Questions & Answers

1. WHO IS GOD?

The definition of God is one who creates, maintains, and destroys. In Vedic Literature it is stated that there is no body either equal to or greater than him. There is no origin of the God. God ever exists. God is not limited so he can do whatever he likes and he can never incur any sins. As explained in the Vedic Literature.
Lord Krishna is the Supreme Personality of the Godhead.

2. WHAT IS SPIRIT SOUL?

The Spirit soul has same nature, same qualities in minute degree as God. That is why he is spiritual spark, part and parcel of God. That means the embodied soul is not the material body but the spirit soul eternal full of knowledge and bliss. By nature he has minute independence and desire. It cannot live without acting at any moment.

3. WHAT IS DHARMA?

Eternal dharma of a living entity is to serve God just like the eternal dharma of water is liquidity and eternal dharma of fire is to give light and heat. You cannot separate serving attitude from a spirit soul same as you cannot separate liquidity from water. Spirit soul is a part and parcel of the God and that is why it is eternal duty of the spirit soul to serve God. Just like hand being part and parcel of body , must remain connected to the body and must serve the body in order to remain healthy. So eternal duty of the soul is to serve God because it is a part of the God.

4. WHAT IS KARMA?

A living entity by nature cannot live without doing anything. It has to act every moment and this action constitutes Karma. As soon as we act there is a equal and opposite reaction. There are immediate effects, long term effects and effects from the previous lives. Lord says in the Bhagwad Gita that laws of karmas are very intricate. In order to get rid of bad effects of a karma. It is strongly recommended that one must chant the holy name of Lord
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

5. WHAT IS RE-INCARNATION ?

The spirit soul by nature is eternal. It neither takes birth nor dies. But due to the stringent laws of nature it becomes entangled due to the laws of karmas. That makes the spirit soul to accepts material body in order to enjoy or suffer the effects of his karmas. Because spirit soul cannot live without desire so it desires to live like God. Due to this reason soul gets a material body in the material world and one after another due to Karma and desires. This repeated cycle of changing the bodies into 8,400,000 species of life is called reincarnation.

6. WHAT IS MAYA?

It is the energy of the lord that puts conditioned living entity into illusion and keeps them away from God. Due to Maya the living entities get attached to the material body and bodily expansions like wife, children, and other relatives. Maya is composed of three modes of material nature – mode of goodness, mode of passion and mode of ignorance. The vigorous form of maya is money and opposite sex.. The personification of maya is Durga Devi who keeps living entities in material durg (material world) and controls them.

7. WHAT IS THE GOAL OF LIFE AND HOW TO ATTAIN IT?

The goal of life is to reawaken our pure love for God. The pure love of God is within our hearts in dormant sleeping stage which can be reawakened by regularly chanting and hearing the holy name of God in the form of Maha Mantra -
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare HareHare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare HareChanting Hare Krishna Mantra is the service to God through mouth and tongue. When you serve God natural result is that he will love you. Just like when you serve a dog and dog loves you. If you serve God then God will love you. The whole thing works on the universal process of give and take – serve your parents, you get their love in return; serve your children ,you get their love in return; you serve your dog, you get its love in return. In the same way when we serve God we will get his love.

8. WHO IS GURU?

One who gets you to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the real guru. Guru’s main function is to teach you who is God and how to attain his pure love. That is why guru must be a vaishnav devotee of Krishna and he must come from the disciplic succession starting from Krishna. Guru must know the science of Krishna Consciousness. He must broadcast Krishna Consciousness through out the whole world . He must have acquired Krishna Consciousness from disciplic succession and from previous acharyas. He must relieve you from previous sinful activities and guide you to become pure devotees of Lord Krishna and at the end takes you back to Godhead. Guru is not controlling and disturbing factor in your life, but he is your well wisher who tells you what is do’s and don’t and what you should do in order to attain pure love of Krishna.