Secret of Success: Always Please Your Guru

If you would like to know the secret of success on the path of Krishna consciousness, kindly note that your spiritual master is your connection with Krishna. By pleasing him you are pleasing Krishna. Therefore you must always please him by a humble and sincere service attitude never considering him to be an ordinary man. To displease him causes great havoc on your path of spiritual awakening. Therefore you should carefully monitor your thoughts, words, and deeds in all times, places, and circumstances to make sure that you are always in harmony with your guru, which brings you into perfect harmony with Krishna and the revealed scriptures.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada in the Airport
Srila Prabhupada in the Airport

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: What Forces Jiva to Desire Separate Enjoyment?

Please accept my humble obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Guru Maharaja,

Thank you for sharing a very nice explanation by Srila Prabhupada on why the jiva falls down from spiritual world. I have a query. The jiva in the spiritual word has no contact with the material modes of nature, is always surrounded by devotees of the Lord, is free of all anarthas, is enjoying direct company of the Supreme Lord, but still he develops a desire to enjoy separately from the Lord. What forces him to have that desire ?

Your humble servant,

Madan Govind Das
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Answer: Nothing Forces Him to Make the Stupidest Mistake

Nothing forces him to make this stupidest of all mistakes. It is simply his own voluntary misuse of his free will that brings him from the spiritual world into the material world. He foolishly becomes envious of Krishna's position as the supreme enjoyer and wants to try to imitate Him. Krishna then gives him a world in which he can imagine that he is God, the center of enjoyment.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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