Re: Why are devotees, gurus and pure devotee seen to suffer

Nityananda, Gauranga, Hare Krishna.
Jaya Guru Parampara, Jaya Swamiji Gaurangapada.

My dearest Swamiji Gaurangapada,

The obvious reason for this suffering is that we have accepted a material body which eventually will cease to exist anyway. Decay and eventually 'death' is what every material body is sure to expect, without exception. Alas, but this decay is never without suffering. Think about Shrila Prabhupada: yes, even during His last days on earth He taught us a valuable lesson - but unfortunately His body suffered heavily.   Hence the question whether one can be 100% surrendered to Lord Gaura Krishna while still being trapped into a material body. I'm also afraid that at the end of the day physical pain will have the upper hand and that 'dying peacefully' is only a myth. Nowadays at the hospitals people get heavily sedated during their last hours to 'ease' the pain. So, no matter how big our Faith, how can one actively remember the Lord while being sedated? Only God can give us an answer to this...

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why it is called the present, the present from God. The most important lesson is to always think about the Lord - here and now.

Praying for the Mercy of Their Lordships,
Damodara Svarupa dasa

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Found a new ebook of spiritual nectar

Namaste,

        I regularly visit this site and I found lot of guidance from all the wonderful topics you discuss here. I became inspired and started chanting the Lord's names recently as your site made me realize the importance of chanting. And already I am feeling very much improvement.  Actually since I am very new to devotion I don't know so much about this devotion and karma or scriptures, what it is or how it works. I am trying to know more about the subjects and I have been collecting some books like Bhagavad Gita to read more.

       Recently I was searching for some bhakti books which contained some books essential for me at this stage.

    Few days back I found this new ebook called "The Gaura Ebook" which was only some 34 Mb so I looked at the description and felt like downloading...when i opened it i was really amazed because it contained exactly what I had been searching for -- all the essential books that are needed for spiritual progress. Lot of info about science, bhakti, karma, vaishnava philosphy is there along with some books which I have read from the web links on the left side frame on this site. But it is small and easy to use.

       I became very interested after going through this book as it is very valuable for me. I think all devotees can go through it. 

        The book can be downloaded from HERE.

       The introduction of the book is posted below...

"...For the world at large, where spiritual culture is rapidly degrading day by day, there is an urgent need to present the essence of the teachings of the spiritual masters in an accessible and concise form. The spectrum of spiritual literatures is truly unlimited, both in quantity and variety. However, it is the core essence of all those teachings which will do the greatest good to the human society at large. An optimized solution will be to sort out those literatures which are of greater benefit to the world in the present modern-day condition of humanity and present them in a concise and naturally intuitive, user friendly form that serves as a teacher to the reader. Such a book must be helpful to people at all levels of spiritual development across the wide spectrum of human society. The solution to all this is the GAURA BOOK.

The Gaura Ebook is a multi-role work, fulfilling many different purposes. Keeping the top priority of objectives in mind, it has been designed mainly with all the literatures dealing with spiritual instructions and the most essential books containing spiritual nectar for relishing, along with other supplementary literatures for various purposes. Along with this, affordability in terms of ebook size, portability, reduction in complexity and the load on the reader, easier distribution, are other factors necessary to achieve its spiritual goals. The Ebook, while being targeted for people at all levels of spiritual development, is particularly intended for those who are just beginning their spiritual development at various levels. In this aspect the very comprehensive introductory section is meant to introduce readers from present day walks of life to spiritual science right from the fundamental level onwards in both theory as well as practice.

The Gaura Ebook contains precisely just those important literatures that are necessary and sufficient to guide anyone along the spiritual path. It is possible to make very rapid spiritual advancement and attain spiritual perfection if the instructions in those literatures are just followed properly and carefully.

Some salient features of the Gaura Ebook are ease of use, quick accessibility, a carefully designed sorting scheme to arrange spiritual literatures by priority, and reduced search time -- all for the benefit of the readers. To make it more user friendly and intuitive, one of the main features is that the Gaura Ebook is designed completely for sequential reading. It has all the items sorted in the recommended reading order so that even readers new to spiritual science can be comfortable from the start.

In conclusion, this book will certainly make some difference in your lives for your spiritual benefit. If this book can help even one soul along their spiritual journey, it will have served its ultimate purpose -- to bring mankind to Godhead.

Sincerely,
KS

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