Devotional Gems

[ISKCON-Ahmedabad]

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How our Bhakti should be ?   Bhakti should be animitta – without motive.  Actually, Krishna can fulfill all our wishes without difficulty because He is Almighty and full of all opulences.  If we want material happiness from Krishna, it is certainly not difficult for Him to grant it.  He can also give Mukti – liberation – but it is foolishness to ask anything from Krishna except Bhakti.  Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura used to say that asking God for mukti or anything else other than Bhakti is like going to a rich man and asking for ashes.   -          His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Founder-Acharya : ISKCON) (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) In his lecture on Srimad Bhagavatham, 3.25.32.   ********** What should be   the attitude of a devotee in miseries ? A devotee does not consider a dangerous position to be dangerous, for (because) in such a dangerous position he can fervently pray to the Lord in great ecstasy.  Thus a devotee regards danger as a good opportunity.  When a devotee is in danger, he sees that danger to be the great mercy of the Lord because it is an opportunity to think of the Lord very sincerely and with undiverted attention.   His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Founder-Acharya : ISKCON) (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Srimad Bhagavatam, 8.3.32 purport ********** Are there any distinctions   in the service of Krishna ?   In the transcendental loving service of the Lord, it does not matter whether we are working, cooking, painting, writing, chanting, or whatever ;  they are all the same.  There are no such distinctions of higher and lower on the transcendental platform. The important thing is that we are engaging our time and energy in the service of the Lord.  After all, we are so tiny, what can we do?  Krishna sees simply that this time is being spent in His service.   His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In his letter to Kiranamayi, 25th February, 1968. ********** What is the glory of our relationship with Krishna ? If we make our friendship with Krishna, it will never break. If we make our master Krishna, we will never be cheated. If we love Krishna  as our son He will never die. If we love Krishna as our lover, He is best of all and there will be no separation. -          Srila Prabhupada ********** What is the price for entering into the kingdom of God ?    One should learn how to cry for the Lord.  One should learn this small technique, and he should be very eager and actually cry to become engaged in some particular type of service.  This is called ‘laulyam’, and such tears are the price for the highest perfection.   If one develops this ‘laulyam’, or excessive eagerness for meeting and serving the Lord in a particular way, that is the price to enter into the kingdom of God.   His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada   In ‘The Nectar of Devotion’, Page 83. ********** Why seva to Krishna is greater than even Him ? Devotional service can attract even the Supreme Personality of Godhead. God is great, but devotional service is greater than God because it attracts Him. People who are not in devotional service can never understand what great value there is in rendering service to the Lord.   His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada In ‘The Nectar of Devotion’ Page 17.  ********** How to successfully execute our devotional service ?     One should not be impatient in discharging devotional service, but should take instructions from the spiritual master and execute them with patience, depending on the mercy of Guru and Krishna.  The successful execution of Krishna conscious activities requires both patience and confidence.  What is meant by confidence ? The devotee thinks “Krishna will surely protect me and give me help for the successful execution of devotional service.”  This is called confidence.     His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada   In ‘The Nectar of instruction’, Text-3.  ********** First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him.  Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakthivedantha Swami Prabhupada In his letter to Narayani, 11th June, 1972. ___________________________________________________________________________ Adbhuta Gauranga Das (Anand)   ISKCON., (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA              Email               :         harekr...@yahoo.com