Question: What is the difference between material and spiritual separation? What are the different moods of separation with guru? Is separation feeling from Guru as same as separation feeling from Gauranga? Your sheltered spiritual daughter, Puja.

Guru Maharaj: You see, material separation is due to identifying with the body. Say we have a body, it came from a mother or father. But from the same father and mother came brothers and sisters. Like that, if we feel separation due to some bodily relationship, that...

Question: Divya Visvambara das, Shyamadesh. Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj. Thank you for the wonderful class. What is the difference between sannyasis and babajis. In our guru parampara, we have Jagannatha Das babaji and Gaura Kishore das babaji. Please advise on this.

Guru Maharaj: As HH Bhakti Vikas Swami explained yesterday, the babaji is considered the paramahamsa stage. Some people taking babaji, they usually stay in a holy place and practice their bhajan there. But a sannyasi may travel and preach There are four stages of...

Question: You, as always have a lot of young audience who are also watching the classes on Facebook and Zoom. So the question is more focused on the younger audience. At such a young age it is difficult to find determination and come out of laziness, to be able to perform service. If you had the drive and you had to give us the advice about the drive, what is the biggest factor that really motivated you to take up this service so diligently?

Guru Maharaj: It is quite an introspective question. Somehow Srila Prabhupada gave me a lot of mercy. And I had a lot of his personal association in the first days. So therefore it was very special. I wanted to find a bonafide guru. And I tried different paths,...

Question: (question presented by one of the hosts, HG Jagannatha Kirtananda das)You are seen as Prabhupada man. All the instructions that Srila Prabhupada gave you, you are taking to heart and you are trying to do that diligently throughout. So the question is how can we all become more like that and become Prabhupada men and women to really get that closeness to Srila Prabhupada?

Guru Maharaj: This is  how to question! The whole process of Krishna consciousness is bringing us closer to Guru and Gauranga. I remember in the Ardha Kumbha Mela in 1971, in Allahabad, Srila Prabhupada was discussing how achieving devotional service was very rare,...

Question: (presented by one of the hosts, HG Chiranjiva Shyam das) In the Bhagavad-gita 16th chapter, purport, Srila Prabhupada mentions how the first qualification of a sannyasi should be Abhaya or fearlessness. And you did this when you moved to India at such a young age and accepted so many responsibilities. So how do we devotees cultivate this spirit of Abhaya or fearlessness, from our leading sannyasis in the movement for our preaching activities?

Guru Maharaj: The secret is depending on Krishna. That Krishna, He has said that, name bhakta pranasyati. My devotee will never perish. So He told Arjuna to broadcast this. And so I felt that Krishna He was always protecting me. And I think any devotee can also feel...