Question: If a disciple is very much eager to follow his guru’s instructions and please him, still he is unable to do because of obstacles, and because he is unable to do, he feels he is not qualified to follow his guru and wants to give up the task. What should he do in this case?

Jayapataka Swami: You say that he wants to follow his guru’s instructions. But he cannot serve the guru fully because of his work schedule. What should he do? Is that your question? You see Srila Prabhupada was asked by his guru in 1922 and he was asked to preach in...

Question: I find faults with everything and everyone. Sometimes I cry because it seems that I really cannot control myself from doing that. I repent every time I commit offence and ask for forgiveness. But this process of committing offence and asking for forgiveness seems unending. I feel hopeless and terrible at the thought that I will never receive the mercy of Lord Caitanya and will have to rot in hell, in different bodies, being deprived of the association of the devotees. I seek your help to overcome this offensive nature of mine.

Jayapataka Swami: Try to see the good qualities in others. We heard that flies, they look at where the sores are and rather than having a fly like mentality, see the good qualities in others. Although in your mind you may think something bad, in Kali yuga you do not...