Should we improve the material skills needed for service or improve our consciousness?
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it’s a good question sometimes if you are doing some service we have a choice that by doing that service I can improve the material skills required for that service or I can focus on improving my devotional mood or I can develop directly Bhakti activity so what should I do it will depend on the nature of the service and it will depend on the kind of responsibility we have in that service so if say if our primary service somebody’s primary service is to sing hymns then if they spend a good amount of time in learning how to sing and playing musical instruments that is fine because that is going to be their service but if somebody has many services out of the month services they don’t have to spend so much time on that they just learn something basic and move on so it depends on how important that service is for us it also depends on how inspired we are to that service sometimes if we feel very inspired then we may decide to with the blessings of our senior devotees we may decide to make that service our primary contribution and if we are going to make that service our primary contribution then we will have to invest in that because to do anything well requires dedication so when I was saying that don’t become a perfectionist that does not mean that we don’t strive for excellence it simply means that we don’t make our Bhakti conditional to perfection so if any service we have to do we have to do it especially important services if we have to take time we have to put time in that we should do them well and that decision we can take according to the importance of service, according to our inspiration according to the guidance of our senior devotees so we do need to improve the mood but that way I can say that I need to improve my mood before I can even speak one word about Krishna then we will not be able to do anything so both have to go in parallel we do something to improve our mood and we try to do in practical way also we can improve ourselves any other question?