19861125 FINESTRA APERTA RADIO INTERVIEW RADIO KRISHNA CENTRALE, ITALY: Question: What do we think of the body? What should we do with this body? GM: So, this body is according to the philosophy of Krishna consciousness, the property of God or Krishna and He is giving to us to use for His service. Therefore if you take something from a friend, you have to keep it very carefully, you don’t misuse it. So we believe that the body is like a vehicle and the soul the living force in the body is the real self. Therefore we should keep the body healthy, we should keep it strong, we should use it for self realization. The body is to be used in such a way that there are no excesses, so that way the body will have its full strength. The devotees eat very nice vegetarian food sumptuously, they have regulated family life and they do everything but not to have any excess. Causing the body harm is considered demoniac. We want people to live a peaceful happy life in this life and go back to Godhead, the spiritual world after this life. Question: Philosophical thought of man is to wake up again the Sanatana dharma in the hearts of all people. GM: So this is a very interesting question. The Absolute Truth is realized in different levels. The Absolute Truth is one but they can be realized as the Supreme Person, or as the effulgence or illumination coming from the Supreme Person. Or as the Holy Spirit the Paramatma which is present in everyone’s heart. So for those who want to merge into the light which is all pervasive and coming from the Lord, is a type of spiritual suicide in a sense because they give up their cognizance of their individuality. Like if one drop of water goes into the ocean it cannot distinguish itself from any other drop. The impersonalists think that when they merge in the ocean they become the ocean. But it doesn’t mean that if you put one drop in the ocean it becomes the whole ocean. So if a person realizes the impersonal truth at that time they identify with that unlimited expanse of light and lose their individuality. Therefore this is a very unnatural state. We are eternally individual. We never lose our individuality. But we can simply lose cognizance of the individuality. So then again one will feel a desire to act and to express one’s individuality after some time. So when that happens if one doesn’t know about devotional service to Krishna then again one will want to act in material activities. The nature of the soul is always to be active. So being in impersonal realization means we are inactive. So once there was a soul who was at the edge of the material world and the spiritual world and he was going to proceed to the spiritual planets of the God Almighty Krishna. He had to cross the unlimited ocean of spiritual effulgence, the brahmajyoti. As he was going past that light he suddenly thought what it would be like to be here in the light. He suddenly started to merge into the light. He became so afraid that he was almost completely merged and he called out Krishna, Krishna, save me! Immediately he was transferred to the spiritual planets. So for the Bhakti yogis or devotional yogis this impersonal realization is considered very fearful and they don’t want to lose their individual realization. Guru Maharaj: I would like to invite all the listeners to come to India and visit us in Mayapur, every year in March we have a festival and we would be very happy if Marisa and everyone would come. Hare Krishna! Om Tat Sat! Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur is the guru of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad. Prabhupad is the Founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. He was ordered by Bhakti Siddhanta to come to the western world and to spread the message of love of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur had given this instruction to many of his followers but Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad was the only one to carry out this order, therefore he is the one that everyone hears about all over the world. Actually Lord Caitanya predicted that His message would be spread to every town and village in every country of the world. Therefore Srila Prabhupad is the fulfillment of Lord Caitanya’s prediction. Therefore because Srila Prabhupad has been empowered by Lord Caitanya we accept him as the real acharya or leader after Bhakti Siddhanta for the entire world. The essence of spiritual life is to carry out the order of the guru. Since he is the only one who carried out the instruction fully of his spiritual master, he is accepted as the complete representation of the disciplic succession, Srila Prabhupad. Of course there are millions of devotees and vaishnavas in India and they are chanting Hare Krishna and there are many gurus and they have disciples. But we have never met anyone of the significance or of the stature of Bhakti Vedanta Swami who has taken such a risk – at the age of 70 to go alone to the western world to spread this message and was successful by the mercy of the Lord Almighty! Guru Maharaj: Hare Krishna, gracias for your question. So the first question about Jesus Christ and the prediction in the Bhavishya Purana part of the Vishnu Purana about His appearance. This was written five thousand years ago predicting that Jesus would come, as you know He came 1986 years ago. And it describes that isha putram, that He would son of God and that He would be preaching to the people west of India. I will be very happy to gather that full Sanskrit shloka and send it here by the latter part of December before Christmas to the Hare Krishna Centrale Radio here so that you can get the full reference and translation. We consider that Lord Jesus is the son of God and He is an empowered incarnation of Krishna and we accept Him as our spiritual master. So I will send the reference to that as soon as possible. I just was in India two days ago so I am going on a tour of North America, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and as soon as I get back to India I will send the quote to you. Regarding the second question, it was about the apocalypse, yes. Lord Caitanya had predicted that this message would be spread by the Vaishnavas in the Brahma sampradaya to every town and village all over the world. There is also a reference in the Revelations of the New Testament which would indicate that Vaishnavas would be spreading the message of God consciousness in the world. So if the apocalypse says the same thing then definitely that is doubly confirmed. And everyone can be a part of this movement by practicing this meditation even in your home. You don’t have to change your faith or your religion or your way life. Simply uplift your consciousness to this mantra – Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Chant this and be happy! So, regarding the unidentified flying objects, the UFOs actually the observations of UFOs have matched up exactly with the descriptions of similar type of aircraft mentioned in the Vedas. The Vedas are the ancient literatures of India and they describe that certain flying machines are made from nearby planetary areas and these run of the energy of the sun and any form of energy they can draw from the atmosphere. So when these UFOs go near high powered tension lines it has been noted that they suck the energy from the electrical tension lines. The possibility that the hollow areas in the earth and subterranean living areas within this earth and other planets is also given in the Vedas, not only in this earth but also in other planets like the moon. In this way the UFOs could come from a number of places. But the likelihood of them being your deceased parents or your deceased relatives is a bit unlikely because it depends on where they have taken birth after they left their body. In case after leaving the body someone takes a bad birth we have a service for doing a special prayer and worship of the Lord so that they are freed from a bad birth. We would hope that your relatives have all taken birth in higher planetary systems where they can live a much more comfortable and peaceful life. Life is considered perfect if we can finish up the cycle of reincarnation and go back to the spiritual world to the kingdom of God. With regard to your first question I will mention a few words that since Jesus said that the goal of life is to develop love for God, and that the name of God is sacred, so no one should object if you chant the name of God and for developing love for God. All the religious leaders confirmed this recently – only one Supreme Godhead and He has different names and different ways of reaching Him. But the process of Bhakti yoga is a type of postgraduate process which anyone can practice from any religion. It is a science of developing love for Godhead. Gracias! Hare Krishna! Hare Krishna! So earlier this evening we were mentioning the prediction of the Bhavishya Purana which predicted that Jesus would come as a son of God with an Immaculate birth and that He was an empowered incarnation of Krishna. So because this prediction of Jesus was mentioned that He would be preaching in the western parts of India, that He would directly be a son of God, so His characteristics are different from the characteristics of Bhaktivedanta Swami. Even Bhaktivedanta Swami said, he accepted that Jesus as his spiritual master. But also the Vedas predicted that Krishna Himself would come in the age of Kali and He would spread the love for God through the chanting of the Holy Names. And 500 years ago this year in 1486, Krishna came as a devotee and the name of the incarnation is Shri Krishna Caitanya with the purpose of unifying all the theistic people of the world, giving the process of pure devotional service. You know, generally we do religion with some material objective. But Lord Caitanya taught that if we offer the service to the Lord in pure devotion that gives the greatest satisfaction. This chanting process would be spread all over the world by someone. And that was performed by Srila Prabhupad. So therefore he is the most recent representative of the Lord to be on the planet in the full form. So we can get great inspiration directly from studying his teachings because they are meant especially for the people of this modern age in the twentieth century. Hare Krishna!

Jayaraseshwari devi dasi 25 July 2015