In the purport to the second canto of Srimad Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada says that easy life and Krishna consciousness can’t go together. You can't put it together. You can try to fit it together but it won't happen. If you want to try to have both, then forget about it. And if you want to an easy life then you also have forget about Krishna consciousness because the only one thing that makes life easier is that you are always remembering Krishna. That’s the only thing that makes life more worth living. So you cannot get an easy life and Krishna consciousness together. So you have to practice, and this is not so easy. You will have to force your mind to try to hear and try to understand the message and by that practice, by that endeavor, Krishna will help you. But it is not so easy to get that help, and Prabhupada also says it in the purport in the second canto of Srimad Bhagavatam. Krishna wants to see how painstakingly willing we are to accept the instructions of the Spiritual Master. Then we will get the result.
August 3, 1998, Voskresensk