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Question: Is this World the Greatest Obstacle?
Question: Is this World the Greatest Obstacle?
I know that Lord Krishna has said thousand s of years back. But still we are suffering. We are not on the path of suggested /ordered by Lord.
As I am a Sikh, I read Guru Granth Sahib, which also says the same things. I read holy Bhagavad-gita, Ramayana and other sacred granthas. I try to follow the things that the gurus say. Is it true that the world in which we are living is the greatest obstacle on the path of super consciousness?
Hare Krishna
Answer: No. It's Our False Sense of Proprietorship.
The world we live in is not an obstacle on the path of super consciousness. The actual obstacle is our false sense of proprietorship, our lording-it-over mentality. This is what we must give up.
If someone walks into a bank to rob it, he is a thief. And if someone else walks into that bank and says, "I renounce this
bank", he is a madman because the bank does not belong to him in the first place for him to renounce it. So it is not that we have to renounce this world thinking that it is an obstacle. We simply have to see this world as the property of God and utilize it fully in His service. In this way we will become completely free from the actual obstacle, which is our false sense of proprietorship.
Our fallacy is that even though we come into this world with nothing and we also leave it with nothing still we come foolishly in the middle and falsely claim that it belongs to us. This is my land; this my is wealth; this my house; this is my wife; this is my car, etc. This is maya. Nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to God. One who utilizes everything in God's service has achieved the perfection of super consciousness, pure Krishna bhakti.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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I know that Lord Krishna has said thousand s of years back. But still we are suffering. We are not on the path of suggested /ordered by Lord.
As I am a Sikh, I read Guru Granth Sahib, which also says the same things. I read holy Bhagavad-gita, Ramayana and other sacred granthas. I try to follow the things that the gurus say. Is it true that the world in which we are living is the greatest obstacle on the path of super consciousness?
Hare Krishna
Answer: No. It's Our False Sense of Proprietorship.
The world we live in is not an obstacle on the path of super consciousness. The actual obstacle is our false sense of proprietorship, our lording-it-over mentality. This is what we must give up.
If someone walks into a bank to rob it, he is a thief. And if someone else walks into that bank and says, "I renounce this
bank", he is a madman because the bank does not belong to him in the first place for him to renounce it. So it is not that we have to renounce this world thinking that it is an obstacle. We simply have to see this world as the property of God and utilize it fully in His service. In this way we will become completely free from the actual obstacle, which is our false sense of proprietorship.
Our fallacy is that even though we come into this world with nothing and we also leave it with nothing still we come foolishly in the middle and falsely claim that it belongs to us. This is my land; this my is wealth; this my house; this is my wife; this is my car, etc. This is maya. Nothing belongs to us. Everything belongs to God. One who utilizes everything in God's service has achieved the perfection of super consciousness, pure Krishna bhakti.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
For more discussions visit
http://harekrishnaharekrishna.ning.com/forum/
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The Bhagavad-gita is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom. Spoken by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead to His intimate disciple Arjuna, the Gita's seven hundred concise verses provide a definitive guide to the science of self realization. No other philosophical or religious work reveals, in such a lucid and profound way, the nature of consciousness, the self, the universe and the Supreme.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is uniquely qualified to present this English translation and commentary on Bhagavad-gita. He is the world's foremost Vedic scholar and teacher, and he is also the current representative of an unbroken chain of fully self-realized spiritual masters begining with Lord Krishna Himself. Thus, unlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is--without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation. This edition is certain to stimulate and enlighten with its ancient yet thoroughly timely message.
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