Hare Krishna Gurudeva

Please accept my obeisances

All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Thank you for your answers and for not letting go of my hand despite my setbacks. I feel that you are my best friend on this planet, since you are the representative of the Supreme Friend, Krishna, but I feel like Arjuna seeing the universal form.

HpS/ASA - 🐒 AGTSP! ! . . !

Well, maybe in my next birth I will have a better body and mind to serve you better, without making so many mistakes.

HpS/ASA - Ditto! 👍

I have some questions:

1.- You suggested I do yoga to improve my meditation, but when I practice it I feel pain in the joints that I have affected, perhaps it is because I do not do it properly or I am not constant.

However, I really like Chi Kung, which is similar to Tai Chi, and it doesn't bother me when I practice it. Do you think that chi kung serves in the same way as yoga for that goal?

HpS - I don't know the details. In general, Dancing for our Chanting is the best Pranayama, but considering the modern circumstances, we don't see that these practical systems are bad! Also chance to give KC association to fellow students and teacher!

2.- There are 4 dogs in my parents' house and sometimes I have had to give them dog food, which is made from meat. Is it okay for me to feed them? I say this in the sense that with this action the killing of animals is still being perpetuated.

ASA - Very strong statement by Srila Prabhupada in https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/7/37/.

Tell people that because of the details of your religious principles and personal feelings of compassion you don't get involved in killing, transporting, cooking, serving animals.

3.- When one achieves liberation, does the false ego disappear or is one simply so elevated that one no longer identifies with it even though it is still there?

HpS - Different levels of liberation. Taking "false ego" as "ahankare" it is there is the beginning phases and has some influence but it is reduced as we go from first to second to third initiation. At second initiation it is under control, but is still there.

When we leave the material atmosphere it is not there.

https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/7/#bb5987

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4.- The soul does nothing more than wish, the modalities are the ones that act through our mind and body in each action, but when one performs a Krishna conscious activity, does it follow the same operation or is the soul the one that is acting directly?

HpS - Who is riding the bicycle? Father holds it up in every way while the child sits on it in the beginning, but child becomes more and more responsible as he matures in his senses and skills, no?

We are always small, but as we become sincere then Maya ceases to engage us through external energy and Radha takes over. Then She realizes our desires of service.

Thank you very much Gurudeva

I wish I could always remember you

be able to serve you

And to be able to intensify my devotion towards Radha and Krishna

your servant

Piyari Mohan das

Hare Krsna!!