I belong to Krishna, and therefore because I belong to the Supreme Lord, I am meant to serve the Lord. That is my connection with Him. All of the living beings also belong to the Supreme Lord and they are meant to serve the Supreme Lord. Therefore the best service that one can render to the Lord, which is most pleasing to the Lord, is to help the forgetful living entities to establish their connection with the Lord. This is the service of the spiritual master.
April 29, 2000, Kiev
To see everything connected to Krishna. That’s actually the only perspective. Any other perspective is illusion. So therefore one actually has to have strong intelligence and how does he strengthen his intelligence? He strengthens his intelligence by following a higher authority.
April 28, 1999, Ulan-Ude
Without Krishna at the center, there is no ideal family life. If one does not put Krishna at the center of family life, then the center of family life is simply sex life. But when Krishna is there, then automatically there is restraint.
April 27, 1994, St. Petersburg
For anyone who once relished the taste of the lotus feet of Srila Prabhupada, he will never be able to forget that ecstasy again and again. When Prabhupada places two lotus feet on your heart, you can not give that up for anything.
April 26, 2004, Odessa
Srila Rupa Gosvami explains in Bhakti Rasamrta Sindhu that love means to be able to repose all of ones affections on one object exclusively. Forever. That is real love. So an impetus to go on loving that object comes from an exclusive desire to please the beloved. It’s an exclusive desire. That means that devotee is fully satisfied with one thing only – the opportunity to serve.
April 25, 2004, Odessa
Prabhupada wanted to see everyone become devotees. That means the heart changes. Ana that means that the desire that is there lying dormant within the hearts has to grow more and more. We need help for that to take place. It is not an individual person's efforts to make overcome the obstacles of material life. We need to take help from the Holy Name of the Lord, we need to take help from the devotees of the Lord. We must always depend upon the association of the devotees of the Lord, because it is in the association of devotees that most of our advancement in Krishna consciousness will come.
April 24, 2001, Kishiniov
We try to convince materialists that the material world is a place of suffering. But because he is too attached to this conception of enjoyment, he can’t hear. But give him some higher taste, and what happens? One gets a little experience, a little taste of that higher taste, then everything else becomes pale.
April 23, 1999, Dnepropetrovsk
And therefore even once chanting the name of the Lord with sincerity and with faith and without offense can eradicate the reactions of thousands sinful activities. And by chanting the Holy Name with faith, it also sets one on the path by which all sinful desires can be eradicated from within the core of one's heart. This is real atonement.
April 22, 2011, Kiev
So fruitive activities are an attempt to counteract suffering and, as we explained, that is what materialistic life is all about. It is just an artificial attempt to avoid pain.
April 21, 1994, Moscow
So, to the degree when one actually surrenders to a superior dictation, to that degree one gets help from within the heart from the Lord.
April 20, 1998, Kiev