great and we are small. It is like the
ocean and the drop of ocean water. The drop of ocean water has all the
same qualities as the ocean. Only in a tiny quantity.
If you analyze the ocean you will find salt, and if you analyze the drop of
ocean water you will also find salt. It is the same.
So everything Krishna has we have also. But we have it in a tiny quantity
and Krishna has it in an unlimited quantity.
So Krishna is not the cause of our desires. We are individuals and Krishna is
also an individual. The difference is Krishna is the individual who is providing
for and maintaining all the other individuals. We are also eternal like
Krishna. We are like Krishna in that we have desires and Krishna has
desires. So we desire interdependently from Krishna. Krishna is not causing
our desires.
Of course we are VERY limited in what we can do. There are only two
possibilities. We can serve Krishna or we can serve maya. But we can
choose between these two options. That is our limited independence.
Krishna does not want us to come the the material world and when we come
to the material world Krishna does everything He can to help us come back
home back to Godhead. But we are individuals and we have limited
independence. So Krishna does not force us to come back home, back to
Godhead.
Our relationship with Krishna is one of love. So love requires independence.
So we are in the material world because we do not want to surrender to, to
love and serve Krishna. That is our independence, that is our desire, not
Krishna’s desire.
So you are confused therefore you need to actually surrender to the basic
things. You need to chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra
every day and strictly follow the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no
meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication and read Srila Prabhupada’s
books at least 12 hours a day. If you do this and if you actually surrender to
Srila Prabhupada then everything will become clear to you very quickly.
Madhudvisa dasa
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John says:
August 15, 2010 at 4:21 am
From Where does Krisna get these three energies (immaterial/ material and Marginal)? Where does
these energies come from?
Thanks.
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August 23, 2010 at 12:43 am
Hare Krishna John
Krishna is eternal. It means He does not come from anywhere. He has always existed and He
will also always exist in the future.
And Krishna’s energies are always there with Krishna. They have also always existed in the
past and will continue to always exist in the future.
So Krishna’s energies come from Krishna. They are always there with Krishna. As Krishna is
eternal, His energies are also eternal.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Dona says:
October 7, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Hello.
Thank you for this wonderful website.
Actually I am 17 years old. Sincerely, ever since I’ve been discovering Lord Krishna’s splendor, I have
been taking less and less interest in the material world. I am kind of tired with this world of sufferings and
injustice.Yet, at school I need to work hard for my parents who have had to endure a lot for me. Besides,
people have always laughed at our family since we were relatively poor. My parents have a lot of faith in
me.
I’ve then taken shelter in Lord’s refuge. I’ve become vegetarian and given up my bad habits to please
Him. It was a very long struggle as neither my parents nor my friends are vegetarians. Also, at my age I
have been lured on unadventured territories, just like any other adolescent. I’ve always had to figure
things by myself. Many a times, I went on the wrong path. I used to cry silently to the Lord and sought
His help. My parents cannot even imagine through what ordeals I went through.Although most
adolescents find their newly found source of pleasure entertaining and continue with it, I gave up for the
sake of Kanha.
I’ve grew to love my kanha murti deeply, more than myself.I fought with Him, laughed with Him, cried
with Him. I could not stay away from Him. By showing me various hints, He even guaranteed me that I
would get the results which I wanted. I’ve suffered too much to get it anyway.
However there are times where I think that He does not appreciate my love for Him. I’ve told Him to
manifest Himself, He didn’t. I desperately want to see Him. I cry for hours for Him to give me as much as
a glimpse from him. He does not respond.He does not even come in my dreams. The next morning when
I wake up disillusioned, I get fed up with everything. I then feel stupid because it seems as though I do
not exist for Him, when he knows perfectly that I would die without him.
My question is: why does Kanha play with my feelings like this?
I am faithful to Him. I perpetually think about Him, sing His melodies. Yet, why does He behave as
such?
Thank you in advance. It’s something I would have never asked anyone because nobody would have the
answer except God but through you, it seems that I will get my answer
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prarthana says:
November 26, 2010 at 7:48 am
Krishna IS manifesting himself all around you all in front of you its just that He wants you to
identify Him in every being every flower every leaf every material molecules atoms.. all this
scientific masterpiece called world is Krishna Himself
He becomes a flower to see a smile on your face,He becomes a song to say his heart He is the
sun and also the sunshine He is the cloud and also the rain He is the river and also the sea
we all are living with Him in Him and our unconditional love will make us identify Him
Hare Krishna
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SanatKumar says:
December 2, 2010 at 5:59 am
Dear Dona
Its unbelievable that you’ve felt the grace of Lord. As I read your letter I fixed up my mind to
say you something.
its my story, I was also 17 three years ago, I was in high school where every one else was used
to laugh at me and I had no friends. It became the situation that I was the only one who was
alone and had nobody to talk to him. At that time Our religious Teacher told us to buy
SreemadVhagabadGeeta,the words of Lord SreeKrishna. Every evening of my lonely days I
read that Holy Words by the Lord. It took two Years to finish reading The Geeta.
So My condition of heart and Mind became fused with Lord Krishna. I used to cry seeking his
help when I felt hopeless in those days. I used to chant his name throughout the whole day, It
gave me faith, hope and strenght to fight the odds. And Yes, I saw him.
So after years, this morning in Bangladesh, when I read your letter, I thought of those days I
seen him.
Now I’m not a man who knows much about The Lord like Madhudvisa Dasa and Pravupada
Swami, but I want to let you know what I did, and by which means I could see Him in my ways.
Its not difficult to see Him or Feel him. All you need to do is ask forgiveness of the sins if you
have sins. Thats what I did, I confess that I havent seen him physically in my room, but truly
speaking, I could literally feel his existance around me. And I believe I felt His touch as he
forgave my sins and gave me strength to live and Study.
Its really feels good now when I remember that how I passed those days, without my parents
and family in that school away from home and holding the blessings of God.
So thats how I find my way to tell you: The only thing we need to do is keep the faith,don’t let
your love turn to hate. I dont know it will be published or not but I hope you’ll read this letter.
sanat
Bangladesh
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Deepti Kumaresh says:
December 27, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Hare Krishna…
Dear Madhudvisa dasaji,
My warm regards to you.
I have a doubt in my mind about karma. If I do something bad to someone, it gets returned to me
through someone else in this birth or in the next births. So that person who is giving back my bad karma
will be affected by its fruits? If so why and how? Because he is only punishing me. Please throw some
light into this.
Thank you.
Deepti Kumaresh
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January 15, 2011 at 10:19 am
Hare Krishna Deepti
It is a very nice question. Karma is very intricate. If we take the example of money. If you take
some money in the form of a loan from someone and do not pay it back then die and the other
person whom you borrowed the money from also dies you will both have to take birth again in
the material world. Because you still owe him that money. So you will have to take birth and he
will have to take birth and you will have to pay your debt to him. So the karma is a great
entanglement that effects everyone involved and causes everyone involved to take birth in the
material world over and over again to get what they deserve and pay to others what they owe
them.
It is said that a woman who has an abortion for example after she dies will be placed in a
mother’s womb again and will be killed by that mother. She will not be able to take birth. She
will be put in the womb of another mother and be killed again by that mother. But still the
mother is going to suffer the same reaction for killing the child. But the child she is killing is
being killed because that child killed her child in her previous life.
So it works like this. If one kills a cow then he has to take birth and be killed as many times as
there are hairs on the cow. So you can see how we can create so many lives of suffering from
this one human birth.
As far as your example, if you do something bad to someone in this life then you have to suffer
someone else doing something bad to you in the next life. He may also come back in the next
life and do something bad to you, but if it is not him then the other person will get also a
reaction to this and will have to come back again. This is the way karma works. It is endless.
No matter what you do you become more and more entangled and have to come back for an
unlimited number of births. That is why in the material world we are called “nityabaddha,” it
means eternally conditioned. It is practically impossible to get out of the material world. It is
impossible to get out of the material world.
The only hope is brahmananda brahmate kona bhagavayan jiva guru krsna prasade paya bhakti
lata bija: “We are wandering life after life from one universe to another and occasionally one
fortunate living entity gets a chance to associate with a bona fide spiritual master and he can
get the ‘bhakti lata bija,’ the seed of the tree or creeper of bhakti.” So this is the secret. The
only way of getting out of this endless tangle of karmic reactions is by getting this seed of
bhakti from the pure devotee spiritual master. We have this very rare chance now. Srila
Prabhuapda is distributing these seeds to us very freely. But it is not just enough to get the
seed. If you get the seed of a very valuable plant then you have to cultivate it, you have to
plant it and supply it with water and protect it and it will gradually grow into a very strong plant.
So what is that cultivation? Sravan kirtan jal. The water for the bhaktilatabija is hearing and
chanting the name and glories and the pastimes of Krishna.
The thing is we have to stop performing activities that generate karma. Otherwise we will be
forced to come back again and again and again because of those karmic reactions. How is that
possible?
For a devotee if he lives in such a way that he never does anything for his personal benefit, if
he does everything as service to Krishna, then there is no karma from that. For example we are
vegetarian and even in vegetarian cooking still sometimes we are going out into the garden and
taking a cabbage and chopping off its head and cooking it. Now if we do that for ourselves then
that will be a sin because we are killing that cabbage for our own purposes. But if we are
cooking for Krishna, and we are offering the meal to Krishna, then it is for Krishna and there is
no sin or reaction. Because we are doing it for Krishna.
So we need to transform our lives so everything we do is for Krishna…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Atulya says:
April 23, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Hare Krishna Prabhu
PAMHO
AGTSP
Very interesting Q&A session you have on this site.
Prabhu a quick question in regards to what you mentioned in one of the answers
“sometimes we are going out into the garden and taking a cabbage and chopping off
its head and cooking it. Now if we do that for ourselves then that will be a sin because
we are killing that cabbage for our own purposes. But if we are cooking for Krishna,
and we are offering the meal to Krishna”
Does that mean even saintly people who always remember Krishna and keep Krishna
in their heart also incur sin if they do not offer it to Krishna?
My apology in advance as my knowledge is very limited and I know I may commit
offense in asking this question but the query I have here is, when Pandavas lived in
the forest after escaping from Varnavat, were they also offering food to Krishna
before eating? I have no doubt that in their minds they must have but still the thought
was lingering in my mind and wanted to clarify doubts.
Hari Bol
YHS
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May 8, 2014 at 1:57 am
Even vegetarian food is sinful if it is not offered to Krishna.
We cook for Krishna, we offer it to Krishna, and after Krishna has enjoyed
the offering we accept the remnants of Krishna’s food, Krishna prasadam.
Devotees will never accept anything except Krishna prasadam. Accepting
anything else is sinful.
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pasta roy says:
January 4, 2011 at 3:05 pm
“hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare,hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare” i chant
this mantra and everybody should do this.
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Ganesh Nayak says:
January 12, 2011 at 9:59 am
There are only “Three” entities in this countless universes.
1. “Jeev”
2. Maaya
3. Bhagwaan (Shree Krsna)
We all living entities including Ant to Elephant, Trees and Plants, all are “Jeev”.
Definition of “Jeev”: “One who lives and help others to live”.
“Jeev” has limited energy. A “Jeev” is always under “Maaya”. A “Jeev” was under the influence of “Maaya”
from minus infinity.
It is not that, one day it was been thrown under “Maaya”.
There are also some “Jeev”, who are not under “Maaya”. (Sanakaadi Saints).
All “Jeev” longs for “Aananda”. “Aananda” is nothing but “Being Unlimitedly Happy, At All The Time,
Forever”.
Definition of “Aananda”: “Get Increasing Unlimited Happiness Forever”.
“Aananda” is the name of Shree Krishna. Krishna himself is “Aananda”, Its not that, there is Aananda in
Krishna.
Its like to say “An Ocean is huge mass of water”, Its not that there is water in ocean.
Since all “Jeev” longs for Aananda, all “Jeev” are theist. But “Jeev” is confused that “Aananda” exists in
wealth, sex and power.
An alcoholic feels that “Aananda” is in drinking “Alcohol”. A Bad leader feels that “Aananda” is in ruling
others by odd means.
Like wise a Saatwik “Jeev” feels “Aananda” is in helping others. A Taamasi “Jeev” feels that Aananda is
in sex, Alcohol, Drugs, degrading, Harassing others.
Bhagawaan or Shree Krishna is the controller of “Maaya”. It is obvious that Krishna wants each and
every “Jeev” to come to his abode and live happily with him.
When Krishna himself is the controller of “Maaya”, he can even lift off “Maaya” covered upon “Jeev”. But
it is not happened till now. Why?
Because there is one condition put by Krishna in Bhagawad Geeta: That is unless and until “Jeev”
surrenders himself completely cent per cent, Krishna wont remove his “Maaya” which is covered upon the
“Jeev”. “Sarva Dharmaat Parityaag Maam Ekam Sharanam Brij”. – Geeta.
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AURA says:
November 18, 2011 at 6:30 pm
I AM 12 YEARS OLD.WELL I AM REALLY INTRESTED IN MAHABHARAT. BUT I DONT
UNDERSTAND MEANING OF DHARMA. IS IT A DHARMA TO KILL OUR SIBLINGS OR
RELATIVES?I AM A DEVOTEE OF KRISHNA HOW TO FIND HIM?
Reply
Hare Krishna Aura
Dharma means that thing which can not be separated from us. It is easier to understand with
some examples. For example sugar. Sugar has to be sweet, if I give you something that is not
sweet and tell you that it is sugar then will reject it. You will immediately say “this is not sugar”
because the sweetness can not be taken away from sugar. If I give you something that is not
sweet it is not sugar. So sweetness is the dharma of sugar. Water is wet. You can not take the
wetness away from water. So it is like that. Therefore to discover what is our dharma we have
find that thing which is our very existence, which can not be separated from us. After some
contemplation you will come to understand that every living entity is engaged in service. He can
not avoid serving. On a personal level he is trying to satisfy or serve his senses, and to serve
his senses he needs to get some money so to get the money he has to find a job and serve the
boss and serve the customers. Then if he finds a nice lady he gets married and he has to serve
her by supporting her. And when children come he has to serve the children.
You can not find anyone in the world who is not engaged in this business of service. Even the
most powerful person, even the President of India or the President of the United States, they
are only elected to their positions because they promise to serve the people and if they do not
serve the people the will be thrown out of their big position.
So the thing that can not be changed, the thing that is always present with us is that we are
servants. That is our dharma. So there are many things we can serve in the material world, but
this sort of service is not our eternal dharma, or sanatana dharma. Sanatana Dharma means
engaging in the service of Krishna. So that is what Krishna is teaching Arjuna in the Bhagavad
gita. He is teaching Arjuna that his business is to surrender to Krishna and do what Krishna
wants him to do. The political situation was such that Arjuna had to kill his relatives and friends
in the Battle of Kuruksettera because Krishna wanted him to. That is the real reason. Krishna
wanted it. So from the Bhagavadgita Arjuna understood that he should do what Krishna wants
and Krishna wanted him to fight with his relatives and family members so he fought the battle.
As far as finding Krishna we can not find Krishna on our own strength. We can only find
Krishna by the mercy of Krishna’s pure devotees. So we have to please Krishna’s pure
devotees by surrender and service and by their mercy we will find Krishna for sure.
So there is not much point looking for Krishna because He will not reveal Himself directly like
that. He is in our hearts but He has given us the process of approaching Him in the Gita and
that is not directly approaching but via the spiritual master. So you can find Krishna by the
mercy and blessings of Srila Prabhupada. If you takes seriously to reading Srila Prabhupada’s
books the more you become purified the more you will see Krishna.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Abhijit says:
February 13, 2013 at 6:24 pm
I believe in Lord Krishna as a supreme God and do not worship other demigods of Hindu religion, I am
spiritual not a religious hindu person, I believe in chanting the names Lord krishna as the only worship in
kaliyuga.
But I was thinking of the below questions which came into my mind.
Why does Lord Krishna choose India as his home. why not other parts of the world. How will some one in
other continent at that time know that God is living in India 5000 years ago.
Why are all holy places and temples of Vedic religion like vrindavan Dwarka Puri only in India. Why not in
Australia or Chile or Japan or Alaska.
Why did Mahabharata war happened only India, what was happening in other parts of the world in other
continents during lord Krishna’s time on the earth.
Were the whole continents joined during the time of Mahabharata War.
Reply
February 15, 2013 at 12:19 am
Hare Krishna Abhijit
Krishna and His empowered representatives appear all over the world, all over the universe, in
every society, to reestablish the principles of religion when they are not being properly followed.
But India is special of course. It is punyabhumi, and there is only one place like India in the
whole universe. There is only one Vrindavan in the universe and it is India. And when Krishna
appears He appears in Vrindavan, in India. So we are very fortunate to have the great
opportunity of taking birth on this planet and those who are born in India are extremely
fortunate to have taken birth there. It is said that the demigods are queuing up to take birth in
India while the pastimes of Lord Caitanya are going on.
So India is a very special place, not just on this planet, but in the whole universe, and
Vrindavan and Mayapur and the many other holy dharms in India are there particularly in India
because India is meant for that, punyabhumi, it is supposed to be a pious land where they
people are all practicing Krishna consciousness. Of course now they are programming
computers and running call centers for the Americans. It has gone off track somewhat. But still
the holy dharmas are there and the place itself has that spiritual atmosphere.
The other parts of the world are for different purposes but still it is not that Krishna and his
representatives do not appear outside India. He appears everywhere, but in India, because it is
punyabhumi, He appears and presents the absolute truth, but of course even in India
Vedavayasa has written a lot of politics and demigod worship and ultimately became
unsatisfied with this and got the message from his spiritual master Narada Muni to simply write
about Krishna and that is how we have SrimadBhagavatam, the ripened fruit of the desire tree
of Vedic knowledge.
So India is special but any bona fide religious process is a part of the Vedas. So Christianity,
Muslims, etc., are also supposed to be following the devotional principles and worshiping the
Supreme Lord to the extent that it is possible for them to do it in their culture. So in the ‘big
picture’ they are not outside the Vedic religion.
Back in the time of Maharaja Yudhisthara, he was the king of the whole world. So at that time
the whole world was following the Vedic principles. Over time it has deteriorated, so much so
that now even in India they are not following the Vedic principles.
So anyhow I hope that helps.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Vivek says:
Hare Krishna Madhudvisa dasa,
I have realized the power of Krishna in the past 4 years. I simply have to chant his name to feel
complete bliss. I can’t explain how I feel. However, my understanding is still very limited. Which is why
your teachings are so important to people like me. Please answer one question I had. If the soul is
Nirguna, it can have no desires and wants. Then why do you say that the soul desires to imitate Krishna
and hence Krishna lets us enter the material world?
Vivek
Reply
Hare Krishna Vivek
Your ideas are contaminated by the impersonal and mayavadi philosophies that are so
prevalent in India and now all over the world. The idea that the soul can ‘have no desires and
wants’ is completely false, completely incorrect. Actually the soul is eternally existing and
eternally has desires and wants. These desires and wants, however, can be of two very
different types. A materialist has material desires and a transcendentalist has spiritual desires.
These impersonalists that you have obviously been hearing from of course are
transcendentalists. But they have no knowledge of Krishna and the spiritual world. They have
no spiritual conception so they can not imagine spiritual desires. They have, through jnana
[knowledge], come to the realization that all desires and wants in the material world ultimately
end in frustration and suffering only. So, having no knowledge of the spiritual world or Krishna
or devotional service, the only thing they can think of doing is to try and give up desires and
wants. But this is an artificial position for the living entity. The living entity is eternally active
and these impersonalists are falsely trying to become inactive, inert, desireless…
This is an artificial position that can not be maintained. That is why even if the impersonalists
manage to become liberated from the material concept of life and even experience
brahmanananda, because there are no spiritual activities for them there is really no
transcendental pleasure for them. And we, the living entities are anandamayabasat, it means
our constitutional position is to enjoy everincreasing transcendental pleasure. The
impersonalists can not experience this pleasure. There bliss is simply a relief from the
sufferings of the material world but they have no positive spiritual engagement and no real
transcendental pleasure and no spiritual activities to engage in. So they fall down. The
impersonalists always fall down and come back in the material world again, which previously
they renounced as false, brahma satyam jagat mithya, but they come back in this socalled
false world and start opening hospitals and doing other philanthropic work. So why do they do
they bother if this world is false? It is because they have no activities or pleasure in their
brahman ‘liberation’ so they have to come back to the material world and engage in some sort
of activity.
So this is proof that the soul is eternally active and eternally has desires and wants.
Krishna consciousness is the science of transforming those material desires and activities into
spiritual desires and transcendental activities. There are activities in spiritual life. Devotional
service means using our intelligence, our energy, our time, our money, everything, in the
service of Krishna under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master. And this service and
activity and desire is eternal and we will continue serving Krishna and being active and having
desires even after going back home back to Godhead.
The word nirguna in the sastra does not mean that the living entity has no form, no desires, no
activities, no wants. NO. It means he has no material form. Actually we do not have any
material form. This material form, our material body is not us, it has nothing to do with us. It is
a temporary outer covering. So this is what nirguna means. We have no material form. But we
have a spiritual form. And we have a spiritual body which engages in spiritual activities in the
service of Krishna in the Spritual world.
And even in the spiritual world we still have a small amount of independence. In the spiritual
world everyone is engaged in the service of Krishna, but they are not forced to serve Krishna,
they are serving Him out of love. So this mood of voluntary loving service to Krishna requires
that the servants of Krishna must have the independence to not serve Krishna if they do not
want to serve Krishna. That is our minute independence and that is the quality of the jivatattva
living entities. We are tatastha. It means marginal. It is like the area of the beach which is
sometimes covered by the water of the ocean and sometimes not. We are like that. We
eternally have the tendency to fall down into the material world. So the residents of Vaikuntha
can fall down if they want to. Of course we have the statement of Krishna that upon reaching
the spiritual world they never come back to the material world again. And of course this is true,
because they can remember their activities in the material word when they go back to the
spiritual world. So why would they want to come back. But still they have their independence.
That is eternal. And if they want to misuse their independence they can come back again to the
material world. That is the independence of the jivatattvas and Krishna will never take this little
independence away from us…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Hanmant Ithape says:
This is Dasha of Russia, Just see the occult phenomena of God, Meteriods collapsed on that country
where the Bagvad Gita was banned and this is the reternal truth of God’s existance. As I saw in OMG
Film in our country but we saw the justice of GOD in truth. So, Truth is Truth !.
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Jan says:
Why did Krishna create marginal energies or souls? Why does he need so many souls to love him? Your
views seem to suggest an egoistic Krishna and I know that’s not what you mean for us to understand.
Please clarify. Hare Krishna
Reply
Of course these things are a bit hard to understand for us because we have no conception of
spiritual. It is different to material. It is not really that Krishna created he marginal energies
although on the other hand we understand the living entities are all expansions of Krishna and
then the question comes as to when did the Krishna expand the jiva souls. But this is a
problem with us trying to superimpose our material experience as to how things are created in
the material world on Krishna in the spiritual world but it is different and we have no way of
actually understanding and conceiving of this. There are many things like that in Krishna
consciousness, that are avan manasa gochara, beyond the ability of our minds to conceive of
and beyond the power of our senses to perceive. So what I am basically saying is that you will
not be able to understand the answer to this question until you become Krishna conscious…
So become Krishna conscious.
Madhudvisa dasa
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harini says:
May 28, 2013 at 10:41 am
hi everyone.
hare krsna….
i am really facing a hard time in this material world. i always have my devotion for sree krsna.as he
always comes in my dream especially the days i visit the iskcon temple. i really surrendered me to krsna
.please someone helpme understand this , that is about the dreams of krsna i get.
so my question is will lord krsna come for me and his devotees. will my dreams about krsna come true?
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May 28, 2013 at 10:51 pm
Hare Krishna Harini
It is very good that you are thinking about Krishna and therefore dreaming about Krishna.
Actually dreams are not very important and generally we can not take them too seriously.
Everyone is having a hard time in the material world but when we actually become devotees we
will realize that we are not these material bodies but that we are spirit souls, eternal servants of
Krishna, and we will engage ourselves in the service of Krishna by surrendering to a pure
devotee and serving him, following his directions.
The most important think is that you chant the Hare Krishna mantra at least 16 rounds a day,
that you strictly follow the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling
and no intoxication, and that you read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 12 hours a day. This
is the beginning of Krishna consciousness.
Krishna consciousness is about practical activity, engaging our senses in the service of Krishna,
and there is a process to awaken our Krishna consciousness and if we want to become actually
Krishna conscious we have to follow this process.
Madhudvisa dasa
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harini says:
May 29, 2013 at 5:37 am
thanks you so much for your reply.
hare krsna…
i am just 14, and my question now is what can i do to serve my krsna so that he can be happy?
i will surely follow your instruction .please kindly tell me what i should do at this age,because i am not a
free bird in this material world . please help me;( . my parents never encourage me in this. i dont know
why……
so now i have found a right person to ask me …so pls kindly give me a good reply about how can i over
come my parents interference in my prayers.
i always say hare krishna 108 times a day.
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June 5, 2013 at 4:52 am
Hare Krishna Harini
It is not that we can directly serve Krishna. Krishna is not so easily available as that. We have
to follow Krishna’s instructions in the Bhagavadgita. So certainly if you read Srila
Prabhupada’s Bhagavadgita As It Is then Krishna will be please that you are doing that. But
the point is that Krishna instructs in the Gita that if one wants to become Krishna conscious he
has to approach a bona fide spiritual master, offer obeisances to him, surrender to him, serve
him, Krishna says that such a selfrealized bona fide spiritual master can give you real
knowledge because he has seen the truth. This is Bhagagavadgita 4.34. And this is really the
secret to advancement in Krishna consciousness. You have to have a bonafide spiritual
master, you have to surrender to him, you have to offer obeisances to him, you have to serve
him…
It is only through the blessings of the bona fide spiritual master that we can get Krishna.
So at this point you need to develop a relationship with Srila Prabhupada because by his
blessings you will be able to develop a real and direct and personal relationship with Krishna.
But this is only possible by pleasing Krishna’s pure devotee. That is the way it works. Krishna is
not available directly. And you can develop a relationship with Srila Prabhupada by reading his
books. Prabhupada is living in his books and if you surrender to reading Prabhupada’s books
then he will tell you what to do.
Madhudvisa dasa
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harini says:
June 5, 2013 at 1:11 pm
thanks a lot ,but i am a bit disappointed that it is not possible to see my god directly and quickly as i
thought,but i am sure that one day the supreme godhead will come for me or show me the way to see
him.
please tell me : I Heared from one of the devotee that once someone from Iskcon told her that “you
should be happy that the lord is coming in your dreams and it shows that he is near you”.
so please tell me that is this sentence of word possible? because you told me that dreams are not very
important and generally we can not take them too seriously.
so ,please tell me more about this dream coming about lord Krishna in devotees mind…… please i will
be waiting for your truthful reply. can dreams of lord Krishna be believed?
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June 6, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Hare Krishna Harini
I already told you. It is very nice that you are dreaming about Krishna, but dreaming is not very
important. What is important is practical service. We have to do something practically for
Krishna. Of course even dreaming about serving Krishna is good and that is also sometimes
counted as good as actual service. But you know Krishna consciousness is not really about
dreaming about Krishna, it is about surrendering to Krishna and serving Krishna and this can
only be done if you have a bona fide spiritual master, and he will guide you how to serve
Krishna.
Dreaming about Krishna is nice. It is so much better than dreaming about maya… But still
dreams are not very important and we do not take them very seriously.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Adi says:
August 18, 2013 at 5:37 pm
The real reason why Bhagavan Shri Krishna cannot be seen or appear in our time is the proper time for
establishing dharma or righteousness has not yet come, and he can be known and be seen in his form
through simple Bhakti (devotion). He can be seen if one practice Bhakti and follow dharma, for I know a
person who saw him in person through divine vision. Yes you may think I’m talking utter foolishness
when I say this, but I want humanity to know he can be seen in these times. That person who saw him
was bless by him and he dedicated his life in serving humanity. People like him are very rare.
I encourage everyone who seek him to read the Gita and understand it. Have faith and yes they will be
tests from the Lord to see if you are worthy of seeing him. Beware of ego, lust anger, pride, doubts,
falsehood and malice. Forgive those who hurt you, Bear no malice towards no one, see Shri Krishna
present in all, and think of him at all times. Offer your actions to him and depend on him with no fear
and doubt like Arjuna did and surely you will attain him. This is the message of the Bhagavad Gita.
May Shri Krishna dispel everyone ignorance and instill wisdom. Happy Krishna Janamashtami to
everyone.
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MILIND DESHPANDE says:
January 26, 2014 at 10:50 am
We, Hindus worship Sun as God. It is a star and every man can see it whether he has pure or impure
eye sight or even the soul. Science accepts existence of such billions of stars.Science has so far not
succeeded proving that God does exist.
I do believe in God which is present in universe as supreme energy. but, i do not know how it does affect
my day to day life.Can I get answers for following,
1. Why Lord krushna was ruling only small area like Mathura, Vrindavan, Sorti Somnath etc.Who was
ruling other part of the earth ?( Leave about other part of Universe)
2. Could our God like Krishna travel other parts of universe which are many many Light years away from
earth?
Reply
Hindus do not know what they are worshiping or why unfortunately. If you ask any Hindu to
explain why he is worshiping or to explain the philosophy behind it he will be unable to. They do
not know. The knowledge has been lost due to it not being properly taught or carried down
through the generations.
Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The ‘sun god’, currently of the name
Vivasvan, is a devotee of Krishna. So the sun god is a very great and powerful personality in
the universe of course. And we are completely dependent upon the sun god to supply us with
heat and light, without which we can not exist in this material world. But the sun god is a living
entity just like you or me. He is a very elevated soul, who has reached this high platform
because of his penances and austerity and service. But you could also become the sun god,
you could become Lord Brahma or you could become any one of the thousands and thousands
of demigods.
A demigod is a man who has godly qualities. So the sun god is like this. He is a man but he
has some godly qualities. But you will know it very clearly that the sun is within this material
world. Therefore the sun god is also within this material world. So because the sun god himself
is within the material world he can not help us to get out of the material world. So the sun god,
and the other demigods, can only help us with some benedictions within the material world.
And benedictions within the material world are temporary, and temporary benefits can not help
the eternal soul in the long run.
So the ‘sun god’ is not god. He is an ordinary living entity like you or me who has been elevated
to high position of responsibility in the universal management. So the sun god is very
respectable to us and we offer him all respects and glorify him in his relationship as a devotee
of Krishna. All the demigods, including the sun god, are devotees of Krishna. But they are not
pure devotees of Krishna. They still have some material desires so they are promoted to big
powerful posts within the material world. But a pure devotee does not have any interest in a big
post in the material world. He simply wants to serve Krishna. That is his purpose in life.
So the real point is Hindus are totally confused and the only way out of this mess is if you can
try to forget everything you have learned and study Srila Prabhupada’s books. The way to
approach a spiritual master is to first make our minds a ‘blank slate’. We have to forget all the
nonsense we have learned in the past and simply surrender to Srila Prabhupada and hear
everything from him. It is only in this way that you will be able to understand and realize the
true nature of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the sun god and other
demigods.
Madhudvisa dasa
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KrishnaPremi says:
I read your reponse to this question but does not feel quiet comfortable accepting
what you have said. You have mentioned that hindus don’t know anything… this can’t
be a correct statement… it means people who have no knowledge does not know
anything because they have no knowledge so saying hindus do not know anything is
not appropriate.
Second you mentioned to forget everything you learnt before…. and surrender to
Prabhupad… why one should surrender to a person who is matter… Why somebody
should surrender to body/matter which at the end of the day dies…..I think One
should surrender only to GOD/Krishna.
God is everywhere … to some people Krishna’s form… what about others….. I think
God loves everybody and different parts of the world may have different form…. In
our Scripture we have Ram as well… different age, and time different form
comes…….
Reply
Yes. You have to surrender to Krishna. But surrendering to Krishna means
surrendering to Krishna’s instructions. So what does Krishna order you:
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire
from him submissively and render service unto him. The selfrealized
soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
(Bhagavadgita 4.34)
So Krishna is ordering you to surrender to a bona fide spiritual master
because he can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
So this is what Krishna orders. It is not possible for us to understand
Krishna, to see Krishna, to surrender to Krishna, without the blessings and
mercy of a pure devotee of Krishna. Krishna is not available directly like this.
The only way that Krishna can become accessible to us, understandable by
us, available to us, is via the mercy of His pure devotees. So the path to
Krishna is only open to those who are prepared to surrender to a pure
devotee of Krishna. It is not possible for anyone else to understand Krishna.
The bona fide spiritual master is not matter. In fact no person is matter.
Every person is a spirit soul. So everyone is spiritual in nature but that
spiritual nature is covered by the material body. So in this covered position
we identify with the material body and think, “I am an Indian,” “I am a
Hindu,” “I am an Australian,” etc. But we are none of these things. We have
nothing to do with these material bodies actually. We are constantly
changing, life after life, from one type of material body to another. We are
not the material body. We are the soul who is transmigrating through so
many different material bodies. It is like a person can drive many different
motor cars but the person is not the motor cars. And he does not change
when he drives a different motor car. So we are like that. We are the driver
within the material body and we are constantly changing into different
material bodies. But we, as the driver, remain the same person.
Even in this life we change into so many different material bodies. We start
with a child’s body, then we get a boy’s body, a man’s body, an old man’s
body and then death comes and death is simply another change of body…
So the point is a liberated soul, a pure devotee, a bona fide spiritual master,
is not on the bodily concept of life. He is constantly in touch with Krishna
and actually he does not speak on his own behalf. He is constantly in
communication with Krishna so he speaks for Krishna. So the disciples of
the bona fide spiritual master see him as being ‘saksad hari’, which means
‘directly Krishna’.
So the bona fide spiritual master is not Krishna but because he is
completely surrendered to Krishna and is speaking for Krishna, he is just
saying what Krishna tells him to say, then hearing from the bona fide
spiritual master is not different from hearing from Krishna directly.
And this is the system Krishna orders us to follow. We have to find a bona
fide spiritual master and hear from him about Krishna. It is not that we can
access Krishna directly while we are in the material concept of life.
Of course later on, when we also become free from the bodily concept of
life, when we become liberated, when we become advanced in Krishna
consciousness, and this is only possible by the mercy of the bona fide
spiritual master, then we will also be able to directly communicate with
Krishna. But this is not possible without surrender, submission and service to
the bona fide spiritual master.
So surrendering to Krishna means surrendering to Srila Prabhupada, a pure
devotee of Krishna. That is what Krishna orders you to do. So if you do not
do this, if you try to surrender to Krishna directly, not via the bona fide
spiritual master, then you are disobeying the orders of Krishna and you will
never be able to understand Krishna.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Jim says:
To be a sun god must be boring, being stuck in one position for billions of years to
serve mother earth, similary to Moksa, complete merging with the brahman
effulgence, you are just stuck in one position, a constant, without time and
movements. Even you happliy feel that you have everything and understand
everything, you’re still stuck in one position and can’t move or be creative in any way –
except to fall down to the material world again, that’s the only move one can make –
if God doesn’t bring you to Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana, though.
Poor sun
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Hare Krishna Jim
Impersonal liberation is boring, merging into the brahman effulgence.
Becoming ‘one’ with the universe… Of course it is not actually possible to
become one. Because we are all eternally individual spirit souls. But we, as
a bright shiny spirit soul, can enter the brahmajoti and shine there with all
the other bright spirit souls. There is no ability to express our individuality in
such impersonal ‘liberation’, there is no opportunity for us to perform any
activities, and there is no opportunity for us to associate with anyone else.
So this impersonal liberation is very boring. And that is the reason that these
socalled liberated souls fall down again to the material world, because they
get totally bored with no identity, no individuality, no activities and no one to
associate with.
The sun god, however, is in a different position. He is in a far grater position
than we are here on earth. He has a very long duration of life and on the sun
planet, which is a heavenly planet, all the facilities for material enjoyment
are unlimited better than what we have to ‘enjoy’ here on earth. So, from
the material point of view, the sun god is in a far better position than us. His
life is not boring like those who get impersonal liberation. He has so many
activities, he has so many relationships with the other living entities there on
the sun planet and he has his individuality and personality. And of course
the sun god is also a devotee of Krishna. So he is not in a very bad position,
in comparison with us on earth, but you are correct of course, that he is
stuck there on the sun for the duration of his life and even the sun god has
to get old, sick and ultimately die. But he is in a far, far better position than
us on earth from the material point of view and he is a devotee, although
not a pure devotee. He still has material desires to fulfill, so instead of going
back home back to Godhead, he has been promoted to a big powerful
position in the material universe.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Harischandra says:
Hare Krsna Madhudvisa dasa. Is not Bhagavad Gita spoken to
sungod millions of years ago by Krsna. i mean the SunGod of our
universe. And a while back also i heard that they are different
brahmas for every universe. All of them are devotees but not pure
devotee like the Brahma of our universe. I know Brahma is a pure
devotee as Srila Prabhupada is from the Brahma Sampradaya and
we follow and obey him. But the sun god is also of our universe
right.
Hare Krishna Harischandra
You are correct, there are many universes. The example is given
that there are as many universes as in a big bag of mustard seeds.
So you can just imagine how many tiny mustard seeds there are in
one of those big bags that the spice merchants purchase the bulk
mustard seeds in. So there are many, many universes and each
universe has it’s own separate Lord Brahma, Sun God, and all the
other demigods. These things like Lord Brahma, sun god, etc, are
posts. And every universe has these posts, but there are different
devotees in each universe in these posts. So every universe has a
sun god and a Lord Brahma but they are different devotees in each
universe. All of the demigods are moreorless not pure devotees
because if they were pure devotees they would not be in the
material world, they would be in the spiritual world. Our Lord
Brahma of course you can read about in Krsna Book, he was
bewildered by Krishna, he tried to use his mystic power to trick
Krishna, but Krishna tricked Brahma with His greater mystic power.
So since then, 5000 years ago, certainly our Lord Brahma is a pure
devotee of Krishna. But the demigods are generally materialistic
devotees. They believe in Krishna and worship Krishna are are
serving Krishna by carrying out their various responsibilities in the
management of the universe, but at the same time they are still
attached to opulence and power and other material attachments…
So yes, the sun god that Krishna says in the Bhagavadgita that he
spoke it to millions of years ago is our sun god.
Everything we experience is within this one universe. Each
universe is covered by seven layers of coverings. It is like a shell.
So each universe is enclosed in a shell. And we can not see out of
that shell… So everything we know is within our one tiny universe.
But beyond the shell of our universe there are unlimited other
universes…
Madhudvisa dasa
Jim Sjöberg says:
There is no answer on my second message? Maybe I was to
honest? I have to be honest so you guys can understand my
position quickly. Please don’t prejudge me because of that. I’ve
attained Moksa, before reading or practicing any religion in this
matter, and I got that experience 11 years ago. I can teach
everyone to attain Moksa, explain in a very deep detail, and
everyone who follow my example will be liberated from this
material world, into this bright spiritual formless light.
I have been searching for someone who had exact experience with
mine for 11 years, and I found noone. A few one who clamid that
they have been liberated, being one with Brahman, but those was
just a bunch of liers when I anylized them into the deepth. So I
feel very alone with my experience, only the Vedas can tell about it
in a very detailed way that is exactly the same with mine. If
something is true about the Vedas, then the stories of mergin with
Brahman effulgence is true, becaue I have verified it and it is
100% proof correct. All the rest I have no idea if its true or not,
because I didn’t have any experience about it yet, like paramatma
which sound like a mix of material and spirituality, because you are
able to be in your material body when you achieve paramatma.
And then about God’s personality – no experience about it and I
can’t say if the vedas tells the truth or not, because I have no
experince about it.
I had a guru before, ex ISKCON member who was a diciple and
was serving Prabhupada in that time, but got crazy and lost his
believes in the vedas and turned to a buddhist monk.
Acctually I have been fighting in life all alone without any gurus
most of my life. As I said, my Moksa liberation I got by seeking
deeply inside me, beyond the senses and words without knowing
what I would find, and this with noones instructions. So I am an
explorer in life, not only in outside life also in inside life, veeeery
deep inside, it is so subtle that no machine or tool can mesure the
life in there.
So what I told you in my previous message was just the obstacles I
encountred and don’t know how to get across it. So I was honest I
told how it is, so someone can easily find my mistakes or direct me
in a more precise way.
My english is not the best so feel free to ask me questions about
the things I couldn’t explain very well, then I can try to focusing
more on the grammer, the choise of meaningas or to explain in a
more detail way. I suck in language and I will always be, that’s my
personality. I don’t give much attention to the language, my brain
feels dizzy and are distracting my pure feelings from heart.
Hare Krsna!
Jim
Hare Krishna Jim
You boast that you have got moksha, you are liberated, and you
can teach others also how to become liberated. But then later on
you write that you are lonely. So what is the point of teaching
others your moksha. They will only become lonely like you are. If
you are interested in bright, spiritual formless light you have come
to the wrong website. We are interested in Krishna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead here. And when you reestablish your loving
relationship with Krishna you will realize that your ‘bright spiritual
formless light’ is just a slight glimmer of the effulgence of
Krishna…
Chant Hare Krishna and be happy! [forget about the bright
formless impersonal light… There is no future for you there. Only
more loneliness.]
Madhudvisa dasa
Jim says:
Thank you for your reply. I guess you missunderstood me a bit. I’m
searching for God’s personallity, and so far I have only experienced
his impersonal aspect, brahman.
One message is gone. I wrote about how it is possible to enter and
visit God in person in Vaikuntha. As I know the Vaikuntha is inside
this effulgence, but I don’t know why I’m just stuck in the light. But
11 years ago when I had my liberation I had no God in my heart,
and that’s why I couldn’t get futher than to lose my indivituallity in
this spiritual light. Awesome experience when first feeling of
seperating and mergin completely with this light, thought I became
God, but I just got tricked to believe in that, so later I understood I
just became one with one of his qualities. Anyways. I reached
Moksha without any mantras, and when I chant Hare Krsna, how
can I leave my body and brain to enter the brahman effulgence
and from there enter Vaikuntha. To be completely spiritualisted I
need to leave my thoughts, because the thoughts is one of the
attachments to materialism.
And I can teach the way to the people how to, step by step, be
liberated to Moksha. I could write a book, but how many would
follow my example? People are more into playing playstaion or
xbox than to sit down and draw back all the material attachments.
My method is no mystic, it is about how you are, how you works,
so the method works on everybody because we are built in the
same way.
As I said, I can teach it to everyone, but I’m not that interested to
do it because if everyone would be libirated they would encounter
the same problem – they would get bored of it. So that’s why I’m
trying to find Vaikuntha and God’s personality. I have seeking it for
many years without any experience about it. Sometimes my brain
is tricking me as long as I am attached to my brain. I don’t know if
I experience something mixed spirituality and material. I just want
100% spiritual experience as I had in the brahman experience, but
instead of Brahman I want to experience Vaikuntha, how is it
possible for me to do that without to grow old and die first?
It’s hard to tell about my liberation, because people is just leaving
me when I seek futher help. I don’t know why. This is me and I just
told about what happend in my life and I just want to tell about my
todays position so someone can easily understand where I stand.
But ofcourse, I can lie about my experience and act like someone
who never attained any spiritual at all, but that would be to cheat
myself and others that are trying to help me. How can someone
help me if I’m not honest to them?
I’m not thinking I am someone more than others. Through my
experience I see every soul equal to mine, the only difference is
that they don’t know about the hidden spiritual spark where you
find in Moksha.
I’m a good guy. And all my life I have been struggling to find out
the meaning of life. And my wish is to teach people how to find
God’s personality, not how to become one with one of his
impersonal spiritual qualities. But sometimes I believe it can be
good to know about your root position, that you’re not stuck in
believing that you are just the body and brain.
But about Veda, even I had my liberation and Vedas comfuse me
a lot, but that’s maya I believe. I want real expeirences.
How is it to meet with God in person? Have you trancended to
Vaikuntha, how is it? My ex ISKCON guru claimed to have been
visiting Vaikuntha, but never got any instructions how to go there.
But I believe later that must been som illusion only, because he
disbelived in the Vedas and turned to a boring buddhist monk later.
So still, everything about Brahman is true in the Vedas and all
other stuff is just hidden for me and I want to reveal everything
else that is written in the Vedas. And after that I would be happy
to teach everyone about God Through my words and
expeirnces.
Hare Krishna.
Hare Krishna Jim
Why don’t you read Srila Prabhupada’s books?
You have an exISKCON guru but you do not exhibit any signs that
you have ever seriously studied Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Of course we can meet Krishna in person but that is not the
process. The process is to find a pure devotee of Krishna, to
surrender to him and to serve him. It is only by the mercy of a pure
devotee of Krishna that we can meet Krishna. If we want to meet
Krishna then we have to be introduced to Krishna by one of His
confidential devotees. Otherwise there is no possibility of meeting
Krishna.
So your concern should not be how to meet Krishna. Your concern
should be how to meet Srila Prabhupada, a pure devotee of
Krishna, how to surrender to Srila Prabhupada, how to serve Srila
Prabhupada. Because it is only by the mercy of a pure devotee of
Krishna that you will ever be able to meet Krishna.
ISKCON is doing so much harm to people like yourself by
presenting demons as pure devotees of Krishna and once you have
surrendered to a demon and accepted him as your spiritual master
it is very difficult to ever surrender again. This creates a huge crack
in the heart which is very difficult to repair. But Krishna
consciousness is only available by surrender. So ISKCON is
destroying the chance of so many from practically ever becoming
Krishna conscious by forcing them to accept bogus gurus.
So you have gone through a very bad experience and to recover
from this is not an easy thing. It is very dangerous to one’s spiritual
life to accept someone who is not a pure devotee of Krishna as
one’s spiritual master. There is nothing so effective in destroying
Krishna consciousness as this. Even if the guru is ‘sincere’ it does
not matter. If he is not a pure devotee of Krishna he is incapable
of guiding you to Krishna. He is a cheater, he is a demon. He is
presenting himself as something which he is not. He is claiming to
give something that he does not himself posses.
Your questions do not have one line answers.
Srila Prabhupada has written dozens of books simply because to
explain these things requires dozens of books. So if you want to
understand Krishna consciousness then you have to surrender and
read all of Srila Prabhupada’s books.
Krishna consciousness is a great science but if you are not
prepared to study the books then how can you expect that you will
ever understand it?
Madhudvisa dasa
Milind Deshpanfe says:
March 4, 2014 at 10:49 pm
Sir
Shirsaahtang Namaskar.
Kinsly explain, The Sun as you claim the sun i originaly a man and is been given
reaponaibilty.It meance he is from earth. Does it mean earth is oldee than sun.
Science qill not agrwe yo that.
Why Lord Krishna n Ram rulled only small area of olden India when they atw
controller of whole universe
Reply
March 7, 2014 at 11:26 pm
You misunderstand. The sun is not a man. The sun is a planet. The sungod
is a man, actually not a man as we know, he is a demigod, which is a body
far superior to a man’s body as we know it. The sungod is the principal
person on the sun planet. The leader of all the other people on the sun
planet. The sunshine is the shining effulgence of the bodies of the sun god
and of all the other people on the sun planet.
So there are many people on the sun planet and they all have very brilliantly
effulgent bodies. The sun god is the principal person on the sun planet, the
leader of the sun planet. But the sun is a planet, not a person.
It is not that the earth is the only place where there are men, persons. No.
There are people everywhere throughout the universe. So you do not have a
very complete understanding of these things. I suggest you read the books
of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and
automatically you will come to understand so many things. Reading Srila
Prabhupada’s books is very satisfying and a great source of knowledge and
inspiration.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Milind Deshpande says:
Namaskar,
If, Sungod is a demigod and entity like us, with godly characteristics. How will you
define the `Big Bang` theory wherein many many Galaxies and Stars (like our own
sun) were born,
Which theory is correct?
I have not heard answers to many of my questions asked earlier
Best Regards
Reply
‘big bang theory’ is total nonsense. If you want to understand these things
scientifically you have to read Srila Prabhupada’s books. Everything about
the creation is completely and scientifically explained in Srimad
Bhagavatam. If you want the knowledge then you have to study the books.
That is the only way.
Madhudvisa dasa
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October 22, 2014 at 11:00 am
Sir,
I agree, I have not read or studied any of the books you suggested
but I will surely buy and read.I would like to know on what scientific
basis you claim `Big bang` theory to be Nonsense.
Scientists have studied after effects of Big explosion. We can also
see process of dyeing and birth taking process of Galaxies , stars
far away from our own Galaxy. And we know that, this process is
following the path of science that we know. Theory of Big Bang
has sense.
Regards
Theory of big bang is only a guess with no actual knowledge of
what is going on at all in the universe.
What they are noticing is the universe is expanding, and the
universe is expanding, but they do not know how it started or why it
is expanding, nor do they know what it will do in the future.
However, because we get this information from the Vedic
knowledge we know everything.
We know that there are many, many universes, not just one. We
know that the universes all emanate from the pores of the body of
MahaVisnu lying on the causal ocean every time He breathes out.
The come out very small, in seed form and as they move further
away from the body of MahaVisnu they expand. But when Maha
Visnu starts to breate in then the process is reversed. All the
universes start to shrink back to the seed form again and again
enter into the body of MahaVisnu. They remain within His body
until He breathes out again and then the same process repeats.
So that is what is actually happening. That is the real science. You
will not know how wrong the modern science is until you know
really what is happening.
They have just made up this ‘big bang’ theory. But it is stupid.
They say there was a big bang, which came out of nothing and
which was caused by nothing and from this nothingness
immediately the whole universe was created. So this is the insane
rantings of crazy men and you like it? So I think you have not
actually thought about this crazy, insane, childish ‘big bang
theory…’
Read Prabhupada’s books. If you don’t read the books how will you
understand the science?
Madhudvisa dasa
March 20, 2014 at 10:32 am
Shir Sashtang Namaskar,
Kindly answer why Lord Krishna ruled very very small area like Mathura when he was controller
of universe.
You say,India is the holiest place that is why Rama, Krishna appeared 5000years before, but
today.. there is no other place on earth like Hindustan,
Our temples are dirty,. We bribe God.
We lie to God.We fight within ourselves on Jati, Dharma. Most are illiterate, stay in slums drink
alcohol play jugar, Look at our Political scenario. Most of them are corrupt, illiterate,Gundas.
Look at other places where Gods did not appear, they are (mostly Western and far Eastern)
countries technologically developed,their standard of living. Quality of life they are living.
Reply
March 22, 2014 at 5:42 am
Hare Krishna
Yes. India and Indians are being punished for rejecting Krishna consciousness. India
is punyabhumi, the land of pious activities. But they have turned it into the land of
sinful activities, the land of sinners. It is difficult to find a more sinful place than
today’s India. You have the most abortions, rape, child sex, etc, etc, etc. Now in every
family there is alcohol drinking and every sinful activity and everyone is just concerned
about money. Success = money in today’s India. India is not meant for this
materialistic society full of sin and corruption and cheating. So India and Indians are
suffering. India is not meant for this.
The Western countries are meant for technological and materialistic advancement and
India is meant for spritual advancement. Unfortunately Indians have given up spiritual
life and are hankering after becoming materially advanced like the Western countries.
But this material advancement is not for India. India is punyabhumi, the land of pious
activities. But they have made it the land of sinners. It is a very sad state indeed.
I think the only real hope for India is if we can convince the Western countries to take
to Krishna consciousness and I think if the whole world takes to Krishna
consciousness then finally India will be forced to rediscover her original culture. The
Westerners will have to bring Krishna consciousness back to India…
Madhudvisa dasa
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March 24, 2014 at 9:37 am
Shir Sashtang Namaskar,
Why have we turned into sinners,what made us to reject Krishna`s services?
No, Most Indians are Paapbhiru, they are afraid of making sin.Our leaders
are are wrong. They have spoiled every thing over a period. But our Lord
Krishna is waiting for the pot of sin to overflow, he is not bothered, not
concerned about sufferings of common man. Common man is always
rejected even by the God.
Situation has made common man sinful. God should take note of this.
Person advocating God for this situation is equally responsible to the
suffering in common man`s life.
This is the God`s sin.
Thanks
Milind
Reply
March 28, 2014 at 12:33 am
Hare Krishna
It is true that the Indian leaders, and leaders everywhere at the
moment, are bad. And the common people follow the leaders. So
the bad leaders have made the general people bad.
The common man in India used to be afraid of sin. But I think they
are not any more. At least not the younger people. They have
embraced sinful life so fully and so completely I think generally
Indians are no longer afraid of committing sinful activities. It is a
great loss for India.
God is always there to help. But we need to turn to Him for help.
He will help us if we want His help…
Madhudvisa dasa
March 30, 2014 at 9:32 am
Hare Rama Hare Krushna,
Leaders in Punyabhumi are bad .They have spoiled generation ,
made it sinful.
Please note, common man can not identify what is bad or what is
good as he has been kept illiterate.
So, whatever sin he does is because he is blind.
But Leaders and also common people in other countries( mostly
developed) are loyal to their country, society. They do hard work,
study hard develop technology and lead happy life. They do not
find need to commit sin in day to day life ( like what we Indians
do).
Does it mean Materialism is better than Spiritualism?
.It is difficult to digest that India will have to depend on Western
world for first they come under Krushna`s consciousness and then
lead India back to spiritualism.
April 15, 2014 at 4:10 am
Sir,
If we ask Western Countries to take spirituality and leave Materiology.
Very soon the whole world will be in Dark. There will be no technological
development. No work No study just chanting.
We will go into 13 th century.
Is that not true?
Kindly answer.
Thanks,
Milind
15/04/14
Reply
April 15, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Hare Krishna Milind
No, you are wrong here. If the whole world takes to Krishna
consciousness the world will not be dark. Far from that! It will be
very bright, flooded with the spiritual effulgence of Lord Caitanya’s
sankirtan movement. Not at all dark. Exactly the opposite to dark!!!
And you misunderstand Krishna consciousness. Our philosophy is
not to reject material things. We know everything belongs to
Krishna, everything is the energy of Krishna and the proper use of
Krishna’s energy is to engage it in Krishna’s service.
So whatever technological advances are there we will use them in
Krishna’s service. If you look at the history of the Krishna
consciousness movement you will see that we are always utilizing
the most modern technology to spread Krishna consciousness all
over the world. We are preaching on the internet. We are using it.
We are using everything for spreading Krishna consciousness.
This is the philosophy of ‘yukta vairagya’ enunciated by Srila Rupa
Goswami. This is practical renunciation. The Mayavadis try to give
up everything material with their slogan ‘brahma satyam jagat
mithya’ “brahman is truth and the material world is false.” But this
is an incorrect idea. The material energy, although inferior, is also
Krishna’s energy. So it is not false. It is true. So the perfection of
the material energy is to engaged it in the service of Krishna.
And you know I think that devotees do not just chant. They work in
so many ways.
And the other thing is not everyone is going to become a devotee.
Krishna consciousness can only be accepted by intelligent persons
and most people are not intelligent. A materialist is not going to
surrender to Krishna. So we are not expecting that everyone will
become Krishna conscious. But if we can get even a small
percentage, say 5% of the population of the world, to become
serious devotees, then the whole world will change.
Madhudvisa dasa
Bee says:
I hope this email finds you well. So…on February 13 (last week), Mid afternoon I was washing dishes
after cooking. Right in front of me at the sink is a window sill is a 4X6 picture of Jesus. So am washing
dishes and listening to Radhanath Swami (he makes me feel better) and all of a sudden my eyes catch
this blaring glowing bright light, and a man appears to me right next to Jesus’s pic. A blue man w a flute.
He was glowing, radiant, majestic, magnificent and very very elegant in his poise with the flute. He
appears then disappears! Krishna! Why did He appear to me? I’m a devout Christian and non believer.
So why on earth did Krishna come to me???
Not sure if this is related but 2 months back a grandma passed. I’m sitting at the wake and prayers are
going on in this orthodox Christian church and all of a sudden I feel like someone put a crown on my
head. It hurt…like a crown of pressure. I just don’t understand any of this. I beg of you, plz shed some
light on this for me. I don’t know who to ask. Two ppl said I’ll find the answer from within but honesty this
is all a little too much!!! I’m just a simple person living an ordinary life. Plz tell me what you think! Thank
you!!
Reply
If Krishna is appearing to you then you need to find out more about Krishna. Please read the
books of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. You will find everything you
are looking for there.
You can purchase them at http://www.KrishnaStore.com, you can read them online at
http://www.PrabhupadaBooks.com and you can download them as PDF files from
http://www.Krishna.org
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
1st question What does eternal exactly mean? I am not understanding the concept of eternal. There
must have been something that created…. I know Krishna is eternal but how can it be? How can anyone
come out of nothing.
2nd question In many scriptures they have given that you will progress very well only under a bonafide
spiritual master. But are we to considers the books themselves as the representstive of Srila
Prabhupada?
Reply
Hare Krishna Rukmini
Yes. Because we only have experience of the material world where everything has a beginning
we can not understand the concept of eternity. That is because of our material contamination.
But you should be able to understand the concept that we are eternal, Krishna is eternal. It
means Krishna and ourselves have no beginning an no end. We are never born and we never
die. We are eternal. You should be able to theologically understand this at least. We were
never born, we were never created, we have always existed in the past and we will always exist
with Krishna in the future also. There is no possibility of us or Krishna ever not existing.
Yes. Srila Prabhupada himself instructs us that “I am living in my books and you will utilize.”
That was even the case in Prabhupada’s physical presence. Prabhupada had 10,000 devotees
and a very large percentage of these devotees had very little or no opportunity to associate with
Srila Prabhupada physically. They only associated with Srila Prabhupada through reading his
books and hearing his classes. Even when Prabhupada was physically present. So now we can
still associate with Srila Prabhupada by reading his books and by hearing his classes. If you
surrender to Srila Prabhupada in this way you will come to realize that Srila Prabhupada is
actually living in his books and in the form of his transcendental books he can guide us and
answer any question we may have.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 3, 2014 at 7:10 am
Actually first when I didn’t know that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead I believed in the
existence of God( including demigods) and I always thought of no chance of God not existing. Ever since
I have started reading Bhagavad Geeta I have gained a lot of interest in it. However I don’t know why but
sometimes I feel that all this is false and God does not exist. I have now finished readind Bhagavad
Geeta with full interest and have moved on to Srimad Bhagvatam and am reading Part 1. I feel good
reading it but at times when I am not reading it I feel it is all false and all the stories are just falsely
made .I feel really mad about myself. Is this the attack of Maaya or anything else.
Please, kindly give me a remedy to this.
Reply
March 8, 2014 at 12:35 am
These doubts in your mind are maya. That is how maya works. You have to know it for an
absolute fact that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that the Bhagavadgita
is a real actual conversation that took place between Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of
Kuruksettra just before one of the greatest battles this planet has ever seen. And you have to
know that SrimadBhagavatam is the actual description of the activities of Krishna and his
devotees and their interactions with the demons also sometimes, and that it is the
paramahamsasamhita. SrimadBhagavtam is the cream or the essence of all the Vedas. It
was written by Srila Vyasadeva as his final and supreme literary contribution.
You can read about it in the Bhagavatam itself but Srila Vyasadeva had already written all the
other Vedic books, but even after writing so much literature he was still not satisfied. So his
spiritual master Narada Muni visited him and inquired why he was not happy. And Srila
Vyasadeva lamented to Narada Muni that even after writing so many literatures he was not
satisfied. So Narada Muni let Srila Vyasadeva know that the reason for his despondency was
that in all his Vedic literatures he had not elaborately described Krishna and the pastimes of
Krishna. Of course there is some mention of Krishna, but it is included with so much
materialistic religiosity and so many things that are not actually pure devotional service. So
NaradaMuni told Srila Vyasadeva to write the SrimadBhagavatam simply describing the
pastimes of Krishna and His incarnations.
So SrimadBhagavatam is real and all the personalities you read about in SrimadBhagavatam
are real. And you know this when you are reading it. Because you can feel it when you are
reading it. But once you stop reading and after some time maya is trying to tell you that this
Bhagavatam is all nonsense and you should not read it. That is what maya does. So we have
to become strong and fight maya and just keep chanting Hare Krishna and reading Srimad
Bhagavatam 24 hours a day. Kirtanya sada hari and nityam bhagavata sevaya. That will be
very nice.
Madhudvisa dasa
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March 3, 2014 at 10:14 pm
Sir
It should be Lord Krishna’s duty to eliminate foolishness n blindness from common man so that he leads
path to moksha.It can not be agreed that man takes birth in material world without Lord Krishna’ s wish..
You need to rethink basis of phelosophy.
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March 8, 2014 at 12:05 am
Hare Krishna
You are wrong. Krishna has given us limited independence. So we have the independence. We
can serve Krishna or we can reject Krishna. That is our personal decision. It has nothing to do
with Krishna. That we can decide on our own.
You have to understand that we, the living entities, are the same as Krishna, the Supreme
living entity, in terms of qualities. Of course Krishna is unlimited in every respect while we are
tiny in every way. So we share the same qualities as Krishna, although in us we have these
qualities in a very small quantity. So as Krishna is supremely independent, we also have
independence, although our independence is very limited. Still we can choose to use our
independence to surrender to Krishna and serve Him or we can use our independence to reject
Krishna and we can desire to try to enjoy ourselves, just like Krishna. So Krishna has created
this material world complete with the illusion, maya, that we can be happy separately from
Krishna, and if we misuse our independence then that is the cause of us taking birth in the
material world.
So us taking birth in the material world is our fault. It is not Krishna’s wish that we misuse our
independence. It is Krishna’s wish that we be happy and if we misuse our independence we will
not be happy. But that is the meaning of independence. We can use it properly or we can
misuse it.
If Krishna “eliminated the foolishness and blindness of the common man” then that would mean
Krishna would have to eliminate our independence. Because we become foolish and blind due
to the misuse of our independence.
So you have to understand that we are the cause of our own suffering. Krishna does not want
us to suffer, but we do suffer because we have misused our independence. That is our fault. It
is not Krishna’s fault.
Actually Krishna is always helping us in so many ways to rectify us and bring us back into our
normal happy situation. He has provided all the knowledge in the Vedas and spritual literatures
all over the world. He has Himself incarnated into the material world to guide us and to give us
a glimpse into the spiritual world, our real home. And He has sent so many saints, prophets,
gurus and guides to help men back onto the spiritual path.
So Krishna is trying in every way to help us. Still ultimately we have a little independence and
we have to choose ourselves to surrender to and serve Krishna. He is not going to take that
independence away from us. Because our relationship with Krishna is one of love. Voluntary
selfless love. So there is no meaning to love if there is force. So if Krishna was to force us to
serve Him that would not be love. So Krishna will not force. We have to decide to serve Krishna
or to reject Krishna. And if we decide to reject Krishna then that is the cause of us taking birth
in this material world.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 5, 2014 at 3:05 am
I am the same Rukmini who had asked you the previous questions .Actually I an thirteen years old.
Today while going to school to write my annual exam I was in hurry as there were only 5 minutes left.
While I reached the end of the street and was crossing the door something really ,really terrible
happened. A scooter knocked me down all of a sudden. I fell to the ground and so did the person on
scooter. I became mad. I stood up and went to the other side of the road still not understanding what
had happened. I shouted and cried to my brother who was standing on the other side of the road seeing
this whole incident. I was crying out. People came and consoled me. But I was desperate shouting don’t
know what happened to me! I told them I had exam ,told them I was fine ,Shouted at my brother to
come, hopelessly thinking what had happened. After a few minutes I got to know that I had actually met
with an accident. I was anxious still shocked still horrified. My shoes had flown somewhere away.
My brother consoled me and took me back home and I argued that I had an exam to write even though
he actually had the board exam. While going back home he told me that I had only been saved due to
my starting chanting Hare Krishna Mantra otherwise I would have been killed on the spot. But I felt my
Karma was only to that extent so I didn’t die.
Please tell me whether it was my Karma’s extent or Krishna’s mercy that nothing very severe happened
to me
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March 7, 2014 at 11:11 pm
I am sorry to hear of your accident. We should not be very surprised about such accidents. This
is the nature of the material world. Padam Padam yad vipadam. “At every step there is
danger.” So yes, certainly the accident was your bad karma from this or previous lives. But as
your brother has correctly said, it is Krishna’s mercy for His devotees that He will minimize
these karmic reactions so that instead of being killed or very seriously injured we may only be
slightly hurt.
So a devotee understands the nature of the material world and is not very surprised by these
things. A devotee is surrendered to Krishna and accepts everything as Krishna’s mercy, even
though it may seem that it is a very bad thing happening to us, still the devotee accepts it as
Krishna’s mercy.
We do not know Krishna’s plan. We simply want to serve Krishna, and if Krishna wants to kill
us also we do not mind. We know that we are not this material body and that we are never
killed actually. What we call death is simply the soul changing from one body to another. So a
devotee is not afraid of death. Whatever advancement we have made in Krishna consciousness
is permanent, our advancement in Krishna consciousness will never be lost. So even if we are
forced to leave this body, if we die, then we will either go back home back to Godhead if we
have attained the platform of Krishna consciousness or we will take birth again in a situation
where we will be able to continue our Krishna consciousness.
So of course you should be a little careful and look outside the door before stepping out on the
street… We have to see it like that this body is Krishna’s and that we should protect this body
and look after it so we can use it to serve Krishna with. So we have to be careful, but ultimately
these things happen, and ultimately for a devotee it is all Krishna’s arrangement. Sometimes
we may not understand Krishna’s arrangement but we know that it is all Krishna’s mercy.
To the extent we are pure devotees then Krishna may adjust our karma, but because we have
this material body the karma is there. It is not that because we are devotees of Krishna that our
material bodies will not get old, get sick and die. No. Our bodies are going to get old, sick and
die like the bodies of the materialists. But the difference is that we, as devotees of Krishna,
realize that we are not these material bodies so we are not at all disturbed by our material
bodies getting old, sick and dying. We know we are not the material body, we are the spirit soul
within the body, and we are eternal servants of Krishna…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 9, 2014 at 3:14 am
So does it mean that actually Krishna taken mercy upon me? But how could it be
when I have not engaged in His devotional service except for reading the sacred
books . Does it mean that if someone else was in my place who did not read such
books might have met with an accident?
To tell the truth , my mind is so polluted that I am not able to believe that Krishna
exists. I feel all the past times are only creations for our enjoyment. I have read
Bhagavad Geeta and now I am reading Srimad Bhagvatam 1st part. Yet sometimes
doubt arises. Sometimes (I regret telling and say with utmost politeness) I feel that
this website is also false. I love reading the books but my mind does not allow to
believe them. Is this maya? If so please do tell me what to do. Please tell me some
things or some phenomena that takes place in nature to doubtlessly proves that
Krishna does exist.
Could you also give me any website in which I will get Young Krishna’s drawings
because I love drawing Them.
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March 13, 2014 at 5:49 am
Krishna is very real and this website is also very real. You may have doubts
but that is maya, illusion. You can get rid of maya, get rid of the illusion by
chanting:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Madhudvisa dasa
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March 7, 2014 at 9:28 pm
Sir,
Today India is 3rd most unsafe country in the world. Our leaders are corrupt. Dishonesty in society. Rvery
person is selfish. We are not ashamed of deceiving anybody,braking rules.We are uneducated. We
donate to obtain seat in school. We bribe to get job. There is no country like India.
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Rukmini says:
March 8, 2014 at 12:55 am
1)If anything bad happens to us is it because of carelessness or karma? In my accident was it my karma
or carelessness that it took place? I had read somewhere , probably in the Bhagvad Geeta , that these
material bodies are just machines to carry out the karmas. However if we do something carelessly, for
instance if we get hurt because of our carelessness, we can’t say it is our karma,right? On the other hand
it is said this body only carries out Karmas. So what exactly is the concept?
2)I had recently lost my textbook maybe someone stole it or I misplaced it. Of course as it is natural I
had attachment for my book since I had written a lot in it. I tried to search a lot for it. I didn’t find it. Even
out of suspicion I checked one of my friend’s bag which was indeed a shameful deed. I desperately
searched for it. Unfortunately I did not get it. My brother told me that it is no use searching for it. It is
your karma. Don’t waste time on it and arrange for a new book.
I was a type of happy on listening that it was my karmadon’t know why. However if that was my karma
what about the person who stole it. I got my result back; but he being used as an agent to carry out this
wrong deed in his side doesn’t he get anything bad? It is really confusing. I had read an article in this
website before on Karma in which you explained to another person telling the concept of Karma giving
the example of killing and being killed as a cow, etc. But I did not understand it as it was confusing.
Could you kindly explain the Karma concept to me in the context of my textbook. And thanks for the
previous reply.
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March 13, 2014 at 6:01 am
For a materialist, he has no freedom at all, he is simply acting under the direction of the three
modes of material nature. He thinks he is the doer of his activities but his activities are actually
being carried out by the three modes of material nature. And karma is a very important part of
this. The whole material world is organized in such a way that everyone’s karma is
simultaneously fulfilled. So you did something bad to cause that person to steal your textbook
and now he has done something bad by stealing your textbook and he will have to suffer for
that. So this karma creates a huge entangling web. And we are struggling in this web of karma
and just becoming more and more entangled in it.
We are not so concerned about understanding all the minute details of karma, we are
concerned about how to become free from karma and that science Srila Prabhupada is
teaching us in his books.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 13, 2014 at 2:49 am
I love to read the books like Bhagvatam and now since I have my summer holidays I will spend all my
time for it. However the exams were really tough and frustrating. Should we go to the
slaughterhouses(schools) ? Is there no alternative? Once we start getting a rank in class we have to
maintain it and even if we do not want to maintain our parents do not allow us to fall down. Due to this
all the time we have to study, study and study the nonsense which I do not see having applications in our
life at all. Ever since I started getting rank I feel sad even if I lose 1 mark. These studies are really
frustrating. They do not allow us to read wonderful books like Bhagvatam since there is so much to read
in our school syllabus itself. Our parents will of course scold if we fall down in rank. What to do? I don’t
want to study this way . I don’t want this type of studies.
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March 13, 2014 at 4:52 am
You need to simply chant Hare Krishna and study all of Srila Prabhupada’s books. If you simply
do this you will come out to be greater than any Ph.D. “educated” in this slaughterhouse
system.
So somehow you can try to divert your time and energy from studying nonsense to studying
Krishna in SrimadBhagavatam, Bhagavadgita As It Is, Sri Caitanyacaritamrta, etc. This is the
proper use of your time, and through this you will get the best education in all ways. You will
not be seen as being lacking in education in any company at all if you simply dedicate your life
to seriously studying Srila Prabhupada’s books and applying what you read in your practical life.
Actually how to execute this in your life, Krishna will give you the inspiration from within your
heart. Just keep chanting Hare Krishna, 16 rounds a day and follow the four regulative
principles [no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication] and keep reading
Srila Prabhupada’s books. Be very determined but at the same time we have to be very
patient. You may just have to tolerate a certain amount of this slaughterhouse nonsense. But
you can take advantage of it, like Prahlada Maharaja did, and convert all your fellow students
into devotees of Krishna. That will be very nice.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 13, 2014 at 5:59 am
Can we sing songs in praise of other incarnations of Krishna like ‘Namaste Narasimhaya’? And could you
also tell me a website where I could get drawings of Young Krishna in his past times.
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March 13, 2014 at 6:07 am
Yes. We have many songs.
http://krishna.org/originalsongsofthevaisnavaacaryaspdfdownload/
It is best to sing the songs in this book.
If you look at Krsna Book at:
http://prabhupadabooks.com/kb
You will find many pictures of Krishna if you go through each chapter.
Also at:
http://krishnastore.com/krishnaartkrishnaartprintspapercanvasom22_24.html
You can see many pictures of Krishna. If you click on the image you will go to a page with a
bigger picture.
That is something for a start..
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 13, 2014 at 11:52 pm
Thanks for the websites. They are really good.
Could you tell me another thing.
1) What is the main reason that we should not eat onion and garlic?
2) Why is the number of times we should chant our rounds exactly 16 times?
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March 17, 2014 at 2:01 am
We do not eat onion and garlic because these foods are in the mode of
passion and to develop Krishna consciousness we have to be in the mode of
goodness. So eating foods in the mode of passion will cause us to be in the
mode of passion which makes it very difficult to become Krishna conscious.
And of course the real reason is that Krishna only accepts offerings in the
mode of goodness. So we can not offer onions or garlic to Krishna. He does
not accept them. And as devotees only accept Krishna prasadam then
naturally we never accept anything cooked with onion and garlic because
Krishna does not accept onion and garlic…
As far as chanting, it is not ‘exactly 16 rounds’ it is ‘at least 16 rounds’. We
can chant more than 16 rounds, it is that 16 rounds is the minimum number
of rounds, we have to chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna maha
mantra every day. Because becoming Krishna consciousness is a very
serious thing. It can not be attained without a very serious commitment to
chanting Hare Krishna. So this minimum number of rounds is there. It is a
minimum only. We have to chant at least 16 rounds every day, but you do
not have to stop at 16 rounds. You can keep on chanting and chant 32
rounds, 64 rounds, 128 rounds or even more. Haridas Thakura used to chant
192 rounds every day. So really 16 rounds is not very much…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 14, 2014 at 12:24 am
We can express our love for Krishna as friend, conjugal lover, parent, etc right? Should we consider that
relation before our devotional service to Krishna and go according to that relation or it automatically
develops when we love Him without our knowledge of that relation with Him.
My mother always wastes her time chatting nonsense, complaining, sitting silently and thinking whatever
happened in our neighborhood, etc. So I thought to tell her to read Bhagvad Geeta with full mind which
we already had and told her that all the gods that you pray are only demigods and part and parcels of
Krishna. She got angry and told that there is no such thing. It is what Iskcon thinks Prabhupada thinks. I
was deeply hurt. I could not speak any further and indirectly forced me to believe what she told to some
extent. She reads Bhagvad Geeta rarely and that too with no mind just for passing time with her mind
elsewhere. I will never tell her because she will also make me believe that all this is not true. She told
that thousands of people worship Ganesha and what I told was totally false. Please comment.
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March 17, 2014 at 1:54 am
We all have an eternal relationship with Krishna but that will be revealed in due course
automatically. That is an advanced stage of devotional service, far above the platform we are
currently on. So we should not artificially imagine about these things. We need to simply
engage in devotional service and hearing and chanting about Krishna and these things will
develop automatically of their own accord in the future when we are more advanced in spritual
life. It can not be falsely imitated.
As far as your mother, it is very difficult for older people to change their ways. They have
accepted things in a certain way for their whole life, and even though it may be a completely
wrong idea, they are very accustomed to that, and they can not give it up. The advantage of
being young is that your mind is still somewhat open and you can consider different things and
different angles of vision. So it is probably better not to try and change your mother too much.
As you become more and more a devotee of Krishna she will benefit automatically by your
association and by hearing you chant Hare Krishna and by accepting the Krishna prasadam you
cook, etc…
So just try to encourage whatever little devotional service she may be inclined to perform and
try not to disturb her ideas too much even if they are wrong.
It is true of course that thousands of people worship Ganesh. Mostly they worship Ganesh of
course asking for some material benefits, for getting money. Any worship that the materialists
do is generally like this. They want to get some material benefit. This is not pure devotional
service, but still it is pious activity. So it is also not bad. It is not the best and it is not what pure
devotees do, still it is pious activity.
The demigods are real of course and we as Vaisnavas also offer full respects to the demigods
and accept them as devotees of Krishna. So we do not disrespect the demigods in any way.
But at the same time we clearly differentiate between the demigods, who are generally living
entities just like us, only they have become elevated to positions of power and influence in the
material universe as a result of their austerities and pious activities, and Krishna or Visnu.
Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And the demigods are all devotees of Krishna.
So this idea that Hindus generally have that all the gods are the same, it is completely wrong.
But for someone like your mother, it may be difficult for her to understand this after a lifetime
of hearing that all the gods are the same…
Anyhow, I hope it is a little useful for you.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 14, 2014 at 8:45 am
If don’t want maya to attack us and don’t want repeated birth and death and the bad karmas why don’t
we pray to Durga with devotion to leave us?
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March 17, 2014 at 1:28 am
There is no need to pray to the demigods like Durga. There is no point in asking Mother Durga
for freedom from birth and death because she herself is also within the material world and she
is herself not free from the repetition of birth and death.
The demigods, like Mother Durga, are living entities like us who have been elevated to
positions of high responsibility in the material world as a result of their great penances and
austerities. They are devotees of Krishna, Visnu, but materialistic devotees, not pure devotees.
They still have some desire to ‘enjoy’ in the material world. So they are not themselves free
from the modes of material nature and they are not free from the cycle of birth and death.
The only person who has the power to free us from the cycle of birth and death is Krishna,
Visnu. And we can only get the mercy of Krishna by pleasing His pure devotees like Srila
Prabhupada. So the secret for getting out of the cycle of birth and death is pleasing Srila
Prabhupada and to know how to please Srila Prabhupada we need to read his books so we can
understand what he wants us to do for him…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 15, 2014 at 7:30 am
Did Krishna go on other planets than earth in our solar system?
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March 17, 2014 at 1:13 am
Krishna is everywhere, Krishna is within all of our hearts, Krishna is also within the atoms. So
Krishna goes everywhere.
But Vrindavan is only here on this planet in our universe. So in that sense this Earth planet is a
very special place in this universe. And this time now is also a very special time as Krishna only
appears once in one day of Lord Brahma, and the day of Lord Brahma is thousands of millions
of years long. So we happen to have taken birth here on the planet where Krishna has just
appeared here in Vrindavan only 5000 years ago, and where Krishna as Lord Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu has appeared again only 500 years ago and where Srila Prabhupada has made
this Krishna consciousness so easily accessible through his transcendental books and spread
this knowledge all over the world only 50 years ago. So this Earth planet at this time is a very
special place in this universe. They do not have Vrindavan on any other planet in this universe,
however there are different incarnations of Visnu and different empowered representatives of
Krishna on every planet.
But Krishna, as the cowherd boy of Vrindavan, does not go out of Vrindavan, and that
Vrindavan is only in the spiritual world and in this universe it is only on this Earth planet in the
Mathura district of India…
So we are in a very special place on this planet at this time. We should take full advantage of
all these favorable circumstances and become pure devotees of Krishna in this one life.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Mithil says:
March 18, 2014 at 7:49 pm
hello madhudvisadasa, i have a mediating question. When one says “meditate upon God”, how should
this be done? do we see a picture of Lord Krishna and try to mediate with that image constantly in our
head with closed eyes? or should we just clear our minds and meditate that way? i want to see Krisna
with my own eyes, so please help.
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March 22, 2014 at 7:03 am
Meditating on God means chanting:
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
We make spiritual advancement through hearing much more than by seeing or thinking in our
minds. So you simply need to concentrate on pronouncing all of the words of the Hare Krishna
mahamantra clearly and on hearing all the words clearly. That is the only type of meditation
that will be effective in this age, Kaliyuga.
You can have the picture of Krishna there, that is OK, but that is secondary, the main thing is
chanting and hearing the Hare Krishna mantra.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Rukmini says:
March 24, 2014 at 12:33 am
I was reading the 2nd Canto.
Are Maha Vishnu and the universal form the same?There are a number of universes in the material
world and in each of them there are a number of Brahmas and Shivas it was given something like that.
What does it mean? Only one Brahma is born on the lotus stem and he creates the innumerable material
universes right? Then where does the number of Brahmas and Shivas come from?
Lord Krishna’s smile is really beautiful right? But is it that we should not be enchanted by Maha Vishnu’s
smile only which is a material trap. It is said that the smile is Maya. I didn’t understand that concept.
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March 28, 2014 at 12:58 am
No, MahaVisnu and the Universal Form are not the same. They are both expansions of
Krishna. But MahaVisnu is four armed form and the Universal Form is imagining the universe
as a form of Lord Visnu. So it is two different manifestations of the form of Krishna.
There is only one Brahma in each universe, but there are many universes, so there are many
Brahma’s, but only one in each universe.
Similarly with Shiva, but there are also different expansions of Shiva. So sometimes one can
see more than one Shiva in one universe. But that would be expansions of the same Shiva.
Shiva is in a special position. But the thing is you will not be able to understand every find
detail on your first reading of Srila Prabhupada’s books. But simply by reading the books you
are becoming Krishna conscious. And the more you read the more you will find everything falls
into place and you will begin to understand everything, so just keep reading even if sometimes
you do not fully comprehend what you are reading.
Madhudvisa dasa
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robby says:
July 1, 2014 at 10:30 pm
Hi,
I have seen both Vishnu and Shiva in my dream state several times. A lot of times and they keep
showing themselves. Krishna does communicate with me every hour at a specific time and I do see
Krishna through colors and numbers everywhere. However, I CANNOT see his true form as we know it
like I see in my dreams. He sometimes appears in the moon. I see Krishna everywhere through signs but
NOT the image we have always seen him in images and the same as in my dreams. PLEASE HELP
ME. I want to see Krishna.
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July 4, 2014 at 6:31 am
Read Srila Prabhupada’s books and chant Hare Krishna. You will see Krishna but only if you
purify your eyes so you have the spiritual vision to see Krishna. Krishna does not reveal Himself
to everyone. Krishna only reveals Himself to His devotees. So if we want to see Krishna then
we have to become a devotee of Krishna.
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dolly says:
July 28, 2014 at 12:07 am
I want to know that what is the process to take help from shri krishna if a life is full of problems and how
do we know that shri krishna is helping us
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July 31, 2014 at 5:24 am
The process is to read Srila Prabhupada’s books, to chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare
Krishna mantra daily, to strictly follow the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat
eating, no gambling and no intoxication. It is very simple. Associating with Srila Prabhupada,
chanting Hare Krishna, following the regulative principles, reading Srila Prabhupada’s books.
This is the way. But most people won’t do it. But if you do actually surrender to these things
and do actually surrender to Srila Prabhupada and do actually follow the instructions Srila
Prabhupada gives you as you read his books you will become a pure devotee of Krishna and
your life will then be full of Krishna and service to Krishna and all the problems will be how to
execute your service to Krishna. Then your problems will take on a spiritual nature and they will
become a source of transcendental bliss, not anxiety…
Madhudvisa dasa
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Pradipta says:
How do I serve Krishna?
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Read Srila Prabhupada’s books and find out…
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Bhakta Jim says:
PAMHO, all glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I have a question on the topic of material vs spiritual vision. Sometime back in the 70’s a friend of mine
who lived and trained at Melbourne Mahaprabhu Mandir for a few months swears that one morning at
mangalaarati, the RadhaBallabha deities appeared to him as gold and blue respectively. Ordinarily, to
our material eyes (and in photographs) Srimati Radharani appears white and Sri Ballabha appears black.
Is this a good example of Krsna revealing himself to his devotee? I can’t seem to find any written
reference to this change of colour and I’ve often thought he might’ve been pulling my leg (he blooped
before being initiated). Just wondering…
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Devotees imagine so many things and consider them spiritual vision. But this is not real
spiritual vision. It is there imagination only. That he blooped shows the depth of his spiritual
realization. Krishna consciousness is not such a cheap thing. Of course Krishna may reveal
something of Himself to a new devotee to inspire him. Why not? Krishna is a person, the
Supreme Person, He can do anything He wants to. We can not say what Krishna is doing or
not doing. That is up to Him.
So the main point is the science of Krishna consciousness is fully described in Srila
Prabhupada’s books and we need to study and follow the instructions in these books.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Bhakta Jim says:
Pamho, agtSP! Thanks for replying, and please excuse my poorlyworded question, let me try that
again… I really wanted to ask about having “the eyes to see”.
I have heard that the RadhaKrishna Deities appear without colour, black and white, to the mundane
eyes of ordinary people with no spiritual vision; but devotees who are advanced to a certain level can see
Their true colours of blue and gold.
Is this an example of having (or not having) “the eyes to see”? Are Their Lordship’s true hues hidden
from plain sight? I always took it as proof of my lack of advancement when I would visit the Temple and
They appeared (as splendid as always) in Their black and white forms.
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You have to become a pure devotee to see as pure devotees see. So these questions are
useless. You should be concentrating on becoming a devotee and understand that patience and
determination are very important qualities that you have to cultivate if you want to become a
pure devotee of Krishna. We can not force Krishna to appear before us. If Krishna wants to
appear before us He will. But if Krishna does not appear to us that does not in any way
decrease our enthusiasm and determination in devotional service.
So stop wondering what a pure devotee sees and become a pure devotee yourself and see for
yourself. That is the actually the only way. You can not understand what a pure devotee
experiences without becoming a pure devotee yourself. That is the way.
Madhudvisa dasa
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Bee says:
Mid afternoon I was washing dishes after cooking. Kids were playing. Right in front of me at the sink is a
window sill w a pic of Jesus. So am washing dishes and listening to Radhanath Swami (he makes me
feel better) and all of a sudden something appears to me right next to Jesus\’s pic. A blue man w a flute.
He appears then disappears! Krishna! Why did He appear to me? I am w Christian! what does that
mean. He was the most glorious vision, illuminating brilliantly, his color blue so radiant and glowing. He
was playing the flute. God IS with us. No doubt. I just wish I knew why He came to me.
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Chant the Hare Krishna mantra and ask Krishna yourself.
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harshit says:
Once a time i went to mathura vrindavan there just after reaching i had breathing problem in day i
managed somehow but at night the problem get worse and i feared my body parts get numb and i get
hospitalized and as the problem start just after reaching vrindavan i was thinking that krishna is punishing
me. So bow from that time i get afraid to go anywhere outside city. Please help me out
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Yes. Sometimes we get some heavy reactions while visiting Vrindavan. The thing is to become
Krishna conscious and all problems will be corrected. So just concentrate on chanting at least
16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day, strictly follow the four regulative principles: no
illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication, and read Srila Prabhupada’s books
at least 12 hours a day. All our problems come from lack of surrender to Srila Prabhupada and
Krishna and all our problems will be solved when we fully surrender to Srila Prabhupada and
Krishna.
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Tom says:
Dear Madhudvisa Dasa Prabhu,
You’re doing an amazing service by being what seems like a lonely voice in support of Srila
Prabhupada’s mission. I’ve been associated with ISCKON for nearly 23 years now and always
had a problem with the guru system that existed in this society – mainly not recognizing anyone
to be qualified to serve as a guru – especially when the motivation is for personal fame and
wealth gain. It is encouraging to hear from you that we can associate with Srila Prabhupada
through his books and accept him as the bona fide spiritual master as referred to in Bhagavad
Gita.
I’m curious Prabhu were you initiated by a disciple in the ISKCON movement also? In your
narrative it states you came in contact with ISKCON in 1984 so I’m curious who gave you your
spiritual name? The reason I ask is because I’ve struggled with the concept of guru – mainly
the imbalance that occurs between what is described in Gita vs. options available in ISKCON. I
almost gave up on my advancement because there was no one on the caliber of Srila
Prabhupada to take shelter of, at least in ISKCON and if real progress can’t be made without
serving a guru then is our endeavor in a post Srila Prabhupad world in vain? I’m slowing
understanding from your words that we simply accept Srila Prabhupad as our guru and take
instruction from his books and lectures – is this adequate to full fill the requirement as stated in
Gita of approaching a bona fide spiritual master? I suppose its up to Krishna to arrange a living
person if such is our need.
thank you again for all you do,
Jai Sita Ram,
Tom
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Hare Krishna Tom
Yes. Srila Prabhupada is living in his books and you can personally associate with
Srila Prabhupada and receive direct and personal instructions and get all the answers
to your questions directly from Srila Prabhupada if you just surrender to him and serve
him. Make the orders of Srila Prabhupada the mission of your life. It requires real and
actual surrender and dedication and we have to really actually chant at least 16
rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day and really strictly follow the four
regulative principles [no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication]
and really read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 12 hours a day…
If we really do these things then we will actually realize that Srila Prabhupada is living
in his books and we will be able to have direct and personal association with Srila
Prabhupada!
My story is long and not important.
Madhudvisa dasa
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smriti says:
April 11, 2015 at 2:25 am
why does god have made women and men so different. is there any reason of so. why only women
tolerate the adharm of men since mahabharat time.
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April 23, 2015 at 6:16 am
Women are made to serve their husbands. Men are made to protect and provide for women. It
is a very nice arrangement. Unfortunately now the women refuse to serve the men. So the
whole social system of the world is now completely dysfunctional. Men have no interest in
today’s ‘liberated’ women. So the whole world has gone to Hell. And this is because the women
refuse to serve their husbands.
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Mayuri says:
July 28, 2015 at 2:16 am
Last year ,in my free time I use to read lots of articles on shre krishna and few of his teaching etc .
Showly I found that I have started searching and doing more reseach of krishna which was very
fascinating and interesting . I learned few mantra on vasudev and use to repeat them. I search almost all
sites, book and read all posSible source on krishna . One night I had a dream . I saw the face so
beautiful so beautiful eyes and skin colour was so attractive. I have never seen such beauty in my life .
So much of light and so much joy and that blue face with eye’s and lotus .
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Mayuri says:
July 28, 2015 at 2:19 am
Can anyone see krishna in dream or it is illusion of fatigue mind
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July 30, 2015 at 3:35 am
Hare Krishna
Sleep, dream, it is the mode of ignorance. So generally what we see in dreams is not spiritual.
But of course a pure devotee is always seeing Krishna. Still if we see Krishna in our dreams or
the devotees or Srimati Tulsi Devi or anything that reminds us of Krishna in our dreams that is
very good. We are remembering Krishna even in our dreams. So this is the idea of Krishna
consciousness. To always remember Krishna and never forget Krishna. So if you can see
Krishna in your dreams that is very wonderful.
But really the main thing is to make sure you are always chanting at least 16 rounds of the
Hare Krishna mantra every day, reading Srila Prabhupada’s books and strictly following the four
regulative principles and engaging in practical service under the direction of a pure devotee of
Krishna. That is the path to Krishna consciousness. Not dreaming about Krishna. Still dreaming
about Krishna is nice.
Madhudvisa dasa
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About the Author
Madhudvisa dasa My first contact with a Hare Krishna was a most merciful Mataji in
Oxford Street, London who sold me a "Higher Taste" cook book in 1984 while I was on
holidays there. I started seriously reading Srila Prabhupada's books in Australia 1985 and
by 1986 Srila Prabhupada had convinced me "Krishna is the Supreme Personality of
Godhead" and "we should surrender to Krishna." I joined the Hare Krishnas in Perth,
Western Australia in 1986. Since then I have been chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna,
Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, reading and distributing Srila Prabhupada's
books and preaching as much as I can. That's my life and fulltime occupation now really. I like it more than
anything I've ever experienced before. Srila Prabhupada's books are so amazing... Even after reading them
all many times they're still fresh and new. They are truly transcendental! That's it really. Now I'm just
hankering to once again see the world chant Hare Krishna, dance and feast and float away in the ecstasy of
Lord Caitanya's Sankirtana movement as it did in Srila Prabhupada's physical presence. Let the whole world
drown in the ecstatic flood of love of Krishna!
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