A Devotee Cannot Tolerate Forgetting Krishna

For one who has awakened his dormant Krishna consciousness forgetting Krishna is worse than death. Thus such as devotee is naturally absorbed twenty-four hours daily in hearing, chanting, remembering, offering prayers, worshiping, and serving the lotus feet of Guru, Krishna, and Vaisnavas. Such activities are all auspicious and full of spiritual potencies, which make the devotee perfect in self-realization, so that his only desires are to awaken Krishna consciousness within the hearts of all conditioned souls and to achieve the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such a devotee undoubtedly approaches the Lord without difficulty. 

Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture in Melbourne--26 December 2016

Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture in Melbourne--26 December 2016

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Question: Stress from Working Night Shift
Hare Krishna

Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to you.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Srila Gurudeva,

These days I have been going through a challenging situation. I've been doing the night shift in the office. I work between 07:30pm and 04:30am. So, nowadays, this is quite impossible for me to attend daily Mangal Aarati and the morning lecture. My daily Sadhana has got disturbed a lot. Also I could not even complete 16 rounds of chanting on few occasions in the last couple of months. I completed them later.

But, it gives me a sense of embarrassment. So, could you please enlighten me?

Your disciple

Answer: Mangala Arati As Soon As You Get Off Work

You can celebrate mangala arati by singing the Gurvastaka prayers as soon as you get off work at 4:30am. Carry the photos of Srila Prabhupada, your spiritual master, Panca Tattva and Radha Krishna with you. You can sing to those photos anywhere and in this way have a super ecstatic mangala arati every day.

For the morning lecture you can hear a recorded lecture. If on a given day you cannot complete your rounds, you must make them up the next day.

Krishna has blessed you with your current situation to increase your hankering for Him. So don’t worry. Chant and be happy. Everything will be okay.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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