Be Kind to Yourself​​

Don't torture yourself by continuing to focus your life on serving your material body. Your material body is a simply a costume that you are temporarily wearing. It is not you. Of course, you should not neglect your costume. You should take proper care of it. You should keep it in good health. But you must never think that it is you. Your main focus should on serving the needs of the actual self, the eternal spiritual self who is seated within the temporary material body. And what is that need? The need of the actual self seated within is to have a pure loving relationship with that person who is the Supreme Self, the source of all existence. That Supreme Person has unlimited names, pastimes, and qualities. His name "Krishna" is especially potent because this name includes all of the other millions and billions and trillions of His other names within it.​​​​​​​

Krishna--The Most Amazing of All Persons


Krishna The Most Amazing of All Persons

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Answers According to Vedic Wisdom

Question: Faithful and Mechanical Chanting?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Dandavat pranam. Jaya Srila Prabhupada.

What does it mean to chant faithfully?
And what does is mean to chant mechanically?

​​​​​​​Your servant,
Sanket

Answer: With Love and Without Love

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Sanket,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Faithfully is chanting with love treating Krishna as a person, and mechanically is chanting without love treating Krishna as a machine.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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