Question: With My Attachments, How Can I Engage in Pure Devotional Service?

Question: With My Attachments, How Can I Engage in Pure Devotional Service?You stressed that we should cultivate that mood within ourselves. I am very much attached to my family members and to the bodily concept, and I am not in a position to think that this material world is like a blazing forest fire. How then can I take up pure devotional service? Every time I think of taking it up I feel that it is like unnatural, external, artificial conditioning, and this causes me a great sense of insecurity.Your servant,Hare KrishnaAnswer: Offer Your Attachments to KrishnaIt is very nice that you are sometimes thinking of taking up pure devotional service. You should not let your feelings of attachment for your body and your family stand in the way of your seriously taking up Krishna consciousness. Simply you should see that your body, home, and family members are given to you by Krishna to be engaged in His service. If you think and act in this way, your material attachments will not be an impediment for your spiritual advancement.You have been artificially, unnaturally conditioned by the external energy to identify yourself with the temporary material body. This conditioning has forced you to take millions of births and deaths in this material existence sometimes as an animal, sometimes as a plant, and sometimes as a human being. In each and every lifetime you were forced the laws of nature to suffer into so many ways. But life is not meant for suffering. Life is meant for enjoyment. So now take advantage of your rarely achieved human form of life to return to your original, natural, unconditioned state of consciousness in which one experiences an eternal existence, full of knowledge, and full of bliss by engaging in the pure devotional service of Supreme Person, Lord Sri Krishna.Hare Krishna Hare KrishnaFor more discussions visithttp://harekrishnaharekrishna.ning.com/forum/

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