What are the types of lectures we need to hear in a week so that we will joyfully stay in KC?

From: upendra baliga
hare krishna, we hear that “hearing” is the most important aspect of spiritual life, and by the mercy of prabhupada ISKCON has grown so lange and wide, there are so many lectures to hear, but my question is what are the type of lectures we need to hear in a week so that we will joyfully stay in kc , without compromising in any aspect of kc

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Thank you. Question from Upendra Balligapur We hear that hearing is the most important aspect of spiritual life and by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada ISKCON has grown so large and wide.
There are so many lectures to hear but my question is what are the types of lecture we need to hear in a week so that we can joyfully stay in Krishna Consciousness without compromising in any aspect of Krishna Consciousness? Answer Firstly the lecture should be those that inspire us to understand and practice Krishna Consciousness. The lectures can otherwise be about very lofty topics coming from Parivartha Acharya’s books or speculative topics coming from some people’s minds which may be very titillating to hear but they may not be very helpful for us in our understanding or our practice. So scriptures are primarily meant to act as manuals for living.
Now a manual is primarily meant to be applied and of course for applying one needs to understand also. So that way we need to understand scripture and live scripture. So those lectures which help us to get proper guidance about how to live according to scripture and how to address those misconceptions preconceptions that causes hesitation or doubts in living according to scripture, we need to address that.
So this is something which each of us has to decide individually based on of course guidance from senior devotees that which lectures we should hear, whose classes we should hear and how much whose classes we should hear. Generally we should read Srila Prabhupada’s books regularly. At the same time we often get a clearer understanding based on hearing as compared to reading because often when we hear many of the questions that we have are addressed in the hearing and Srila Prabhupada wanted us to do both hearing and reading.
Both are important parts of devotional service. So we have to see phalena parichayate that after hearing some lectures what is the fruit? Does it increase my conviction in the process of Krishna consciousness? Yes, this is the path coming from God and this is the path that will take me back to God. Does it increase my inspiration? Yes, I want to move along this path and I want to move quickly, speedily along this path.
So when we look at the phala then we can know whether these are the kind of classes I should be hearing. They should be increasing our conviction and our inspiration and for doing this conviction and inspiration they should offer us guidance for practical application and they should provide clarification about any pre-existing misconceptions that we are having. So many of the lectures will essentially repeat the same fundamental points which we need to hear but along with that we also need to get clarification and guidance for application.
Based on this we can decide which