A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
One should not be impatient in discharging devotional service, but should take instruction 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? The devotee thinks “Krishna will surely protect me and give me help for the successful execution of devotional service.” This is called confidence. — The Nectar of instruction, Text 03.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
Bharata Maharaja, Who had attained loving affection for the Supreme Lord, fell down from his position due to his affection of deer. Consequently, he had to accept the body of a deer in his next life. Unless we increase our faith in the Supreme Lord, we shall be attracted to many other things. That is the cause of our material bondage.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
One has to learn tolerance in the face of dualities such as happiness and distress, or cold and warmth, and by tolerating such dualities become free from anxieties regarding gain and loss.
Bhagavad Gita 2.45,
Srila Prabhupada.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Picture Quotes
The relationship of a disciple with his spiritual master is as good as his relationship with the Supreme Lord. A Spiritual master always represents himself as the humblest servitor of the humblest servitor of the Personality of Godhead, but the disciple must look upon him as the manifested representation of Godhead. — Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila, 01.45.
