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How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?

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"How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous"

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Seriousness? If you become serious then you become, develop seriousness. If you are fickle, then how you can develop seriousness? Therefore the injunction is: yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. You should be very serious to abide by the orders of the spiritual master. Then you are serious.
Ratha-yatra -- Los Angeles, July 1, 1971:

Devotee: How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?

Prabhupāda: Seriousness? If you become serious then you become, develop seriousness. If you are fickle, then how you can develop seriousness? Therefore the injunction is: yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **. You should be very serious to abide by the orders of the spiritual master. Then you are serious. If you think that "Spiritual master is a man like me. Why shall I follow his instructions so strictly?" then you are not serious. Then what is the use of your being initiated? This is seriousness. And we are singing daily, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ. What is the meaning of this?

Karandhara: "By the mercy of the spiritual master, one receives the mercy of Kṛṣṇa."

Prabhupāda: So if you don't follow the spiritual master, then how you can get his mercy? Mercy is always there, but if you don't take it, then what spiritual master or his father will do? You have to take it. That is seriousness. Therefore Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura said that "The order of my spiritual master is my life. I do not know whether I get liberation or not. That is not my business. My business is to carry out the order of my spiritual master." Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura said. If one is serious on this point, then he is serious. First of all we have to approach a spiritual master who is actually a spiritual master, and then, if we carry the orders of spiritual master, then everything is guaranteed. The same example: First of all you find out a right physician, and you put yourself under his treatment, follow his instruction, and the disease is cured. But if you go to a false physician or if you are false, then the result will not take place.

So ārati will be performed now?

Karandhara: About forty-five minutes.

Prabhupāda: So I can go?

Karandhara: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. (end)

Page Title:How do you develop this seriousness if you find that you are always frivolous?
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas, Rishab
Created:11 of Jun, 2010
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