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Bhakti is Inherent / SB 3.25.37

Three goals of life surpassed by a devotee / How bhakti is inherent and inherited / It all comes from the mercy of devotees

#35 Bhakti is Inherent

Why as soon as we become devotees, why don't we just become pure souls and go back to Godhead? For the same reason, because Krishna wants to see the quality of our love. He wants us to develop the quality of our love, then love is developed through the process of sacrifice and if we didn't have to undergo the tests of lust and anger and envy and pride and greed and illusion and all these horrible things that are within us, that we have created ourselves to all of our previous births, we have created the condition of our consciousness but Krishna wants us to face all of these testing elements within our life and with faith and conviction and determination and with trust in the guidance of the great soils and faith in his words, he wants us to pursue to work, to strive, to sacrifice for him. And when he sees that quality in us, then by His mercy, he very gracefully awards love of God to us. You see, love of God is not something that you can acquire. It is already within you, but you'll never find it on your own. It is only when Krishna reveals it by his own sweet will that you can understand where it is. And he reveals it when he sees that you have qualified yourself through sincere devotion and sacrifice, through passing through so many tests, then you have showed your love for him.

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“Who is attracted?” / The Jeweled Bhakti Garland - Part 7 / SB 4.20.27 

The Lord likes the simple devotees more than anyone else / Akbar the Great’s Queen Taj Bibi / Krishna attracts those with a mood of service

#37 “Who is attracted?” / The Jeweled Bhakti Garland — Part 7

Prabhupada writes “of Lord Chaitanya’s associates.” Prabhupada writes it that “Swarup Damodar Goswami never came to Vrindavan. He is Lalita sakhi. And Gadhadar Pandit who is Radharani never came to Vrindavan. He wanted to come with Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya, but Lord Chaitanya said no you have given your vow of kshetra-sanyas to serve Gopinath in Puri, you cannot come with me. So many of the top most, Ramananda Rai never came to Vrindavan. But their hearts were in Vrindavan. Wherever they went they manifested Vrindavan.” So Prabhupada was explaining and not only did he speak it but he lived it, that really being in Vrindavan is serving the holy dham which means serving the will of Radha and Krishna.

VRINDAVAN Is The State of Consciousness

KI 24 - 2021 “Radha Brings Krishna Under Her Control”

Srila Prabhupada would sometimes say, it is in one purports in his books as well, that ”the real purpose of the Krishna consciousness is not simply to defeat people on argument, reason and logic. The real purpose of this Krishna Consciousness movement is to induce people to chant the holy names of Krishna, because it is the yuga-dharma. It is the means by which anyone; everyone could experience love of God.” Srila Prabhupada had that faith in the names of Krishna. And on the basis of that faith, he was able to alone, with no facility whatsoever, open 100’s of centres, distribute millions of books and touch the hearts of millions and millions of people; not only in his own life, but in generations to come.

Glories of Srila Dhananjaya Pandita and Srila Gadhadar Das Goswami

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The New You / SB 2.3.24

Personal Transformation / 5 Ingredients of Initiation / 5 Effects of Full Transformation / Punk to Devotee / Service is The Key

#41 The New You

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Sacinandana Swami is a spiritual leader based in Germany. 

#41 The New You

Sacinandana Swami

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