“Because you are dear to me, the benediction that I have given you is not the power of learning to conquer others. The real benediction that I have given you is I have brought you before the supreme absolute truth, the Personality of Godhead, and the Lord of my heart."

Why do you waste your time fighting, having wars and abscessing your minds with such insignificance superficial foolish little attachments and pleasures in your insignificant little lifetime? All your wars, all your fighting, all your time wasted on what? Why not see the true eternal treasure of the soul?”

They didn’t care what anyone said about them. They didn’t care how many times they fell on their face. They were willing to get back up and keep trying.

Most of the people we are talking about, they never gave up. They didn’t care what anyone said about them.

A Goswami is one who restrains his senses in times of temptation and trial. He restrains his senses by force of his intelligence, and he fixes his consciousness on Krishna. So, the question is ‘will you be a Goswami or a Godasa?’ That is your choice.

That there has to be a renounced class of men who are giving a very high standard to influence the grihastas and then yes, they can be in a position that is very powerful in the service of the Lord.

To sacrifice his life, to sacrifice his body, mind, words and life, to properly direct his family on the path to Krishna consciousness. To create all facilities for the wife and children, so that they can be properly situated in devotion to God. That's a great service. Everyone is a servant. No one is a master.

This is what we mean by sacrifice; that you put your husband or your wife and you put your children and you put your Guru first and you put yourself last. If you're not willing to do that, if you're living for yourself for your own feelings, for your own, hard or difficult doesn’t come into picture.

Srila Prabhupada in the Chaitanya-Charitamrita describes that if all the instructions of all the regulative principles the first and most important is to chant sixteen rounds of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra attentively every day.

We should know that sense gratification is the greatest enemy to an aspiring devotee. We cannot think of Krishna when we are pondering upon the objects of senses. Material sense gratification more than anything else strips us naked of any sense of devotion.