When a devotee very carefully practices vaidhi bhakti every day, a natural taste for devotional service begins to awaken. Every one of us is looking after some taste, but the taste for material things doesn’t produce any prominent lasting effect. Yet, that higher taste that we are looking for comes from practicing such bhakti.
November 30, 2001, Almaty
Devotional service must be rendered with a hankering to advance in spiritual life and this yearning must be within the heart. Then while hearing, chanting, and utilizing our bodies for the service to the Lord, gradually the meditation upon the pleasure of the Lord will increase more and more within the heart.
November 29, 2001, Almaty
That awakening of compassion, of wanting to see others enjoying the bliss of Krsna consciousness, that is what Lord Caitanya came to give.
November 28, 2007, Hartford
I am very pleased to hear that all of you are still feeling the weight and are nicely planning your marathon. Please know that I am very grateful to those devotees who take up this important missionary work because it is so pleasing to Srila Prabhupada.
November 27, 1997, Letter
So Krsna will help you, but you must show Him that you want His help, by praying and chanting... Krsna will certainly reciprocate with one who chants with sincerity. But without chanting it is virtually impossible to develop the required devotional mentality to gain Krsna's favor.
November 26, 1986, Letter to Elise
Regarding a "method" to help you overcome the sadness of old age, the method is to arm yourself with the weapon of knowledge of the self. One has to gain this knowledge not only by study and hearing, but by practical engagement in a way that corresponds to one's status in life.
November 24, 1999, Letter
We cannot give up everything immediately, but we can start by taking one step. If we take one step forward and we will see that actually “Yes, I am experiencing that by following these instructions my life is changing and I am getting some realization”, than we want to take another step.
November 23, 1991, St.Petersburg
We were all experiencing within our heart, and getting confirmation within our heart again and again and again, that by doing something to please Srila Prabhupada, we are pleasing Lord Krsna.
November 22, 2009, Budapest
This is our way of giving thanks to Krsna - to call to His Name with an intense eagerness, with an intense desire to please Him, to serve Him, to satisfy Him and to remember Him.
November 21, 1997, Boston
The perfect stage of independence is to serve the Supreme Being according to one's desires to serve Him.
November 20, 1998, Almaty