Question: In a family where everyone is a devotee and they are all vaisnavas, we think of them as members of our own family it seems very common to us. But sometimes when we go to live together, we do some bad things to each other. Then is that too vaisnava aparadha? What should we do then?

Guru Maharaj: You should be very careful not to do any bad things to others, especially devotees. We also advise the husbands that they should not mistreat their vaisnavi wives, because that is a vaisnava aparadha. So that will go for everyone. But dealing with...

Question: In a recent class we heard that if Krsna doesn’t desire, by all our endeavors, we cannot eat. And if He sanctions, even if we are in the forest, we can eat. So does that meant that one doesn’t need to put any endeavor to earn his livelihood because in any case he will get what is sanctioned?

Guru Maharaj: The point is that even if we work, we can only eat if the Lord sanctions it. That doesn’t mean that you should not work. We should think that even if we work, we need the mercy of the Lord. If we don’t work, out of false ego, and then the Lord may not...