HARE KRSNA DANDVT PRANAM TO ALL HONOURABLE DEVOTEES
MY FRIENDS ASK ME SO MANY QUESTIONS AND I ALSO HAVE SO MANY DOUBTS THATS WHY I M GOING TO ASK A LOT.PLZ DESCRIBE EVERYTHING AS GOOD AS U CAN.
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UR INSIGNIFICANT SRVNT
QUESTIONS
1.HOW IT IS BETTER TO DO DEVOTIONAL SERVICE(BHAKTI) IN ASSOCIATION OF DEVOTEEES RATHER THAN GOING IN FOREST & PERFORMING BHAKTI ALONE?
2.HOW PREACHING IS ESSENCE i.e. HOW PREACHING IS BETTER THAN SERVICE OF LORD?
3.AS A STUDENT CAME TO KNOW ABOUT K.C. HE THINK THAT K.C. IS EVERYTHING.HE SHOULD LEAVE HIS STUDIES AND SHOULD PERFORME BHAKTI.HOW HE IS WRONG?
4.ONE WANT TO CHANT EVERYTIME CONSIDERING CHANTING IS THE GREATEST ACTIVITY.SHOULD HE DO OTHER SERVICES&LEARNPLAYING INSTRUMENTS OR CHANT EVERYTIME?
5.HOW EVERYTHING ABOUT KRISHNA IS NON DIFFERENT FROM HIM?
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Q. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PREACHING KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS ?
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1.HOW IT IS BETTER TO DO DEVOTIONAL SERVICE(BHAKTI) IN ASSOCIATION OF DEVOTEEES RATHER THAN GOING IN FOREST & PERFORMING BHAKTI ALONE?
Ans: Knowledge is best received, when we receive it from a proper source. If you want to learn medicine, you go to the medicine school. If you want to learn law, you go the law school, you want you go the the Goldsmith. Hence, if you want to know about Krishna, increase our love for him, we go to his devotees. If you are in a war with a nation, do you fight alone? No! The soldiers work in battalions to attack the enemy. Similarly the modes of material nature, and our mind try to distract us from devotional service always, and being in company of devotees you can over power these tendencies.
2.HOW PREACHING IS ESSENCE i.e. HOW PREACHING IS BETTER THAN SERVICE OF LORD?
Ans:Preaching is also a service to the lord. There are nine-fold ways we can serve the Lord. 1)Hear about him 2)Chant his names 3)Remember him 4)Pray to him 5)Serve his lotus feet 6)Be his servant 7)Perform his puja 8)Be his friend and 9)completely surrender unto him.
And as per your situation and institution you are connected to you can perform whatever required services.
Lord Krisha is very happy if one preaches. Why? Because you connect any lost soul, back to Krishna, in any way, Lord Krishna says such a person is very dear to me. Why? Because the Lord is Happy when his son is brought back to him. Say a child is lost in the market, and you take the child back to his parents, wouldn't they be happy? They will in fact reward you! Similarly Krishna is our eternal father, and he is happy if an of his lost children are brought back to him.
Preaching can be done in many different ways. Book distribuion, Harinam Sankirtan, just holding simple kirtans at your home, preaching to some person, family member.
3.AS A STUDENT CAME TO KNOW ABOUT K.C. HE THINK THAT K.C. IS EVERYTHING.HE SHOULD LEAVE HIS STUDIES AND SHOULD PERFORME BHAKTI.HOW HE IS WRONG?
His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj was once asked this same question. Maharaj ji said if a student is a devotee of Lord Krishna, he should be the BEST student, why? Because he is Krsna's student, and we offer the results of our studies to Krsna, and hence we give the best results. Bhakti is simply not giving up all our activities and chanting Hare Krishna. That's a very far far away stage. Our duty is to maintain our daily activities(whether material or spiritual by nature) and offer our results to Krishna.
4.ONE WANT TO CHANT EVERYTIME CONSIDERING CHANTING IS THE GREATEST ACTIVITY.SHOULD HE DO OTHER SERVICES & LEARN PLAYING INSTRUMENTS OR CHANT EVERYTIME?
Our success in devotional services 99.95% depends on our chanting. And our chanting is a support system for all our services. So chanting is very important and we should see to it we can complete our prescribed rounds on time, but we should engage ourselves in other services too. One cannot become a babaji and chant all the time. About what service one should take guidance from their seniors.
5.HOW EVERYTHING ABOUT KRISHNA IS NON DIFFERENT FROM HIM?
I will answer the question after clarifying few doubts.
1. Sant Tukaram explains this very well, why there is no need to take the hard path when the Lord is willing to come to your home.
Enjoy, Hare Krishna
Jai Shri Krishna..
All the great devotees of Krishna..you all awaken the dormant love for Krishna and move us to tears filled with longing to be at His Lotus feet.
Hare Krishna, dear Abhinav Sharma prabhu.
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru-Maharaja.
Dear Abhinav Prabhu, you and your friends are asking very interesting questions.
All the question can be answered by just following this simple 3 advises.
01) If your friends are not chanting the Maha-mantra, please advise them very humbly to start chanting or at least make them hear the Maha-mantra.
02) If your friends are not visiting the nearest ISKCON temple, please advise them to start visiting the temple, at least on sunday. (sunday feast)
O3) If your friends and you don' t have the Bhagavat-Gita As It Is and the Srimad Bhagavatam, advise them to purchase these books at the temple.
Advise your friends to study these books steadily under the guidance of a spiritual master. This will answer all the questions from your friend and you.
I hope this will help you and your friends and please, I am begging you and your friends not to feel offended.
Thank you so much.
Jaya Radha Radha.
Jai Shri Krishna..
Very well said Prabhuji, the books of Srila Prabhupad will have all the answers. All the answers thats comming from this site are almost all from the knowledge gained from Srila Prabhupad.
Jai Shri Krishna..
I fully agree with you Prakash Prabhuji..the sankirtan.. so enchanting..just imagine Shravan prabhu leading..Lol
Seriously, I do agree with you.. the company of fellow devotees would definitely energise the atmosphere. We are not as powerful as Sukadeva Goswami. we need the company of fellow devotees.