Is the inner voice God’s voice?
Answer Podcast
Transcript
This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
the inner voice that comes to us is it taking us towards our destiny? is it the lord’s voice? yes it can be but it is not necessary everything that is inside the inner voice is always the positive voice for us one time in the early days one young hippie devotee said yesterday you came in my dream and you told me to take drugs laughter laughter Prabhupada said that was not me that was maya coming in my car laughter laughter so it is not that always the inner voice is the voice of god so we have antar bahir ashubham vidhanvan acharya chaitya upasha suratim vinakti in the bhagavad gita it is said that the lord guides us from within and from without internally he guides us as the paramatma acharya chaitya upasha suratim vinakti externally he guides us through the scriptures and the sages so when we study scripture regularly when we associate with devotees then we start understanding the overall principles that Krishna wants us to live according to and the more ultimately it is not that Krishna wants to keep the right path hidden from us Krishna wants us to give to the guidance but he wants us to see how much we want that guidance so whenever the choices of right and wrong of the proper and improper course of action are clear for us and at that time we choose the right actions and what are right and wrong we understand based on guru sadhu shastra the sages and scriptures then when we choose the right course of action when the right is clear to us then at that time more and more we are showing Krishna that I want to be guided and Krishna will guide us in other situations also so in general the inner voice if it is in harmony with the broad principles that we have learnt from scripture from the sages from the devotees then what we understand is this is Krishna’s voice if it is something which is not really connected with Krishna but it is taking us away from Krishna then we understand this is not Krishna’s voice and if it is not really neither directly pro devotional or anti devotional then we may have to just as they say play by the finger we may try it out and we learn okay when I act on the impulse it is sometimes works well sometimes it doesn’t work well so we can’t always say that the inner voice is bad or the inner voice is good we learn from scripture and we learn from experience so it is possible that sometimes we may get a hunch and we act on it and it works out good but sometimes we act on the hunch and then we later realize this is not a hunch this is simply a rush of blood I did act very impulsively and I should not have acted like that so there is a certain amount of self observation that is required so we may not always know right in the beginning when a particular some prompting comes from within whether I should do this or should not do this but we shouldn’t rather making assumption that this is the voice of Krishna or this is the voice of Maya we use the intelligence that we have got based on Guru Sadhu Shastra to evaluate that and then we further evaluate that in the light of our experience in our life and by that we can act properly so our voice there are many voices within and the voice of Krishna is also there within so everything that comes from within is all necessarily Krishna’s voice does this answer your question? also Prabhu just