Serve with Love to Taste the Bliss

Srila Prabhupada very wonderfully explains in a Bhagavad-gita lecture that he gave in London on August 26, 1973 as follows:

yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde
nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt
tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne
bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭhu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca

"Yad-avadhi, since the time, mama cetaḥ, I have engaged my life and soul, my consciousness, in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa..." This verse is given by Yāmunācārya. He was a great king, and kings, they are generally licentious, but he became later on a saintly devotee. So his personal experience, he is saying, that "Since I have engaged my mind in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde..." Nava-nava. And service, spiritual service means every moment new. It is not hackneyed. Those who are spiritually realized, they will find to serve Kṛṣṇa means new enlightenment, new enlightenment. Nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt. Here, in this material world, you enjoy. It becomes hackneyed. Punaḥ punaś carvita; therefore you are disappointed. But if you engage yourself in the service of Kṛṣṇa, you'll find new and new encouragement. That is spiritual. If you find it hackneyed, then you must know that you are not yet serving spiritually, you are serving materially. Formality, stereotype. But if you feel new and new energy, then you know that you are serving spiritually. This is the test. Your enthusiasm will increase, not decrease.

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The point that Srila Prabhupada is making is if that we do our service with love we will feel newer and newer energy, delight, and enthusiasm in that service. But if we do it materially or mechanically will find it to be hackneyed or boring.

If you have any questions, please write me at: sda@backtohome.com

Prabhupada Teaches Us How to Serve with Love

Prabhupada Teaches Us How to Serve with Love

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: What is Spiritual Bliss Like?

Those who have attained spiritual bliss, what was it like in your experience? Does any earthly pleasure even compare or come close to that blissful state?

Tau Selma

Answer: Much Better than Sex

Dear Tau,
Thanks for your nice question.

Even sexual intercourse pales into insignificance when you chant this mantra with love:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

Try it. You’ll love it!!!

Sankarshan Das



P.S. Instead of making one woman pregnant, make the whole world pregnant with spiritual bliss. This mantra has the power to turn our whole planet into a spiritual paradise. That’s why George Harrison put in his hit song “My Sweet Lord.” You can listen to it here now:

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