Transforming Your Home into the Spiritual World

One of the essential items for advancing in Krishna consciousness is that one should live in a holy place like Vrindavan or Dvaraka. For most people it is not practical for various reasons to pick up everything and relocate to India to reside in Vrindavan or Dvaraka.

So how will the sincere practitioner of the bhakti yoga system fulfill this requirement to live in a holy place? He can do this by transforming his home into a holy place.

How to do this? Here are some pointers:

The home should be full of things that remind one of Krishna. The bookshelves can be filled with the most potent transcendental literatures, the writings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The walls can be adorned with transcendental paintings and posters so wherever you walk you are reminded of Krishna. A room or a corner of the house can set aside as the temple room. In that room or area exclusively set aside for Krishna you can make a Krishna altar on which all of one's food is offered to Lord Krishna before being eaten. The altar can be regularly decorated with fresh flowers. You can chant one's daily quota of Hare Krishna japa while sitting peacefully in front of the altar. If you get sleepy you can stand up or pace back and forth.

The next step is to invite's your friends over for kirtan, philosophy, and prasadam. Cook a wonderful vegetarian feast and offer it to Lord Krishna with love and devotion. After your guests arrive, teach them how to chant the mahamantra and hold kirtan. Explain to them the wonderful transforming knowledge of Krishna consciousness and then lovingly serve them the prasadam (food that was offered to Krishna) to their full satisfaction. In this way make your home a place of transcendental activities where people gather regularly to uplift their consciousness to the transcendental platform.

In this way, even in your own home, you will not feel that you are living in this material world. You will feel that you are living in the spiritual world. You will not only feel that you are in the spiritual world. You will be in the spiritual world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Recognize a Guru?...

You have thoroughly explained the qualities of bona fide guru. But how to recognize them and surrender our self to that person who will ultimately lead us to Lotus Feet of Krishna?

Regards:
H S Mishra

Answer: He Only Repeats Krishna's Words...

The spiritual master can be easily be recognized by seeing that person whose only business is to repeat the words of Krishna without any addition or subtraction to everyone that he meets.

Surrendering to him can also be easily be accomplished. All you have to do is inform the spiritual master that you want to be his disciple and then ask him what he wants you to do. Disciple means one who disciplines himself by always meditating upon and following the instructions that he receives from his spiritual master.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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