All glories to sri sri gaura nitai
All glories to Srila Prabhupada
P.A.M.H.O.
Dear Gurudeva!
Always praying to Krishna, you find yourself very well in your service, and your health.
This time I want to ask some questions
In this world, we find it hard to be really honest, we are full of errors and difficulties, and I think personally being devotees, we have the advantage that we want to enhance awareness and interest us for a better life.
Being fallen as we are, we can help people who are devotees who want to improve, but somehow or another, your lifestyle, work ou any coisa impedes this progress?
How I can help, what is the best way to preach, without them being further away from Krsna or feel a pressure?
If I do not feel qualified to guide these people, I should only pray to Krishna, and Krishna is asked to reveal more in their hearts and who come more to the instructions of Srila Prabhupada?
and whats is happening with a person who has knowledge of all that Srila Prabhupada explains, and yet not follow their philosophy?
Thanks for reading my questions Gurudeva, Please accept my most humble obeisances again and excuse my bad English too ...
Ever hope In This Life, I Can serve In A Good Way to you.
your aspiring servant
Candrarekha Devi Dasi
( Santiago- Chile)
HpS - ASA - Jaya! AGTSP. paoho. I can't understand your question in exact detail. I think is best to write in both Spanish and English and then we can follow better, but from what I understand is very good question.
Basically these questions are answered so nicely in Texts 7 and 8 of Upadesamrta.
There are two kinds of third class devotees, kanishta adhikaris, those who want to advance and those who do not. If a third class devotee is willing to take instructions from Prabhupada and the books, then we should do the austerity of associating with them and giving them advice so that they are animated to advance. Basically we can really help people depending on our own level of advancement. An ambulance medic can get someone so that they are stable for 20-minutes and rush them to a real doctor in the hospital.
So we have to advance.
If someone does not listen to our intelligence and not even scripture and acharya then we have to let Krsna preach to them through the external energy etc.
If anybody asks this in the future I will tell them to ask you for the answer.
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