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Default 12-04-2008, 02:10 PM

1) Why do we search for God?

We are not the material body, we are Spirit-Souls in the material world.
"God" is the supreme soul.
"God" is the Original Person [albeit transcendental, eternal & all cognizant].


In the material cosmos there are 8,400,000 speices of living creatures--all with a spirit soul inside them that animates them --their different bodies affords them the corresponding ego.

Each of these different bodies, that a soul takes up resisdence in --was earned via the works/acts/level of consciousness cultivated (ergo, Karmic-reaction) while in a previous (Human) birth.

Eternity has no element of passing TIME.

God's existance lends credence to the ideal of Democracy and liberty.

"Working hard for the money" --is the law of the jungle of beasts where the strong survive and the weak cultivate the yearning for higher purposes via their surjourn in the material world 'birth after birth' (samsara) --until they reconcile that, as a human, we are created in the image of God persona.

Returning home back to Godhead is the mystery of life.

Such, authentic, bonefide knowledge, as in the case of all schools of learning must be learnt directly from those in the line of the accepted standard. Real plumbers, doctors, lawyers, policemen are duly accredited by bonefide sources --just as ISKCON is.

To gain entry to exclusive places--one learns the ettiqutte & even the guest list of the VIPs.

One learns forbearence while within the material world--one may spend eons in the material world of samsara--yet upon return to the 'spiritual' realm the re-instatement of one's original spirituial identity is resumed --as if only a single fragmentary moment has transpired, since last time one had the personal association of God Face to Face along with his entourage and pastimes.

All the above can be contrasted with the generations of ancestor & strangers who have gone before us and see the existential futile notion that they endeavored to please only fleeting causes as selfish and petty. While grand civic duties preformed selflessly for others happiness has built a foundation for peaceful living --within the material world --only to fade away.

Intellectually the pursuit of "God's" definition stands above the passing epochs of history.

The Vedas state that society is now in the beginning of the era called KALI-yuga [the last of four ages] where things will be come more and more unhospitable.

The Vedas inform us of the means and manner of ancient history ruled by Maharaja schooled in brahminical disciplines, namely Yoga; and thus, ultimately "yogic-emanicipation".

Do you know what I mean by "yogic-emanicipation"?
If not, then that is why providence has provided for A.C. Bhaktivedanta's journey out of India to spread the fame of Krishna. Etc etc etc.

2) I'm trying to understand ISKON for past few years but not convinced --[this is a mysterious situation I not familiar with.
ISKCON is a place to study Bhakti-yoga disciplines.
What in God's Name have you been doing all those few "Years".
Have you any proclivity for yoga studies, or not?]
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