But the sollution is to seriously and strictly follow the four regulative principles: no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication and chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day and read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day. But we do not know how to seek pleasure perfectly. How should I prove my innocence to them? I do not understand why people do chant “Hare Krishna” Maha Mantra throughout Astaprahari. And i had a argument over it why they say this wrong or not right. 2 .. if 16 rounds completes in morning can still continue another couples of rounds @ evening & start reading Srimad Bhagvad Gita ?? Yes. Of course chanting Hare Krishna is always good, even if you find yourself eating meat and doing all sorts of sinful activities then keep on chanting Hare Krishna. When we are committing offenses it is only the chanting of Hare Krishna that can give us the strength to stop committing the offenses. So we can never give up chanting Hare Krishna, no matter how fallen and how offensive we may be, we keep on chanting Hare Krishna and by the power of the Hare Krishna mantra and by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya Krishna will pull us up from the darkest ignorance to the transcendental platform of pure devotional service. If you don’t even know this it means you have not read any of Prabhupada’s books. Then we can chant the Hare Krishna mantra. I am not recieving the newsletters regularly. It is only by the mercy of the bona fide guru that we can make advancement in Krishna consciousness. Without surrendering to and serving a bona fide spiritual master you can not become Krishna conscious. So I stopped and I left. That is not Bhagavad-gītā. We can not directly approach Krishna. But that chanting does not count towards your 16 rounds. Chant Panca-Tattva mantra once before each round. Hare Krsna Madhudvisa dasa prabhuji. This is the beginning. It is true that people get addicted to such stuff, & thus should refrain from it. I have already read Srila Prabhupada’s Nectar of Devotion, and I shall go through chapter 8 and 9 again. They keep some personal interest. That encourages us to improve our position. You can chant 16 rounds in the morning and then some more rounds in the evening and reading. It is written in the Bhagavad-gita that once one starts on this path of Krishna consciousness he will complete the course. I speak from experience. It is the only book in the world that is a direct conversation with God Himself, and it contains the exact Sanskrit words that Krishna Himself spoke five thousand years ago. So somehow that book you distributed will save him or someone else who ends up getting that book. Live far up north Ontario, I am also very puzzled by why this is a sinful action. To do that you need to know what Prabhupada wants you to do, and so you can know that you have to read Srila Prabhupada’s books and put the instructions you get from Srila Prabhupada’s books into practice in your day-to-day life. As far as I am aware Srila Prabhupada just chanted Hare Krishna. Chanting purifies our consciousnesss and keeps bad elements away from us. Hare Krishna, In spite of our care and alertness, we may commit 1 or 2 offences, since we are human! And there are so many troubles created by sex. My mind was no longer able to be still while hurtful things were being done to devoties and aspiring devoties like me. Also I am married and blessed with two kids. The people we associate with have a great impact on our life. So they are committing offenses, so how they can become perfect? But these days you can not find a bona fide spiritual master. Everything else we do has to support this aim of becoming Krishna conscious. chanting and singing krishna songs that time she will more happy plz I am facing lot of hurdles in my job and in my love life. If you do all these things then you will directly perceive that you are becoming closer to Krishna day by day. Yes. Thank you for taking the time to reply. I must include that I have a boyfriend who used to be a devotee of the Lord when he was younger and purer at heart. He is called Tamasi, his followers are those in the mode of ignorance who want sex and intoxication. Is there any prove that God exists? This is nonsense. That is useless. So there is no question of chanting Hare Krishna just once. Srila Prabhupada is the spiritual master of the Hare Krishna movement…. What you are thinking about is namabasa, that is very powerful, unknowingly chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, but if we knowingly chant offensively, that is like trying to light a fire with one hand and pouring water on it with the other. That is not what Krishna asks us to do in the Bhagavad-gita. Chanting is done with the tongue and it has to be heard with the ears. I know that I am not a devotee having all the perfection but how can I engage myself more into the Lord’s service ? But if we are serious then we have to chant at lest 16 rounds every day. So if you simply surrender to Srila Prabhupada and actually chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra daily and read Srila Prabhupada’s books and strictly follow the four regulative principles (no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication) then you will become Krishna conscious and everything will change in your life and by your good association your parents and family members will also advance in spiritual life. Of course we have to observer Ekadasi if we want to make some advancement in Krishna consciousness. It is like any other science, if you want to learn it you have to read the books, Prabhupada’s books. But it always requires an enormous amount of determination and enthusiasm. “In this age of Kali the only way, the only way, the only way to make spiritual advancement is chanting the names of Hari.”. Our children & myself are baptized Lutheran. are also identical with Lord Krishna? All mantras have … You can chant Hare Krishna anywhere, anytime. I agree with you fully on all the points. i want to engage my self in kirshan and also want to others to be engaged in. It's poor manners to ignore someone during a conversation, and multitasking while chanting while chanting shows Krishna that we're not really that interested in talking with Him. Let us see an example: We watch a movie of our favorite star. Now you just have to keep on improving and follow whatever principles you are not following and because you will keep on chanting Hare Krishna Krishna will give you the strength to do this. First we offer or respects to Srila Prabhupada: NAMA OM VISNU-PADAYA KRSNA-PRESTHAYA BHUTALE SRIMATE BHAKTIVEDANTA SVAMIN ITI NAMINE. Because when I try to convince people that Krsna is The Supreme Personality of Godhead, initially they seem to be interested but later after some days, I find most of them atheist and rest still donot change their previous views. What is the problem? “Non-devotees, parents or anyone else, are demons and they have no knowledge and we have to see very clearly like that.” But my parents or just some non-devotees still seem to have some knowledge about life and the type of people they interact with. But if the spiritual master is not qualified he will have to accept the karma of the disciples himself and in time that will destroy him and his destruction will, in turn, destroy his disciples…. Krishna is not so cheap, Krishna consciousness requires us to become determined and follow the principles and chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra every day. Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra is always good, but if it is done offensively of course it becomes milk touched by the lips of a serpent and has poisonous effects. But this is not actually the real situation. But 16 rounds should be chanted attentively, that means not when you are driving, but you can of course chant Hare Krishna when you are driving also, but that will not be very attentive, still it is very good to chant Hare Krishna when you are driving, when you are walking, everywhere and at every time you can and should chant Hare Krishna. There is only lust in one form or another. I do not chant 16 or more times a day. They are generally OK for offering to Krishna. In addition to following the four regulative principles and chanting at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra daily we have to consider the ten offenses in regard to chanting the holy name: Srila Prabhupada always stresses these points very strongly at initiation ceremonies and if he is not personally performing the initiation he stresses these points in his letter to the initiates. I want to know , when to chant hare krishna maha mantra. Therefore, just as Krishna's instruction to chant His name is authoritative, Lord Caitanya's instruction … If it is then my question is: I liked the chanting hare Krishna message to us sinful souls to purify ourselves of our deeds. When i was in Folk 4 (Bangalore iskcon) classes, i used to rarely smoke and drink, though prior to it i was a big time drinker and smoker. Does it really matter us that krishna is supreme lord or not? I think I m doing chanting just ractically .please help. And if you do that yourself, if you go out on book distribution yourself and speak to the people and give them Srila Prabhupada’s books you will discover there are very few demons out there. It is not physical presence that is important. So Krishna and Balaram then went to the wives of the Brahmanas who immediately fed them sumptuously with the food that was meant to be prepared for the sacrifice. Madhudvisa ji, Is it fine to chant the mantra in mind than chanting by lips? Chanting Hare Krishna provides the best protection from all evil energy. They can never be offered to Krishna, that is the point, and devotees will never eat anything which is not offered to Krishna. It is the way the universe works. This is a very important point we have to understand. You can chant Hare Krishna softly for personal meditation or loudly with your family or friends. I want to say is even i am a devotee of Lord Krishna and even if i become very much advance in KC i will still be grounded and normal person.. y to hanker for respect from other people?????? But abstaining from sex except for when it is needed to create nice Krishna conscious children is very good for us from every angle of vision. Hare Krishna Prabhu, Sa gunan samatityaitan [Bg. So if you use a clicker you miss out on this benefit. Really, I do not understand this statement as it does not make sense to me. So chanting one round will take typically about 10 minutes, therefore theoretically one could chant 64 rounds in eight hours although for me personally it always takes much longer than that because I chant slowly and tend to space out…. It is subtle point. Not that it is more difficult because you are in the Navy. I have two young sons, I love my husband and above all, I can not destroy my marriage by refusing to have sexual intercourses with him regularly. Hi, And to maintain our determination and to give us real transcendental knowledge we need to read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day. Masturbation is illicit sex, and it is loosing semen which is bad for a man. So anyone who worships Krishna, he becomes nirguna, what to speak of the guru, he is nirguna…, It is better Prabhu not to speak if you do not know what you are speaking about… Please do read Prabhupada’s books again. If you cook a cabbage then you have to kill the cabbage to cook it. We know our own personal ideas and opinions are just rubbish and have no value. So you need to worship Srila Prabhupada. And you can not offer them to Krishna and we only want to eat things or drink things that have been offered to Krishna–Krishna prasadam. Prepare sumptuous offerings for Krishna, offer them to Krishna and distribute Krishna prasadam to everyone, devotees and non-devotees alike. But actually no one is ever successful in maya. Mostly I get severely bored during many times. It is revived by Lord Caitanya and put in a form very practical for the Kali-yuga. We will spit at the thought of sex life. I feel uncertain of this, it seems like it would be offensive to chant the holy name without believing in the holy name, I don’t feel good about this person’s intention and I feel I have heard and been taught that this would be offensive, but I’m not certain. I keep chanting it other times also while I am driving, or walking or doing other things. But in the meantime you just have to keep chanting Hare Krishna, even if you can’t concentrate on it…, How can I tell Krishna conscious to a cristhn. It has nothing to do with cakras, oxygen levels, hypnosis, positive thinking, or anything merely mental or mechanical. please respond. Now, I understand Kaliyuga better. Is there somewhere in Australia I can talk with devotees like yourself at a temple or festival or something? You can become Krishna conscious in your family life and by your good example and preaching all your family members can also become Krishna conscious and benefit greatly from your association. You are in maya and I suggest you get into Krishna consciousness and you know the process I am suggesting is that you get out of bed early in the mornings and chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra daily and strictly follow the four regulative principles (no illicit sex, no meat eating, no gambling and no intoxication) and read Srila Prabhupada’s books at least 1-2 hours a day. So these offences in regard to deity worship are nicely described by Srila Prabhupada in his Nectar of Instructions Chapters 8 and 9. Therefore if we want to be successful in the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra it is essential that we come to the platform of offenseless chanting. It is not possible to fully answer this question in a few paragraphs because the answer to your question is if you want to control your sex desire you have to become Krishna consciousness and Srila Prabhupada has scientifically explained all the details about how to become Krishna conscious in more than eighty books. I am not aware of any true gurus except Srila Prabhupada. Now that i have again become a drunkard and smoker and non-vegetarian, i want to go back to the same place ie iskcon. Now I want to join Gym but if i join gym , trainer will suggest me to eat egg everyday. Prabhupada: Here it is clearly said, sa gunan samatityaitan brahma-bhuyaya kalpate [Bg. There is a verse in the Bhagavad-gita that describes different types of materialists: na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah It is natural Prabhu, that in the beginning we do not feel much love for Krishna, and that we want to get free from the sufferings of the material world. Since last one year I have come into the contact of ISKCON. We have to force ourselves to chant Hare Krishna, even though maya is telling us always to not chant Hare Krishna. There are no hard-and-fast rules in this regard. Our posts will reach you without fail. His only wish is to be engaged constantly in the service of Krishna under the direction of Krishna’s pure devotee. Could you please clarify something for me considering you statement here. I think initially we should start chanting 16 rounds and follow the 4 regulative principles and then when time comes Lord Krishna will automatically show us the way to his spiritual master….. You will find your spiritual master in Srila Prabhupada’s books. So there are plenty of examples of this in the books like Caitanya-caritamrta, Caitanya-Bhagavata, etc, the biographical works on the life of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You understand the ideas you just have to apply them in your particular situation. Japa beads you can see at: http://krishnastore.com/mantra-meditation-kit-japa-chanting-beads-in-bead-bag-h-krishna-421.html. So we have two choices during japa. So disciples in the Krishna Consciousness Movement take a vow at the time of initiation to chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna mantra daily on japa beads. So if you eat things that have onions and garlic in them you are not a devotee and do not understand the most basic things about devotional service. So a devotee knows this very well and sees the remote cause of these difficulties and sufferings in his life. Of the 4 regulations applies to only initiated people. The thing is you have to want to follow the principles and seriously try to follow the principles and then you will be able to follow the principles and get the strength to follow them by chanting Hare Krishna. And i don’t think it was at all fair of my father to hit me. why he want people to lay down infront of his feet???? Still in this age our minds are very disturbed so it is not easy for us to constantly think of Krishna. That is because it is only through Lord Caitanya actually that we can approach Krishna. Chanting Hare Krishna frees you from the reactions of all past karma. Read Bhagavad-gita As It Is and you will learn a lot more about Sri Krishna. You can not help anyone else become Krishna conscious unless you are Krishna conscious yourself. In case you had got initiation (diksha) from any guru, you have to recite your guru’s pranama manthra first. I went through your article pointing out the ten offences and in this regard i am an offender since i smoke cigarettes a lot and am a bit alcoholic which clearly indicates the gact that i am eternally not permitted to chant those golden spells of my God. But as Bhagavad Gita says, “One must conquer the mind. And we don’t take our japa beads into the bathroom for example. After taking a bath and wearing fresh clothes, you must sit in front of an idol of Lord Krishna and then start the chanting using a Tulsi rosary. There are no hard and fast rules for chanting Hare Krishna. I ‘ve been following the four regulative principles, reading and listening to Srila Prabhupada’s books And he thinks that if he gets some more money he will gamble that also and win back his losses. Yes. But I have managed to save a little time in a day to read prabhupada’s books. after that I want a good job and earn lot of money just to satisfy my parents, regarding me I am a Materialistic person but not that much, and the more I am concentrating on Lord Krishna the more I am getting less attached to this material world….. My question is I don’t want to Marry, I want to take Celibacy, For women it is important to get married but for men also??????
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