Accepting shelter does not necessarily mean that we have someone we always go to with our problems. But we do require shelter if we want to know how to deal with our own problems. That shelter can
come in the form of Vaisnava association, the strength of the holy name, through reading Srila Prabhupada’s books, or by remembering the guru’s instructions. The symptom we manifest if we have shelter is
that we are able to face adversity without disturbance and can go on serving Krishna without material considerations under the shelter of the holy name.
LFD Vol 2, Pg 357,2nd Paragraph