Question: I have been staying in association for some years now and chanting and reading Srila Prabhupada’s books regularly. But I still find it hard to control myself in provocative situations. I fear some day, maintaining regulative principles may be at stake. How can I sharpen my intelligence so that I can control my mind and steadily practice bhakti?

Jayapataka Swami: We have to go through the different stages of bhakti. We go through the stage of shradha, satsanga, bhajana kriya, and then we take initiation, and then we come to anarta nivritti, to remove the difficulties, then we become nista and from nista we...