Question answer session-HH.Bhakti Vikasa Swami

Posted by dinesh

Being in the city,how can be bring about a radical change in our lives
to Live in harmony with the injunctions of Scripture&refrain from
following the various false propaganda in the modern society?
Should we migrate away from the city back to villages to make life
simple&Krsna Conscious?
How can we immediately give up the modern way of living in the city
that we've been absorbed into for our life?
Answers:
Whether it's ancient period or modern period, as long as we dont give
up the desire for Sense enjoyment we've to suffer.
Whether you are in city or country what's important is your
consciousness. Someone may be living in the city&be Krsna Conscious
while someone else in the country may not be Krsna conscious but
contemplating on the facilities of the city.
Yes we should make our life simple by living in villages which is
conducive for Devotional service. But most of you may think it's
stupidity to do so. You may even laugh at this when the whole world is
moving towards the city.We are not holding guns at your back or
whipping to threaten you to move to the villages.
But the whips of Yama thoodas are there for sure when adharmic
activities are done. The problems of repeated birth,death oldage are
there.The problem is people in the city will not let us remain
Vaishnavas.
Also we are holding back our material desire on one side&trying to do
devotion on the other side,which cant go together. When we are callled
as good Vaishnavas we feel happy but when our material desires are
pointed out we are not happy. What we like to hear is mostly the ones
that are not beneficial&what we dont like to hear are the ones usually
good for us.
Some people ask why should we torture ourselves like this? What
appears to be a torture for an aspiring devotee,is really
beneficial&that is required. The pleasure felt by even an aspirant
devotee is far more better than the pleasure derived from sensual
activities.
It's not automatic. It's not like we can enjoy life now without taking
any effort&then finally become Paramahamsas.