my humble obeisance to gurudev. i am aspiring to become a devotee someday but i lack sincerity, comitting offenses like drinking caffeine and indulging in anarthas.I am not able to get out of it. i am afraid to reach gurudev for committing sins and offend gurudev. what do you suggest?
Hare Krishna! Prabhu, thank you for your honesty. The three stages of Bhakti is the Offensive stage, Purification stage and then the Pure stage. The qualities of a saddhaka is humility and sincerity when approaching a spiritual master. These qualities is a must. With humility also comes truthfulness, and if we stay that way and surrender to the spiritual master, he will give instructions and blessings accordingly. You have to go through your own tapasya meaning you have to be willing to start following the instructions. Srila Prabhupada always said, that spiritual life is like poison in the beginning and nectar at the end. It is up to you if you want to follow the instructions, it has to be your choice alone. In the beginning it is required to find the strength in faith (shraddha), then try to associate with devotees (sadhu sanga), then bhajana kriya, start the purification process under the guidance of the spiritual master. I'm also a saddhaka and struggle with my own anarthas, but gradually one step at the time I move forward with Srila Gurudev's blessings and instructions. So it is a normal thing to be full of material desires, that is why we are called conditioned souls. But Bhagavan Krishna says Himself to Arjuna, Do not fear, I will give all protection. Same with Srila Gurudev, there is no need to fear our past sinful life, but we have to be honest of our stage and start from there. Srila Gurudev is open to everyone who is sincere and desires to chant pure Harinam or shuddha Naam regardless the stage. In my own case when I struggle I quite frankly tell Srila Gurudev with what it is and receive the appropriate blessings and guidance. Hare Krishna!
By his qualities. A conditioned soul can't know who is self realized and who is not. But through association one can know. Again Srila Prabhupada gave many examples in his books. When I first joined the ashram in 2008, I had no experience of all what was out there. I just followed what Srila Prabhupada wrote in his books. And so my first guru seemed to follow exactly what Srila Prabhupada laid out in his books at least that is what he projected in his videos. When first joined, I saw that it was just word jugglery. (We get up at 4'clock in the morning, we chant 64 rounds a day, we do arti etc.) I bought into that, but when I joined, by that time I gave and sold all of my possessions, gave half away to me ex, and the rest to the ashram. Finally I convinced the ashram to do arti, then later in India we finally started abisheck and so on. But close to the end of the third year, he started to deviate from Srila Prabhupada's instructions. By that time all of the bhramacharies were emotionally, psychologically and mentally invested into the sanga. He almost succeeded in creating a cult. He is an intelligent predator and would pray on the week first. Once he had convinced a handful to follow his deviations, he started to expand trying to convince others. It was damn difficult to go against him, because everyone seemed to follow him blindly, without really understanding Srila Prabhupada's books. When I left, I left without any material possessions, my heart was broken, and I thought to myself that I don't want any guru in my life. I was still part of the websites forum, receiving the forum emails. I saw first hand how he manipulated others in his writings against me. To my surprise when I left I grabbed an old laptop from the ashram, it turned out that this laptop had all the evidence against him and his corrupt ways. For some reason him and his close disciples recorded every perverted thing they did. It took me about 3-4 months to come out of my own traumas. After reading all the forum posts and all the lies about me, I became angered and wrote an email exposing all the evidence to everyone within the ashram and outside students who previously shared their email with me. And so finally the whole thing started to fall apart. Of course he grabbed all the donations and fled to Italy I belief. Anyhow, after some deliberate and deep introspection, and by the blessings of Sri Krishna, I was back to normal. Of course it took like three years. This time when I approached Srila Gurudev Dharmavira das prabhu, I had only one thing that I deeply desired is to chant 64 rounds a day. One of my godbrother from the previous sanga introduced me to Srila Gurudev through his testimonial. It's been almost 4 years now. After the initial stage of struggling to chant 64 rounds a day, currently chanting 64 rounds is fast and almost effortless. Many other confidential introspective things are happening within my consciousness which is not ment for RUclips. But just to answer your initial question how to know if some one is self realized. I go by the results and revelations. If guru is real, you will make advancement quickly. If he is fake, then it will take life times to make any advancement, because the con guru's potency is like yours, meaning very minimal.
Please accept my most humble obeisance to you Maharaja🙏.. By watching all your videos i firmly believe that you are one of the rare pure devotee in our present time. Anyways i just have one question.. Regarding on the issue of that Srila Praphupada was poisoned by his own disciples, what is your take on this?. Because i did some investigation on this, i heard all those recordings about the poison is going down,and the cadmium poisoning.. i conclude that there's some truth on this. But who am i, you know better Maharaja.. What is the truth on this?.
Hare Krsna! Prabhu. I can't talk on behalf of our Srila Gurudev. But when I ask him about things like these, he generally doesn't talk about politics or what happened in Iskcon. We all know what happened in Iskcon is a tragedy and that's why Srila Gurudev spoke out. But his main concern right now is the spiritual well being of his disciples.
@@prabhupadaharinam I understand Prabhu. So his silence means yes. I cried all night when i realized this. This material world is really terrifying. Hope i can visit Maharaja when i come to Vrndavan. I want to serve him by all of my capacity. Hare Krsna🙏
@@jhoromgalazan4559 Hare Krsna! Prabhu. That is a nice sentiment. Hope you'll find what you're looking for. You can get it touch with Srila Gurudev through submitting a form on www.prabhupadaharinam.org
@@prabhupadaharinam Hare Krsna Prabhu. Thank you so much for the heads-up. I'll definitely will get in touch with him. Is he accepting disciples internationally?.
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my humble obeisance to gurudev. i am aspiring to become a devotee someday but i lack sincerity, comitting offenses like drinking caffeine and indulging in anarthas.I am not able to get out of it. i am afraid to reach gurudev for committing sins and offend gurudev. what do you suggest?
Hare Krishna! Prabhu, thank you for your honesty. The three stages of Bhakti is the Offensive stage, Purification stage and then the Pure stage. The qualities of a saddhaka is humility and sincerity when approaching a spiritual master. These qualities is a must. With humility also comes truthfulness, and if we stay that way and surrender to the spiritual master, he will give instructions and blessings accordingly. You have to go through your own tapasya meaning you have to be willing to start following the instructions. Srila Prabhupada always said, that spiritual life is like poison in the beginning and nectar at the end. It is up to you if you want to follow the instructions, it has to be your choice alone. In the beginning it is required to find the strength in faith (shraddha), then try to associate with devotees (sadhu sanga), then bhajana kriya, start the purification process under the guidance of the spiritual master. I'm also a saddhaka and struggle with my own anarthas, but gradually one step at the time I move forward with Srila Gurudev's blessings and instructions. So it is a normal thing to be full of material desires, that is why we are called conditioned souls. But Bhagavan Krishna says Himself to Arjuna, Do not fear, I will give all protection. Same with Srila Gurudev, there is no need to fear our past sinful life, but we have to be honest of our stage and start from there. Srila Gurudev is open to everyone who is sincere and desires to chant pure Harinam or shuddha Naam regardless the stage. In my own case when I struggle I quite frankly tell Srila Gurudev with what it is and receive the appropriate blessings and guidance. Hare Krishna!
Hare Krishna Prabhu
Are you Ritwik?
We serve Srila Prabhupada. But we have nothing to do with Ritviks.
How to recognize a realized soul,how to know that
By his qualities. A conditioned soul can't know who is self realized and who is not. But through association one can know. Again Srila Prabhupada gave many examples in his books. When I first joined the ashram in 2008, I had no experience of all what was out there. I just followed what Srila Prabhupada wrote in his books. And so my first guru seemed to follow exactly what Srila Prabhupada laid out in his books at least that is what he projected in his videos. When first joined, I saw that it was just word jugglery. (We get up at 4'clock in the morning, we chant 64 rounds a day, we do arti etc.) I bought into that, but when I joined, by that time I gave and sold all of my possessions, gave half away to me ex, and the rest to the ashram. Finally I convinced the ashram to do arti, then later in India we finally started abisheck and so on. But close to the end of the third year, he started to deviate from Srila Prabhupada's instructions. By that time all of the bhramacharies were emotionally, psychologically and mentally invested into the sanga. He almost succeeded in creating a cult. He is an intelligent predator and would pray on the week first. Once he had convinced a handful to follow his deviations, he started to expand trying to convince others. It was damn difficult to go against him, because everyone seemed to follow him blindly, without really understanding Srila Prabhupada's books. When I left, I left without any material possessions, my heart was broken, and I thought to myself that I don't want any guru in my life. I was still part of the websites forum, receiving the forum emails. I saw first hand how he manipulated others in his writings against me. To my surprise when I left I grabbed an old laptop from the ashram, it turned out that this laptop had all the evidence against him and his corrupt ways. For some reason him and his close disciples recorded every perverted thing they did. It took me about 3-4 months to come out of my own traumas. After reading all the forum posts and all the lies about me, I became angered and wrote an email exposing all the evidence to everyone within the ashram and outside students who previously shared their email with me. And so finally the whole thing started to fall apart. Of course he grabbed all the donations and fled to Italy I belief. Anyhow, after some deliberate and deep introspection, and by the blessings of Sri Krishna, I was back to normal. Of course it took like three years. This time when I approached Srila Gurudev Dharmavira das prabhu, I had only one thing that I deeply desired is to chant 64 rounds a day. One of my godbrother from the previous sanga introduced me to Srila Gurudev through his testimonial. It's been almost 4 years now. After the initial stage of struggling to chant 64 rounds a day, currently chanting 64 rounds is fast and almost effortless. Many other confidential introspective things are happening within my consciousness which is not ment for RUclips. But just to answer your initial question how to know if some one is self realized. I go by the results and revelations. If guru is real, you will make advancement quickly. If he is fake, then it will take life times to make any advancement, because the con guru's potency is like yours, meaning very minimal.
Please accept my most humble obeisance to you Maharaja🙏.. By watching all your videos i firmly believe that you are one of the rare pure devotee in our present time. Anyways i just have one question.. Regarding on the issue of that Srila Praphupada was poisoned by his own disciples, what is your take on this?. Because i did some investigation on this, i heard all those recordings about the poison is going down,and the cadmium poisoning.. i conclude that there's some truth on this. But who am i, you know better Maharaja.. What is the truth on this?.
Hare Krsna! Prabhu. I can't talk on behalf of our Srila Gurudev. But when I ask him about things like these, he generally doesn't talk about politics or what happened in Iskcon. We all know what happened in Iskcon is a tragedy and that's why Srila Gurudev spoke out. But his main concern right now is the spiritual well being of his disciples.
@@prabhupadaharinam I understand Prabhu. So his silence means yes. I cried all night when i realized this. This material world is really terrifying. Hope i can visit Maharaja when i come to Vrndavan. I want to serve him by all of my capacity. Hare Krsna🙏
@@jhoromgalazan4559 Hare Krsna! Prabhu. That is a nice sentiment. Hope you'll find what you're looking for. You can get it touch with Srila Gurudev through submitting a form on www.prabhupadaharinam.org
@@prabhupadaharinam Hare Krsna Prabhu. Thank you so much for the heads-up. I'll definitely will get in touch with him. Is he accepting disciples internationally?.
@@jhoromgalazan4559 If you want empowerment and guidance on chanting Harinam of 64 rounds a day, yes Srila Gurudev accepts disciples internationally.
How to chantv64 rounds
It is through guru kripa. Please visit www.prabhupadaharinam.org and submit a form.