all alone in a drug detox centre. was speaking to vrindavan chandra earlier before asking my question i was ask to log off to attend groups. am new to computers. how can i ask for forgiveness when i thank krisna for everything?
Try your best to end all habits that take your time and mind off krsna.The road won't be easy,BUT IT WILL BE SOO WORTH IT. Just believe that krsna will supply you with all you need. Everything else is just illusion and to pull you away from your original goal of life
That you thank Krsna for everything is good. But that doesn't mean that to ask for forgiveness is uneccessary. We've forgotten Krsna for a long time and still keep forgetting Him, prefering our own ideas and doings, what to speak of serving Him 24 hours a day. Even great Vaisnava saints ask for forgiveness in this mood, even though they're already pure. This is their humility which attracts and pleases Krsna. This is wanted.
How not to do it
Prabhupada: One person is accustomed to some bad habits, but he has taken to Krsna consciousness or God consciousness. But on account of strong habit, if he fails sometimes, that is excused, forgiveness, not that willful committing sin and ask for forgiveness. That is not allowed. In common affairs we do not see. I have got practical, I mean to say, experience. In my householder life I was proprietor of a big pharmacy. So my manager sold some morphia preparation to some unauthorized person. So the sales inspector, they noted it and made us a criminal. And the magistrate called me because I was the proprietor. So my statement was given that "I do not conduct the business directly. Of course, I am responsible for my manager's fault, but I shall be very strict in future. You can forgive me." Immediately I was forgiven. But next time, if I go, if I say like that, that is not forgiven. That is not possible. So this forgiveness is good for accidental fault. But it cannot be continued, that is a wrong philosophy. (Room conversation with Richard Webster, May 24 1974 Rome)
Try your best..........
Try your best to end all habits that take your time and mind off krsna.The road won't be easy,BUT IT WILL BE SOO WORTH IT. Just believe that krsna will supply you with all you need. Everything else is just illusion and to pull you away from your original goal of life
forgiveness
That you thank Krsna for everything is good. But that doesn't mean that to ask for forgiveness is uneccessary. We've forgotten Krsna for a long time and still keep forgetting Him, prefering our own ideas and doings, what to speak of serving Him 24 hours a day. Even great Vaisnava saints ask for forgiveness in this mood, even though they're already pure. This is their humility which attracts and pleases Krsna. This is wanted.
How not to do it
Prabhupada: One person is accustomed to some bad habits, but he has taken to Krsna consciousness or God consciousness. But on account of strong habit, if he fails sometimes, that is excused, forgiveness, not that willful committing sin and ask for forgiveness. That is not allowed. In common affairs we do not see. I have got practical, I mean to say, experience. In my householder life I was proprietor of a big pharmacy. So my manager sold some morphia preparation to some unauthorized person. So the sales inspector, they noted it and made us a criminal. And the magistrate called me because I was the proprietor. So my statement was given that "I do not conduct the business directly. Of course, I am responsible for my manager's fault, but I shall be very strict in future. You can forgive me." Immediately I was forgiven. But next time, if I go, if I say like that, that is not forgiven. That is not possible. So this forgiveness is good for accidental fault. But it cannot be continued, that is a wrong philosophy. (Room conversation with Richard Webster, May 24 1974 Rome)
Hope this helps. Hare Krsna.
ys Jan