Hare Krishna to all the devotees
All glories to srila Prabhupada
In the beginning, I would like to ask , how to actually get the darshan of devotees of lord.
personal scenario:- a few days ago , I some iskcon devotees were distributing Gita , but I was not able to meet them, due to some reasons. But when I got to know that there were from iskcon , I went out to search , if they are distributing it today near our house too. But I was unable to find them, I even tried to beg from Krishna to give me darshan of his devotees, I thought that I could buy a krishna book atleast from them, since I needed it and mandir is quite far away, and my parents don't like to see me go to temple. But since I was unable to find them, I couldn't get it.
So could the reason behind it be that actually I am unable to find them , since I am not worthy of reading the Krishna book , since it discloses the pastimes of Krishna , from 10 canto. I was hearing a lecture on HDG srila bhaktisiddhant sarasvati thakura Prabhupada 's life and got to know that once:-
While I was going to dictate the pastimes of Krishna and gopis, he fell in ecstacy. Then one pandit/brahman there said hat in this assembly there must be someone who is not worthy of hearing such transcendental pastimes so krishna arranged it so that he couldn't hear them. I think i am also that person. What should i do to get the darshan of devotees.
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Hare Krishna,
This is called overthinking. What is there so much you are so scared off??in canto 10 I didn't even find it so unreadable.
Look at the movies and dirty commercial available in these days. There are more offensive things you have already been exposed to in regular day to day life.
canto 10 mein kuch bhi aisa nahi hai jisse tum bigad jaaoge .. tum already bigade hue ho.
Why are you having this preconceived notion that there is some thing that you shouldn't read.
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padho isko. Kuch bhi nahi hai aisa waise ki tumhara dimak hil jaaye. overthinking chhod ke simply bhagwan ki leela samaj ke padho.
Kudh ko bhagwan mat samajhna bas itna hi.
Bhagwan can do anything can dance with 100,000 girls also unke liye veh 100,000 rup bhi leke dance kar sakte hai. Tum itna hi socho ye bhagwan ki leela
With this bhaav you read .
Prem and kaam are different. If you understand both then you can go ahead.
firstly, for sure you wont find any esctasy because... you are not any goswami ji.
All you will find oh aisa bhi hua tha kya bas. this feeling will come.
Ok Mataji , but reading is getting a bit of setback. I started reading CC but now due to 1-1.5 hour of lecture and then BG reading and due to a lot of study load especially now that exams are coming it is getting a bit difficult to do all the reading and studying together. What should I do about that?
hare Krishna
study a bit daily and chant mahamantra.
chanting is most important activity that you must do daily.
read for 30 min and chant for 30 min for now as you have exams.
Ok Mataji, I am currently Chanting 4 rounds from morning 5:30 to 6 (approx). And BG daily too. But I also want to continue listening, should I do that too?
if you have exams you can just do chanting and reading for now.