Question: Guru maharaj had said that in 2012 that Bhakti Caru Swami Guru Maharaj had requested Srila Prabhupada. And similarly in Vrndavana, when Srila Prabhupada had wanted to leave then, he brushed aside Tamal Krsna Goswami Guru maharaj, Bhavananda Prabhu and left the world. Today away from Ujjain, and especially from India, he left his body far from here. Is there any sastra that if any of our previous acaryas want to leave their body, specially that they will have some difficulties? Is there any such mention in our Vedic sastras?

Guru Maharaj: This happened with regard to Srila Prabhupada. Bhakti Caru Maharaj was a very gentlemanly person and very soft hearted. Could he have gone in front of the devotees? It was his wish, and also Krsna took this opportunity and took him away. I had prayed to...

Question: HH Bhakti Caru maharaj had started and was preaching in Bengali language very enthusiastically and that had influenced a lot of people to get Krsna conscious, and a lot of the elite class as well. We know that Krsna has taken him away. But under the current circumstances, he is not with us personally, so how are we to go about the Bengali preaching Guru Maharaj?

Guru Maharaj: On one side, maharaj had written in his homage to Srila Prabhupada in 2012, that he wanted to go to Srila Prabhupada. By that calculation, Krsna had let him be with us for eight years after that. But he was thinking of going to Srila Prabhupada. We did...

Question: I am now taking Bhakti Vaibhava course and although I am enjoying it immensely, I sometimes feel that Srimad Bhagavatam is so advanced that I find it difficult to understand – particularly, the 5th Canto. How should we approach the Bhagavatam or how should or could we understand better?

Guru Maharaj: Anyway, I think that Sukadeva Gosvami explained in Srimad Bhagavatam that nobody can understand and explain the universe. So he tried to do something, but he expressed his incapability of properly doing it. So don’t worry about not understanding the 5th...

Question: In the present situation where as grihastas, we want to take vanaprasta and lead a life reading the Srimad Bhagavatam and being Krsna conscious, the situation is such that I cannot disentangle myself because of various reasons. How to deal with this situation? Please guide dear Gurudeva.

Guru Maharaj: Very good question. I think that the people in their working lives, they should save ahead for their retirement. Then the point is that, we are not like in the Dvapara yuga or other yugas, that we go to the forest. Now there is no forest, they have cut...