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Srila Prabhupada, London, September 12, 1973: […] Bhajatam priti-purvakam. This engagement means always trying to render some service to the Lord. How? Priti-purvakam: “with love and faith”. Not that, “Oh, I have to do it? All right, let me do”. No.
“Oh, I have to do it? Let me do it nicely”.
Unless there is love, you cannot do it nicely, any matter. In the material world also, unless you have got some attachment for something, you cannot act it very nicely. Just like 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.
And KrKrishna na also does not accept your service if it is not done in great love and affection. That is the basic principle. Krishna does not require your service. He is self-sufficient. He has got many servants anywhere and everywhere. So Krishna does not require our service. It is our interest. If we render service to Krishna, then we become happy. That is the profit. Tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam [Bg. 10.10]
Just like you’ll find in another verse Krishna says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati: “Anyone who offers Me in love and faith a little flower, a little water, a little fruit”, patram puspam phalam toyam… Patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati.
This is the real point. Krishna, the Supreme Person who is giving all the necessities of all the living entities… He is actually the provider, maintainer of everyone. So why He is asking a little fruit, flower and water from you? Is He hungry? No. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Just to induce you again to love Krishna. That is the point. Full Lecture
pamho agtACBSP, thank you for giving everyone the association of such a great amazing guru-tattva exalted divine personality, Srila Prabhupada!
Of course HE is our jagat guru eternally we do not want any fallible guru anymore because the guru must be a resident of Vaikuntha-loka to be unfallible.
We know in this material world almost everyone is fallible especially in this dark and empty kali-yuga age where there is not love anymore therefore everyone is cheating each other until death.
The only way is to do as Prabhupada is telling to all the world here because SRI KRSNA doesn’t need any puffed up servant HE can create thousands, unlimited servants just with HIS super willing.
Everyone got defeated by SRI KRSNA, lord Brahma, lord Indra, lord Siva, etc.. we got so much proof that SRI KRSNA is the supreme personality of godhead but still a lot of sahajiyas do not accept SRI KRSNA.
Within their polluted hearts as the best friend, they think they can do better like all the insignificants outcaste diksa gurus who took over the transcendental position of our guru maharaj in iskcon, people in general lose faith in K.C. because there is not love in whatever all these fake spiritual leaders are doing by being attached to a piece of glass when SRILA PRABHUPADA gave us the matchless gift diamond coming from the Vaikunta planets,
Of course it’s a serious offense to the lotus feet of our beloved acharya to keep going without love and faith by cooperating with all the betrayers of SRILA PRABHUPADA in iskcon, agtys ys haribol
“Of course it’s a serious offense to the lotus feet of our beloved acharya to keep going without love and faith by cooperating with all the betrayers of SRILA PRABHUPADA in iskcon, agtys ys haribol”
Let’s kindly separate the chaff from the wheat. The MEMBERS OF ISKCON, e.g. our Godbrothers and Godsisters, are INNOCENT FOLLOWERS OF SRILA PRABHUPADA. The common enemy is not the gurus, who are hired and fired at will, but THE NON-ELECTED GBC, who control 100% of ISKCON from an outside separately incorporated society. We cannot continue to indulge in infighting as the subject of your post implies, and for that I applaud you…WE MUST INSTEAD UNITE ON THE BASIS OF SRILA PRABHUDA’S INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF THE GBC, THE DIRECTION OF MANAGEMENT, AND ELECT A LEGAL, AUTHORIZED, TRANSPARENT, OBEDIENT GBC THAT EXISTS TO PROPAGATE SRILA PRABHUPADA’S TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS AS THEY ARE, WORLDWIDE.
This is the real objective, so please let us not conflate the two.
Hare Krishna!