When traveling between different countries, a passport is required to gain access and cross the country’s borders. The purpose of a passport is to show other nations that you are a legal citizen of your particular nation of origin. Visas are another document designed to allow people access into other countries. The difference between a visa and a passport is that a visa specifies certain reasons why that person will be staying in the country.
Someone may ask, I don't want to go to foreign land why do I need passport or visa? But scriptures remind us that we are all tourists here, we all are always travelling from one specie of life to other. Body is temporary covering over soul, sometime we get body of animal, sometime of demigod and sometime human body according to our activities in present life. Soul is always touring from 84 lacs of species. Juts like we need passport and visa to go to some another country similarly if we want to have higher birth we need to have passport and visa to reach and dwell in those places where demigods live happy life.
Where can we get such visa and passport? As we discussed earlier our next birth depends upon our activities(karma) of present birth, it acts like passport and visa, we are creator of our own passport. If we do good pious activities we will be given a chance to elevate to higher planets(heavens) where demigods dwell, and if our life and activities are sinful then we won't get any passport therefore we will be thrown into lower life of animals where facilities are meagre. Till now we have talked about going to higher planets but there also exists time which throws us away at the end of our visa which means we will be back to our country after some period of time(BG 9.21).
Is there any place where we can only enjoy without time restrictions? Yes, there is planet beyond this material creation, called as Vaikuntha Loka, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. How to go there? Which kind of passport and visa is required to go there? One can go to this planet of God only by doing Devotional service, which includes hearing and chanting about God and serving Him with love. Passport(material activities) of this earthly planet and heaven won't help us to reach Vaikuntha(place where anxiety doesn't exists), entry here will be given on the basis of activities which are done for the pleasure of God. So if we are only engaged in our own things without bothering for our purpose of life which is to develop love for God then we will not get entry to eternal spiritual world. In conclusion we must try our best to obtain this special visa to reach abode Lord by doing loving devotional service unto Him!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by www.iskcondesiretree.com
Someone may ask, I don't want to go to foreign land why do I need passport or visa? But scriptures remind us that we are all tourists here, we all are always travelling from one specie of life to other. Body is temporary covering over soul, sometime we get body of animal, sometime of demigod and sometime human body according to our activities in present life. Soul is always touring from 84 lacs of species. Juts like we need passport and visa to go to some another country similarly if we want to have higher birth we need to have passport and visa to reach and dwell in those places where demigods live happy life.
Where can we get such visa and passport? As we discussed earlier our next birth depends upon our activities(karma) of present birth, it acts like passport and visa, we are creator of our own passport. If we do good pious activities we will be given a chance to elevate to higher planets(heavens) where demigods dwell, and if our life and activities are sinful then we won't get any passport therefore we will be thrown into lower life of animals where facilities are meagre. Till now we have talked about going to higher planets but there also exists time which throws us away at the end of our visa which means we will be back to our country after some period of time(BG 9.21).
Is there any place where we can only enjoy without time restrictions? Yes, there is planet beyond this material creation, called as Vaikuntha Loka, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. How to go there? Which kind of passport and visa is required to go there? One can go to this planet of God only by doing Devotional service, which includes hearing and chanting about God and serving Him with love. Passport(material activities) of this earthly planet and heaven won't help us to reach Vaikuntha(place where anxiety doesn't exists), entry here will be given on the basis of activities which are done for the pleasure of God. So if we are only engaged in our own things without bothering for our purpose of life which is to develop love for God then we will not get entry to eternal spiritual world. In conclusion we must try our best to obtain this special visa to reach abode Lord by doing loving devotional service unto Him!!
Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa
Sent by www.iskcondesiretree.com
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