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Question: Like Chand Kazi, my mind is always trying to hog my progress. Please bless me so that I can serve you in a more humble way.

Jayapataka Swami: Krsner matir astu. That is why we have to control our mind. In the book Vaisnava Ke, Who is a Vaisnava, Vaisnava Ke? by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Prabhupada, he is preaching to the mind, what kind of vaisnava are you? Like that we have to put...

Question: If someone commits an offence to a pure devotee in the mind, will you accept that person as your servant?

Guru Maharaj:  In Kali-yuga, one doesn’t get a reaction for mentally creating some offence. You have to do that practically. Since the mind is not very easily controlled in the Kali-yuga, it may think many weird things. So Gadādhara Prabhu, He was thinking that...

Question: At the point when the thought of sense gratification comes, and tries to drag us away, how to trick the mind?

Guru Maharaj: We should make our goal in life to serve Kṛishna. Sometimes the senses will give us pleasure, sometimes they will give suffering. So, we should not be very dependent on the senses, they are not reliable. That way, by keeping our mind on Kṛishna, we can...
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