Practical Spirituality

Transcribed by: Shalini Ahluwalia Question: Hare Krishna! Question from Kunal Goyal Prabhu – How can I fully surrender to Krishna? Please give me authentic reason and proof also. Answer: The reason we surrender to Krishna is because of love. We need food, clothing, shelter, these basic necessities are there for life but they are not…

From Satyam P Question based on this Gita-daily article: Why do our resolutions crash between takeoff and landing? When you say that we have to be convinced, prji dont you think it is a long process which might take a long time to happen and our flight might not even start to take-off if we are…

Transcription by- Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: If our experience contradicts scripture then is experience still a highest pramana for knowing absolute truth? Answer: We have to understand carefully that what it means when it says experience is the highest pramana for knowing the absolute truth. This comes in Brihad-Bhagvatamrita. The Brihad-Bhagvatamrita is a…

Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: Can devotees who want to preach have preaching as also source of livelihood? Answer: In principle the understanding of the acharyas is that one should make a business out of the Bhagavatam. That means one does not do Bhagavat katha to earn money. That is the broad…

Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: In the past the culture was devotional and even if there was competition, say I will have a bigger temple or we will have a bigger festival, it was all centered more or less on Krishna or other devtas. But now it is becoming centered on bollywood…

Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: How can we know which mode we are in? Answer: By looking at the prominent emotions that we are having and the actions that we are prompted to do. That means Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita from 14.6-9, He gives the broad characteristic of each mode. Then…

Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: How can we try to always be in the mode of goodness? Answer: It will vary from person to person what specific measures to take but in general we have to find out what are the factors that take our consciousness upwards, towards goodness and Krishna transcendence…

Transcription by– Keshavgopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: When we are in the association of devotees the mind make us feel that the devotees are ordinary and when we go away then we value the association of devotees. Then again we come back again we start taking the association of devotees cheaply. How can we…

Transcription by- Keshav Gopal Das & Ambuj gupta Question: Can we preach in today’s times without using modern gadgets because when we start using gadgets then the vision becomes material often. We compare, ok, I have this kind of gadget, that person have that kind of gadget and then the focus from preaching may get…

Transcription by– Keshav Gopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: If a son is practicing bhakti but the parents are not practicing bhakti then will the parents get some good result like a good birth in next life because of their son’s practice of bhakti? Answer: Certainly son’s practice of bhakti will benefit parents. Specific nature…

Transcribed by: Ashwini Kamath Mataji Question: The question is we hear a lot but how do we apply practically because lot of things we hear, but nothing gets applied? Answer: See first of all, hearing and applications are not same, they are two separate things. The act of hearing is also an application because Shravanam…

Transcription by- Keshav Gopal Das & Ambuj Gupta Question: How important is it for devotees who wish to do writing as a service to learn English language, its grammar and style effectively? Answer: It is important but it’s not all important. Every service requires certain skills and those skills may vary from service to service…

Transcription by Andreea Mataji Question from Keshav Kashmiri Prabhu: This a question based on the article ‘To grow individually and socially, look for the weakness in yourself and the goodness in others’. Sometimes a person may find fault. At times it becomes difficult to judge a particular person as egoistic because he finds fault in…