Developing Good Habits Material Attachments Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur

Digest 00416: Retraction of Bad Habits

Written by Romapada Swami

Question:  When we come to spiritual life and understand that we have many bad habits due to being conditioning in the material world for long time, we try to over come the habits by knowledge of shastras, hearing lectures from devotees, by performing service to Vaishnavas and the Lord etc. Some habits are easy to give up, some take little endeavor to overcome and some habits are really very hard to give up. We try our best to overcome these anarthas, but these deeply rooted anarthas seem impossible to overcome. For some time it seems that we have overcome the habits, but after some time they come back to haunt us again and become stumbling block on path of devotion. How do we deal with these kind of Bad Habits or anarthas?

Answer by Romapada Swami:

This question was raised as one of the earliest questions in the entire Inquiries service I have been doing for years.

You will find the answer at the following link – http://www.romapadaswami.com/node/368

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