January 10
The pain you are experiencing is coming from the instinctive fear of losing these attachments, and the sweet taste comes from the instinctive faith that you will be happier without them.
January 10, 2001, Letter
Niranjana Swami's Quote Of The Day
January 9
If one has at any time of his life experienced devotional service, it is understood that still he may come back at some point in the future to begin where he left off. Therefore, devotional service is considered to be most auspicious.
January 9, 1996, Kiev
January 8
Service can only be taken away from those who are faithless. Those with faith, even in the face of adversity, will capture every opportunity to serve through sincere chanting, prayer and rectification.
January 8, 2006, Letter
January 7
Only Krishna can give one the impetus to surrender more and more and ultimately to surrender everything. Therefore the duty of spiritual master is to invoke Krishna's presence.
January 7, 1996, Kiev
January 6
We should actually think about ourselves as insignificant servants. We are simply trying to please our spiritual master. We are not making a decision based upon our own glorification, sense gratification, not making a decision based upon our own comforts. We are just trying to do what is the most pleasing to guru and Krishna.
January 6, 1994, Moscow
January 5
It is understood that when a devotee uses his time properly in the service of the Lord, this is how he can become ultimately free from the influence of time.
January 5, 1994, Moscow
January 4
We have to take a step. We have our choice. We have our tiny independence. And Krishna is somehow trying to attract us to make a series of right choices.
January 4, 2009, Boston
January 3
Certainly devotional service means voluntary. It cannot be forced. This voluntary spirit has to be awakened, that desire that "I want to do this." Krishna will not force us.
January 3, 2009, Boston
January 2
Any other desire that we may want to achieve in our hearts, if it is not the desire for service to Krishna, then we must understand it to be born of the material energy.
January 2, 1997, Kiev
January 1
Devotional service is not complicated, but if we don’t practice, don’t meditate, if we don’t think of Krishna's pleasure, if we become careless, neglectful, then these sinful desires will consume us and then we will begin simply to meditate how to gratify our own personal needs and then from there, Prabhupada says, everything expands.
January 1, 2009, Boston