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Question: How to Be Aloof from Aloofness?

Why are we trying to find happiness in the material world even if there isn't any? How can Krishna consciousness teach me how to remain aloof from aloofness? How can I control my mind in a manner that is favorable for Krishna consciousness? Can you point towards any verse in Bhagavad Gita directing towards this?

P.R.
 

Answer: Engage Whole World in Krishna's Service

Because our nature is to always enjoy happiness we naturally try to find happiness in this material world even though it is a place of misery.

While the impersonalists adopt a mood of aloofness to try to free themselves from the miseries of material existence, the devotees of the Lord reject aloofness by engaging everything in the service of the Lord. Thus they become liberated from this material existence even while they are still living within it and relish the sweetest happiness at every minute.

The method for always having a mental attitude which is favorable for your Krishna consciousness is to always remember Krishna. In Bhagavad-gita 9.34 Krishna instructs us to always think of Him:

man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
mām evaiṣyasi yuktvaivam
ātmānaṁ mat-parāyaṇaḥ

"Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari