Seeing the Aim of Life

Watering The Root

The Krsna Conscious Movement is to protect human society from spiritual death, because the perfection of life is to understand one's relationship with Krsna. Just as parts of body are meant to serve the body, all living entities are meant to serve the Supreme Lord. We always render some service, either to Lord or to our family, country or society and by this service, even after serving, everyone is frustrated because the service rendered is not properly directed. Just like if one waters the root of a plant, one satisfies all parts like leaves, branches etc. Similarly, if one satisfies the Lord or involves in His service, everybody else is satisfied.

An Important Job for An Important Body

God is real, even if we do not accept, God is still there. If we will not accept God, then He will be present in front of us as death. After millions of death, one gets this human body and this is the most advanced and highest body. Because just as an important officer is given higher facilities than a clerk because officer has to perform an important job. Similarly, human beings has to discharge important duties than animals. We are given this body not for work hard like pig but to attain highest perfection of life, if we will not do that, we have to work very hard due to laws of nature.

To Solve The Ultimate Problem

One who fails half way in devotional service, is given brith in a wealthy and family of a devotee. This is to give the soul another chance to complete the spiritual journey, but today's generation born in such families are misguided for sense enjoyment and they forget good chance they have for spiritual realization. We are not meant to solve the economic problems, we are meant to solve the ultimate problems of life which arise due to the laws of nature.

Spiritual Suicide

The human body is an excellent vehivle by which we can reach eternal life. It is rare and very important boat for crossing over the ocean of material existence. On the boat spiritual master is an excellent boatma and divine grace is the favourable blind. If once neglects this chance, one commits spiritual suicide.

Boat Anchored by Chains

We have a very nice boat but we have to make sure it should move towards the destination. Sometimes we work so hard but if the boat is anchored by chains, there wil be no result. The five chains are - (1) attachment to material body due to ignorance of spiritual facts, (2) attachment to kinsmen due to bodily relations, (3) attachment to the land of birth and to material possessions such as house, furniture, estates, property etc. (4) attachment to material science, (5) attachment to religious forms and holy rituals without knowing the PoG or His devotees, who make them holy.

Pulling The Anchors Out

The anchors are like deep rooted trees. The real form of this tree cannot be percieved in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins or where it starts. With determination one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment and one must goal for the place from which having once gone, one never returns. One should use this human body to make our material existence one hundred percent spiritualized. Just like if iron is placed near fire, becomes iron, similarly detachment from material activities can be turned spiritual by spiritual activities, not by negating material activites.

The Spiritual Existence

One who is convinced of his spiritual identity and is freed from the material conception of existence, who is freed from illusion and is trancendental to the modes of material nature, who constantly engages in understanding spiritual knowledge and who has completely severed himself from sense enjoyment can go back to Godhead. The material existence is full of the miseries of birth, death, old age, and diseases whereas the spiritual existence is full of bliss, eternity and knowledge. This existence is only obtainable by devotional service and nothing else.