Why are many people unable or not showing interest to fully surrender to Krishna although knowing from BG that they will get eternal happiness and also knowing human life is rare to obtain (in India)?

From: Prashanth

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Thank you Question from Prashant Prabhu Why do many jivas unable or not showing interest to fully surrender to Krishna although knowing from Bhagavad Gita that he gets eternal happiness etc also knowing that human form is rare to obtain in India Answer Firstly not so many souls, no spiritual knowledge so there are so many people who are just living materialistically because they don’t know much about spiritual life so we could say that that sort of situation is because of their own past choices which is true when the soul tells Krishna that I am not interested in serving you, knowing you, loving you I simply want to do my own thing independent of you then Krishna says fine, I won’t interfere in your life and Krishna doesn’t force the opportunities to be Krishna conscious in such a soul so firstly the souls have come to the material world to enjoy separate from Krishna and that is why if they are uninterested in Krishna consciousness that is not surprising now among those souls who do come to know about Bhagavad Gita often their knowledge is mostly theoretical it is not experiential that means theoretically people think that there may be God, there may be soul, there may be spiritual world but those are not things which are important so most important for the practice of Bhagavad Gita is the interaction with those who are living the Gita as I have written in the Gita Daily article, the Gita lives through those who live the Gita that means that the wisdom of the Gita becomes living and real when we see people living according to it and when we see that actually they have become better human beings more mature and happier so when they associate with devotees then their probability of their taking the Bhagavad Gita seriously increases much more so even after people know about spiritual knowledge and even if people have examples of those who are practicing spiritual knowledge in front of them as given in the Bhagavad Gita still some people may not be interested because of the modes that they are being influenced by, in the modes of passion and ignorance people are caught up with the fascination with controlling material nature or with the frustration at not being able to control material nature respectively in goodness and passion sorry in passion and ignorance and because of that they just don’t think much about spiritual nature in goodness people may have their own conceptions about spiritual nature which they do not want to share because in goodness the attachment is not so much to things it is to opinions but still relatively goodness has a culture and intellectual ethos that is conducive to understanding spiritual knowledge and practicing it in one’s life so essentially if people are not showing interest in practicing spiritual life the best we can do for them is try to create in them a Jnana Sukrti positive impressions about Krishna consciousness so that eventually when they get the spiritual urge that spiritual urge may come because of severe frustrations in material life or that spiritual urge may come because of the maturing of their Jnana Sukrti and the realization coming on that this is important so when that happens they will know where to turn if they have already met devotees and have seen that devotees are actually Prabhupada would say gentlemen and ladies then that positive perception of devotees will make them turn towards Krishna when their spiritual urge awakens and that time they will start taking to spiritual life but if people don’t take to spiritual life we shouldn’t be surprised or disappointed because although the philosophical facts are true which gives us eternal happiness human form is rare and human worth in India is so rare in fact in 5th Canto the Devatas pray that we should be born in Bharat Varsha but still after all this was Kali Yuga and most souls want to be wholesale materialistic and godless so we should expect that and at the same time we should try to offer them the remedy of Harinam Sankirtan in the best possible way of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who has come as Kali Yuga Avatar in the way that will be most appealing to them immediately or eventually. Thank you.