Those who begin to taste real Krsna consciousness always want to be engaged in glorifying the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is such a superior form of pleasure that a devotee loses taste for everything else.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 229, Boston, October 1995
The Krsna consciousness movement is meant to attract all types of people. Even those who come because they desire something other than pure devotion can, through the association of devotees, gradually begin to render service.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 228-229, BG 12.17, 19.10.93
Grhasthas will not find their spiritual lives blocked if they accept the austerity of preaching.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 225, Moscow, 01.08.97
What can the spiritual master do if the disciple makes the choice to be kicked and bitten by the material energy? The spiritual master already knows what will happen, and he knows that his disciple cannot be happy by being separated from Krsna. Seeing a disciple make this choice gives the spiritual master great pain.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 225, Moscow, 01.08.97
The spiritual master directs the disciple how to satisfy his senses in an authorized way. If the disciple doesn’t want to follow those instructions, what can the spiritual master do?
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 224-225, Moscow, 01.08.97
The material world is a dangerous place. If we don’t come to Krsna consciousness and accept austerities on Krsna’s behalf, then we will not be able to negotiate this world safely.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 224, Moscow, 01.08.97
Krsna is not easily attained. We have to be prepared to pay the highest price for Him. We have to continue performing our austerities for the Lord’s satisfaction and know that we cannot gratify our senses separately from Krsna.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 224, Moscow, 01.08.97
Any little endeavor for Krsna’s service is to the living entity’s eternal credit. A Vaisnava who knows this always tries to encourage others to serve.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 223, Moscow, 01.08.97
If we compare the price tag of Krsna consciousness to the price tag of flickering sense gratification, we will realize that our austerity is insignificant. By our austerities we are able to break the cycle of birth and death and return to the spiritual world within one lifetime.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 222, Moscow, 01.08.97
Whatever idea we may have of finding happiness separate from Krsna is doomed. We cannot find that happiness because it doesn’t exist.
Lectures from a disciple, Vol 1, p. 221, Moscow, 01.08.97