Can we just take shelter of bhakti when nothing solves our problems?
So if we have a disease for which there is no cure and then the seniors senior devotees tell us let us take chant of Bhagavatam or the holy name how should we see this? so in general the there are times there are we all go through some phases in our life when nothing seems to help when materially things just one thing goes wrong second thing goes wrong or one disease happens and just not going whatever we do so what happens sometimes is the the frustration and the lack of a material solution and hope that maybe the next material solution will work out that can consume us so much that we just can't practice the process of bhakti so at such times you do not at least take chant of Bahu Nandi take chant of Bhagavatam and try to try to make the conscious a little more stable try to become into absorbentness so this is not meant to as a absolute mandate for not taking any treatment at all the point is there has to be a balance of the material structure the ideally speaking Yuktahara Viharas now try to do this Yoga Bhavati Dukha so yoga leads to the process of Dukha freedom from misery when everything else is regulated now there are times in our life when our material life is not regulated so at that time what to do when things are going wrong in material life there are different approaches so we try to set the things right materially also but sometimes the things are just not getting settled so at that time you must just take your approach at least stabilize yourself calm down because right now what is happening the material things are also not working and because we are consumed with the hope of material things working so we are not letting we are not focusing on the spiritual and we are not able to let spiritual is also not working because of that so what at that time when it is told that okay focus on the spiritual that is not that should not be taken as the absolute statement for not don't do anything material but the point is we should try to take shelter of the Bhava we want to take shelter of the holy name and thereby stabilize our consciousness and then when that shelter is there we can also explore something material but our consciousness should not be consumed by just the frustration and the material thing not working or just the hope that the next material thing will be a solution to all my problems we should also go on with the process of bhakti and it's much much easier said than done when we are actually going through trouble you know it is it is very difficult if there is no solution is apparent at that time but then we all go through some phases because of the past karma or whatever sometimes astrology can tell us that this is a bad phase that a person is going through now I am not recommending astrology and then it depends on time phase circumstances also whether a person should consider astrology or not but the point is it's a it's a philosophically intelligible principle that we go through phases in our life and certain phases may be bad at that time no matter what we do nothing seems to work so at that time we just need to tolerate tolerate doesn't mean that we don't try anything material but we don't let ourselves get consumed by the hope that the next material thing will solve all my problems sometimes you may just have to decide okay and I have to live with this so if I have to live with this life has to go on life has to go on means and I need to learn to practice bhakti in this situation also now surrender can have many definitions you know surrender can but one aspect of surrender simply is you know to do what we can with what we have now surrender means to do what we can with what we have now now Prabhupada he wanted to he wanted to preach Krishna Maharshi all over the world he wanted to attract thousands of people but the people who were coming doing the drunkards and drug addicts Prabhupada is preaching some people teach me that this is what I have this is what I will use and then he kept doing that and Krishna gave him more more so surrender can be in many different ways so one aspect of surrender is this is what I this is my condition right now this is my bodily condition I have to serve in this condition so of course Krishna can change the bodily condition and we can also do whatever is in the whatever is in our situation possible to improve the bodily condition but we shouldn't postpone our bhakti for that so that's what when we say take shelter of the Bhagavatam or take shelter of the holy name that is basically meant to avoid the dejection or the depression that comes from not having any material solution so that is not meant to be like a replacement for material solutions does that address your question? any other questions? should we move on?