Prayer for Pure Bhakti

My dear most beloved Lord Sri Krishna,

Please bless me that I may be purely absorbed in your devotional service in all times, places, and circumstances for all of eternity without even the slightest deviation from pure bhakti in either my thoughts, words, or deeds. My dear Lord, I know that anything less than this will not be pleasing to you. Thus I am I begging you to bless me with pure devotional service so that I can give you unlimited pleasure for all of eternity. Please help me to attain this. I am a most fallen and bewildered servant of my rascal senses. Without your mercy I will not be able to escape this entrapment within the prison of sense gratification. So please save me.

Sri Sri Radha Damodar in Riga, Latvia--8 May 2016

Deities of Sankarshan Das - Sri Sri Radha Damodar

Video For the Day: Awaken Pure Love for God

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Question: Why Bad Things Happen to Good People?

As you mentioned in the 9 May 2016 Thought for the Day, in a situation where greedy, remorseless, revengeful, powerful, scheming people play their dirty games and harass, abuse, insult, cause losses to and disturb the gentle devotees fully aware of the situation--why does this happen to the devotees when they are under the shelter of Krishna? Does Krishna penalize dirty, corrupt people and protect devotees? How and when? Why God delays in answering our prayers?

Gurudeva, how to serve spiritual master, Tulasi devi, and Krishna for their pleasure, not just to get moksha and Goloka dhama, but in pure devotional service to be with them always. Kindly elaborate. Your insignificant student,

Rajendra

Answer: For a True Devotee Everything is Good

A devotee accepts the hell of this material world as a wonderful reminder from the unlimitedly merciful Lord Sri Krishna that this material world is not our actual home. Everyone is punished and rewarded according to their previous pious and sinful activities. You cannot change that with prayer. Prayer is for awakening the pure love of God within our hearts so that we can get out of this material world. It is not for getting better facilities in this material world.

By purely serving the spiritual master Tulasi devi and Lord Krishna are automatically pleased. Srila Prabhupada describes nicely below how to serve the spiritual master:

"A disciple should serve the spiritual master as a menial servant, and whatever he has in his possession should be dedicated to the spiritual master: pranair arthair dhiya vaca. Everyone has his life, his wealth, his intelligence and his words, and all of them should be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead through the via medium of the spiritual master."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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