Question: We can see here in these pastimes that the associates of the Lord are all absorbed in the pastimes and in the service of the Lord. So what does it mean to be absorbed in our service to the Lord? And how can one develop this mood of absorption in our service that we are rendering to Guru and Gaurāṅga? Kindly enlighten, Guru Mahārāja.

Guru Maharaj:  They are identifying with the pastimes itself. It is like they are reliving the pastimes. They are in the mood of the cowherd boys and so on. So, if we can get absorbed in the mood of Kṛṣṇa Balarāma, that means you identify yourself with the pastime....

Question: When we are in service of Krishna many times we are not so conscious of Krishna. So how can we always remind ourselves, the purpose of our service is to always remember Krishna, especially being in this COVID time, being alone, and doing devotional service, we seem to be forgetting the purpose of pleasing Krishna.

Guru Maharaj: Just like if you are buying a gift for someone you love, and then when you are buying the gift, you are thinking what the person likes and what it will be used for? Then naturally, you will be thinking about that loved one. So if you are doing real...

Question: Every year this is a very blissful time for all the devotees and also many thousands of devotees come to the ISKCON temples. This time, very difficult to visit and have the association, participate in many services and honor prasadam. So that is completely missing this time. However, we are not feeling the same satisfaction despite, everyone understands that this is not a congenial time for that kind of association. How they can perceive the same blessings available online?

Guru Maharaj: As I mentioned we get the same blessings, while watching the arati worship to Krishna. And I saw that in the UK, people who were registering in the same city, they delivered some prasadam to them. Since in many cities there is not much traffic due to...

Question: I have heard or read somewhere that Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura had said that there are 20 different pastimes of Lord Krishna by which we can overcome 70 difficulties in our devotional life. What are those 70 different obstacles in devotional life?

Guru Maharaj: So Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura did not tell what the 70 obstacles were? To mention all the 70 would take a lot of time, and is not part of the present lecture. So I will have to look it up. There are various obstacles in our spiritual life, and so hearing...