How can we increase pure affection to Krishna in the age of Kali?
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Question by Srikanth. How can we increase pure affection for Krishna in the age of Kali? In the age of Kali, the primary Yugadharma is the chanting of the holy names. And if we chant Hare Krishna Mahamantra regularly, that will awaken pure love for Krishna.
At the same time, along with chanting of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra, the scriptures also say, that in Kali Yuga we get strength through association. In the past ages, many times the sages would go to the jungles to meditate in solitude. But in Kali Yuga, that is difficult.
If we try to be alone, when we are alone, we are alone with our uncontrolled and dangerous minds. And we are alone with the most materialistic person that we know. That is our own mind.
And that is why we will get affected. So even if we chant, if we have to chant, if we are too much alone, our mind will mislead us. And on the other hand, if we are in the association of devotees, the association of devotees protects us from being carried away by our mind.
Just being in association forces us to act properly. And even if we start acting improperly, our fellow devotees can point it out to us and tell us that this is something which we are doing wrong. So by associating with devotees who either have that pure affection for Krishna or desire to have that affection for Krishna and doing the process of chanting and other limbs of bhakti which arouse that affection, we will develop affection very quickly.
So this affection for Krishna, this attraction for Krishna, cannot come by any other way. The Goswamis in their literature describe, Rupa Goswami describes that, He says that just by doing pious activity we cannot get this attraction to Krishna. But we get it by wanting it as strongly as possible.
And that wanting affection for Krishna, getting the desire for loving Krishna, comes by associating with those who have that desire. So, doing the processes that awaken that spiritual desire, like chanting, and associating with those devotees who either have that pure desire or who are aspiring for that pure desire, will help us develop love for Krishna. Purely.