Question: Hare Krishna Guru Maharaj, please accept my respectful obeisances at your lotus feet. Guru Maharaj, my question is on Janmashtami we do the fasting and we are supposed to please you, and sometimes we are not aware of that. How we can develop that attitude while fasting that we are actually doing for pleasure of you and Krishna?

Guru Maharaj: Actually we want to please Krishna and by observing fast on Janamashtami we get special mercy from Krishna.  And actually it says if you eat on Janamashtami, you will end up at Yamaraja’s place.So whether out of fear or love, somehow you should observe....

Question: Hare Krishna Maharaj, Dandavat Pranam. Please accept my humble obeisances. Thank you for the wonderful lecture. I am from Atlanta, Georgia, New Panihati Dham. Maharaj my question to you was, you described Panchatattva enacting and mother Sachi passed out because she had ecstatic symptoms and then you said that the drama was performed so beautifully that everybody fell in love with Krishna.So I have a question that can we also enact dramas as devotional practice as a method of preaching to attract people towards Krishna Consciousness? Is that something which we can do at New Panihati Dham is that something you would recommend?

Guru Maharaj: Why not? Srila Prabhupada said that he acted in a drama also, I think he played the part of Advaita Acharya. I think definitely you can do dramas and try to attract people, please take my blessings Krishner matirastu. 06-Aug-2020 Śrīdhām Māyāpur,...

Question continued by Shobhini Radha mataji: Maharaj, I am speaking to you from Phoenix Arizona in US, with this pandemic – we used to do big celebration for Janmashtami inviting lot of students from University and celebrate until midnight. So this year we are very heart broken that we cannot do it, so we need your blessings and mercy to continue to celebrate Janamshtami, and any guidance you can give us how to celebrate this special day Guru Maharaj ?

Guru Maharaj: Since there is the corona virus pandemic, actually in India also we decided to do the Janamashtami virtually, and they are expecting thousands of the devotees to watch the Abhishek of the Deities, and some of the things we do on Janamashtami like, in the...