Liberated Person
One who acts to serve Krishna with his body, mind, intelligence and words is a liberated person, even within this material world.
One Should Always Remember
One should always remember that he is eternally a servant of Krishna. Whether one is engaged in material activity involving pounds, shillings and pence or is in the renounced order, he should always think that he is an eternal servant of God, for that is the real position of the living being. Taking Sanyasa and dealings in Pounds, shillings and pence are both external affairs. In any condition, one should always consider how to please and satisfy Krishna. Thus, even if one is involved in great material affairs, he will not become attached. As soon as one forgets that he is an eternal servant of Krishna, he becomes involved in material attachments. However, if one is always conscious that Krishna is always the Supreme master and that he is an eternal servant of Krishna, he is a liberated person in any condition. Entangling material activities will not affect him.
Serving Krishna With Great Love and Affection
A musician, because one has got a good attachment for music, he tries to perform it very perfectly. So love is the basis. Similarly, when you serve Krishna, if you have no love for Krishna, you cannot serve Him very nicely. Krishna also does not accept your service if it is not done in great love and affection.
Pure Devotees
A pure devotee is he who loves Krishna, without any material desire. Such pure devotees are very rare. Even if they have got some ulterior desire, that will be removed very soon, because they have taken to the pure process of Krishna Consciousness.
Six Symptoms of Love
Offering gifts in charity, accepting charitable gifts, revealing one’s mind in confidence, inquiring confidentially, accepting prasada and offering prasada are the six symptoms of love shared by one devotee and another.
Developing Love For Krishna
Any devotee who has developed genuine love for Krishna can also explain the truth about Krishna because Krishna helps such sincere devotee seated in his heart.
Conditioned Soul
The conditioned soul is forced to act under the pressure of the modes of material nature. He has no independence. When he is under the direction of the supreme personality of godhead he is free.
Modern Civilization
Modern civilization is a patchwork of activities meant to cover the perpetual miseries of material existence.
Significance of Good Character
In the modern setup of democratic states the citizens can have no cause for grievances, because the whole administration is conducted by the people themselves. If the people themselves are dishonest, the administrative machinery must be corrupt. Although a damned government of the people may be given a good or fancy name, if the people are not good they cannot have a good government, regardless of which party governs the administration. Therefore good character is the first principle for good government and equal distribution of wealth.
Foolish Person
Even though one may be very learned and wise, he is mad if he does not understand that the endeavor for sense gratification is a useless waste of time. Being forgetful of his own interest, he tries to be happy in the material world, centering his interests on his home, which is based on sexual intercourse and which brings him all kinds of material miseries. In this way one is no better than a foolish animal.