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World-travelling preacher issued last of paper tickets
Sankarshan Das Adhikari, of Austin, Texas, is a travelling preacher. A disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, he has been a practitioner of Bhakti Yoga for over 36 years. Sankarshan Das travels around the world visiting countries on all continents. In his 4th world tour in which he visited Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Peru, and the USA. He visited these countries during April - July 2008. He has returned to the United States, and will be at his home base in Austin on 7th July 2008. For his upcoming 5th world tour from September 2008 through January 2009, air tickets were purchased several months ago, when airlines were still issuing paper tickets. Paper tickets are now obsolete throughout the world. The airlines ae going completely electronic. When a schedule change required a re-issue of the tickets, and the original tickets were paper tickets exceeding 16 segments, the airlines had to re-issue paper tickets! These may very well be among the last few tickets issued as paper tickets, end of an era and the beginning of a new one. For Sankarshan Das Adhikari, this is no big change though. He lives, preaches, and practically guides his students around the world how to lead a life of equanimity amidst happiness and distress, honor and dishonor, godo weather or bad, ever-changing circumstances, and all the dualities that are commonly encountered in the material world. In fact, paper tickets or electronic, air travel or otherwise, Sankarshan Das Adhikari plans to continue to perform his transcendental loving service to his Guru regardless of the circumstances. Explaining the message propounded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal, India over 500 years ago, and brought to the west by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the 1970s, the key to this reconnection is to chant the names of God. Every name of God, since it describes the absolute, is fully empowered to give an experience of the absolute, and has within it the key to all purification, all benedictions, all joy. In addition, the names of God are nondifferent from God directly. A basic idea of Vaishnava philosophy is that the word "God" is quite impersonal and describes a function more than the person. Just as human beings are known by different names and designations according to their activities and relationships, God is known by millions of names, Krishna, Govinda, Allah, Jehovah, Christ... the list is endless and unlimited, just as God is unlimited and infinite. He regularly lectures at universities, colleges, speaks on radio stations, TV stations, leads Kirtan (ecstatic public chanting of names of God), gives discourses, seminars, and holds workshops around the world. He also regularly explains to world audiences how leading a God-centred life will solve the problems of conflict, terrorism, environmental pollution, cheating, crime, and unabated exploitation that brings the world to the brink of untold disasters. Not affected by opulent austere surroundings, not caring for rich food or simple food, not concerned with whether or not he is offered respect, he soldiers on around the world spreading the Science of Krishna Consciousness, wanting to bring the ultimate bliss to all, regardless of sex, creed, class, race, caste, or any other material designation. Having pioneered the Internet course "Ultimate Self Realization" that goes out to over 7000 regular readers in over a 100 countries around the world, Sankarshan Das Adhikar reads all his emails personally, and responds to each question directly and individually after meditating upon the real need of the person asking the question. He even features some of these Q&A sessions on his daily Thought for the Day emails. Not shy to take on atheists, the unsure, the people with many doubts, even those who make direct personal attacks, he answers each email with a loving patience of a father teaching a little child. All this email reading and writing happens often on the road, while he is on planes, cars, waiting to travel. Following an austere regimen of sleeping and eating only as much as the body requires to keep body and soul together, and absorbing all other energies and time into the study and distribution of the Science to God around the world, Sankarshan Das Adhikari finds each day an unlimitedly blissful experience, and wants to share this bliss with all the men, women, children, and bring God's mercy even to the animals and plants on this planet. Sankarshan Das Adhikari is available for comment, questions, and answers, interviews, and media appearances at the following addresses: Web: http://www.spiritual-revolutionary.com http://www.backtohome.com http://www.turnonyoursoul.com http://www.ultimateselfrealization.com Email: sda@backtohome.com Postal Address: Austin Hare Krishna Center 10700 Jonwood Way, Austin, Texas 78753, Phone: 1-512-835-2121
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