Hare Krishna dear devotees
I was introduced to Krishna Consciousness last year March, i chant and i'm slowly trying to follow the 4 regualtive principles. Still, it's taking me long to progress due to my doubts, my weak will power and my imperfect mind.
My biggest problem is dealing with material desires. I understand theoretically that All material desires are present as long as one is in the bodily concept of life.
But at the same times it's so hard to stop desiring.
Desiring materialistically results in me feeling disappointed, envious of others, angry... etc. Which then leads to feelings of guilt.
How do i deal with this.
ys
S.C
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By our own effort, we are helpless. By the Holy Names of Hari, we can overcome all difficulties.
Participate in Bhajans (Sankirtana) and Harinam, Nagar Sankirtana and especially Harinam, you will grow 100x faster in Krishna Consciousness.
After you develop higher taste, all the material desires etc will no longer bother you.
Listen to Bhagavatam. Their is a nice reading by Amala Bhakta Prabhu, who is 80yrs old, and is a Prabhupad's Disciple. This MP3 cd can be finished in about 30 days comfortably.
Entire Bhagavatam is noting but passtimes of Krishna/Vishnu and His devotees. 100% Liberating!!!!!
lol I'm a Mataji:) Thank you All for taking the time to share your experiences and give me great advice. I love reading too:) I'm currently reading Krsna The Supreme Personality of Godhead and The Journey of Self discovery, great books!:)
I don't know of many devotees near me:( but hopefully Krsna will introduce me to devotees soon:)
Bhaktin Maral Mataji, how many books (volumes) are Shrimad Bhagavatam made of? I would love to buy it. Do you know the cost?
Thank you once again
ys
S.C
Hare Krishna dear Shivanie Mataji,
Here in India one set of Bhagavatam which includes 18 Big Books costs 5 thousand 6-8 hundred Rupees. But as per Your profile You are from different place. So first option is to try find out it in nearest Temple to You or else buy it online http://store.krishna.com/Page.bok?template=Information&info=_in...
But it might be little costly.
i am sure that in Your area there are nice Temples and Devotees so they can help You to find Bhagavatam.
Your servant,
Hare Krishna Mataji. PAMHO. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
To the degree we become attached and attracted to Krishna conscious activity to that degree our material desire evaporates. So we have to concentrate on the point that are we sufficiently engaged in Krishna conscious activity. Generally what happens when we mingle in outside world or associate with wordly people we intake their desires consciously or sub-consciously. So the solution is we should have a solid program or atleast if we are not in temple environment we should plan to make our time out to associate atleast one or two full days in a week to go to temple and do whole day seva or service there, that will keep our consciousness in Krishna through out the week, and then when we are not in temple, we should pass our day by chanting, reading and hearing.
Actually desires comes when we are not getting taste in Krishna and not getting enough Krishna conscious environment and association. For that we need to pray to Krishna and hanker for association and service. Losing taste and enthusiaism is the cause of re-appearing our material desires.
As we have to be engaged in throughly cleansing our mind by constant devotional service same time we have to avoid exposure of objects that tempted our senses. Else it will be like cleaning and same time filling the pot with dirt.
Hope this will help
Your aspiring Servant
hari Bol
Thank you Prabhu for your awesome advice. The problem is I don't get to go to an ISKCON temple because of transport issues, which means i don't get face to face interaction with devotees or a chance to serve:(
I do read K.C books and chant, I do hope i get a chance to do more in the future for the Lord and His devotees though:)
Hare Krishna dear Devotees, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
It is the nature of the soul - to desire and we can not stop it artificially. The good thng is here dear Shivanie Mataji that You are seeing those material desires which means very soon with the help of Krishna they will be removed away.
For example, how we can clean a room if it is dark inside? No how!
We won't be able to see the dust, dirt...and won't be able to clean.
But when some light comes in we will see some dirt and will remove that. When light is more we will se more dirt and clean, when the room is fully enlightened then we will see all dirts and will do the needed in order to clean that, isn't it?!
When i was reading Your question i remembered my own beginning years. It is true i had many dirty desires (still they are but at least somehow weakened). So what i did? i was too much attached to reading and learning. I used to read books and gain knowledge no matter material or non material bu i wanted to know more. So that desire helped me to read Shrimad Bhagavatam with some eagerness.
Knowledge is light. When we have knowledge then we won't desire and do sinful things. We are weak and do sinful things just because we do not have enough knowledge. For example, when i read the explanation of hellish planets on the 5th Canto Bhagavatam :O i became fearful of committing sins...when i read Prahlada Maharaja's preaching about how child suffers in the womb and all i understood that to take another birth is only a suffering...and when i read about king Yayati who exchanged his old age with is son Puru and tried to enjoy material life and was not satisfied at all even after many years i understood that no joy in this material sense gratification......
In this way Shrimad Bhagavatam is nectar. Shrimad Bhagavatam is Krishna Himself. He is a person.
And also in the beginning for one year i used to chant in plastic beads. But when i once chanted in real Tulasi Mala i could feel very boldly that many of my material desires weakened. and it was so obvious. I was amazed!
So please, find out Shrimad Bhagavatam and if You follow 4 reg principles then chant in Tulasi Mala enough big according to the size of Your fingers and hand. So that while chanting it will be comfortable to move them.
i prefer to read books taking them to my hand and enough loudly so that i can hear. But if i do not have real book then i read them in e book format using my PC.
So if You want Shrimad Bhagavatam You can find here: http://ebooks.iskcondesiretree.info/index.php?q=f&f=%2Fpdf%2F00...
Your servant,