Our Response to Various Happenings in Life
What is important is not what happens, but how you respond to it and how you respond depends on your attachments.
Real Knowledge
Real knowledge flows, from guru to sisya, not through words but through consciousness.
Controlling Senses
If you control your senses, you will conquer the world you live in – and that world is between your ears! (your mind).
Real Sense Control
Real sense control is to engage your senses in service of Hari, Guru and Vaisnava. Most other forms of self-manufactured austerities are only self-deluding.
Holy name
The background of everything should be the holy name. Sing kirtana while cooking, cleaning, walking, washing… You will be amazed how many things you can do while chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra!
Cell Phones and Chanting
Will our parents or business or kids disappear if we turn off our cell phone while chanting? But surely our bhakti will disappear because if one drop of attention is on our phone, we are in maya. We are chanting inattentively and committing offense.