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: While doing preaching services sometime we feel there is growth and suddenly there is a dip in the preaching. Due to which we feel demotivated. Either girls have so much problems from family, and are not able to chant their regular rounds also, one girl get married to a non-devotee, and these girls are all 16 rounders. How to deal with such situations?

Guru Maharaj: The devotees in the USSR, they had so much difficulty while preaching, they were arrested by the KGB. They made beads out of bread. So, we use our fingers to count. We use clicker to count. So, if you cannot chant on beads, you can chant some other way....

Question: We distribute Bhagavatam sets to people who are already devotees during Bhadra Purnima, does that count? Should we target to distribute Bhagavatam to only those who are not yet devotees? Sometimes people who are devotees also buy Bhagavatam or to gift it to someone.

Guru Maharaj: Why not? Whomever you distribute it to, naturally it is counted. They may read, their children may read, their relatives may read. Also we can donate a set of Srimad Bhagavatam to the local library. If you can distribute to a non-devotee it is very nice,...