Developing Qualities
If you want to develop a particular quality, then serve the devotee who has that quality.
If you want to develop a particular quality, then serve the devotee who has that quality.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The spiritual master is to be honored as much as the Supreme Lord, because he is the most confidential servitor of the Lord. This is acknowledged in all revealed scriptures and followed by all authorities.
Guru is not on the way to Krishna, Guru is 'the way' to Krishna.
Chanting is not just a process, it is a relationship. You and the holy name are together for two hours every day. If you are conscious of this while you chant, your chanting will dramatically improve.
Our quota is not sixteen rounds, but attentive sixteen rounds.
By performing the sacrifice of congregational chanting of the holy names, learned scholars in the age of kali worship Lord Krishna, who is non-blackish because of the great upsurge of the feeling of Srimati Radharani. (i.e. they worship Lord Chaitanya)
When we consider ourself holy, then we are wholly not holy in the eyes of God.
“If I do not like something, it must be bad”. This is human psychology. The ego makes oneself the centre of one’s own universe and if some thing doesn’t fit one’s egoistic conceptions, it is wrong.
Spiritual life is struggle. We have to keep endeavoring. We can’t afford to give up.