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Devotional Service is Unimaginably Powerful

20 April 2025

Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapter 1, Text 30:

"Devotional service is so powerful. When a devotee achieves what he wants to accomplish, it is not by his own mystic power but by the grace of the master of mystic power, Lord Kแน›แนฃแน‡a: by His grace, a devotee can accomplish wonderful things unimaginable even to the most powerful scientist."

So it is not that by becoming a humble devotee one becomes weak. No. He becomes by the grace of the all powerful Lord Krishna the most powerful person in the entire world, unlimitedly more powerful than the biggest poliiticans. Just see the power of Srila Prabhupada. He has launched with only 40 rupees a spiritual revolution which will go down in history as what saved our entire global population in its darkest hour of despair.

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Hare Krishna Gurudev
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All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Gurudev, although I theoretically know that feelings of happiness and distress are created by the mind, when my mind is in either of these two states, I find it extremely difficult to control—especially in distress. In such a state, I feel I may be prone to making mistakes. Please kindly advise me: how can I avoid committing errors when overwhelmed by material happiness or distress?

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Bhakta Sunil

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My Dear Bhakta Sunil,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to ลšrฤซla Prabhupฤda.

Don’t be overwhelmed by mistakes. See them as stepping stones on the pathway to ultimate success. Take each mistake as a golden opportunity to learn a valuable lesson and your spiritual perfection will become more and more manifest with each passing day.

I hope this meets you in the best of health and in a cheerful mood.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari

My Spiritual Journey in a Nutshell

As an American youth I was taught to believe in the. "American dream": Study hard, get a good education and a good job to get a good wife some good kids in a good house to enjoy a good life. But when I got to college I realized that this was not enough. I wanted to know what is the meaning of life, but no one could tell me. So I took to the path of self-realization and was blessed in 1968 with the Hare Krishna mantra and the worship of Radha and Krishna. (I did not know about ISKCON.) This inspired me to drop out of college and renounce the world to become a holy beggar in India. But on the way to India I realized that to renounce everything I had to ultimately renounce renunciation itself and accept something transcendental Thus I embraced the mission of delivering the world from chaos. For this purpose I adopted the life a singer/songwriter who in 1969 became recognized and very much appreciated. In 1971, seeking spiritual perfection, I followed the example of Lord Jesus Christ and prayed to God how I could become His perfect servant. Then God revealed to me path of pure Krishna bhakti as taught by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. On the most auspicious day of 12 August 1971 he accepted me as his disciple. Now on his order and under his most expert guidance I have fully devoted my life for awakening pure love of God within my heart and for making the entire world Krishna conscious.

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