7/27/2019 Chat With ISKCON Devotee Through Krishna

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Chat with ISKCON devotee throughkrishna.com:

Hare Krishna. I want to take diksha.

Gopi Gita dasi has joined the chat.

Gopi Gita dasi: Hare Krishna

Dhiraj Patra: hare krishna

Gopi Gita dasi: That's a very good desire

Dhiraj Patra: me my wife and my 5 yrs old son regularly go to ISKCON temple at Secunderbad

(Hyderabad)

Dhiraj Patra: though it is far but we use to go and like very much

Dhiraj Patra: now my son attending summer camp there

Dhiraj Patra: basically we are from bengal, india

Dhiraj Patra: we are non veg and we are sakta

Gopi Gita dasi: I see

Dhiraj Patra: but we practice chanting in home and use very less non veg in meal

Dhiraj Patra: so how we can progress to become devotee and take diksha

Dhiraj Patra: what we have to do for that

Gopi Gita dasi: You can chant 16 rounds at least every day

Dhiraj Patra: ok

Gopi Gita dasi: Follow the four regulative principles strictly

Dhiraj Patra: and what about the food habit

Dhiraj Patra: ok please tell

Gopi Gita dasi: Just take vegetarian food and offer everything to Krishna before taking

Dhiraj Patra: ok

Dhiraj Patra: what are four regulative principles?

Gopi Gita dasi: No meat, fish and eggs, no intoxication, no gambling and no illict sex

Dhiraj Patra: ok except non veg no other things we n

ever have

Gopi Gita dasi: Yeah...so please start to be pure vegetarians now

Dhiraj Patra: sure

Gopi Gita dasi: That's very important for initiation

Dhiraj Patra: but it may take little more time as my son is child and very much like especially fish as we

are bengali

Dhiraj Patra: we are trying as soon as possible to go for pure veg

Gopi Gita dasi: Wonderful...yes, please do that

Dhiraj Patra: another question I am a software professional and work in corporate

Gopi Gita dasi: ok

Dhiraj Patra: i always try to keep away from any bad thing of corporate culture including politics

Dhiraj Patra: but for that i suffered a lot also as my compensation etc are less than what should be, I

can't ask or bargain my price

Dhiraj Patra: here it is too difficult if no impossible to follow totally spiritually in corporate

Dhiraj Patra: so how i would tackle these

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Dhiraj Patra: i want to remain honest and spiritual while working for corporate

Dhiraj Patra: how

Gopi Gita dasi: Do what you need to do in the work, and offer the result to Krishna

Gopi Gita dasi: It's always good to be honest

Dhiraj Patra: ok

Dhiraj Patra: we always visit temples with our son

Dhiraj Patra: he also likes very much on these places and now know what to do there how to worship etc

Dhiraj Patra: I hope i would get inner vision from lord Krishna through all of you devotee

Gopi Gita dasi: He should just do his best and pray for forgiveness for what he can't do, and for help to

do what he needs to do

Gopi Gita dasi: Krishna will help the sincere devotees

Dhiraj Patra: ok

Dhiraj Patra: Since childhood we pray for different gods and goddesses, will we have to be devotee, only

for Krishna or we can worship to all gods along with lord Krishna?

Gopi Gita dasi: I see

Gopi Gita dasi: Just focus on Krishna

Gopi Gita dasi: He is the Supreme Lord of all the other demigods

Dhiraj Patra: ok

Gopi Gita dasi: :)

Dhiraj Patra: :)

Dhiraj Patra: hare krishna mataji

Gopi Gita dasi: Hare Krishna :)