Controlling us from doing wrong – Ultimate Tips for devotees!
A girl devotee (Name hidden) asked:
Hare krishna prabhuji dandvat parnam..Pls hide my name. My question is this…. people know that they are doing wrong..Still why they do not control on themselves…it seems that there is power who force them to do such things… what that person should do to get rid from that situation or how one can control oneself by doing wrong thing.
That time Wat should be the prayers to Krishna so that one can be guided. Pls dont disclose my name.
REPLY:
There is no doubt, everything happens as per the arrangement of Krishna.
We are induced by Maya or Durga, who is the external potency of Krishna, to get attached to material activities, commit offences and sins, concentrate only in enjoyments, earning, eating, mating, sleeping, etc.
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Why does Maya do so?
Krishna has two potencies: External and internal. External is Maya; Internal is Srimati Radharani.
Maya has taken the responsibility of managing the material planets and maintaining all the affairs in them.
Srimati Radharani has taken the responsibility of elevating the souls like us to the spiritual platform and thereby relieving us from the material bondings.
Thus, the two potencies of Krishna have two contrary purposes.
What is the need for these contrary functions by Durga and Radharani?
For those who have more low level desires and inclination towards the material activities, Krishna has made the arrangement of innumerable material planets.
For those who have the highest goal of getting liberated from the material nature and get Krishna Himself, Krishna has made the arrangement of sending the acharyas, great spiritual personalities, regularly to the material planets to elevate them. Sometimes, Krishna Himself comes to reestablish the dharma in the planet.
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If you always like to enjoy in the material world and also suffer, you are in a position of having surrendered to Mayadevi. Since your desire is related to material world, you will be under the control of maya. Therefore, you can not escape from the temporary pleasures and pains, offences, sins, etc. Controlling us from doing wrong will be difficult in such cases.
From your statements, it can be assumed that all the pressures are given by Mayadevi as per your inclination towards the material world. Since her job is to maintain and develop the affairs of the material planets, she will always try to engage you in the material activities. She shows some pleasures and makes you binding and also shows some pains as the result of those pleasures. She paves the way for committing offences and sins. This makes controlling us from doing wrong difficult! Thus, we get trapped with the karma network and hence repeated births and deaths.
If you like to get rid of these tricks of maya, you should surrender to the master of maya, ie, Krishna. If you take Krishna seriously and desert your attachments with the material enjoyments and affairs, Krishna will start to take steps to relieve you from the trap of maya.
Until you become strong in Krishna consciousness, maya will always be dragging you back in her trap. You should not stop the sadhanas and spiritual goals and you should strongly catch Krishna.
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Once you reach the stage of Prema to the Lord, now, maya leaves you to Krishna and stops disturbing you.
Once Krishna accepts you, you become under the direct supervision of Krishna.
This process of transformation from a materialistic person to the Krishna Premi may take long time depending on the level of your material attachment, willingness and efforts to become a Krishna Premi.
In another angle, if you seriously like to attach with Krishna through deep love for Krishna and also take sincere efforts through Vaidhi Bhakti, you can get Krishna in this birth itself.
It is not unachievable. It is possible for all.
Still many persons are doing wrong because they do not have real desire to get relieved from the temporary material enjoyments as they like Krishna and also the material enjoyments. They may fear that they may have to lose or quit those material enjoyments if they take Krishna Consciousness seriously.
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They may like to utilize this birth fully for enjoyments and they may not like to “waste” this life without tasting the material pleasures.
Therefore, they involve in material pleasures. If they do not get it or if their efforts to enjoy are blocked by anyone, they do not hesitate even to eliminate that blocking person.
So, they involve in wrong doings, offenses and sins.
So, until we like to get Krishna from our heart and take cleansing sadhanas seriously, controlling us from doing wrong will be difficult and we can’t get rid of the temptation of doing wrong acts.
First realize the greatness of Krishna and the temporary nature of material pleasures and start to Love Krishna. Satiusfy Him thru recommended sadhanas and attain Krishna prema.
Now, you will find controlling from doing wrong is easy as you will have no interest in doing wrong and you will have only one goal of satisfying Krishna.
Chant Hare Krishna sincerely as much as possible as the first step. Other things will follow.
(Offenses to Be Avoided by devotees -PART-2 (From Varaha Purana)! READ HERE!)