asking for advice 2

12 years, 7 months ago by harsh_horse
Hare Krsna. AGTSP paoho. It is 2.30AM We have 3-rounds done. Fighting with Tata Photon internet connection. It is almost useless. Doesn't even show the formatted version of your letter. Shows it with all the HTML codes. OoooF! Your firs question: Bhakti yoga verses Karma yoga. As we understand there is nice explanation in the start of Nectar of Devotion. We haven't got access to it now, but the basic idea is that if you have a taste of serving Krsna and that is what you want then you are doing Bhakti yoga, but in the neophyte stage the yoga is mostly through offering our psycho physical attachments to Krsna, "I am this body and I will cook for Krsna". As we do this then we start to develope analytical knowledge like we are doing now. That is jnana-yoga. "I am not the body, I will use my tired body to cook for Krsna, because now is the time for the offering". From the logical platform we advance to the meditation platform. Now I am doing my yoga with understanding and concentration. Then I am doing it with, the previous but I am really focusing on changing my motive. NOt that I am doing it for personal gain of any kind. We may be doing the formal rituals of Bhakti, chanting on beads, but do we understand intellectually who is Krsna? Are we thinking of something else. We go to our church and chant Jehovah, Jehovah, but there is no intellectual understanding. Of course there are lots of more details of the different rungs of the Yoga ladder, but this is some idea. Question Two, to whom to communicate about making improvements to the Blog. It is Prahlada Nrsmha. But he is here in India with us and now he is working mostly on the Vedabase.com site. He has reliance modem. Seems to be working better!!