86 Elevation to Krsna Consciousness
this way Krsna consciousness should be approached.
It should not simply be considered a theory.

When Krsna consciousness is covered by any
other consciousness, we experience our contaminated
conditional life. When the sky is clear, we can see the
sun’s brilliant effulgence, but when it is covered by
clouds, we cannot see it. We may be able to perceive
the sunlight, but we cannot see the sun disc itself.
When the sky is clear, it is in its natural condition.
Similarly, our consciousness is eternally Krsna con-
sciousness because we are part and parcel of Krsna
eternally. This is asserted in the Fifteenth Chapter
of Bhagavad-gita:

mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva-bhutah sanatanah
manah-sasthanindriyani
prakrti-sthani karsati
“The living entities in this conditional world are My
fragmental parts, and they are eternal. But due to
conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with
the six senses, which include the mind.” (Bg. 15.7)

Somehow or other we have come in contact with
material nature, and because of the mind and the six
senses, we are struggling hard to exist. That is
Darwin’s theory—the struggle for existence, survival
of the fittest. However, the actual fact is that our
constitutional position is not one of struggle. Struggle
is the position of animal life. Human life should be
blissful and should have as its goal spiritual advance-
