How to Attain Success

In this world everyone is struggling to achieve material success. It is not an easy struggle because one must compete with everyone else who is also struggling for their portion of a limited pool of material resources. The Lord's devotee, however, is free from this anxiety because his only desire is to please the Lord. He knows that he can please the Lord from any position within this material existence. He can be a material success or he can be material failure. It does not matter. Simply whatever resources he has been allotted by the Lord he engages 100% in the Lord's service. This is his success.

It is significant to note in this connection that by the Lord's grace such a pure devotee who is completely detached from success or failure will not be without material facilities. Simply by rendering transcendental loving service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord's devotee can easily have all the benedictions of the world without separate endeavor.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Conquer Anger?

I always read your messages and would like to ask you: How can I control the anger within me and how to be selfless when I deal with the outside world?

Also can you please tell me how can I control temptations when it comes to material success or looking at nice prasadam?

My last question is: If any senior devotee chastises or scolds me how can I take it as a blessing even if I have not done any mistake?

Your Humble Servant.
Bhakta Pujan

Answer: See What Krishna Wants

Anger comes from unfulfilled desires. When things don't go the way we want them to go, we become angry. The easy way to conquer over anger is to stop seeing everything from the angle of what you want. If you will try to see everything from the angle of what Krishna wants, you will easily conquer over anger.

The desire for material success becomes purified by offering the results of that success in the service of Krishna. Arjuna was thinking that he did not want material success on the battlefield. But after Krishna ordered him to fight the battle, he did so on the order of the Lord and achieved great success, which was fully offered in Krishna's service.

There is nothing wrong if you are attracted to Krishna prasadam. It is a very nice attraction. Simply take whatever prasadam you can easily digest and not beyond that. Overeating, out of greediness leads to sickness and disease. Therefore one should always control his tongue in the matter of eating by only taking Krishna prasadam and by taking only as much as required.

Sometimes out of pride we think that we did not make a mistake, when factually we did make a mistake. But if we are being criticized for things that we have not done, we can tolerantly, and respectfully ignore such criticism. However, be very careful in this regard. Remember to always curb down the strong tendency of false egotism. Most of the time we are wrong, but we stubbornly refuse to take the correction that we deserve.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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