How to become more sincere

[Guest guest]

Camp: ISKCON New Talavan Farm Community--Sudarshan Festival, Mississippi,USA

 

> I am appreciating the

> importance of sincerity. And I am wanting to become more sincere so I can

> make progress towards pure devotional service. Devotees here help me so

> much and I want to take their advice and example to heart. Due to my

> insincerity I keep finding excuses not too. So I want to know how I can

> become more sincere.

 

There are various factors. Sometimes someone is lazy in spiritual life. The

know it is the right thing to do, but they are too lazy to do it. It is mode

of ignorance affecting ones sincerity.

 

Sometimes one knows it is the right thing to do, but it doesn't fit in with

ones personal desires and material motivations so one avoids doing ones duty

due to material attachments. It is mode of passion and ignorance that are

affecting.

 

Sometimes one knows one should do pure devotional service, but due to

attachment to some mundane morality, cleanliness, and other aspects of the

mode of Goodness one might avoid doing pure devotional service. Like

Yudisthira hesitating to say "Aswatthama is dead!!" when Lord Sri Krishna

asked him to do so due to thinking it would be a lie.

 

So one has to become most attached to Lord Sri Krishna and His pure devotees

so that one can overcome all other attachments due to ignorance, passion or

goodness.

 

[is there anyone reading this who wants me to pray for them to develop

strong attachment for Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the spiritual

master?]