Hare Krishna dear devotees
Everyone faces stress at different level and different times/situation.
Even after knowing all this philosophy of considering yourself as "soul" and not a "body", many times the stress impacts your concentration/bhakti towards Krishna.
On happy days you can concentrate on chanting much more better than on days when you have some form of stress/anxiety going on through your mind and it may not be related to "Less belief in Krishna"
It could be because "you are constantly thinking about how to deal with certain situation" and very anxious to get it resolved first which impacts your concentration. One might say "I will leave everything on Krishna" but in-spite of that at times you are constantly thinking about it and involves eagerness to fix it fast and get to routine.
How do you deal with it?
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Hare Krishna dear Alka Mataji, please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Thank You for Your nice question!
It is true when everything is going nice we will chant also nicely, with no much worries. But when stress comes that time no desire and no determination and enough concentration.
And the one of the usual stresses is the feeling of loneliness, emptiness of heart or the other side is attachment to material people. All these bring much pain. So it is already predicted in Bhagavad Gita that happiness and sorrow will come as winter and summer. But intelligent one should not be disturbed much about this but TOLERATE.
When we are sad we have to chant patiently and the same thing we do when we are happy.
Tolerance.
When difficulty comes we have to try to solve that problem with all our strength but even though nothing is changing then leave that to Krishna. It is not that not doing any en-devour we leave everything to Krishna. No.
For example, once one mataji lost her 5-6 years old son. She cried, shouted and run here and there. They called to police ....informed all Devotees....searched whole city almost...so they did something crying for Krishna's mercy...but whole day were not able to find him. ...after all late evening somehow they found him safe...
So we have to do our best to solve our problems but always remembering and depending on Krishna's mercy.
i do not know if i understood Your question correctly.
Your servant,
Hare Krishna dear Mataji
In this busy modern life, where is the time for loneliness, especially if one has got the opportunity to know Krishna then how can one feel lonely . Ya , Material attachment is definitely the root cause of any kind of stress.
"happiness and sorrow will come as winter and summer. But intelligent one should not be disturbed much about this but TOLERATE."
Yes, that's correct that we need to tolerate everything including stress.
But the question still remains the same, the stress impacts your concentration level in chanting/serving Lord.
One might be still spending same amount of time everyday and same number of rounds every time under stress or under no stress. But the days you are under stress, the chanting is equivalent to no chanting.
So what's the solution?
So "not to get disturbed"? means
Just keep chanting while thinking about material resolutions.
Jai shree Krishna