November 7
By our endeavors alone we can never be successful in spiritual life. We must always be dependent in all circumstances.
November 7, 2001, Donetsk
By our endeavors alone we can never be successful in spiritual life. We must always be dependent in all circumstances.
November 7, 2001, Donetsk
Whatever desires are there within our heart, we find ourselves being tested according to those desires.
November 6, 1998, Vladivostok
Yes, Prabhupada was pushing [devotees], but his pushing was simply by expressing what his desire was. It doesn't seem like that was very heavy pushing. But he would just openly express what his desire was.
November 5, 2009, Minsk
The desire to become independent in this world means to become a servant of someone else. The only real independence which the living entity has is only being fully dependent on the Lord.
November 4, 2009, Minsk
The symptom of the one, who is always absorbed in devotional service, is that he attracts others to devotional service.
November 3, 1998, Novosibirsk
The more one hankers for sense gratification, the more one becomes implicated. The more one hankers for Krsna, the more one becomes purified.
November 2, 1996, Ekaterinburg
The most important instructions of the spiritual master are those instructions, which help disciple to remember Krsna.
November 1, 2001, Dnepropetrovsk
This is how Krsna controls everything within the entire creation. He controls everything by His sanction. Nothing can happen without His sanction.
October 30, 1993, Moscow
If one simply maintains this determination: “I will never give up chanting of Hare Krsna”, then everything else comes. 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
We cannot jump to the spontaneous platform of loving devotional service without being obedient first. 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 Krsna relishes more, then simply obedience.
October 28, 2007, Budapest