You will be poisoned and die. So there is no need to do anything at this time that would cause your wife any unnecessary strain or stress. If I did please forgive me. So how can I devote all my actions to Krishna? We have to be humble and accept that we don’t know and approach someone who knows in that humble spirit. It is best to do it at home… Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not encouraging His followers to suddenly change their position in life. Regards. Start chanting on a bead next to the master bead and gently roll the beads one by one between the thumb & middle finger of your right hand after you chant the full Hare Krishna Manthra every time. Dandavat Pranam I hope to become regular. Thank you for the information, very clear and understandable, as always, hari bol !! But the point is to chant Hare Krishna always. All of Krishna’s innumerable spiritual potencies, including His transcendental pleasure principle, are contained in His holy names. Just keep chanting Hare Krishna at least 16 rounds a day, read Prabhupada’s books, and preach, distribute books. My first instruction to all of my disciples is that they should help me spread this Krishna Consciousness movement all over the world, utilizing their energy as best they are able to do it. As long as life exists book distribution shall continue! So obviously we have to read them. All devotees are expert cooks because obviously they have to cook for Krishna. This is called japa. So if the digital counter is making it more convenient to chant at college then that is very good. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! But if one is not even able to chant 16 rounds, then he must make it up the next day. A devotee would like that, and sometimes prays like that, “O Krishna please make me a puppet under your control.” But still Krishna is completely independent and we as parts and parcels of Krishna also have a little independence. You can get the whole family together every evening for chanting. And as soon as we slip a little it does not take long for maya to cover us over and we start acting like materialists again. Like what we have to do, what is forbiden (not mentionning the food to eat) and what is the real practice. So it is very nice, to associate with Krishna personally like this. But IT IS MANDATORY (caps mine) to chant the Panca-Tattva mantra before chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. It will not work unless you follow…, You have to at least follow the four regulative principles and chant 16 rounds a day… Otherwise you are not following the process and can not expect it to work…. HARE RAMA Thank you very much. What should I do, please help me. I tried a lot and still trying but couldn’t and now a days, my spiritual life is going down and down. we offer it to Srila Prabhupada and he offers it to Krishna via the discilpic succession. Madhudvisa dasa My first contact with a Hare Krishna was a most merciful Mataji in Oxford Street, London who sold me a "Higher Taste" cook book in 1984 while I was on holidays there. Krishna is self-sufficient. Shaivites traditionally count on rudraksha beads, whereas Vishnavites us beads made from the stems of the tulsi plant. It is not a hard-and-fast rule that you have to chant with your beads in the bead bag. Chanting Hare Krishna is also service, it is a prayer “Please Krishna engage me in Your service.” So if you keep chanting Hare Krishna Krishna will offer you some service. I have achieved my goal of chanting 16 rounds of Japa. That way, I will get to serve Krishna, the way all devotees serve him. Kindly clarify my doubts. Like you suggested, I do thank Krishna for the food and I also offered my food to Krishna all this while because truly, the food comes from him and I mean this spiritually. Please accept my humble obeisances… so please help me. HARE RAMA Best to go back to the beginning and read the whole Bhagavad-gita again. Don’t complicate things. You have to get the mercy of Srila Prabhupada which means you have to hear from him, read his books and follow his instructions. Hare Krishna Prabhu! Now I'm just hankering to once again see the world chant Hare Krishna, dance and feast and float away in the ecstasy of Lord Caitanya's Sankirtana movement as it did in Srila Prabhupada's physical presence. 3. https://krishnastore.com/the-nectar-of-devotion-1972-edition-h-krishna-410.html. In this way, continue chanting on each of the 108 beads in the strand until you again reach the Krishna bead. I will chant more than 16 rounds daily. Theses words prabhu are not only spiritually informative, but also, serve as a Divine reminder for us. I want to serve krishna by going back to goloka vrindavan. Whatever you can chant, do it sincerely. Pranam guruji And Indians outside India had no temples. We just have to follow them: no illici sex, sex is only permitted within marriage and the only for having children; no intoxication including tea, coffee and smoking; no meat eating; no gambling or unnecessary sporting activities. So just do it. The rule is to accept the things that are favorable for our advancement in Krishna consciousness and to reject those things that are not favorable. 90% of vegans end up giving it up because it is an unsatisfying diet and they become meat eaters again. You ca not offer food cooked by non-devotees to Krishna. Srila Prabhupada has instructed that serious devotees must follow the four regulative principles mentioned earlier and chant each day on japa beads a minimum of sixteen rounds of the Hare Krishna maha mantra. Thank you very much for confirming this. One who chants on golden beads will get material desires fulfilled. 2. It is a very simple thing. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Another devotee was of the opinion that the service of Lord Jagannath should be continued, in spite of material  inconveniences of birth, death, old age, and disease and that acting for Krishna and dying while remembering Krishna is not an ‘unnecessary’ risk of ‘life’ and also that there is a great possibility we can go back to Godhead. So to get this extra time we need to sleep less and eat less. Better to get up earlier in the morning and chant 16 rounds now. Thanks to the comments Mark and Madhudvisa . You can get fruits, milk, yoghurt, etc, and those things are not cooked so you can offer them. I would like to know the matra before we started chanting could u please let me know. Hare Krishna ma’am You are right, the way to control the genitals is through the tongue so watch what you eat. You can practice Krishna consciousness in your current situation and just follow the regulative principles yourself and chant the Hare Krishna mantra at least 16 rounds a day and read Srila Prabhupada’s books and keep on doing your work and Krishna will act in your life and give you the realization as to how He wants you to serve Him. Yes. Me too. New Hare Krishna World, I shared it because it shows some world-wide preaching activities that were going on in ISKCON. HARE KRSNA PRABHUJI One may hold a kirtana at home with family or friends, with one person leading the chanting and the others responding. (Caitanya-caritamrta Antya-lila 3.100), Your email address will not be published. Hare Krsna Prabhu, There are no hard and fast rules when chanting Hare Krishna, that is Lord Caitainya’s declaration. You make up a plate for Srila Prabhupada and offer it to him in front of a photo and chant Hare Krishna. I have just recently brought a set of digital japa finger counter from krishnastore…And I am feeling very convenient to chant on them. I think the ipmportant thing is to just try and do it. Whenever I take non-veg, I take a bath and then chant, is it OK this way. I, with all due respect to you, think that is nonsense and sounds a bit self-righteous. So the real answer to your question is to become more Krishna conscious and as you become more attracted to Krishna you will become less attracted to maya. I have a another query. No beads no counts are mandatory. No eating of meat, fish, or eggs. Chanting with beads or/and without beads? Yes. Must is Mala to achieve results. And if you do not do this, but instead cook for yourself, then you will be eating only sin and that will keep you trapped in the material world forever. Chant Hare Krishna and be happy! Please accept my humble obeisnces So we need to offer obeisances to Srila Prabhupada regularly. Read to her from Prabhupada’s books. Older one can be soaked in oil also. As far as the four regulative principles there is nothing elaborate to explain. If one can not surrender even to these simple basic things then where is his surrender? Devotees know that Krishna is quite aware of their situation and they accept whatever tribulations that may come as Krishna’s mercy and do not ask Krishna to change anything. Hare Krisha Madhudvisa Prabhu, I suggest if possible you start again from the beginning and read it aloud, including chanting the Sanskrit verses aloud. If you get interrupted you can start chanting again at the beginning. It is very good you are chanting Hare Krishna Prabhu. Thus, proper chanting of Aum also is a high form of yoga, moving energy from the lower chakras of the body up to the highest chakra, or energy center — the sahasrara chakra at the crown of the head. We have to start a system for devotees to contribute to help print Srila Prabhupada’s books and to develop the websites. For example when we get out of bed we will first offer our obeisances to Srila Prabhupada, on entering the temple we will offer our obeisances to Srila Prabhupada, before kirtan or aroti we chant these Prabhupada pranam mantras first and at the end we offer obeisances to Srila Prabhupada and chant his pranam mantras. As long as within the 24 hours you chant at least 16 rounds of the Hare Keishna mantra. So I will not go anywhere else now. The benefits of chanting the Hare Krishna mantra really have nothing to do with what comes into your mind while chanting. And as devotees we can only eat Krishna-prasadam. This is in addition to the 16 rounds, the 4 regulative principles, and reading Prabhupāda’s books everyday. We can not directly jump over Srila Prabhupada and not chant his pranam mantras. Since then I have been chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, reading and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books and preaching as much as I can. Hare Krishna, prabuji…When I start the “Hare Krishna” chant, do I need to do this below before I chant each round each time?? It took me two weeks just to make 27 beads and have started chanting and simultaneously working on other 81 beads. So out of respect for Srimati Tulsi devi it is good to keep the beads protected in the bead bag. Japa beads are a counting system. Anyhow it happens but it is not very good if you are doing this for three meals a day every day. So the point is to chant Hare Krishna, materially sometimes you may not be completely clean and pure, but that should not stop us from chanting Hare Krishna. So I am planning to start maybe support.krishna.org for devotees who can help support these projects. 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