Swami B. V. Tripurari Live Q & A; September 25, 2022: Our True Nature

Questions on today's Swami call:

1 min

If desire for material gain was purified through bhakti (as in the case of Dhruva Maharaja), how come desire for liberation is not (as in the case of jnanis who do bhakti and end up in sayujya-mukti)?

20 min

If someone has a desire for mukti as their foremost desire, I assume there is no place in Krishna-lila for them. Does that include Dwaraka? Would such a sadhaka be relegated to Vaikuntha?

27 min

How do we really know the true nature of our selves? I know how to serve and love Krishna and the devotees? What is my true nature? What does it even mean?

38 min

If we are destined for a particular rasa, will association with sadhus of other rasas not change that?

41 min

It is said that some gurus have two feet in the spiritual world and extend one foot into this world; some have two feet in this world and extend one into the spiritual world, while a third kind have two feet in this world but their eyes completely on the spiritual world. Is this talking about gurus with different levels of qualification?

52 min

In the first verse of Sri Siksastakam it says that harinama sankirtana "...swells the sea of blessedness" and "gives the taste of deathless nectar at every step." Is this first verse supposed to correspond with the earliest stages of bhakti?