How to Become 100% Selfless

Since time immemorial when we entered into this material world to try to enjoy separately from Krishna we have been foolishly clinging to a false sense of being the center of enjoyment. In other words we have been totally selfish. Our egotistical attitudes have not brought us genuine happiness. Indeed, they have simply made us more and more miserable. Even after having heard from bona fide scriptures and from great spiritual masters that this selfishness is the cause of all our miseries and accepting this as true, we still stubbornly and foolishly cling to this false conception that we are the center of enjoyment. The fact is that it is very, very difficult for us to become completely pure, 100% selfless. But this seemingly impossible task can be easily accomplished if we take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master dutifully and enthusiastically accepting all of his instructions as our very life and soul.

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Question: No Taste for Chanting

I don't know why I have a taste for listening to the Srimad Bhagavatam lectures but no taste for kirtan, the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. I usually get disturbed whenever I hear kirtan, and I just want to run away from the place. I know that this is wrong. Please guide me how to overcome this.

Your servant,
Sumeet

Answer: You Will Lose Your Taste for Krishna Consciousness

If one is only attracted to the knowledge of Krishna consciousness and is not attracted to practicing it by chanting Hare Krishna, in due course of time he will lose his attraction for Krishna consciousness and fall back down into material existence. So you can intelligently analyze whether you would like to go back to Godhead or remain in the cycle of birth and death and then do what is required to be where you want to be. The beginning stage of chanting Hare Krishna is compared to a person who is suffering from jaundice and is instructed by his physician to take sugar candy because it is the cure for jaundice. If one has jaundice, sugar candy tastes very, very bitter. But still one takes it on the order of his physician. In this way, by taking the sugar candy, in spite of its bitterness, it gradually regains its natural sweetness as the patient is becoming cured. So if you want to become cured of your material disease, you need to regularly chant Hare Krishna in spite of its apparent bitterness so that you can awaken your dormant taste for Krishna's name and thus become fully qualified for going back to home, back to Godhead.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari