Can You Taste the Nectar?

Loving service to the Supreme Person is an ocean of bliss. Can you taste the nectar? If you can, consider yourself most blessed and fortunate. And if you not, you need to find out how, because you are missing out. The formula for tasting the nectar is given in the Srimad Bhagavatam as follows:

susrusoh sraddadhanasya
vasudeva-katha-rucih
syan mahat-sevaya viprah
punya-tirtha-nisevanat

"O twice-born sages, by serving those devotees who are completely freed from all vice, great service is done. By such service, one gains affinity for hearing the messages of Vasudeva."
--Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.16

The more we develop the inclination to hear about Krishna from those who are completely pure, the more we will taste the sweet nectar of Krishna consciousness at every moment. Seek out the company of those who are pure in their spiritual life and take shelter of them.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Which Gita Verse?...

I exchange a few email with my business customers daily. I like to flash one Bhagavad-gita verse daily to my clients. Is this okay? And if yes, which verse should it be, which people can understand easily.

Hare Krishna

Murari Lal

Answer: Use This One...

I am very happy to learn that you want to distribute the knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita to your clients because there is no greater welfare work for the benefit of the suffering humanity.

This is the verse that you should distribute:

yat karosi yad asnasi
yaj juhosi dadasi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya
tat kurusva mad-arpanam

"Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform --do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me."
--Bhagavad-gita 9.27

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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