Hari-katha is Seva
1. Hearing harikatha is also seva.
2. Sadhus travel only for the welfare of others, to distribute harikatha.
3. Simply by hearing with faith, harikatha enters the heart.
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What Have You Done?
You think, ‘What is the use of wearing tilaka? I can chant within my mind, so what need is there of beads? One’s diet has nothing to do at all with bhajana. So don’t think that you have to give up eating meat, fish or eggs. Don’t think that you must stop drinking wine or tea and taking intoxicants such as pana, tobacco, marijuana, hemp or opium…’
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Abandonment Krsna's Mercy
1. When everyone abandons me, it is Krishna’s mercy. Then I can be one-pointed.
2. Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Krishna one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service… -
On Drug Use
Indulging in wine and meat, keeping long hair on one’s head, not bathing daily, and smoking marijuana are some of the habits which are accepted by foolish creatures who do not have regulated lives. By such behavior one becomes devoid of transcendental knowledge…
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First Possessiveness
It will first sprout for Srila Gurudeva, the asraya or associate of Krsna. The sadhaka will feel, “He is my life and soul. He is more dear and intimate than my own soul.” Then, when that possessiveness for Gurudeva gradually matures, Gurudeva will personally transform it into possessiveness for Sri Krsna Himself…”
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The True Guru
“The mahā-bhāgavata is more humble than the grass in the street. He thinks he is the most insignificant person in the world. He does not think, ‘I have played the role of servant long enough; it’s no fun any more. I need to be guru now…’
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The Real Disciple
“Those who identify themselves as disciples cannot defend their identity as “disciple” or guru-dasa if they live whimsically in transgression of the standards of discipline established by sad-guru and the Vaishnavas, or if they abandon fulfilling the heart’s desire (mano’bhista-seva) of Sri Gurudeva and thereafter seek shelter in personal sense-gratification on the pretext of doing seva and puja (ceremonial worship)…
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The Root Cause
To the extent that I fail to take complete shelter of śrī gurudeva, or that I present myself before him with duplicity or disobey him, I am actually cheating myself. It is important to contemplate such things. Otherwise we will not find much benefit despite outwardly taking shelter of the lotus feet of śrīla gurudeva…
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Liquid Beauty
King Purañjana begged his Queen to return to her original beauty. He tried to revive her just as a living entity tries to revive his original consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is very beautiful. All the beautiful features of the Queen could be compared to the beautiful features of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When one returns to his original Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he actually becomes steady, and his life becomes successful…