Name: Is Shifting Your Burden From One Shoulder to the Other Progress? by Devamrita Swami in Wise Words
Duration: 5 min 38 s
Description: Feverishly adjusting our material circumstances in order to maximize our happiness is a futile endeavor. Karma implies that we can change our circumstances but not the quota of happiness and distress due us from our previous activities. Real progress can begin when we understand this preliminary yoga principle.

Wise Words

Aravinda Nayana Das · {Ohe Vaishnava Thakura} KKF at Bhakta Bandhav · 9.1.23

"What does it mean to be weak in the presence of the Holy Name of Krishna? It means the more we realise I have no other hope, no other shelter, other than that sound vibration. That is the only solace, the only solution to material existence. Lord Caitanya came to demonstrate that."

💎 Mined from 2008 lecture by His Holiness Devamrita Swami > "Gopinatha Patinayaka flood of love of God, part 2."

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