Archive - 2000

Srila Prabhupada is reputed to have said "Work now, samadhi later." Although this phrase is not to be found within the Bhaktivedanta Database, the idea is that devotional service is to be part of our lives and that we are to be ghostianandies, not bhajananandies.
Some may argue that Rupa and Sanatana Goswami were bhajananandies, living in caves, beneath sacred trees, near holy lakes and rivers, at hallowed shrines, aloof from the general public. But what was their purpose?

Srila Prabhupada has written that infallible faith in the Vedic system is essential. It is written in the Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23: "yasya deve para bhaktir, yatha deve tatha gurau, tasyaite kathita hy arthah prakasante mahatmanah. Only unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master are all the imports of Vedic knowledge automatically revealed."
But "implicit faith" doesn't mean blind faith.

This phenomenon is something that materialists would like to put on the back burner. Yet thousands have already been displaced and dispossessed due to flooding from global warming.
As we wrote in the 1998 edition of DIVINE NATURE, "United Nations studies show that a warming climate could raise sea levels, which are already rising, by 1.5 to 6.5 feet over the next century. If sea levels rise 3 feet, this could submerge 1 million square miles of lowlands. These lowlands are inhabited by one billion people and include one third of the world's cropland"
Dr.