More and more dense…

More and more dense…

A devotee may have a different meditation at different points in time. For example, in the beginning, when one is not yet following all the regulative principles, one’s meditation may be- how can I come to this point? How can I get there? When one is not yet chanting...
Hooked again…

Hooked again…

Maya has a fishing rod and this fishing rod is coming down into to the water and there’s a line and on there, there’s a hook. And on that hook there is a delicious piece of bait and we sort of swim past and we see that hook- we’ve got hooked before, if you know what I...
16 and no less…

16 and no less…

16- no less! It is there where the mercy of Srila Prabhupada is present. Even if we would chant a very good round, even if we would chant so many good rounds, still where are we on our own strength? What is the value of our attention? Even if we are attentive to...
Catch the mind!

Catch the mind!

We must make arrangements to catch ourselves. The mind is sort of…well, they say nowadays, ‘spaced out!’ (dramatic) uh, what are you thinking about? ‘uhhhh I don’t know. Nothing in particular…’ is that nirvana? I don’t know what it is, but it’s not Krsna...
The Lord as a servant…

The Lord as a servant…

…this is the Bhagavad-Gita, that the devotee becomes the servant of the Lord and the Lord becomes the servant of His devotee. That is unique to Bhagavad-Gita; you don’t find that anywhere else, you don’t find in any other religious scripture in the world. That is kind...