The first advice you would have liked to be given
Philosophy · asked by user [] · 2007-07-31 · 11 answers
When one joins the movement one can be kind of naive, idealistic or inmature. After associating with devotees for a while one can start seeing things differently.
After some time you wonder... if someone had told me this sooner it could have helped me a lot in my spiritual life...
What is the tip or advice you would have liked to be given when you were starting your spiritual life? (that would have saved you much frustration or surprises)
I hope I made myself clear.
After some time you wonder... if someone had told me this sooner it could have helped me a lot in my spiritual life...
What is the tip or advice you would have liked to be given when you were starting your spiritual life? (that would have saved you much frustration or surprises)
I hope I made myself clear.
user [2] · 2007-07-31
The one I was given many years ago...How do you recognize an advanced devotee?
Not by the dressing.
Not by the position.
Not by the musical skills.
Not by erudition.
But by how much she/he is going out of their comfort zone to fulfill the order of Srila Prabhupada in a practical way
user [78] · 2007-07-31
I always tell that to my mother : Hey why didnt you tell me that sooner...But sometimes people or devotees dont tell you these things because you are not always ready to understand it yet.
After a while you begin to show interest and that makes you more open for advices.
user [19] · 2007-07-31
Mines:Devotees can perform bhakti under the modes.
Association doesnt mean to hand around together.
Dont expect to be intimate or close friends with all devotees just because they are devotees.
user [13] · 2007-08-01
"Guidance is the secret - always consult and inform"user [39] · 2007-08-02
"Learn to listen". If I would know how to listen I would have heard and realized many important things much earlier than I actually did.user [96] · 2007-08-02
"The hardest tests will come through the devotees and it may hurt".user [72] · 2007-08-02
"Men are all the same and that includes devotees"Of course this is not for all men, but...
user [24] · 2007-08-02
I wish someone would have told me that being able to really hear from the devotees is the way Home.Also I wish I would have been told early on that kaupins were optional. I hated them - western underwear rocks!!! (no pun intended)
user [12] · 2007-10-27
Chanting 16 rounds is not enough, should really chant more.user [192] · 2007-10-27
...your guru abandoned his wife and child to take sanyas from Kirtananda...and the GBC is hiding many of Prabhupadas letters and instructions.user [179] · 2007-10-27
the first advice i would have liked, well first i think is been very nice, till now perhaps, it resumes in not to be able to go to sleep without Lord Krsna'b4s sanctioning it,.. this might be in escence the brick of a broken bridge over the process, i think that, there are really many hoverings and miss-deeds that many people may have coming to the Sublime movement without knowing it, and it will be allways kept like that, until now it has been very ok very nice to me. perhaps i have been one of the luckyes to get in the way i did - that sublime, so maybe the taste exposure i been incontact through too counts and it differs on each person'b4s aproach, perhaps could be over the fact that it can get to the people too in that maner. just to be shown the xample of developing that taste specialy..
the taste is the best advice.. that'b4s how i still got hold on it.