How to Taste the Bliss of Krishna Consciousness

If we want to taste the bliss of Krishna consciousness, we must not mechanically chant and serve. Instead we should chant and serve with feeling. What is the difference? It's a matter of common sense. We can immediately tell the difference in the way that others deal with us. If someone deals with us in a cold, mechanical, impersonal way, we do not like it. On the other hand, if someone deals with us in a loving, kind-hearted, friendly way, we feel energized and enthused. So we have to remember that Krishna or God is a real person who has feelings too. He is very pleased when we lovingly serve Him and chant His names. And He is displeased when we ignore Him or chant His name or serve Him in a disinterested, impersonal, cold-hearted way. When we please Him we will taste the sweetest pleasure. And when we do not please Him, we are not able to experience genuine happiness. Therefore if we are intelligent, we will always try to please Krishna or God by chanting His names and serving Him in a loving, full-of-feeling way.

Srila Prabhupada Feelingly Chants Japa
in His Quarters in Los Angeles

Srila Prabhupada Feelingly Chants Japa in Los Angeles

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: How to Serve Guru in Separation?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.
Bless me and my family.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Gurudeva, how to serve our spiritual master who we can’t see every day?
Does water offered to Krishna also become prasadam? And can such water make a person Krishna conscious? If so, how?

Yamuna devi

Answer: Serve His Vibrational Presence

There are two forms of the spiritual master: his physical presence and his vibrational presence, his instructions. If you will accept the spiritual master's instructions as your life and soul, you will never be separated from him even for a moment because you will always feel his presence within your heart and you will always be guided and inspired by him in the form of his vibrational presence.

When water is offered to Krishna with love and devotion it is transformed into pure spiritual energy. Thus anyone who drinks such transcendentalized water becomes transcendentalized.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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