Monday, October 13, 2014

1. If I know goal is krsna and firmly believes it too but due to my commitments towards family not able to do proper devotional service to lord then how come my goal will be achieved? 2. Suppose till I m alive and my responsibility are not fulfilled n I keep on struggling to fulfill my family needs as per the material world ... what will be the best way to achieve my goal?

Question :
1. If I know goal is krsna and firmly believes it too but due to my commitments towards family not able to do proper devotional service to lord then how come my goal will be achieved?
2. Suppose till I m alive and my responsibility are not fulfilled n I keep on struggling to fulfill my family needs as per the material world ... what will be the best way to achieve my goal?

Answer: 


There are two Kind of Family life.

A. GrahMedhi  , B.Grahstha

 Grhamedhi:
 he has made his center of life is  wife and family. The grhamedhis, live only for the benefit of the family members, extended or centralized,
      They have many subject matters for hearing—political, scientific, social, economic and so on—but due to a poor fund of knowledge, they set aside the question of the ultimate miseries of life, namely miseries of birth, death, old age and disease.
      Grhamedhis, being illusion by the material nature, forget everything about self-realization. This person wants to remain in this material world. His activity is to enjoy material benefits by performing religious rituals for economic development and thereby ultimately satisfy the senses. He does not want anything more
      Just like a bull  tied with the rope and  a fixed   wood, and it  is going round & Round ,  same way  grhamedhi   has fixed up his center, the wife and children, and going round throughout the whole life , wasted his entire life and dies .    Such a person works very hard throughout his life to become very rich and eat very nicely and drink. By giving some charity for pious activity he can go to a higher planetary atmosphere in the heavenly planets in his next life, but he does not want to stop the repetition of birth and death ,
   said by Prahlada Maharaja : [Srimad-Bhagavatam  7.5.30] they prefer to chew the already chewed. Again and again they experience the material pangs, even if they are rich and prosperous, but they do not want to give up this kind of life.

 Grhastha:  

The grhastha is , who lives together with wife and children but has no blind attachment for them , They understand the Goal of life , He lives transcendentally according to the regulative principle for realizing the ultimate truth. They  works to find the ultimate solution to the problems of life that is to go back home, back to Godhead, and thus, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita (8.16), the miseries of material existence—birth, death, old age and disease—are removed.
  He prefers to live in family life rather than as a mendicant or sannyasi, but his chief aim is that of relevant inquiries to achieve self-realization . The grhastha  is as good as the life of a sannyasi, 

He is responsible for  the Deliverance of those Souls ( Wife , Childeren ) who came at his shelter for this lifetime, its his duty to make sure when his wife and kids leaves their body , will get libration , The duty of Wife is also very important in this ,a qualified wife is an assistant in every respect for advancement in spiritual activities.

  To  practice the devotional service or becaming krishna counsious , we dont need to go to forest or sitting 12 hours in front of  Alter , Krishna conscious is all about adapting a Devotional life style ,few simple steps can change your normal life in Krishna conscious life

1.      Cleanliness : make sure your house and the area where you live is nice an Clean.
2.       Diet  :  family member should eat Satvik  , homemade and healthy Food , one must offer food first to Thakurji before we eat it , this way you are having  karma free diet .
3.      Start and End  you Day with Chanting or Puja , Reading Satvik books , rather then  TV , Ajjtak or NDTC , FaceBook or whats app
4.      Follow Four regulative principle , and Chant Maha mantra ( very important).
5.      once in a week , sit with your kids and teach them Geeta and bhagvatam in terms of Story , and take them to Krishna temples.
6.       Above 5 steps  is not stopping us to loving your wife or kids ,having fun with your friends ,  buying them toys or going out on vacation but whatever we do we should know the limits and  that  should not overrules our above 5  basic points ,

Gradually Devotional lifestyle benefit your entire family, you would not need to do any special effort to make them devote , they automatically became a Devotee

i am sure these process is easy to follow and you wont lose anything !!we can be  grahstha and attain krishna , there are many great grahastha who attain krishna without going to forest or sacrificing their household life .

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