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Objection: What You Have Said Is Incorrect

Revered Sankarshan das ji, With due respect to the bhakti cult I have a question regarding the 2nd offense against the holy name that you mentioned in Lesson 18 of this course thatone should not consider the names of demigods like Lord Siva or Lord Brahma to be equal to, or independent of, the name of Lord Vishnu. You also said that  if someone thinks that he can chant "Kāli, Kāli!" or "Durga, Durga!" and it is the same as Hare Krishna, that it is the greatest offense But my question is: Why not chanting "Durga Durga", "Shiva Shiva", "Kāli Kāli"?  They are the same thing as when a devotee chants "Hare Krishna."  How you can say that Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are different when they are one.  This is certainly not an offense as you narrated. My name is Debasis. But this is certainly not my real identity. It is my name, ID number plate, just like that. The Supreme Divine is my self, not my name. I can change my number plate at any moment I would like. That does not mean My Supreme identity is changed. So by whatever name I call the Supreme communication will be in order. Lord Vishnu's devotees always have access to Supreme whether they chant Shiva, Kali, Durga or whatever they like. In the Bhagavad-gita I did not find any interpretation in support of the precaution that you have stated. Hare Krishna Yours obediently, Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:I Only Repeat What Is In the Scriptures You have objected to what I have stated about offenses while chanting the Lord's holy names.  But you should know that what I have written is not my statement. I have simply repeated the version of the Vedic scriptures and the great Vedic authorities. I understand that there is some confusion in your mind regarding the 2nd offense against the chanting of the Lord's holy name, which is stated as follows: To consider the names of demigods like Lord Siva or Lord Brahma to be equal to, or independent of, the name of Lord Vishnu. (Sometimes the atheistic class of men take it that any demigod is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vishnu. But one who is a devotee knows that no demigod, however great he may be, is independently as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, if someone thinks that he can chant "Kāli, Kāli!" or "Durga, Durga!" and it is the same as Hare Krishna, that is the greatest offense.) You question why this is wrong because you consider that all the gods are the same. You have concluded that chanting the names of various gods is as good chanting the name of Krishna because all the gods are the Supreme. Such a philosophy may be very popular in these days of egalitarianism. But is it not in accord with logic and scripture. How many supreme courts are there in a nation? There is only one because if there were more than one, there would be no supreme court. In the same way if everyone is the Supreme, there is no Supreme. In other words, the philosophy that everyone is the Supreme is a roundabout way of saying that there is no God. Plus is it confirmed again and again throughout the Vedic literatures that there is one Supreme Person who is the source of all the gods. For example it is stated in the Brahma-samhita by Lord Brahma: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam "Krishna is the supreme controller of everything. He has an eternal form of bliss and knowledge.  He has not origin because He is the origin of everything, and He is the cause of all causes." Brahma-samhita 5.1 And Krishna states in the Bhagavad-gita: aham ādir hi devānāṁ "I am the source of the demigods." Bhagavad-gita 10.2 You also mention that there is nothing in the Bhagavad-gita that one should not consider the demigods to be equal to Krishna. Apparently you have missed these verses spoken by Lord Krishna in your study of the Gita: kāmais tais tair hṛta-jñānāḥ prapadyante 'nya-devatāḥ taṁ taṁ niyamam āsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā "Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures." Bhagavad-gita 7.20 antavat tu phalaṁ teṣāṁ tad bhavaty alpa-medhasām devān deva-yajo yānti mad-bhaktā yānti mām api "Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet." Bhagavad-gita 7.23 The conclusion is that by worshipping the demigods you attain the planets of the demigods, which are temporary abodes here in this material world. At the time of the universal devastation the planets of the demigods are destroyed. So why should one go there. The intelligent person worships Krishna so that he can attain of Krishna where life is eternal. Although we do not worship the demigods as the Supreme, we still greatly respect them for they are all great devotees of Lord Krishna.  Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Question: Is Krishna Hiding Behind Maya?

When maya is there, is Krishna hiding behind that? What is the purpose of maya?

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: It's We Who Are Hiding Just as on a cloudy day, it is not the sun which is covered by clouds, it is we who are covered by the clouds. In a similar way it is not that Krishna is hiding behind maya. It is we who are hiding.  Maya is there to serve us. When we want to forget Krishna she helps us in our forgetfulness by giving us so many convincing arguments that there is no God. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Don't Be a Guru Exploiter

If we continue taking from someone more and more without showing our love by giving them anything in return, this is called exploitation. It is not love. This is what we are guilty of here in this material world. We are taking from God, the supplier of all our necessities, at every moment. But we are such ingrates that we are not reciprocating with Him, appreciating Him for all the kindness He is bestowing on us at every minute. Instead of loving God we are exploiting God. The same principle applies to our diksha guru and siksha gurus who instruct us how to become Krishna conscious. If we take instructions from them without serving them, we are guru exploiters, and Krishna will not accept us as his devotees.

 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The Perfection of Love is Chanting God's Holy Names

Congregational Chanting in Rome, Italy

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Question: Fear of Being Killed by Terrorists

Hare Krishna Gurudeva,

My humble obeisances,

All glories to Srila Prabhupada,

I am getting really worried to see how thousands of people are getting killed by the Islam terrorism. Recently on 16th March 2014 about 200 Christian people in Nigeria are killed by armed Muslims. Now these incidences are creating fear amongst our heart that this may happen to us too. How to understand this? Being a beginner devotee, a sadhaka, how can I get relieved of these anxieties? Is it proper way to understand nothing happens without Krishna's will and by all these all experiences in this world Krishna is asking us to get aware and take devotional life seriously and go back home? Or is there anything more we need to understand.?

Yours in service,

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: Death Only When Sanctioned by Krishna It is said:rākhe kṛṣṇa māre ke, māre kṛṣṇa rākhe ke "He whom Krishna protects, no one can kill, but if Krishna wants to kill someone, no one can give him protection." So why be in any anxiety about dying? Just depend on Krishna with full faith that you will only die when He wants you to die, not before that. Use the anxiety you feel as an impetus to take complete shelter of Lord Krishna, which will free you completely from all the anxieties that we experience in this material  world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Question: Should We Love Only Krishna?

Is it true that only God, Sri Krishna, is the ever-companion in this whole universe and all other human associations do not last forever?  So should we love only the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna as our permanent companion and not anyone else? Answers by Citing the Vedic Version: By Loving Krishna You Perfectly Love Everyone Yes, it is a fact that we have only constant companion, Lord Sri Krishna. He travels us with in this world perpetually as the Supersoul and in the spiritual world He is always present in His original form. Regarding others, it is confirmed as follows in the Srimad Bhagavatam we do not stay with together with our friends and family members: naikatra priya-saṁvāsaḥ suhṛdāṁ citra-karmaṇām oghena vyūhyamānānāṁ plavānāṁ srotaso yathā "Many planks and sticks, unable to stay together, are carried away by the force of a river's waves. Similarly, although we are intimately related with friends and family members, we are unable to stay together because of our varied past deeds and the waves of time." --Srimad Bhagavatam 10.5.25 And it is also a fact that we should give all of our love exclusively to Krishna. This is how one becomes perfect in love. This is perfect because just as when you the water the root of a tree all the leaves and branches become nourished, in a similar way when you give your love to Krishna, who is the root of all existence, your love is then perfectly distributed to all living beings in all planets and universes. By giving all of your love to Krishna you thus become the perfect lover of all living beings. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Science is Defeated. A New Paradigm is Taking Over.

uploaded from Copenhagen, Denmark

It is becoming more and more widely known now that the scientists are off the track. Even some of the scientists themselves are realizing what we, the followers of Vedic culture, have known all along that the conclusions of modern day science are often wrong and are therefore unreliable. For example in a recent article entitled, "Scientific Pride and Prejudice" published in the 31 January 2014 edition of the New York Times we find this startling information: "Two years ago, C. Glenn Begley and Lee M. Ellis reported in Nature that they were able to replicate only six out of 53 'landmark' cancer studies. Scientists now worry that many published scientific results are simply not true. The natural sciences often offer themselves as a model to other disciplines. But this time science might look for help to the humanities, and to literary criticism in particular. "A major root of the crisis is selective use of data. Scientists, eager to make striking new claims, focus only on evidence that supports their preconceptions. Psychologists call this 'confirmation bias': We seek out information that confirms what we already believe. 'We each begin probably with a little bias,' as Jane Austen writes in 'Persuasion,' 'and upon that bias build every circumstance in favor of it.'" So the point is that the current methodology used by scientists to understand reality is wrong. They are using their imperfect senses to try to come up with perfect knowledge. This is simply not possible. There is now a new paradigm of how to see reality. Actually this paradigm is not new. It is coming to us from the ancient sages of India who were able with purified senses to transfer their consciousness to that dimension beyond time and space. This new paradigm will completely revolutionize the world.   Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Program in Home of Lalitanath Prabhu 27 March 2014--Copenhagen, Denmark

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada

Even more nectarean than remembering Krishna is remembering Srila Prabhupada, the topmost pure devotee of Lord Krishna. It is my unlimited good fortune that I had the opportunity to accept Srila Prabhupada as my spiritual master and to associate and communicate with him on numerous occasions. And now even in the pain of his separation since his departure from this planet in 1977 it is the greatest benediction of Lord Krishna that simply by remembering Srila Prabhupada I can still directly experience his divine presence which purifies my heart, uplifts my consciousness, and helps me to understanding how I can properly serve him and Lord Sri Krishna in all circumstances.

 

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Remembering Srila Prabhupada
28 March 2014--Copenhagen, Denmark

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Question: Is Anyone Gambling?

Yesterday when I was telling my office colleague that gambling is prohibited for those who are on the pathway of self-realization he said, "Nowadays who is gambling? I don't think anyone is gambling."  Then I thought that he was right. I also practically do not see anyone gambling. So why is this a regulative principle?

Thanks & Regards,
 

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

51% of the World Population is Gambling

If you don't see that anyone is gambling, hear these statistics:

Currently about 51% of the world population takes part in some form of gambling every year.  Gambling via the internet is becoming increasingly popular. The national Lotto in the UK is played by over 32 million people every week.  During fiscal year 2012 U.S. lottery sales totaled $78 billion ($US) and Canadian sales reached $9.3 billion ($Can). So gambling is currently is extremely popular with the present day world population.

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Hare Krishna is Number One

Last Sunday evening (2 March 2014) local Austin musicians gathered here at a music venue to do a tribute program for Beatle George Harrison. The festival organizer contacted me and invited us to participate in the program. When I suggested that we could do a Hare Krishna kirtan he loved the idea. We were the opening number of the program, and when he introduced us to the audience he mentioned that George was very fond of kirtan and often participated in it. When at the end of the kirtan I gave thanks to George for making the Hare Krishna mantra a number one hit the entire audience delightfully roared with approval. We distributed many copies of the book Chant and Be Happy, which features a conversation with George Harrison about Krishna consciousness, as well as delicious prasadam cookies. It was so wonderful to see a completely materialistic atmosphere so wonderfully transformed by the power of the Hare Krishna mahamantra. When the chanting of this topmost of all mantras become a standard practice in every town, village, and home throughout the world it will be a new era of unparalleled happiness for all.   Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Hare Krishna Kirtan at George Harrison Tribute Concert
Austin, Texas--2 March 2014

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