Is it essential to serve the Lord?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
Our duty is to serve guru and Krsna, and we will continue to do so. Let Krsna do whatever He pleases. We must accept His arrangements without reservations. The daughter of Vrshabhanu does not give up Krsna's service because She is afraid of being criticized.
Should one serve the devotees and the Supreme Lord personally?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
It is not proper to engage others to worship and cook for the Lord. We can, however, make an exception if we are in some predicament or are ill. If out of laziness we do not feed Krsna but we ourselves eat nice foods, then our respect for the Lord's service will diminish.
How do we become free of lusty desires?
Prabhupada Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati ThakurGranth upadeshamrit
Having lusty desires means we want to enjoy sense gratification. It is the living entity's duty to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Aversion to the Lord's service drowns us in an ocean of material misery. If we wish to become liberated from that misery, we must serve the non envious servants of Krsna. That is the only remedy. Krsna's servants alone can protect us from lust. We tend toward...
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Only in the heart of that great soul in whom there is pure bhakti to Śrī Bhagavān, and similarly, pure bhakti to Śrī Gurudeva, are all the confidential purports of the Śrutis self-manifest (prakāśa).
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