You know now, particularly in India, every young boy is expected to go to University and study and become a doctor or an engineer or something like that and earn a lot of money… But not everyone can do that. Not everyone is suited to that. So if you are not suited to it then that is no fault on your part. There are plenty of people who are not made for this sort of thing. So do not worry about it. You have tried your best and have not been successful at that. No one can blame you for that.

We are all meant for serving Krishna, that is our purpose. And Krishna has given us all particular skills and abilities that we can use to serve Him. And that is the proper use of our energy, to engage it in serving Krishna.

You can not solve anything by trying to end your life. The life we have at the moment we have got because of our past karma, the activities we did in this life and in previous lives. We are eternal, we are the spirit soul within the body, so we can never be killed. You may be able to kill the material body but that will not solve any of your problems, it will only make the problems worse. You will not be dead, you, the spirit soul, will still be living, and you will be in much worse trouble because we have been given these bodies by Krishna to use for serving Him, actually the bodies belong to Krishna, not to us, so we have no right to kill the body, it is a great sin, and if we do kill the body, firstly we, the spirit soul, will not die, and then we will be punished very severely for the sin of killing our material body…

So you have to become Krishna conscious. That is the solution you are looking for. The way you will be able to see thinks clearly is to purify your consciousness by chanting Hare Krishna. That is the only way. And then when your consciousness is purified you will be able to understand what you should be doing.

So now your most important business is to become Krishna conscious. So start chanting the Hare Krishna mantra at least 16 rounds a day and strictly follow the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication, and read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day. And after you have been doing this for some time you will see that your life is becoming much better and you will feel much better and be able to clearly plan out what you want to do in your life.

So please just seriously start chanting Hare Krishna and I guarantee that quite soon things will become much clearer for you.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

The ultimate goal is to develop love for Krishna and be engaged in the service of Krishna, this is devotional service, this is the ultimate goal…

You can purchase cases of Prabhupada’s original Bhagavad-gita As It Is from the Indian BBT in Mumbai, they print it and will sell it to you.

Ritvik temple should not be distributing the current ISKCON edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

I do not know how valuable distributing that book is really. Anyhow now you know what is the proper thing and what is in the past you can not change, but the future you have some control over. So there is no point living in the past, you can not change the past. You simply have to take stock of where you are now and work in such a way that you will now advance in Krishna consciousness. So certainly if you get Prabhupada’s original Gita and start distributing it then that will be pleasing to Srila Prabhupada. So just do it. Forget about the past and look to the future.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

You should teach your family how to offer food to Krishna. That would be the best thing. For them and for you also.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

You met a real guru when you read Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you met His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Read all of his other books and get to know him better.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

You don’t have to convince your parents and you can not actually convince atheists about Krishna consciousness, at least not by preaching to them like this. There three types of people: the innocent, the envious and the devotees. We want to associate with the devotees, preach to the innocent and avoid the envious.

As far as rules like ‘no chanting’ and compulsory meat eating, obviously you can not follow such rules. So just don’t follow these rules. Chant Hare Krishna and only eat Krishna prasadam. You know we have to follow these things, and we have to become determined to follow them and follow them no matter what obstacles are put in our way. So just do it. Just chant Hare Krishna and don’t eat any meat. I think if your parents see you are determined on these points they will give up tormenting you on these points. Even if they keep complaining, who cares. Don’t take any notice of them.

But you can’t actually preach to people who are not at least a little bit interested in hearing from you about Krishna. They have to be a little interested, a little submissive, then we can preach to them. Otherwise there is no point preaching to them, they will just get more angry and offensive if we preach. In those cases we can encourage them to read one of Srila Prabhupada’s books, we can get them to accept prasadam, and we can get them to somehow or other chant Hare Krishna and hear the chanting of Hare Krishna. These things will purify them gradually and they will eventually become a bit interested in the philosophy and want to know something about it. At that time you can preach to them. But not when they have no interest in hearing about Krishna….

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

Yes. Is is very good that you have found Krishna consciousness. That is the answer for everything. However it is a process and we have to follow the process to get the results. That is why I stress always on chanting the Hare Krishna mantra at least 16 rounds a day on japa beads, strictly following the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication, and reading Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day. This is the starting point. So we have to come to this platform at least if we expect to make any significant advancement in spiritual life.

We have to make some effort to become Krishna conscious, yet at the same time we can not become Krishna conscious simply by our own effort. Krishna consciousness is actually only possible by pleasing a pure devotee of Krishna and getting his mercy. So if we can read Srila Prabhupada’s books and in this way understand what he wants us to do and if we do that then we will please Srila Prabhupada and he will give us his mercy and by the mercy and blessings of Srila Prabhupada only will we be able to advance in spiritual life.

So I am very happy that you have found Krishna consciousness. Now you just need to follow the process sincerely and read Srila Prabhupada’s books and your success is sure.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa

I don’t know how i found here but now know why.
I have been living this life terribly wrong in almost every way.
I now know why i live in constant pain from this spine.
Am i doomed to come back here because of ignorance?
I know you will reply to Chant Hare Krishna and be Happy, forget the past and look forward, and read the Prabhupada Books which I will and will.
Please tell me, is there anything for me to do so I can be with Krishna in The Kingdom for eternity. I don’t want to come back here, I thought I don’t deserve to come back here, I thought being honest, good, always praying never asking for material, give everything to others, and other good things would suffice. How could i be so wrong? Why now did I find here and not long ago? Why now do i feel so terrible?

I now Chant Hare Krishna and try to be Happy. I hope and pray for You also.
Thank You for the messages.

Jai Jai Shree Radhe.

I need it quickly as they have totally obstructed me from progressing in spiritual life by making rules like no chanting and compulsory meat eating,etc.

Please note that my parents think that because ISCKON is corrupt, Srila Prabhupada is also corrupt and chanting is a waste of time(thoughts of rascals). I would also need some guidance to convince them that Srila Prabhupada is very very pure.

Eagerly waiting for your reply.
Hare Krishna. Jai Srila Prabhupada.

How can expresssions of our true love for the primeval lord be hindered ? Krishna is the Parmatma, he is the most dearest person to us and he is “param dayal”, means he is full of mercy, for we are also as living entities or jivas very dearmost to him. He is eager for us to return to him, so you see in actuality there is nothing that can hinder our path to him if we love him truly. The hinderance is maya you have to remember that.
Me i’m from a brahmin family in india, since i was a kid i had witnessed various sort of puja, and many forms of them. But i never felt any sort of love then, it was until i read Bhagavad Gita as it is. The verses were so strong that it brought tears to my eyes, literally. This could be a sign of that divine love, cause from then on my focus has turned towards the inifinte, the ultimate truth, Krishna. I never met a guru. Here in my place almost everyone are entrapped in a uber materialistic world view. So i’m also very eager to meet an authentic guru.
Its also said that when the Divine Grace shines upon anyone, all the knot of maya opens up themselves and that person has the oppurtunity to meet an authentic guru.
Until that happens i try my best to follow the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and rejoice in the name of the lord, by chanting Hare Krishna.
Afterall Lord Krishna is the spiritual master of all…

Hare Krishna.

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to srila Prabupada!

Prabu while I was in the rittvik temple in hubli I distributed many Latest edition of Bg. Is all my effort of distributing bg a waste?
And how do I continue this book distribution now tat I am out of temple.

Regards
utsav

All glories to srila prabupada!

Thank you for replying but my question remains un answered. Chaitanya mahaprabu not ony rejected impersonal liberation but also sayujya,salokya,samipya etc kinds of liberation this is evident from his conversation with the thatva vadis in udupi who where Madhavas but Chaitanya mahaprabhu rejected their concept of liberation as the ultimate goal.

regards
utsav

It was a perfect description regarding action in krishna Consciousness. Srila Prabhu pad has done it to 100% perfect . The description is about a single activity of eating which we do minimum of three times per day.
the whole mood gets converted to krishna conscious when we are pure at both our heart & body when we prepare , offer & then take prasadam.
if the other activities also are arranged similarly in Krishna conscoiousness , our life in this material world becomes a bliss!

It is much better to have the actual printed books for reading. At least that is my personal experience and opinion.

Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!

Madhudvisa dasa