Question: When praying for our spiritual master, we are desperate to have their association and when we pray for their stay here, we cannot really say, from the heart, the phrase ‘if Kṛṣṇa desires’ because that means we are okay to accept, even if the Lord desires otherwise, is it due to my deep rooted bodily concept of life? Please help me to be sincere in my prayers.

Jayapataka Swami: Anyway, whatever Kṛṣṇa wants will happen,and we don’t want to use our devotion to Kṛṣṇa, as some kind of business deal. I will do worship to You; You satisfy what I want. If Kṛṣṇa wants something, even if it is not what we want, we accept it that...