We have to take strength from Lord Balarāma. Part of the spiritual strength is to have the enthusiasm and the remembrance, which perhaps precedes the enthusiasm, to take our beads every day and make a valiant effort against the strong waves of māyā to fully take the names of Kṛṣṇa.And one other point is that it's not insignificant if we give our attention to the chanting.

In the story of Balarāma killing Dhenukāsura and Kṛṣṇa killing all the other āsura demons, after this pastime in the Bhāgavatam, Kṛṣṇa, Balarāma, and all their friends and cows are entering back into the Vṛndāvana village. And it's noted there that the gopīs are watching them come into the city. And their eyes are all on Kṛṣṇa like bees going to a flower. But the description there is that Kṛṣṇa accepted their glance as an offering, and they were saying, were the gopīs, when they glanced at him, shyly, albeit very shyly, they glanced at him, that "this is all we have to offer. We don't have anything else in our home, and we can't go anywhere. We're restricted, but what we have is our glance that we can offer you."

And so Kṛṣṇa took that as the greatest offering that they wanted. They wanted to look at him, and he reciprocated by giving his glance back. And what's in Kṛṣṇa’s glance? Everything. So in japa, we have the same opportunity that the residents of Vṛndāvana had. It's a Vṛndāvana pastime, actually, chanting Kṛṣṇa’s names. "Rāma, Rāma, Mahābāho," the cowherd boys chant it. And so when we chant japa, if we give our glance to the holy name, that's the best offering, and Kṛṣṇa will glance back at us. And that's where our spiritual strength comes from. It's when there's a reciprocation as we give ourselves to the holy name, and then Kṛṣṇa again reciprocates with us. And then we'll feel that, yes, now I'm in the flow of the spiritual energy, and we'll know it for ourselves. Nobody has to come in and give us a certificate.

(excerpt from the talk)

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