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There is absolutely no reason for anyone, anywhere to be unhappy because the natural consciousness of every living being is to be full of bliss. Just as a fish cannot be happy on the land, when a living tries to be artificially happy in a material atmosphere he cannot do so. The simple formula for being able to experience an ocean of bliss at every minute is to revive one's original spiritual consciousness. This is easily accomplished under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master.s

Srila Prabhupada Delivers Us From All Miseries

Srila Prabhupada Delivers Us From All Miseries

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Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: How to Serve Krishna Out of Love?

Dear Srila Gurudeva,
Please accept my most humble obeisances in the dust of Your lotus feet.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
All glories to You and Srimati Gurumataji!

Srila Gurudeva, I want to ask a question, which is bothering me for a long time.

I am ashamed to admit it, but often I am doing service not out of love and devotion, but out of fear. I am afraid of Krishna. Consciously or unconsciously I am making many mistakes, and I know that there are so many offences, and that we don't get taste for the holy names only due to our offences. So I am just being afraid of punishment, that I will suffer even more than now, if I will do something wrong. That Krishna won't accept me. I heard that "where is fear there is no place for love."

So what can I do? How to stop fearing Krishna and start serving Him and His devotees with love?

Bowing down to Your divine lotus feet.
Your eternal unworthy servant
A.

Answer: Duty Transforms to Love

Due to our past material conditioning it is natural that in the beginning we do not do devotional service out of love. The important thing is that we continue doing devotional service because by doing it dutifully under the order and direction of the spiritual master it become mystically transformed into pure love of God in due course of time. Since we have been totally entangled in material sense gratification for millions and billions of lifetimes, naturally it will take some time for us to overcome our past conditioning and become fully situated in pure love of God. So while the cleansing process of Krishna consciousness is gradually transforming us we have to be patient. Kindly know for certain that no matter what you motive is now, if you continue serving Krishna under the order of your spiritual master you will achieve the supreme perfection of pure love of Krishna and thus become eternally situated in pure transcendental bliss.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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