Krishna removes obstacles for the devotee. We can’t remove the obstacles. In other words, the obstacles are the desires that are there within the heart. They are real obstacles. Whatever desires are there within the heart, we find ourselves being tested according to those desires. So there will be particular tests according to the proportion to the particular advancement in Krishna consciousness.
November 6, 1998, Vladivostok
So everyone was tuned into Prabhupada's desire and the message was clear, it entered the ear, but it didn't stop there. Once it went into the ear, it went into the heart, and then there was sort of like an explosion, a complete outburst of wanting to do what was pleasing to Prabhupada.
November 5, 2009, Minsk
But Krishna is not greedy, He is not only thinking about His own pleasure. He wants to share that pleasure. He wants everyone else to experience it also. He wants everyone to actually get the opportunity to experience what it means to be independent. And He says, “Yes, you can be independent, too! You can do whatever you want. And you can make Me dance according to your own will.” Krishna dances according to the will of His pure devotees.
November 4, 2009, Minsk
Each and every sincere follower of Prabhupada could see that Prabhupada was looking into our hearts and was checking to make sure and warning us not to adopt a fruitive mentality and not to develop this enjoying spirit.
November 3, 1994, Kaunas
So this is real renunciation, when one doesn’t look back. He knows that actually there are no other options. There is only one direction to go, which is to increase one's attraction to the lotus feet of Krishna.
November 2, 1996, Ekaterinburg
The spiritual master's instructions, the most important instructions, are those instructions which help disciple to remember Krishna.
November 1, 2001, Dnepropetrovsk
To make advancement means that whatever help I can obtain to make advancement, I should take that help.
October 31, 2001, Dnepropetrovsk
Krishna is supremely independent, which means that he can do whatever He wishes. And the living entity is minutely independent, which means that he can serve Krishna or he can serve maya.
October 30, 1993, Moscow
Everything else comes if one simply maintains this determination that “I will never give up chanting Hare Krishna”. The Lord will always protect one who takes shelter in Him and the Lord makes Himself so easily available in His name.
October 29, 2006, Moscow
So we can not jump to the spontaneous platform of loving devotional service without first being obedient. But by being obedient to the instructions of the Supreme Lord and His devotees, gradually one can come to this spontaneous platform of devotional service which Krishna relishes more than simply obedience.
October 28, 2007, Budapest