.If you are a person new to devotional life, I humbly suggest you join this group, and daily watch a few of the videos at the SPi morning progam group site WHILE chanting your daily japa rounds. This will allow a daily program at home in your own time. Watch the same correct order, same videos of the scheduled ceremonies, and/or add variety of the same correctly ordered ceremonies. This will be a very solid program, but it is up to each of us to do it or not. Follow the below instructions, and you will be a member fulfilling Prabhupada's basic instructions, and may then also apply for initiations as Srila Prabhupada's disciple by approaching his brahmanas, there being many, also here at SPI.
Devote yourself to the program of waking to full self realization by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and our disciplic succession. How;
The sadhana portion (not daily "normal" duties) requires about 45 minutes to two hours daily, depending upon what is best for your own life schedules;
1. Attend to your daily necessities including work, mundane study, etc. as normal, unless you are well to do and/or don't need money etc., in which case devote 100% of your time to devotional service. Contact us for counselling in this regards. The idea is to 100% engaged in devotional service always.
2. Chant Hare Krsna mantra as much as possible; on beads, and in group singing. Try to chant every day your vowed number of rounds. Try to reach the 16 rounds per day minimum. Chant the panca-tattva mantra as much or more during these rounds.
3.Learn how to offer and accept only food first offered in sacrifice to Srila Prabhupada. Be a Krsna-tarian, ie. increased love and mercy by service to the Supreme, therefore no meat fish or eggs, as Krsna and Srila Prabhupada will not accept them.
4. Read Srila Prabhupada's books only, as a daily function, as much as possible. Read Gita, Bhagavatam, Nectar of Devotion, Krsna books, Sri Caitanya Caritamrta, and Nectar of Instruction, as your absolutely required list. Please Do Not read others' books, even other bonafide Vaisnavas of our succession, until you have completed and absorbed these !!! Just take my word on it. It IS Srila Prabhupada's instruction.
5. Stop all sinful activities, so far as possible. Krsna is within, and sees all that you do always.
6. When you start to become fixed up and thus a little advanced, preaching becomes a very valuable means to make rapid spiritual advancment by accumulating spiritual credits for serving Prabhupada and Mahaprabhu's mission
Very simple austerities required. Is this too much for anyone to handle out there?
I suggest; Rise daily at local time, 5 AM. Watch SPI morning program videos including Guruvastakam first every day, kirtana with Prabhupada, Narasinghadeva prayers, Tulsi puja, Japa with Prabhupada, and "Govindam adi purusam tam aham bhajami Deity greetings", also watch and listen and memorize Guru Puja, daily, in that order. If ten at night is the only time that works for you, then that is up to you, set yourself a practical working schedule.
Classes/books/videos/ and recordings may be watched, listened to, or read at your time, as much as possible, The "Jaya Radha Madhava" bhajana is Prabhupada's favorite and is sung before classes, videos also here. Computor net work is also nice preaching service, and will get Krsna's attention if you can glorify Him and His devotees and improve the service to the devotees there! Understand how that works? We are servants, not gods. Humbly putting aside our material ideas, if we serve the mission of Lord Caitanaya, we advance accordingly. We will make spiritual advancement by serving Prabhupada's preaching practical programs.
You may set your own timings, re when and how. This is an adaptation to the changed world-wide devotional scene. We used to rise at 3 AM and attend a full program until after eight or nine, every day without any fail ever. But that is too much to ask of an internet site! YOU must attend to your own spiritual programs at home. Follow the good example of those who do. We all pray for your solid advancement and becoming fixed up in Krsna consciousness asap! Kindly approach the many brahmanas here and ask them questions!! Thank you.
Hare Krsna. AGTSP
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