If a devotee simply does his service, even what appears to be a small service, but does it steadily and doesn’t expect anything material in return, then he will be able to become steady in Krishna consciousness and then Krishna will make wonderful things happen. We don’t make wonderful things happen. Krishna can make wonderful things happen. He just wants to see how much we are dependent upon Him and try to please Him.
September 12, 2003, Kazakhstan festival
The living entity can never become God. The living entity has his perfection. His perfection is a perfect servant of God. That is the perfection of the living entity. And the perfect servant of God is unlimited. He is so unlimited that Srila Prabhupada describes in Caitanya Caritamrita that a perfect servant of God can sometimes do even more than God.
September 11, 1996, Tallin
When one actually becomes conscious of Krishna, the more we become detached from this world; because we are conscious of our relationships with God, then we know that we don’t actually die.
September 10, 1997, Smolensk
When you hear from an elevated person, then you learn how to serve on the elevated platform, but the consciousness will never become elevated when we try to establish relationships on the mundane platform.
September 9, 2004, Almaty
This is Srila Prabhupada. And that gratitude he has for his followers, even though they can not serve him properly, it forces his followers to feel so much gratitude for him because Srila Prabhupada gave us the most precious gift. Not only did he give us the gift of love for Krishna, but he gave us the gift of love for Srila Prabhupada and this is the most valuable gift for anyone who follows his lotus feet and he can never be forgotten, not for eternity.
That gift of love for Srila Prabhupada is the most valuable gift that we must posses in this life, and anybody who has come to this Krishna consciousness movement, they should know that this gift has come from Srila Prabhupada. They should take this debt into their hearts and love him as he loved us.
September 8, 2004, Almaty
We should at least know what we should be looking for in shelter so we won’t be cheated and take shelter in the wrong thing. If at the least we know what to look for, then that’s the right start. Then we can pray for it.
September 7, 2005, Odessa
A disciple’s life is supposed to be an offering to the spiritual master. Not just one day one makes an offering to the spiritual master simply by offering some flowery words of glorification, but actually a disciple is supposed to be constantly glorifying the spiritual master by his activities and by his words.
September 6, 1996, Palanga
Therefore a preacher of Krishna consciousness makes distinctions. He sees that the enemy is lust. He doesn’t see that the living entity is the enemy. He sees the lust that is there within the heart capturing the living entity as the enemy.
September 5, 1997, Moscow
Although the Lord is particularly inclined to His devotees, still, the right to become a devotee is open to everyone, and that is exactly what Lord Caitanya appeared to establish by distributing the Holy Name of the Lord.
September 4, 1993, Minsk
It is my desire always to act according to Your desire. Please then penetrate the internal region of my heart and allow me some day to fully realize the deepest meaning spoken by You.
September 3, 2010, Almaty Vyasa Puja Offering to Srila Prabhupada