Theistic practice – Dandavats.com
Question: I read a quote that says that the secret of success is that we should act as if everything depends on ourselves, but internally we should pray as everything depends on Krishna, and these are two lines that internally we develop our devotion to Krishna, but also our expertise in different fields, like if we cook – then we should learn how to cook properly, or for example we play mridanga, we should also learn how to do it properly. The question is that while developing an expertise in different fields, how to also develop the devotion along with it, because experience shows that often times you feel yourself unqualified for something, doing for the first time, then it naturally comes that you pray very much so that everything would be ok, but often times when you have some experience or become more expert, sometimes it happens so that the expertise grows, but you start to depend on yourself, not so much on inner devotion to Krishna.
HH Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami: It appears that the answer would be to always remain engaged in theistic practice, in the spiritual practice. For us that means careful practice of sadhana, because when we are doing our sadhana nicely there’s more of a tendency to remember that we are Krishna’s servants then if we’re not doing a nice sadhana.
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