Discussion Forum

Lord Krishna is known as Adhokshaja. Which means who is not visible by our blunt senses. Our senses are called ‘blunt’ because they need some media through which they can acquire knowledge; like if you want to see, you need eyes. Even blind people have eyes, but they can’t see. That means only eyes are not enough to see objects. It needs to have vision. Even though you have eyes you may have vision still in darkness you can’t see the object because there is no light. That means to see through eyes you need a vision as well as the light. If you have both but that object is too far or too close to your eyes you can’t see that. Now you can understand that our senses have their own limitations and that you cannot see the Lord who is beyond our limitation, who is unlimited and all pervading. Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad Geeta that mudho ayam na jaanaati fools and rascals can’t see Him. Because he is ‘aja’ unborn and ‘avyaya’ imperishable. Only devotees can see Him. Devotees who have unalloyed devotion for Him can see Him all the time. Specifically in this present age people are so ignorant and sinful that they have lost control over their senses. That leads them toward more ignorance about the things around them. what they can know about the transcendental knowledge which helps them to know about Krishna.

Religion means which we cannot separate from myself. The religion which you can change, that is not religion. Suppose I am Hindu; I become Christian. So neither this Hinduism is religion or Christian is religion. It is a English dictionary, word which means faith which can be changed.
But dharma, according to Sanskrit word, dharma does not mean that which you can change. It is a constitutional position which cannot be changed. we must find out what is our dharma, what is our religion. Which we are professing, that "Christianity is my religion," "Hinduism, my religion," that is not religion. That is faith. Religion is different. Religion you cannot change. You cannot change. That is the meaning of religion.
Now, religion sometimes, when it is taken as faith, they have changed. How they have changed? Kämät. For some gain. Just like in India formerly Christian religion was preached, giving some facilities. And generally we see that Christian priests who go to foreign countries; they offer some hospital facilities, some economic facilities. The poor men, they supply clothing and education. So those who are poor, they become captivated,they have practically no religion. Anyway, they are facing the economic problems. So kämät. Kämät means for some gain. For some gain, kämät, and lobhät... Lobhät means by some greediness. And bhayät. Bhayät means out of fear. And dveshat. Dveshat means out of enviousness. For all these things one should not give up his faith or religion.
As you cannot separate sweetness from the sugar or liquidity from water same way there are 2 things that are inseparable form living beings whether they are human beings or any species of life. One is to love and second is to show that love though service both gives real bliss. So real religion is to LOVE and SERVE.

It’s a basic instinct of living being to Love and to Serve because it gives happiness. But when you love some one mortal which means some one who is going to die one day ; that same love will cause sorrow. When that same propensity is diverted towards the Lord Krishna who is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss with give us eternal bliss.

In Bhagavat Geeta Lord Krishna says in chapter 9 text 27 “ Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform—do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.”
As is normal life when we love someone we try to make that person as a center of all our activity same way we should do it with Lord Krishna.