Which is the right Seva?
asa[e] - yoga ladder
Hare Krishna, Maharaja 🙏
All glories to Srila Prabhupada 🙇 Please accept my humble obeisances...
I am really grateful for your inspiring association every day in the full morning programs. Really thank you for your kindness and mercy!!! 🙇
I have heard that you recommend that we should find our place in the movement of Lord Caitanya. In my understanding I think that according to our abilities, skills, our natural tendencies, we should find activities in the temple [1] and do them as an offering of love to Krishna. On the other hand, I had a conversation with a devotee, she told me I should help in any activity which is needed in the temple, even if I don't like it or don't feel comfortable doing it.
For example, I don't feel that I have good skills in the kitchen, but I should still do it. She said, 'We won't always do the seva we like, Krishna tests us! Honestly, I'm doing my best even though I don't like cooking in order to offer the best for Krishna.
On the other hand, that I really like is helping in the pujari, attending to the Deities of Goura Nitai (Iskcon Lima) on Wednesdays in the evening program.
In recent years, there haven't been any initiated devotees available to worship to the Deities, so the authorities asked for permission to ISKCON Latin America council to allow bhaktas to perform the puja to Deities. They agreed till this December.
I'm a bhaktin... Maharaj, do you think I am doing wrong by doing this seva? maybe am I committing offenses? [2] I have been trained since September 2025, and I do it with respect and love, I have a beautiful connection with the Deities of Goura Nitai. I need to know your opinion, as my Siksa Guru [3].
I also really like writing little plays about lilas and acting in those plays 😊 You watched our first play here in Chosica for the Ramanavami festival on March 26. We are a group of 5 bhaktas. We have 2 plays in our repertoire. I upload photos here.
This service fills me heart and feeds my enthusiasm, I really enjoy it, is an offering of love for Krishna!
Thank you for your guidance and patience!!
To your feet 🙏
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Aspiring to be your servant
B. Albatros from Lima 🐦
Hp Swami - AgtSP. Esteemed B. Albatross thank you for the excellent questions. We have noted three topics:
1. The current age dictates Sankirtan as the proper Yoga, not Temple worship.
So we are trying to find our place in the Sankirtan movement of Lord Caitanya.
Temple worship is a part of that depending on part on what level of the Yoga ladder we are on.
For example, you may join a Bhakta vrksa program that does not have any local affiliation with a Temple.
Maybe you live in Antarctica.
Yet, there is Sankirtan, Gita study, amongst members, and projected into the local community.
When the Sankirtan is a little mature, then naturally Deity worship develops as a parallel line of the railway track.
If we have a little glimpse that the ultimate goal is Bhakti, then we may be linking up by our Karma in the beginning, Karma Mishra (mixed with) Bhakti Yoga.
My Karma, maybe hate or love it, is to cook, or Puja or administration, so I do that for Krsna.
That will develop my understanding, Jnana, of Krsna consciousness, so then I can things because I understand it is necessary, even if it is not my nature.
This goes to Dhyana Mishra Bhakti Yoga.
I do with understanding and meditation, then pure Bhakti.
Is o.k.?
Is big topic. You will see Prabhupada explaining again and again.
What we are doing in this Blog post is Jñana misra, no?
Understanding.
Of course, we understand that acting according to our Karma in KC is great even if we are Gopis in Vraja.
We use our nature more and more intensely.
