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Confused and Ignorant

• Subject: Confused and Ignorant
• From: Dennis B
• Date: Tue Jan 30 14:21:21 1996
• Message-Id: id728

Dear Dennis



Hello, Hare Krishna!



Sometimes things in the Vedic scriptures appear to be contradictory, but actually

they are not. Krishna creates this material world and by His will He sends us here

-- but that doesn't mean He wants to do it. He has given us a little independence.

We can choose if we want to serve Krishna or to serve Maya. But it is really not

possible to do anything except serve Krishna. So Krishna created this material

world so we can come here and "enjoy" independently. But that is not our natural

position, we are eternal -- this world is temporary, we are full of bliss -- this

world is full of anxiety, we are full of knowledge -- this world is full of

ignorance. So it is uncomfortable here. We are meant to realize that and make

advancement on the path back home, back to Godhead.



Krishna never wills us to come here to the material world. We do it ourselves.

Then "by His will" He sends us here. This is a very difficult thing for some

people to accept and it is also, as you may well know, a point which is sometimes

not agreed upon by devotees. But everything will be revealed to you if you just

follow the process. It's better to go on chanting Hare Krishna, to go on reading

Srila Prabhupada's books, without getting too bogged down on small philosophical

points that will be automatically cleared up as you make advancement.



Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!



Madhudvisa dasa





>Dear Madhudvisa,

>

>    In the book - "The Science of Self-Realization" in the 7th Chapter entitled

>"Returning to the Eternal Religion" there is written a very beautiful prayer

>to Lord Krsna from Srila Prabhupada.

>

>    He is asking for the Lord's causless mercy so that he will be able to

>convince people like me, who are covered up by the material modes of

>ignorance and passion, about the delivering power of Krsna.  In verse 6 he

>prays: "All living entities have become under the control of the illusory

>energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also

>be released from the clutches of illusion."  And in 7 - "I wish that You may

>deliver them... "

>

>    On p. 279 of the same book, "God is great, I am His part and parcel, and

>therefore He is my supreme lovable object." If this is true that God is

>great and my greatest yearning is to love Him and serve HIm eternally, why

>in the name of anything that is reasonable would He, by His will have me

>become under the control of the illusory energy?  If I chose this path due

>to my own ignorance I can understand why the purpose of this life is to

>return to Godhead.  Why would God (Krsna) will illusory energy on me and

>expect me, powerless in comparison, to get with the program? Why would He do

>this in the first place? That's like a physician who gives his son the

>patient a deadly disease and expects the son to find the cure in his father

>the physician. Pretty dumb!

>

>    Srila Prabupada's prayer really touched me.  I want so much to "believe" in

>the holy name of Krsna, but it sure disturbs me when I think that the all

>powerful Creator wills illusion on His creation just for the whim of it,

>just to see if they can reincarnate a few billion times and maybe stumble on

>the message of a pure devotee and get delivered. Does anyone really know

>what is going on?  Or do they just wish, as I do, that there must be a way

>out of this cycle of sickness, old age and death, and then more of the same

>and that there really is a reason for this pleasureable but very temporary

>material life?  It sure is confusing.

>

>    Maybe I shouldn't question anything and just be satisfied with whatever



>inconsistency I seemingly find.  After all I may not even be able to see in

>the first place!  Faulty senses, faulty mind and faulty intellect! What I

>read sometimes may not even say what I think it says, or something like

>that.  A.C. signed his prayer as the most unfortunate, insignificant beggar.

>Why should I suppose that I am better than that?  How can I be!  I can't.

>

>

>

>Confused and ignorant,

>

>Dennis

>

>

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