Re: The Straight Path

Respected Vaishnavas,

      Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! My humble pranams!

       For a realized devotee, everything is the Lord's property and meant to be used in his service. So in that sense there is nothing material. But we sometimes mistake the material world that we are in to be the original spiritual world. Mistaking the counterfeit note for the real currency. As was pointed about rocks, moon and sun being living, it has no basis. Only the rocks, sun and moon of Vaikunta are living.

       The conception of the pure devotee involves a complete change of natures from material to spiritual. But the other conception says that the material world with its impermanent nature as it is, is infact the spiritual world itself! A very subtle difference, very. The truth is that the material nature is replaced by the spiritual nature and cannot be considered as spiritual nature itself. Some think this material world to be the spirit and they try to experience spiritual bliss with material senses. The mind cannot realize the Lord on its own! Mind is also material.

       

        The modern day philosophers question all conceptions of God, even the real ones as purely fancy and being sceptic about everything, they sit in the void of ignorance, "We don't know which is God." and mislead their followers who mistake this for harmony while it actually reveals a huge lacuna of pure spiritual realizations. The professors of these philosophies claim all religions that concentrate on exclusive devotion to a Personality of Godhead are all limited, creating divisions in the world. These speculative philosophers blame the devotees for dividing the world and they attempt to compromise everything pure by accepting medicine with one hand and poison with the other. They wrongly claim that Vaishnavas have divided the world and created sectarian wars and in the garb of secularism they simply preach atheism and with a plan to turn the whole world into atheists.

         We can only imagine what sort of hidden envy some of these revered philosophers may have towards the real devotees of Lord Gaurahari. These things may have to be given up, otherwise we may not make much spiritual progress and will not be healed on the level of the soul. We now can pinpoint the cause of the faith crises that have arisen all over the world.

         We see that the modern philosophers always use words like higher plane, higher power, and other terms to describe the Lord, but who says Krishna, Narayana, Vasudeva, Nityananda, Gauranga, etc..? Srila Prabhupada refused to call his movement God Consciousness and instead said Krishna Consciousness. The Vaisnava religion is not a limited material conception. It does not create any divisions within the world, but it is the pristinely pure truth.

           However the Lord and His devotees are eternally merciful. They are always inviting us to come to them inspite of all our offenses and we must never get discouraged and quit. Now one more opportunity is being given to us and let us take full shelter of that with the purest spiritual motive.

          I'll continue next time when I get more insights on this matter.

Daaso'smi,

Srinath

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