Question: We have been fortunate to receive your spiritual instructions. Can you also give us some instructions how to conduct our material life, especially our official life, which we do like eight hours daily? What would be our mood in doing that? I basically work for an IT company as a consultant. How can I utilize this duty of mine also by aligning to instructions, of what Krishna mentioned that whatever duty you do, do it for Him?

Jayapataka Swami: Since devotees by working they are getting some income to maintain their family and maintain their devotional service, offering food to the deities, and then with the income, they may help the CDM, the local temple, in this way they can see the...

Question: Today during the class you mentioned that if the parents failed to make their children devotees according to the sastra they are called a swine, pig. My question is, what if the parents are making efforts in every possible way to make their children Krishna conscious, but the children are not taking up Krishna consciousness seriously. Are the parents still responsible for this?

Guru Maharaj: It is said that if you have one child who is a vaisnava, the mother is glorious, the family is delivered. If you have hundred children and none of them are devotees, then they are considered like piglets. But that doesn’t particularly reflect on the...