1. Chastisement by guru and vaisnavas is highly beneficial for me.
2. I am willing to be humiliated and beaten by maya thousands of times, but I cannot accept the affectionate discipline of guru and vaisnavas. In this way I commit spiritual suicide…
When we do not offer ourselves to God, we will find that we only have taste for temporary things, or things of this world of death. When we sit in kirtana or hari-katha we become sleepy, but when we have those objects of illusory pleasure, we stay wide awake…
1. Happiness can only be attained by surrendering at the lotus feet of sri guru.
3. My heart is a flower which sri guru offers at the lotus feet of Srimati Radhika.
4. We pray that we can attain the association and service of pure devotees.
The truth is that, wherever there is deep love, there is doubt. This is not the fault of a person with love; this is natural. For example, when a child goes to school and is only a little bit late to return, his parents think, “There must have been an accident! Perhaps he was kidnapped!” They doubt in this way. But why? Why do they automatically think something bad has happened? Why do they not think positively?
They never complain and never become angry. Why is this? Because these ideas and actions take you away from Krsna. A wise person will not accept anything impure. This is natural. So why should anyone become disturbed when unwanted situations manifest or when one is criticized? We must disregard and avoid these things because they are also just dirty substances…
Foolish persons are very eager to make friendship with mundane people and jivas. They happily speak about useless and temporary things, even if they have only known each other for only a few moments. They are delighted to meet another person with interest in the objects of maya…
Knowingly or unknowingly, if one performs any act of auspiciousness for the soul, that becomes his sukriti. For example, if one fasts on the day of Ekadasi because food is unavailable, it becomes ‘unknowing’ sukriti. By donating anything to a sadhu, one attains the result of sukriti performed in knowledge…
Certain forms of jnana and karma are integral parts of bhakti. Pure jnana is present within bhakti as the search for one’s worshipful deity and as knowledge of the reality of God, bhagavat-tattva-jnana. Pure karma is present within bhakti as serving the Supreme Lord by cleaning His temple, cooking for Him and so on. These activities are included among the nine limbs of bhakti…
1. Souls attain their svarupas by adi rasa. Janmadyasya.
2. Without rasa it is not possible to serve Krishna. This rasa is ever new.
3. Even an animal in vraja has this potency…