How can we be absorbed in Krishna?

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
Is there any other question? So how to absorb ourselves in Krishna? And there are two things in this, in my small understanding First is that it is very difficult to ourselves always have that motivation to stay absorbed That is why we need some responsibility, some obligation, some commitment That forces us to absorb ourselves in Krishna Like a simple example If I am told, read Prabhupada’s books daily Yeah, I will want to read them But if I am told, tomorrow you have to speak on this verse Then I will read Prabhupada’s books much more carefully Because I have to speak on it If I have to speak on, say I have to teach the Bhagavatam first canto or whatever Then I will read the first canto much more seriously Then I would read it just for my reading So in general, for most of us To do some surveys, to get absorbed in it The absorption can come through attraction Oh, I love this so much, I will get absorbed And if we are at that level of attraction, that’s wonderful But if that attraction is not there Then there has to be some kind of obligation Not obligation in the sense of burden But a responsibility or a commitment So the best way we absorb ourselves in Krishna Is by taking responsibility for Krishna Suppose if I decide, I am going to do some service in DT Varsha These days I am going to come and do that Then that responsibility forces us to put our mind on Krishna So if we decide that Okay, I want to everyday read Bhagavatam Some days I feel like reading, some days I don’t feel like reading But then how do I do this? How can I make sure that I read everyday? So I may decide that now one advantage is that Of the social media and the technology is that Outreach has become democratized Anybody who wants, they can start outreach So I know several devotees and I encourage them also that You want to read Bhagavatam everyday? I say just make your own small group on whatsapp Say that everyday I will post one point from my reading over there And just for posting that one point you will have to read Isn’t it? So when we do something with the knowledge that we have That inspires us to take the knowledge more seriously So this applies to study and this applies to other services also So we try to find some way in which we can create a commitment for ourselves So that is what will lead to the steady practice of bhakti That will lead to purification, that will lead to attraction And then the absorption will become spontaneous Right now the absorption has to be conscientious So conscientious means we have to consciously do that By creating some commitment And second is that we have to find out that What are the activities in bhakti that we can be absorbed Most easily or most effectively If I say this is the circle of bhakti And this is the circle of my interests and likes So I find the intersection between the two Then if I situate myself in the intersection Absorbing myself over there will be easy If somebody likes to read And they already have that habit So for them if you tell them to do deity worship They will do it But for them to get absorbed in that will be difficult But to read they will get absorbed in reading So both Finding out what we can most naturally do in bhakti According to our interests And creating some commitment for ourselves What we are talking is Radhanuga Bhakti Radhanuga Bhakti Yes, we will come to Radhanuga Bhakti By the steady practice of sadhana bhakti At our level, wherever we are