Sunday, May 2, 2010

Q: Can someone attain God without the institution of religion?

A: I would approach it in a different way. If someone desires to love God, he will naturally seek the association of others who also desire to love God. You develop compassion, as your love of God is developing, because you want to love others. When we reach the stage you want to help other people, you naturally organize. Ultimately to love God, you just have to love God. It is not some commandment is coming down from the sky, “Thou shalt join an institution.” “The community of the wise, is the welfare of the world.” For me it is just a practical thing, we have to organize.

By Hridayananda Dasa Goswami

Taken from Travel Adventures of a Krishna Monk: Travel Journal#6.7: Tallahassee, Pennsylvania, and Delaware http://bit.ly/cxTM57

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