Purifying the Rubbish Mind

At the present moment our minds are completely contaminated due to our having been fully engrossed and entangled in material sense gratification for thousands and millions of lifetimes. Due to this contamination we often misjudge the difference between right and wrong and thus make so many mistakes. Our biggest mistake of all is to misidentify ourselves with our material bodies. This impels us to foolishly throw away another lifetime in material sense gratification and thus remain a prisoner of material existence. If we are fortunate enough to come into the contact of a bona fide devotee of Lord Krishna who mercifully points out the defects of our mentality and guides us how to engage in the devotional service of the Lord, we will have the opportunity to get out of our slavery to our senses and go back to home, back to Godhead to resume our eternal pastimes with the Supreme Lord in His transcendental abode. Therefore we must always hanker for the association of those devotees who can correct us for our faults and clearly show us the pathway out of this rotten material existence.

Vishnujana Swami Leads Harinam Sankirtan Party in New York

Vishnujana Swami Leads Harinam Sankirtan Party in New York

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Difference Between Karma Yoga and Bhakti Yoga?

Please explain us about karma yoga and bhakti yoga and the difference between them. Please help us understand that if a householder is doing non-devotional service / job viz. Accounting, Insurance, any business activity, and if he accepts Krishna as Supreme and offers/contributes some from the fruits of results for devotional service, would he be a karma yogi or bhakti yogi?

Your fallen servant,
Navin Sharma

Answer: Partially or Fully Surrendered to Krishna

The difference is either being partially or fully surrendered to Krishna. If you are still conditional that you must be engaged in certain activities, but are offering some or all of the result of your work to Krishna, that is karma yoga. And when you are fully surrendered to doing whatever Krishna wants you to do, that is pure bhakti yoga. Even if you are working a job, that can be pure bhakti yoga, if you are fully surrendered to doing whatever your spiritual master asks you to do. In pure bhakti yoga, one completely gives up the sense of false ownership. He sees that whatever he has is all the property of Krishna, and he therefore engages everything he has fully in the service of Krishna.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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