Question: Being a grhastha how can we understand that we are actually grhastha or grhamedi? And in Srimad Bhagavatam it is already described how one should follow the grhastha life, what happens if we don’t act according to the scriptures and go on satisfying our lusty desires?

Jayapataka Swami: That is why we read in the pastime of Lord Caitanya, when Lord Caitanya was in Vrndavana, one grihastha approached Him, and he said, I am a very, very fallen grhastha. Like that he had the mercy from Lord Caitanya. So Srila Prabhupada said, as...