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Question: How Can a Pure Devotee Desire to Separate from God?

Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble pranams.

I have read that we came to the material world because we had a strong desire to enjoy separately from God. I have also read that we were pure devotees of God before coming to the material world. How can a pure devotee have a desire to separate from God? Being in the platform of pure devotee how is it possible to get desire to separate from God and come to material world where there is only suffering? 

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Inconceivable Misuse of Free Will

It is not possible for a conditioned soul to understand how he fell from his original position of pure devotion by misusing his free will and developing the impure desire to enjoy separately from the Lord. Therefore instead of wasting time to trying to figure out how he fell into this material world, he should focus instead on how to get back to home, back to Godhead. Once he regains his original liberated position it will be easy for him to understand how he got deviated from pure devotional service. Until then his trying to figure this out will be a diversion of his energy, which instead should be fully channeled into qualifying himself to go back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari


Chant.... HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE ....and be happy.