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The Challenge a Preacher Faces

8 January 2025

The challenge a preacher faces is that he stands up against the entire human population of over eight billion people to tell them that they wrong and that what he is saying is right. It takes a lot of courage to do this. But by taking complete shelter of Guru and Krishna he becomes empowered to take this heroic stand. By doing this he is showered with unlimited mercy of Guru and Krishna.

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Questions and Answers

Hare Krishna Srila Gurudev
Please accept my humble obeisance
All glories to Your Divine Grace and Srimati Gurumata
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dear Srila Gurudev,

Sometimes in spiritual life, when there is some discrepancy, there is a tendency of frustration which leads to overindulgence in material sense gratification because of lack of sufficient engagements for the senses. How can one prevent oneself from such overindulgence?

In household life, when the couple do not want to have kids but sometimes the senses become so strong that they pull them down; then how to breakthrough it?

After over a decade of practice of Krishna consciousness when situation forces me to look into myself, I see there is so much lust in the heart, there is so much tendency for name and fame. Though I gave up my nature to be ambitious in the material world, but that ambitious nature is still there in my spiritual life. When I see other devotees doing so nicely in Krishna consciousness, i start comparing myself with them. The anarthas are still there and when I am not sufficiently engaged physically, they overpower me and pull me down. Becoming Krishna conscious in this life seems to be impossible in my case as I don't see any change in my internal consciousness. I don't know where I am heading in my spiritual life. It seems I am aiming for such a higher thing which is beyond my reach and therefore I try to find pleasure again in material sense gratification. But even material sense gratification becomes tasteless and I feel stranded between material and Spiritual life. I have heard "blessing in disguise". I remember this and try to console myself but i don't know what blessing is hidden in this...So i don't know what is happening to me.

Thank you
Your insignificant servant
Anonymous

Answer

From: Austin, Texas, USA

My Dear Anonymous,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

It is common for neophyte devotees to sometimes slip and fall in their process of self realization. If they try to learn from their fall downs what caused that fall down, they can be careful not to let it happen again. There is a saying, “If at first you don’t succeed, try again try again.” If the neophyte devotee keeps trying and again to become perfect in spite of so many fall downs he or she will be
able to reach that platform where there will be no more fall downs.

Pure devotional service is within our reach because it is our original state of consciousness. It is a buried treasure lying deep within our hearts. The digging process is chanting
Hare Krishna. If we keep chanting and chanting eventually we will come to our original state of pure love of God. In his
song, “Kabe Habe Solo Ke Din Amar” Bhaktivinode Thakur presents the mood of a devotee who is hankering to attain
pure devotional service. This should always be our mood. It you have some free time you should often sing this beautiful bhajan.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.
Your ever well-wisher,

Sankarshan Das Adhikari


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