Hare Krishna ,
AGTSP , PAHMO ..
A friend of mine ,very large age difference ,had the habbit of smoking , it was like a taste to him .
Though not addicted , now he started chanting ,it is almost 1 year now , but whenever he feels a oppurtunity to smoke , he takes the advantage , he felt very bad initially and cried also , but now he says i do not feel bad , but i know it is offence , still going on like this , sometimes he feels very shamefull , in front of Deities . He says just a sip from Maya make him fall .
What should he do , he is aspiring but the urge to smoke comes at any moment,at any time and makes him forget he is a devotee and a soul . He is attracted to Maya ,leaving Radha Krishna , when he comes back to his state he realises what he had done , this has been going conitnuously for past many months !!
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Great answer, Bhaktin Maral mataji !!!
please let him serve to sincere Devotees. When sincere Devotees are pleased with him they will pray for him and his life will be saved.
Devotees does not need anything from others, they only depend on Krishna but if they see that someone is trying to help them to serve to Krishna then they shower their blessings upon him and IT IS THE ONLY WAY OF REACHING THE LOTUS FEET OF KRISHNA. There is not other way.
Prayers are very powerful. if they are done by sincere Devotees. Krishna is the property of pure Devotees. As like He told it to Vasudev Datta. And by only his wish Lord Chaitania delivered all the souls from material world to spiritual.
In this way please, again let him find sincere Devotees and serve to them.
Service also means:
hearing...
Your servant,
only solution is we should surrender (i hv forgotten spelling of this word, i m ignorant) then krishna will say maya free this person, krishna says in BG Daivy .... mam maya dur taya it is krishnas energy only krishna can defeat her.
even most intellegent living entities like lord brahma and saraswati will decides to pass exam given by maya they will also fail.
surrender (in one way to please krishna) will come as we will start loving krishna, one of many way is accept what is good for krishna consciousness.................