Help Needed in Spiritual Progress

[krishnadas108]

Hare Krishna Prabhus and Matajis!!!

 

PAMHO

 

I am a neophyte devottee in KC for past 4 years. I am losing my interest in chanting and not chanting in many occasions due to laziness and lack of interest in chanting.

 

I can really understand that what I am doing is not right as I have associated and associating with devottees and attending temple programs and believe completely in this mission.

 

However my taste or interest of chanting is not improving and also I am very recently got stuck with bad association due to my hectic travelling schedule and got into masturbation and seeing blue films.

 

I have lot of confidence on Lord Krishna, Srila Prabhupad and Vaishnava devottees. There are so many great vaishnavas living in this planet nad need your mercy to become strong in KC and act in more motivation. By nature I am very lazy and that is the biggest problem. Please help me..

 

Your Servant

Krishna Das

[Guest guest]

Gopinatha (part 1)

 

(from Kalyana-kalpataru)

by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur

 

 

1.

gopinath, mama nivedana suno

visayi durjana, sada kama-rata,

kichu nahi mora guna

 

1. 0 Gopinatha, Lord of the gopis, please hear my request.

I am a wicked materialist, always addicted to worldly desires,

and no good qualities do I possess.

 

 

2.

gopinath, amara bharasa tumi

tomara carane, loinu sarana,

tomara kinkora ami

 

2. 0 Gopinatha, You are my only hope,

and therefore I have taken shelter at Your lotus feet.

I am now Your eternal servant.

 

 

3.

gopinath, kemone sodhibe more

na jani bhakati, karme jada-mati,

porechi somsara-ghore

 

3. 0 Gopinatha, how will You purify me?

I do not know what devotion is,

and my materialistic mind is absorbed in fruitive work.

I have fallen into this dark and perilous worldly existence.

 

 

4.

gopinath, sakali tomara maya

nahi mama bala, jnana sunirmala,

swadina nahe e kaya

 

4. 0 Gopinatha, everything here is Your illusory energy.

I have no strength or transcendental knowledge,

and this body of mine is not independent and free from the control of material nature.

 

 

5.

gopinath, niyata carane sthana

mage e pamara, kandiya kandiya,

korohe karuna dana

 

5. 0 Gopinatha, this sinner, who is weeping and weeping,

begs for an eternal place at Your divine feet.

Please give him Your mercy.

 

 

6.

gopinath, tumi to' sakali paro

durjane tarite, tomara sakati,

ke ache papira aro

 

6. 0 Gopinatha, You are able to do anything,

and therefore You have the power to deliver all sinners.

Who is there that is more of a sinner than myself?

 

 

7.

gopinath, tumi krpa-parabara

jivera karane, asiya prapance,

lila koile subistara

 

7. 0 Gopinatha, You are the ocean of mercy.

Having come into this phenomenal world,

You expand Your divine pastimes for the sake of the fallen souls.

 

 

8.

gopinath, ami ki dose dosi

asura sakala, pailo carana,

vinoda thakilo bosi'

 

8. 0 Gopinatha, I am so sinful

that although all the demons attained Your lotus feet,

Bhaktivinoda has remained in worldly existence.

 

[krishnadas108]

Haribol Gaura Prabhu

 

Thanks for a wonderful message. It is really nice!!!!

 

As per your instruction I will definitely beg Krishna to provide me Guru.

 

Please also in the mean while let me know any other instructions or ways in which I can focus on chanting without fail. As I told you earlier finding it difficult to chant regularly. Please help me.

 

Haribol.

 

Your Servant

Krishna Das

[Guest guest]

the advice to pray krsna for a guru is essential, there's no possibility to go back to godhead without guru... another thing to say is that you have to try to associate with devotees the more you can..

 

most important could be to have some devotee friends with similar advancement and interests to live some life together.. even in a little gratification like going to cinema, teather, concerts, holidays, some walk, sports and so on.... in this way one can be satisfaced and simultaneously, between two devotees, it is obvious that krsna would be the main conversation's object

 

[Guest guest]

I will pray to Lord Krsna and Srila Prabhupad to provide me a guru. I will also try to associate with devottee.

 

Please pray for my KC and also to make me better as a human being.

 

Thanks alot

 

Haribol

Krishna Prasad

[Guest guest]

Put Krsna at the centre of all your activities ...

 

You will gradually be lifted from your worldly anxieties ...

[Guest guest]

pray to narasimha to give you protection from the material world and the 3 bad qualities, kama krodha lobha.

also, this wednesday is akhda trij which is the day of new beginnings. it is also the day candana yatra starts.

i also advise you to pray to gaura nitai to give you mercy and whenever evil thoughts come to your mind remember they are illusory and root them from you mind with krsnas name on you lips.

i am to neophyte however i do not experience bordem with Kc. It bliss at every step. however, i think this is due to my regualr sahdana every day. i perfom gaura aarti and offer prasadam/flowers every day to their lordships sri sri radha krsna/ gaura nitai (pic forms) begging them to make me loyal to them.

So practice regulary and read!

please forgive my ignorance if anything is wrong for i am only a beginner too. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[jagatpurush]

Prabhuji, you should try to associate with devotees as much as possible. that makes KC relishable. in my own life, i feel that the trick is, to do KC in a way that makes it more attractive to me than material activities. we like to go the temple, sing in the kirtan, take prasad, and talk with the devotees. so if we become attached to these things it is good and we will start to enjoy practicing KC.