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>Please offer a prayer in my name to Lord Krishna that I may be delivered
>from the side effects of an LSD overdose that occurred over 25 years
>ago. I have been to many doctors and healers and I have tried many
>remedies, all to no avail. I am not a Krishna devotee, but I do
>believe that He is God and that He will answer the prayers of His
>devotees.
>
>Thank you and God bless!
Dear Randy
Thanks for visiting the Sudarsana web site and I have prayed to Krishna, but
not for the cure of the side-effects of your LSD overdose, but for your
deliverance from the suffering conditions of this material world altogether.
This world is a miserable place... Even if I pray to Krishna for you and He
does cure the symptoms of your over-dose the misery will continue... it is the
nature of this world. Krishna calls it dukhalayam asasvatam, a place of misery
where there is repeated birth and death. So it is not a comfortable place at
all. The nature of the soul is sat, cit, anananda -- eternal, full of knowledge
and full of bliss but this material world is asat, acit and nirananda --
temporary, full of ignorance, and full of anxiety... So it is not very
comfortable at all. There is another world. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita:
8.20
paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo
'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanah
yah sa sarvesu bhutesu
nasyatsu na vinasyati
Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is
transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme
and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part
remains as it is.
PURPORT
Krsna's superior, spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond
all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and annihilated during
the days and nights of Brahma. Krsna's superior energy is completely opposite
in quality to material nature. Superior and inferior nature are explained in
the Seventh Chapter.
TEXT 21
avyakto 'ksara ity uktas
tam ahuh paramam gatim
yam prapya na nivartante
tad dhama paramam mama
TRANSLATION
That which the Vedantists describe as unmanifest and infallible, that which is
known as the supreme destination, that place from which, having attained it,
one never returns--that is My supreme abode.
PURPORT
The supreme abode of the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is described in the
Brahma-samhita as cintamani-dhama, a place where all desires are fulfilled. The
supreme abode of Lord Krsna, known as Goloka Vrndavana, is full of palaces made
of touchstone. There are also trees, called ``desire trees,'' that supply any
type of eatable upon demand, and there are cows, known as surabhi cows, which
supply a limitless supply of milk. In this abode, the Lord is served by
hundreds of thousands of goddesses of fortune (Laksmis), and He is called
Govinda, the primal Lord and the cause of all causes. The Lord is accustomed to
blow His flute (venum kvanantam). His transcendental form is the most
attractive in all the worlds--His eyes are like lotus petals, and the color of
His body is like the color of clouds. He is so attractive that His beauty
excels that of thousands of Cupids. He wears saffron cloth, a garland around
His neck and a peacock feather in His hair. In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna
gives only a small hint of His personal abode, Goloka Vrndavana, which is the
supermost planet in the spiritual kingdom. A vivid description is given in the
Brahma-samhita. Vedic literatures (Katha Upanisad 1.3.11) state that there is
nothing superior to the abode of the Supreme Godhead, and that that abode is
the ultimate destination (purusan na param kincit sa kastha parama gatih). When
one attains to it, he never returns to the material world. Krsna's supreme
abode and Krsna Himself are nondifferent, being of the same quality. On this
earth, Vrndavana, ninety miles southeast of Delhi, is a replica of that supreme
Goloka Vrndavana located in the spiritual sky. When Krsna descended on this
earth, He sported on that particular tract of land known as Vrndavana,
comprising about eighty-four square miles in the district of Mathura, India.
So it is better to go back home, back to Godhead... We should ask God for that,
not for something to try and make our life comfortable within this material
world... There will always be difficulties here -- that is the nature of the
place. Despite all difficulties and problems we should engage all our energy in
serving God, Krishna... that is the real activity for human beings... Looking
forward to hearing from you again.
Chant Hare Krishna and be Happy!
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