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Unfortunately, my grandmother and grandfather, pray to Sai Baba. They are too old, I can't do anything to convince them now. I just dont know what to do. I don't like the fact that in my house, Sri Krsna's deity has to stay beside Sai Baba picture.

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I have a question that is puzzling me with regards to the purport to the Hare Krsna mantra. Swami Prabhupada says, Who exactly is Swami Prabhupada referring to when he says "nondevotees"?

Thank you vanamali, you are very right. I will try to do that before everything I undertake. Pankaja_dasa, im sorry but I didn't know you pm'd me. I dont have a messenger so maybe that could be why.

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I chant my rounds but I always think about studies when chanting, this is the problem. I don't know how to study while being detached, its really hard to think of that because when you study material science you have to always think about solving the problems or whatever, then you can't think of Krsna. In one sense it is rare to see the Lord or His form in a dream, and this is like only the 3rd or 4th time in 8 months of my KC life. But in another sense, people do so much tapasya and follow properly the Bhakti Yoga principles and I think they are actually qualified to feed the Lord. Lord Hari says there are different tapasyas. For me the one needed most I think is the tapasya for the mind, and that tapasya I don't know how to execute properly. Anyone else here know how to execute tapasya of mind properly?

Thanks for the replies guys. I don't know if anyone else is against my KC. I am afraid the only person that could be is myself. If I lose interest in it, oh, then everything is lost. So the only person to be careful against, is myself. I find it very very hard to surrender and stop speculating. Plus I find my mind so uncontrolled, its a serious problem. So much fantasizing, beyond limit. If I get a grip on reality, then all should fall into place but this is something thats been with me since birth literally. And about missing an opportunity, this is interesting because for the last couple of days, I've started studying for my exams almost 8-12 hours daily. I didn't do almost nothing spiritual like listening to lectures of Swami Prabhupada or going to forums. Could my dream be saying me to slow down, and start doing my spiritual things again like sravanam?

I would like to share my dream with the devotees here to see what this could possibly mean: I was in some sort of hotel, an average size hotel. I get up to go around the hotel alone, and I go to this open room and its blue. It had pictures of baby Lord Krsna on the walls, I remember in one picture HE looked a little sad, like asking for butter from mother Yasoda but She doesn't give him any. Then all of the sudden I am climbing on the wall and I grab hold of some metal and it starts to bend and I slowly fall to the ground, although I can't feel any pain. Then I feel the metal is like a poison, like a black poison, somewhat like acid in battery, and this metal is in my mouth and I can actually in my dream taste this nasty acidic taste. Then I am spitting out this black poisonous substance and just as I am about to lose consciousness in my dream I gain consciousness in material body. I would love any comments on this,this really scares me.

I've been through all of those videos in the past and you know, it didn't help me the least in anything to do with spirituality. At the end I ended up saying "Ok, so I know I am being cheated by the government, so what am I to do now? I can't fight the government, so whats the point?" They'll continue to cheat me more as long as I don't practice Krsna Consciousness. And now that I know, it's also said in the Bhagavatam that kings of Kali Yuga will be plunderers.

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I never knew Lord Gauranga sang anything other than Hare Krsna. Thanks for this nice quiz

Inspiring! Thanks krsna prabhu <font color="green"> Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhav Goswami Maharaja ki Jaya! </font color>

Thanks prabhu for this nice link. I remember going to this site a long time ago and somehow forgot about it. Also, I really love the music at the site, its very peaceful. This story is just like the lila of the Pandavas and Sri Hari, Pandavas were always thinking that Sri Hari would never do anything ill for them, it was all for their good. They endured for such a long time, years, without deviation from faith.

There are so many tricks that the false ego and my mind or anyones mind in fact can play on them. I wouldn't we surprised if I am just in the mode of goodness right now, and at any moment the modes can change. I think at the stage where I am at, I would really misunderstand this statement. Now my mind can easily tell me, "oh you think you have no devotion, but in reality you do, so don't worry, everything will be alright". That is the danger I believe, maybe some senior devotees can help out with this dilemma. You are right about being concerned with the progress, this just shows that I am not sincere, because I am doing calculation with bhakti, almost as if I am telling myself "I am doing so much and the Lord should also repay me properly for all the trouble I've gone through". I think that is also dangerous and it makes me forget that I am at the mercy of the sadhus and Krsna.

What are the requirements for understanding the value of KC?

I think my situation is this: So Krsna says that one needs to approach a spiritual master and hear from him submissively. Ok, now the thing is, the main ingredient of this verse is submissive hearing. It would take me a lifetime I believe to just make myself submissive. So do you see? Just one word, submissive, will take me a lifetime with the grace of Lord and sadhus to properly make my mind follow. Then there are words like sincerity, surrender, humility and such. Its almost as if each of these words would take me a life time or many life times to properly implement into my heart through experience and such. So thus, its almost as if, before I even read the Gita, I should prepare for it for a life time cultivating proper attitude and respect towards others, and then, after some life times, after I learn what submissive and sincere represent, then I would be ready to hear the instruction. This is the way I see it as of now. Just to follow 1 verse and purport, I think it would take me a lifetime because the words that are used in the purport and verse like submissive, sincere, humilty, surrender, faith etc. are qualities that I think would take me so many many births to be qualified enough to have them. I don't know but do you understand prabhu?

Most fortunate, even the souls in animal bodies

Pankaja_Dasa prabhu, I chant Hare Krsna but I am not intelligent enough to chant with the proper motives and mood (trndad api sunicena...). I think its important that although we chant, the motive and sincerity counts. The thing is, how can one become intelligent enough to understand that sincerity and surrender will make this journey much faster? With a fickle mind, its so hard to practice anything in KC, as with my case.

I've heard Swami Prabhupada say that KC is not for everyone but only the intelligent can understand it. So what to do about those who are not intelligent but still they have started chanting Krsna nama but are still in ignorance, what hope is there for these souls?

What do you mean prabhu?

that some souls are born devotees so they worship Krsna from their childhood. Just like Pariksit Maharaja, he used to worship Krsna from childhood. But I couldn't find proper reference

I can't thank you enough for telling me some wisdom and maybe someone else will benefit from this too. Again, I thank you so much for this wisdom. I worry for my selfish wants, that is true. Also, I think that just because I have an ideal, which is to become a devotee, I think my ego blinds me. For example just because I have an ideal, it doesn't mean that I am already that ideal and thus criticize others. It's a bad habit from I don't know how many life times. But most of what I say is ignorance, but thanks again prabhus for your wisdom and consideration of this thread.

I read that article krsna prabhu, but I couldn't digest it fully.Prabhus, will it be helpful if I keep all my faults in my head at all times so that the magnitude of thoughts about criticism that come to my head will be at least reduced to some extent?

Sometimes I think myself mad because even after getting a glimpse of the terrible situation, I simply carry onto material enjoyment. Truly this is madness, yet I can't do anything. What can be done? If I knew how to beg the vaishnavas then I would. But it'll only be for my own selfish fulfillment most definitely. I am simply hating my ownself right now for my position. I was reading an article on Vaishnava Aparadha on Srila B.G.Narasingha Maharaja's site and this quote I found: The Supreme Lord is afraid of vaishnava ninda because He doesn't want to hurt His devotees. But I am afraid due to my own selfish benefit of not wanting suffer in hell. This I know to be my true position. My heart is indeed like metal. I don't know how it can be melted.

By introspection, do we sort of prepare the ground for Krsna to mould us into His liking? I am scared of this introspection because sometimes I get carried away and I think that just because I found 1 or 2 faults within myself, this means that I can find <font color="red">all</font color> the faults within myself. That is maya because she is making us think we are independent. What should we do if this is the case?

But don't we need to have a sense of respect that we must show Krsna in order to respect all other living entities? Is Krsna the only person to give us this sense?