Expert Time Management

The perfection of time management is to see that every moment of time belongs to Krishna and hence should be fully engaged in His service. If one has this fixity of mind, Krishna will give him the intelligence how to balance of all his material and spiritual duties in such a way that he will successfully awaken his dormant Krishna consciousness and triumphantly push forward the Krishna consciousness movement for the deliverance of the fallen, conditioned souls from their entanglement in the cycle of repeated birth, death, old age, and disease.

Krishna Says "Time I Am."

Krishna Says "Time I Am."

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Question: How to Deal with Materialists?

How to deal with highly egoistic people in our day-to-day life, with whom we have to interact? Should wed avoid them, correct them, or tolerate them?

Thank You.

With Regards,

Golok Das

Answer: Here's How

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA
My Dear Golok,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

In dealing with materialists we should flatter them one hundred times and then ask them go give up there nonsense and chant Hare Krishna. In this regard Srila Prabhupada explains as follows:

This is a verse by Prabhodānanda Sarasvatī, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya. He submitted this verse, that dante nidhāya tṛṇakaṁ padayor nipatya: “My dear sir, I have taken a grass in my mouth, and I am falling down on your feet, and I am flattering you hundreds of ways,”ahaṁ bravīmi, “I am submitting something to you.”
So those who are going to preach this philosophy, they have to adopt this means. Humbly, most humbly, submissive, padayor nipatya kṛtvā ca kāku-śataṁ ahaṁ bravīmi. He sādhavaḥ: “You are very nice man. You are very honest man, sādhu.” Sakalam eva vihāya dūrāt! “You give up all these nonsense things! Any nonsense, give up. Simply,”sakalam eva vihāya dūrāt caitanya-candra-caraṇe kurutānurāgam, “simply you submit unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya and chant Hare Krishna.”
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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