Q. I have to know that flute has taken dikhsha? how an when? why gopis were angry on flute/ why Radharani always talk to flute please be on side? – Rajesh Bhatia A.The answer to your question is found in Sri Vidagdha-Madhava (The Most Clever Krishna) by Srila Rupa Goswami. This is a drama written [...]
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Q. Many people have the idea that bad karma can be reduced or removed through meditation, worship, samskara or sacrifice. How can we really burn all our bad karma? A. The Vedic scriptures describe that devotional service to the Lord destroys the results of previous sins, in other words, bad karma. The effectiveness of the [...]
Q. 1. Does past karma affect us after accepting devotional service? We find people engaged in devotional service are also suffering for their past karma (proof is their astrological charts). In krishna book, it is wriiten clearly, person engaged in devotinal service will not get affected by karma. 2. People read S.B’s different chapters for [...]
Q. There are many insects which bite and trouble us. For ex: Mosquitoes, lizard, etc. In order to overcome this, we keep killing them through other process. Is that a sinful act? If so, how to overcome this problem. – V.Suresh A. You can use mosquito nets to avoid unnecesarily killing mosquitoes. We get excellent [...]
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 [...]
‘Delayed’ reaction
Posted in Karma on Nov 1st, 2007 Comments Off
Q. Why do we get the reactions of our sinful activities in the next birth and not instantly in the same birth? Most of the people complain that i have not done wrong with anyone then why am i suffering so much. – Meenal A. It is simply not true that all the experiences – enjoyments [...]
Q. On 16th Aug 2006, there was a bomb blast in ISKCON temple at Manipur. Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita that I always protect my devotee.Then why such incident happened with devotees? Why do devotees suffer more than the common people? This will certainly lower the faith of devotees. – Sachin Dhavle A. Krishna always [...]
Going back to Godhead
Posted in Karma on Jun 16th, 2007 Comments Off
Q. It is said that we have fallen down to this material world as we rebelled against God. But, it is also mentioned that with proper chanting and service, one can go back to Godhead where there is no birth, death, oldage, disease. My question is, “Is there no chance to fall down, then”? If [...]
Actions and reactions
Posted in Karma on Jun 15th, 2007 Comments Off
Q. What is karma? A. All the activities that we do constitute karma. The Bhagavad Gita defines three types of karma – vikarma, karma and akarma. Vikarma is those activities that the scriptures ask not to be done and karma is those activities that scriptures prescribe. In both cases we get the reaction to our [...]
Burning the Bad Karma
Posted in Karma on Apr 28th, 2007 Comments Off
Q. Many people have the idea that bad karma can be reduced or removed through meditation, worship, samskara, or sacrifice. How can we really burn all our bad karma? A. The Vedic scriptures describe say devotional service to the Lord destroys the results of previous sins—in other words, bad karma. The effectiveness of the process [...]