If we feel inspired to do a service other than what we are instructed, what should we do?

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so I said we should be purpose driven but then sometimes we feel more inspired to do some service different from what we are instructed to do so what should we do at such a time is that the question? yes in general there has to be a cooperative attitude between the community leaders and the community members, the community members will be ready to do whatever service we are told to do and the community leaders, their vision should be that let every devotee be happy in the service that they are doing and therefore we try, the community leaders should be trying that let every devotee engage in a service that is according to their nature, that they are inspired to do, so for longevity in our service it is good that we have some service that we feel inspired to do and the there are at times certain urgent projects come up, some festivals come up, some major events come up, that time we all have to do whatever we are told to do but in the long run as we are practicing bhakti, it is good in consultation with our seniors to gravitate towards the service that we feel inspired to do the advantage of having a service that we feel inspired to do is that even if tomorrow there is nobody to instruct us still we will do the service tomorrow say nowadays all of us are so mobile, tomorrow we may go to some other place there are not so many devotee communities there but if we are driven to do a service then we will continue that we are inspired to do it so in general it is good to engage in services that we feel inspired to do but we don’t do it in a whimsical or rebellious way we submissively inform our seniors that this is what I feel inspired to do can I do it and usually they will understand and say ok you do this right now for this time being and in the future you can do this service so exactly when we can do the service that we feel inspired to do that will vary so we can keep the inspiration in our heart and we can try to do that service but sometimes the externals may mean that it takes some time for us to do that service I was just in California in Carpentaria with Giriraj Maharaj so Giriraj Maharaj was instructed by Shri Prabhupada to write books but then he was involved in the Mumbai project and the Mumbai project was like a war zone so initially he said I want to write books and then his god brothers told him at that time that you can write articles you can write books anytime but right now we have to build this temple and Prabhupada wants this temple to be built so he did that at that time and then now the way it has worked out is that when finally the temple was, the land was procured and the temple manifestation came to its conclusion so Prabhupada said no, if any of you know the story of how Prabhupada got the Juhu land it was quite an adventure, it was a battle so at the end Prabhupada said it was a good fight someone should write a book about it so then Giriraj Maharaj realised that I could have written about so many ideas according to my ideas but by doing this service Krishna made me an insider for a book that Prabhupada wants me to write so now he has written a beautiful several hundred, almost 800-900 page book it’s a complete history of how the, how the Prabhupada arranged for the Juhu temple to manifest currently the name is a promise, a good fight and a promise fulfilled so good fight means that Prabhupada said it was a good fight and a promise fulfilled Prabhupada personally promised Radha Radha Radha Rajbihari, sorry Radha Rajbihari that you please stay in this tent and I will build a beautiful temple for you so sometime, so Maharaj for many years I couldn’t do this service but now he is fully absorbed in that service so sometimes the service that we are inspired to do situations may not allow us to do that so we accept that, we keep the inspiration in our hearts and we keep doing whatever service we can at that time and slowly we gravitate towards that Prabhupada’s spiritual master told him to preach but for him it took a lot of time because he had other responsibilities so we, so we don’t have to give up our inspiration but we don’t have to give up everything else just for our inspiration now we can have balance and gradually as we keep practicing bhakti we will learn how to how to find space for ourselves by which we can do the service that we feel inspired to do answer your question?