If a person is Naradham, he has lusty desires and due to wrong associations, he is involved in sinful activity. As a sinful result, He is facing many adhi-atmik dukh. now by the grace of the Lord, able to connect with Iskcon and want to be Krishan-conscious. cab be? I also want to know if he has been doing bhakti for the last 1 year and trying to come out of the wrong habit and during this that action repeated that is beyond Sastra in the initial stage so Krishan will accept him or Not? Please Explain it so that Bhakti can be done. Hare Krishan
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Sure, if one wants to be Krisna conscious, no one can stop him.
As far as falldowns, there is an example of a toddler who falls repeatedly but always strives to stand up again.
"Doing bhakti" sounds a bit mechanical though. Bhakti is about pleasing Krisna, not ourselves. See CC 1.4.165 https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/4/165/
Everyone has to evaluate the purpose of one's actions - are they more of a bhakti nature or a kama nature? In the beginning it's a mix, but there should be a gradual increase of bhakti and a decrease of kama. The best way to please Krisna is to please His associates - Vaisnavas.
Jay Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu avirbhava!
Hari Hari
ys J.
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How should I serve a Dear Vaisnava? where I am living there is so much Maya and there is no ISKCON temple near me but I am doing online classes from ISKCON Mangalore and I am in level 3 and taking class Upanishad.
Some examples:
- Listening (sravanam) and approving appreciation (anumodita, e.g. SB 2.7.53 anumodataH, 3.19.37 anumodate). Simply by thinking positively about some Vaisnava and his seva one makes advancement. (This is the opposite to mental aparadhas.)
Anumodita also applies to sastras (e.g. Narada Purana 1.96.22 about Srimad Bhagavatam) etc.
- Then kirtanam: speaking with Vaisnavas and glorifying them, first online, if they're not close to you, later face to face.
- Smaranam: constant remembering one's guru's and the whole guru parampara's seva to all living beings.
- Supporting a chosen Vaisnava or seva project by time, money, knowledge, work or otherwise.
Hope you got the idea.
Hari Hari
ys J.