Question: If a disciple is very much eager to follow his guru’s instructions and please him, still he is unable to do because of obstacles, and because he is unable to do, he feels he is not qualified to follow his guru and wants to give up the task. What should he do in this case?

Jayapataka Swami: You say that he wants to follow his guru’s instructions. But he cannot serve the guru fully because of his work schedule. What should he do? Is that your question? You see Srila Prabhupada was asked by his guru in 1922 and he was asked to preach in...

Question: I find faults with everything and everyone. Sometimes I cry because it seems that I really cannot control myself from doing that. I repent every time I commit offence and ask for forgiveness. But this process of committing offence and asking for forgiveness seems unending. I feel hopeless and terrible at the thought that I will never receive the mercy of Lord Caitanya and will have to rot in hell, in different bodies, being deprived of the association of the devotees. I seek your help to overcome this offensive nature of mine.

Jayapataka Swami: Try to see the good qualities in others. We heard that flies, they look at where the sores are and rather than having a fly like mentality, see the good qualities in others. Although in your mind you may think something bad, in Kali yuga you do not...

Question: I have children, no devotees, and their mother neither. I don’t live with them but I pay for their maintenance. I need your advice, thus I don’t fall down again. I follow the four principles and chant my 16 rounds and eat only Krsna prasad. I read every day Srila Prabhupada’s books and keep a small altar. I work as a security guard. Thank you for your mercy my dear master.

Jayapataka Swami: If you can write me a letter in Spanish, or whatever language you find convenient, English or Spanish, tell me what your particular problem is and what advice you want. Because this seems to be a personal. This question and answer time is for general...

Question: Sometimes the perceptions that we have upon a person due to his past dealing, we become judgmental upon that person. In the future when they approach us or when we deal with them, these previous perceptions make us judgmental and later we speak with them, we learn it is otherwise. We know that people change over time and they may not be the same as before. But these impressions are strong and does not help us to truly help the individual. Kindly advise.

Jayapataka Swami: Seems like you have realized that you need to communicate with people and that they may have changed. We want to help people, and not be influenced by our previous perceptions, or impressions. And rather give people a chance to be Krsna conscious....