Q. If a devotee dies in an accident, will he be able to go to Goloka Dham or not? – Gorkshanath A. 1. Defining a devotee. A Devotee is always remembering Krishna. He is always acting for Krishna and has absolute zero selfish desires. Bhagavad Gita 12.13 onwards is a nice description about the qualifications [...]
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Q. yesterday in Chetana festival, I heard that we should not critisize others or in other words we should not show them their faults but rather we should be introspective,first we should find that where we are going wrong. Doing introspection is accepted, but if we don not tell others that they are going wrong [...]
Q. How perfect are Bhrigu-Samhita’s predictions? A lot of ISKCON followers consult Bhrigu. Can our current actions drastically change our destiny? – Ameya Tandel A. Bhrigu-samhita, being a part of the Vedic literature, is all-perfect. It deals with astrological science and the predictions made according these calculations are always accurate. In his purport to Srimad-Bhagavatam [...]
Q. Because of job, I am not able to go for counsellee meeting nor able to go for yatra, then how should I take it? I am able to complete all 16 rounds before leaving home and I am going for Sunday feast regularly. Should I leave job and find some other? Please give some [...]
Krishna’s dependence on devotees
Posted in Bhakti, Devotee, General, Krishna on May 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
Q. I just want to know in which sloka Krishna had said tht He is not independent and He is completly dependent on his devotees. – Preetam A. Here is the verse. sri bhagavan uvaca aham bhakta-paradhino hy asvatantra iva dvija sadhubhir grasta-hrdayo bhaktair bhakta jana-priyah “The Supreme Personality of Godhead said to the brahmana: [...]
Q. Kindly explain about the liberation in which people merge in to the Brahmajyoti and lose their identity and which is worse than hell. Kindly explain whether they again have to take birth in the material world or they are freed from the cycle of bith and death. I am asking this question for one [...]
Renouncing life for Supreme Lord
Posted in Bhakti, Devotee, General on May 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Q. If a person renounces his life for supreme lord it is good or bad .But according to karmi people it is not good to leave our relationship with our parents & relatives. But when I think on devotee point of view I find very rare people are there to renounce their life for Krishna [...]
Demolition of deities by atheists
Posted in Deity Worship, Devotee on May 16th, 2008 Comments Off
Q. Kindly educate me why dieties of the Lord had been demolished sometimes by the atheists or by others from different religion inspite of the fact that the Lord is present in the form of His Dieties. Why He allows the atheist to do so if He is present there? – Sree Lakshmi d.d A. [...]
Stopping cyclic process by chanting holy names
Posted in Bhakti, Chanting, Devotee, Karma on May 15th, 2008 Comments Off
Q. I read one article in this months BTG. It said that if I kill someone in this life then LORD KRISHNA gives that person (soul) a chance to kill me in next life. Then is it so that in the next to next life I wil also get a chance and the cycle will [...]
Q. Can you please explain the difference between the two Universal forms Krishna showed to Arjuna and Duryodhana. Krishna shows his universal form only to his devotees and in order to see the universal form He must give divine vision to His devotees. Duryodhana was neither a devotee nor did he have a divine vision. – [...]