Hare krsnaPamho. Agtsp.how to deal with family and relation(if relations are not know I am doing bhakti) member after entering in krsna consciousness.ys.
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Firstly, why is family not aware? You may be having your reasons - but i find it strange that people you are staying with and who are family are not aware of such an important aspect of your life.
Anyways, you have to be careful about following the 4 regulative principles - the most challenging is food. Simply say onion garlic doesnt suit you, you dont like tea coffee anymore and maintain. I am sure family will not ask you to smoke or drink or gamble ( I am assuming you dont do any of these). So all regulative principles taken care of.
For chanting, please wake up a couple of hours before your family and complete your rounds.
YOu have to be very polite and compassionate to them. YOur family is future devotee. It is your behaviour whihc will bring them to devotion or take them away frm devotion. So please be very loving, responsible whne you deal with them.
By satisfying Sri Krishna, all living beings is satisfied.
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SB 10.88.8 — The Personality of Godhead said: If I especially favor someone, I gradually deprive him of his wealth. Then the relatives and friends of such a poverty-stricken man abandon him. In this way he suffers one distress after another.
SB 10.88.9 — When he becomes frustrated in his attempts to make money and instead befriends My devotees, I bestow My special mercy upon him.
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Sri Jesus Christ said :
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake, will find it.
Nice to know that you have realized your self (jiver swarup hai/krishna nitya das) and you are practicing devotional service(bhakti). the pool of people we live in are also krishna nitya das but they are in dormant state or in sleep, they are not self realized and hence not in bhakti. As certified in scriptures like Srimad Bhagwatam and Bhagawat Gita, one in million of million of million will understand his true self and one in such billions will take opportunity of practicing devotional service and making his human life fruitful by the mercy of Sadhu, Guru and Vaishnavs.
So we cannot expect all our family members and relatives to instantly understand and realize what we had as soon as we did. So how to treat with them? As they are also krishna das(in sleep mode) we should treat them with all our love, reverence, respect as we do to other realized krishna das(devotees) untill and unless it compromises your bhakti or regulative principles. If it does , communicate that to them about the same most humbly. If they fail to understand the logic or reason till treat them with all your love, reverence and respect but from a distance.
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Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
PAMHO.
Firstly, why is family not aware? You may be having your reasons - but i find it strange that people you are staying with and who are family are not aware of such an important aspect of your life.
Anyways, you have to be careful about following the 4 regulative principles - the most challenging is food. Simply say onion garlic doesnt suit you, you dont like tea coffee anymore and maintain. I am sure family will not ask you to smoke or drink or gamble ( I am assuming you dont do any of these). So all regulative principles taken care of.
For chanting, please wake up a couple of hours before your family and complete your rounds.
YOu have to be very polite and compassionate to them. YOur family is future devotee. It is your behaviour whihc will bring them to devotion or take them away frm devotion. So please be very loving, responsible whne you deal with them.
Haribol,
Your servant,
Radha Rasamayi DD
By satisfying Sri Krishna, all living beings is satisfied.
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Sri Jesus Christ said :
He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake, will find it.Jai Radhe Arup Kumar Mishra ji
Dandavat
May Radharani shower her causeless mercy on you
Nice to know that you have realized your self (jiver swarup hai/krishna nitya das) and you are practicing devotional service(bhakti). the pool of people we live in are also krishna nitya das but they are in dormant state or in sleep, they are not self realized and hence not in bhakti. As certified in scriptures like Srimad Bhagwatam and Bhagawat Gita, one in million of million of million will understand his true self and one in such billions will take opportunity of practicing devotional service and making his human life fruitful by the mercy of Sadhu, Guru and Vaishnavs.
So we cannot expect all our family members and relatives to instantly understand and realize what we had as soon as we did. So how to treat with them? As they are also krishna das(in sleep mode) we should treat them with all our love, reverence, respect as we do to other realized krishna das(devotees) untill and unless it compromises your bhakti or regulative principles. If it does , communicate that to them about the same most humbly. If they fail to understand the logic or reason till treat them with all your love, reverence and respect but from a distance.
Hope it answers your query
Your Servant
Satyananda Das