Strengthening your spiritual life
Taking what you need:
1. Eat only prasada. Eat ONLY prasada.
2. Don't talk unless it's really needed and important. Just listen, reply tersely. Try to think of Krishna when having a mundane conversation that's going nowhere.
3. Listen to a lecture
4. Read scripture
5. Talk to a devotee friend and inspire them/discuss issues
6. Avoid offenses and find out if you've offended someone and apologize as needed. Repent your offence and promise Krishna to never behave this way again.
7. Put aside all distracting things when you're chanting. No phone, no computer, no nothing.
8. When you chant, listen to each SYLLABLE "ha" "re" "kri" "shna" and don't let your mind go thought hopping as far as possible. Bring it back to hearing each sound when you notice it's gone astray. Beg Krishna to help you hear His Name. Chant for Mahaprabhu's pleasure. Think of Him.
9. Sleep on time.
10. Wake up early. Don't think when you get out of bed. As soon as you open your eyes, just get up and start surrendering to Krishna to avoid listening to your mind's requests to go back to sleep. Beg Him, and your mind will stop bothering you.
11. Sing any bhajan, arati, or kirtan for at least ten minutes
12. Visit the temple.
13. Thank Krishna for all His blessings.
14. Worship and offer obeisances to devotees like Tulasi, Garuda, Hanumanji, Srila Prabhupada...
15. Hanker for service to Krishna and His devotees, grasp any seva that comes your way. Engage mind (think of Him in everything you see; nothing is separate from Him), body, words, intelligence (plan for doing seva and for pleasing Krishna), and even ego (see yourself as the servant of Krishna and all others as servants of Krishna) in Krishna's service.
16. Donate to your favorite charity - like Food for Life
17. Keep your body and house clean and orderly to help having good clear thinking.
18. Read Shikshastakam. Meditate on it.
19. Read the ten offenses to the Holy Name. Ponder on your qualities.
20. Don't waste a single moment. Use it all for remembering Krishna and doing His service.
21. Surrender to Krishna and ask Him to save you from illusion and ignorance. Search for pride within yourself and give it up or ask Krishna to slash it down.
22. Ask Krishna to help you decide instead of deciding yourself.
23. Think of what Srila Prabhupada would do or what would make him happy and then do that.
24. Try to improve your sadhana and routine. Take vows to discipline your tongue, etc.
25. Develop a hankering to understand practical Krishna Consciousness instead of thinking that the theory is going to give you Love for Godhead.
26. Be constantly engaged. Have a schedule that gives you no time to think of anything but Krishna and no time to indulge the senses.
27. Offer all your good and bad feelings, with gratitude and in a mood of taking shelter, to Krishna.
Affirmations:
I am a servant of Krishna
I am not this body or my mind or intelligence or false ego
This body is a spaceship and it will eventually break down
If I lead my life based on my desires which are produced by being in contact with the senses, I will waste my time and become further entangled
If I desire to be in the spiritual world, Krishna will allow me to be there instead of here. I don't have to be here in this material world. I can wake up, using my free will.
I need the association of devotees in order to progress and stay strong
The Holy Name is my only true shelter and possession. I have nothing else.
The mind is a friend when it listens to spiritual intelligence and an enemy when it listens to the senses
1. Eat only prasada. Eat ONLY prasada.
2. Don't talk unless it's really needed and important. Just listen, reply tersely. Try to think of Krishna when having a mundane conversation that's going nowhere.
3. Listen to a lecture
4. Read scripture
5. Talk to a devotee friend and inspire them/discuss issues
6. Avoid offenses and find out if you've offended someone and apologize as needed. Repent your offence and promise Krishna to never behave this way again.
7. Put aside all distracting things when you're chanting. No phone, no computer, no nothing.
8. When you chant, listen to each SYLLABLE "ha" "re" "kri" "shna" and don't let your mind go thought hopping as far as possible. Bring it back to hearing each sound when you notice it's gone astray. Beg Krishna to help you hear His Name. Chant for Mahaprabhu's pleasure. Think of Him.
9. Sleep on time.
10. Wake up early. Don't think when you get out of bed. As soon as you open your eyes, just get up and start surrendering to Krishna to avoid listening to your mind's requests to go back to sleep. Beg Him, and your mind will stop bothering you.
11. Sing any bhajan, arati, or kirtan for at least ten minutes
12. Visit the temple.
13. Thank Krishna for all His blessings.
14. Worship and offer obeisances to devotees like Tulasi, Garuda, Hanumanji, Srila Prabhupada...
15. Hanker for service to Krishna and His devotees, grasp any seva that comes your way. Engage mind (think of Him in everything you see; nothing is separate from Him), body, words, intelligence (plan for doing seva and for pleasing Krishna), and even ego (see yourself as the servant of Krishna and all others as servants of Krishna) in Krishna's service.
16. Donate to your favorite charity - like Food for Life
17. Keep your body and house clean and orderly to help having good clear thinking.
18. Read Shikshastakam. Meditate on it.
19. Read the ten offenses to the Holy Name. Ponder on your qualities.
20. Don't waste a single moment. Use it all for remembering Krishna and doing His service.
21. Surrender to Krishna and ask Him to save you from illusion and ignorance. Search for pride within yourself and give it up or ask Krishna to slash it down.
22. Ask Krishna to help you decide instead of deciding yourself.
23. Think of what Srila Prabhupada would do or what would make him happy and then do that.
24. Try to improve your sadhana and routine. Take vows to discipline your tongue, etc.
25. Develop a hankering to understand practical Krishna Consciousness instead of thinking that the theory is going to give you Love for Godhead.
26. Be constantly engaged. Have a schedule that gives you no time to think of anything but Krishna and no time to indulge the senses.
27. Offer all your good and bad feelings, with gratitude and in a mood of taking shelter, to Krishna.
Affirmations:
I am a servant of Krishna
I am not this body or my mind or intelligence or false ego
This body is a spaceship and it will eventually break down
If I lead my life based on my desires which are produced by being in contact with the senses, I will waste my time and become further entangled
If I desire to be in the spiritual world, Krishna will allow me to be there instead of here. I don't have to be here in this material world. I can wake up, using my free will.
I need the association of devotees in order to progress and stay strong
The Holy Name is my only true shelter and possession. I have nothing else.
The mind is a friend when it listens to spiritual intelligence and an enemy when it listens to the senses
posted by Lotus at 4/11/2015 12:37:00 PM
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