Just as people become obsessed with their mundane heroes, can we become obsessed with our spiritual heroes?
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Thank you. I have many Prabhupada disciples who tried to stretch their bodies to sleep for a few hours and now many of them say, you need to take care of your health.
They say that we stretched ourselves and they don’t regret that. But they say that we can’t serve Krishna as if now as we could have. See ultimately, we can’t cheat the body.
The body can cheat us but we can’t cheat the body. The body can cheat us means that the body can make us sleep more than we need to do. The body can make us eat more than we need to do.
The body can make us indulge more than we need to do. By making us believe, actually we need to do this. But we can’t cheat the body.
That means if we don’t give the body what it needs, if we don’t give it enough sleep, what happens? If we don’t sleep at the right time, then we sleep at the wrong time. We sleep during class, we sleep during japa, we sleep at so many other times. So what happens is we can’t cheat the body.
So we have to take care of the body. And it is important that we recognize that let’s say there is Anukaran and there is Anusharan. There is imitating and following.
So we are not trying to imitate the great souls. We are trying to follow in their footsteps. Following their footsteps means that we see what is our capacity and we do the best according to our capacity.
We can certainly take inspiration from others. It is always possible that we can do more, we can dedicate ourselves more. But after a few years, we start realizing that everyone of us is so different.
And that comparison just doesn’t make much functional sense. So we have to act according to our level. Of course we try to improve our level.
So where I was, how much scriptural knowledge I had 6 months ago, now I should have more. How much scriptural realization I had 6 months ago, I should have more. How much devotional abilities or experiences or devotional skills I have, I should have increased that.
But we need to focus on where we are and taking steps forward with the inspiration of others. It is not that we think that we can take the same size steps that they are taking. Did I answer your question? Yes.
How do you find your level of experience? So I have found in producing several times I have seen tests and in producing we are getting excellent. So how do we