The cause of our various dispositions and the way we hate some things, like other things, is because of our association with the modes of material nature. So Kunti says all of this is bad, actually. And therefore, when I'm subjected to reversals of fortune, and I'm jarred by it, and therefore, I take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, this is a blessing.

Oftentimes, when there's a reversal, I take shelter of pitying myself, or I become a victim and think: I go on television. "Why do bad things happen to good people? There must be no God." So how can anything bad happen to me? But this is not a helpful attitude. The helpful attitude is that I'm incompatible with nature, and therefore, there are going to be inconveniences, to say the least, in the material nature. I should learn to be dhīra, which means steady. Whether my stocks are up or my stocks are down, I stay the same. My philosophy is the same, whatever happens. And that is, I go on serving Kṛṣṇa. No stop, no interruption whatsoever.

And when one is able to, by the association of devotees and the śāstras, develop such an attitude and go on steadily throughout life without stoppage, never stopping chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and never stopping one’s service, then 'māṁ ca yo ’vyabhicāreṇa bhakti-yogena sevate sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate.' One can rise above the modes of material nature altogether and enter into devotional service proper. Or by continuing one's devotional service, one naturally rises above the modes of nature.

(excerpt from the talk)

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