What if I get the interest in Chanting only at temple, not at home?
A Girl devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Hare Krsna prabhuji.I have been going to temple for 3 months continuously from mangal arati till night.Then after that I stopped going to temple due to some health issues. If I go to temple,I shall be able to chant regularly.But if I stay at home, I can’t be able to chant daily.I shall listen to lectures,do book reading and others. But still now,no inclination to chant. Please tell me why I couldn’t get inclination to chant.And tips to develop inclination on chanting”
REPLY:
This means, you need some motivation to do anything because you are easily affected by the surroundings.
There are many people who behave based on the surrounding in which they are at that time.
Some girls behave with excessive love with their own mothers before marriage; But, the same girls may not be able to treat their mother-in-laws similarly.
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Most of the girls and boys show excessive and dramatic love before marriage. Same boys and girls behave like cats and dogs after marriage.
If one goes to office, he starts to long when he will go back to his home. If he comes to home, he starts to long when he will go back to the office.
Some students do not study well at their school, but the same students study sincerely in the extra coaching centers/ tutorials.
Thus, human mind changes again and again depending on the situations and behaves differently in different situations.
In older days, the people had very limited priorities in their life. Entertainments, consumer product choices, etc., were very less.
In this advancing kaliyuga, everyone’s mind is bombarded by plenty of sense inducing things day by day.
In every category, hundreds of products, services and choices available.
I got a magazine of 1960s. I could see very few ads like Lux soap ads with a cine star of that period, Pears soap, Lifebuoy soap, Black and red tilak ads, face cream ads, etc.
Nowadays, hundreds of soaps, face creams, shampoos, etc.
Though there are more choices and facilities, the people are not happy nowadays.
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The people of 1960’s or earlier were happier than now.
So, Everyone has so many priorities in their life.
So, their minds have multiple engagements and hence their minds are always thinking and longing for something.
So, many people fail to focus on the most important duty of caring the parents, following the dharma, glorifying the God, performing the sadhanas, etc.
They have many more temporarily more attractive engagements than performing sadhanas, glorifying the God, etc.
They forget that the other material engagements and attractions are short lived and they end in pains.
Yes, every material pleasure follows pains or burdens.
Without the commitments and bondage, material engagements are not possible.
Without realizing this, every person engages in material engagements and pleasures.
You too should have more diversions of material duties or engagements.
Since you can’t do any other works at the temple, you chant more in the temple.
Since you have many choices and attractions at home in which you can engage, you get diverted by the material engagements at home.
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So, you need to choose the priorities in life – which one is the most important, which is next, and so on.
Keep Glorifying Krishna and Pleasing Him with your love and sadhanas as your first priority at home. You will get interest in chanting.
Reduce the material engagements and entertainments though you have hundreds of choices.
Though there are hundreds of soaps, you can use only one soap. If you use hundred soaps for hundred weeks, you will end up in the skin problems.
Make the life simple with only the essentials without which we can’t live.
Thus, if you reduce the material engagements and priorities and give first priority for Krishna, you will be able to chant sincerely even at home.
Every person should reduce his material choices and engagements before they become mad with hundreds of choices.
Hope you are clear about what to do if you get the interest in Chanting only at temple, not at home.
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