At the Beginning of Every

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada:

“The moment I deviate from śrī guru, the moment I become forgetful of he who keeps me attracted to his lotus feet at every single moment, I will, without a doubt, diverge from the Truth.

And when I am thus separated from śrī guru, countless misgivings and deficiencies will engulf me.
I shall simply spend my time bathing when I’m hot and bundling up when I’m cold. In other words, I will become more anxious to arrange for my own comfort than to serve śrī gurudeva.

If at the beginning of every year, every month, every day and every moment, I do not remember my gurudeva, who saves me from absorption in that which has no connection to my constitutional nature or are separate from kṛṣṇa-bhakti, then I will definitely fall into greater and greater difficulty.

I will try to present myself as guru and will be swallowed up by the ill-mentality of believing that others should worship me as such.

This alone is dvitīya abhiniveśa – infatuation with the worthless purposes of our unnatural state.
To come and offer guru-pūjā just for one day is insufficient. It is our duty to serve gurudeva at every moment.”

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