We should understand that in the nature of loving exchanges, the real loving exchange means that when something is offered out of love, then the person accepts it. That is the fulfillment of that reciprocal exchange. It is not that a person is bound to give something back. It is not that he thinks, "Oh, I have to give him something.'' No, he is offering it out of love.
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The most important characteristic of love is that you want to please Krishna. Or, "By serving this person, by pleasing this person, I am pleasing
Krishna? Otherwise, why do I want to serve this person if I am not pleasing Krishna?''
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Love means that you simply want to please the object of your service, your beloved. Your exclusive aim is to simply satisfy them by service.
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We by nature have to associate. We have to associate and strengthen our faith, increase our faith in the power of the holy name, increase our faith in the process of devotional service, and increase our faith in the goal. The goal of that association, of sat sanga, is to develop our love for Krishna.
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We are all coming to the Krishna Consciousness Movement, coming into the association of devotees. What do we want to achieve as a result of our association? We want love for Krishna. That is the goal. Therefore, once the goal is established, then we have to accept everything favorable for achieving that goal. And we have to be prepared to reject anything which is unfavorable.
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If a practitioner, or sadhaka, engages in prohibited association, then what happens? His attachment to the material world increases. Certainly, we should understand that to the degree that our attachment to the material world increases, we lose our faith in the goal.
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A man should not meet with another woman alone, even if he is married. The wife is supporting her husband by being present every time the
husband speaks to a woman.
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There should be a proper standard, and the proper standard is that a person should be stably situated in his ashram in order to be a counselor. If somebody is not properly situated in his ashram, then they cannot be an example. And if they cannot be an example, then they shouldn't preach. Because everybody will think that the bad example is the right example.
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Without a section of our society of genuine householders, who are preaching and taking care of others, we are going to lose a very important aspect of our preaching.
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If you have a very stable foundation, you can put a lot of weight on it and build on it. But if you don't have a strong, stable foundation, no matter how much weight you put on top of it, eventually it will all crumble. There should be stable ashrams for our counselor system. That is the standard also in Radha Gopinath Mandir. Everybody is situated in a stable ashram. They are either married, or strict brahmacari, or they are elderly and retired.
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