Question: How to Be Humble?
1. How to become humble? Humility is not taught in today's modern education system. Being humble doesn't comes naturally from within.
2. What are the etiquettes one must have to be a Vaisnava?
3. I experience bliss while doing kirtan, but there is no such bliss while performing japa. Why?
Answer: Give Respect Without Expecting Respect
The formula for becoming humble is that you should offer all respect to others without expecting any respect for yourself.
The formula for how to be a Vaisnava is given by Lord Krishna as follows in the Bhagavad-gita:
satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
nitya-yuktā upāsate
"Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion."
--Bhagavad-gita 9.14
If you are not tasting bliss when you chant japa, it is because you are trying to taste bliss. If instead of trying to taste bliss you will try to give bliss to Krishna by chanting His names with love, you find yourself swimming in an ocean of unlimited bliss at every minute.
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