If you want to make your life successful, then you should hear. You should take the seed of devotional service from the spiritual master. He will give you hint: "This is this." He will culture it, cultivate it, and it will grow

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"if you want to make your life successful, then you should hear. You should take the seed of devotional service from the spiritual master. He will give you hint" |"This is this" |"He will culture it, cultivate it, and it will grow"

Lectures

General Lectures

If you want to make your life successful, then you should hear. You should take the seed of devotional service from the spiritual master. He will give you hint: "This is this." He will culture it, cultivate it, and it will grow. And for cultivating, the process . . . just like the same seed is grown by cultivating, by sprinkling water, so you have to continuously hear about Kṛṣṇa and chant about Kṛṣṇa. Then that seed of devotional service will fructify, and then it will grow.

760517 - Lecture about Mayavada Philosophy - Honolulu

We are on this wheel: sometimes we are going very up, again then coming down. Kabhu svarge kabhu narake ḍubāya (CC Madhya 20.118). Sometimes in heaven and sometimes in hell. But I am the living entity.

So that is described in the Bhāgavatam, that māyā, ātma-māyām ṛte rāja (SB 2.9.1). This is māyā. I am eternal; why am I sometimes in heaven and sometimes in hell? This sometimes is, in the eternal life, this sometimes is nothing. It is compared just like dream, svapna-draṣṭur ivāñjasā (SB 2.9.1). Just like dream. We dream for, say, in our present in this body, we dream for say a few minutes or a few hours. This is also dreaming for millions of years, that's all. But one can wake up from this dream by the grace of Kṛṣṇa and a bona fide spiritual master. Guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja (CC Madhya 19.151): the seed of devotional service. And if he sows that seed within the heart, and waters it . . . just like if you sow a seed on the ground, you have to put little, little water. So that watering pouring means this hearing and chanting. Śravaṇa-kīrtana-jale karaye secana (CC Madhya 19.152). Secana. Secana means sprinkling water.

So if you want to make your life successful, then you should hear. You should take the seed of devotional service from the spiritual master. He will give you hint: "This is this." He will culture it, cultivate it, and it will grow. And for cultivating, the process . . . just like the same seed is grown by cultivating, by sprinkling water, so you have to continuously hear about Kṛṣṇa and chant about Kṛṣṇa. Then that seed of devotional service will fructify, and then it will grow. Our Govinda dāsī has got good experience how the seed fructifies and grows tulasī tree. So similarly, bhakti-latā-bīja, it will grow if you sprinkle water, with this water: hearing and chanting. Then it will become a nice tree or plant. It will produce fruit. And when the fruit will taste, your life will be successful: "Oh, it is so nice."

So Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is just trying to distribute the seed of devotional service to everyone. But if he is fortunate, he will take it, he will water it, it will grow, and at last will take shelter on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and the fruits will be enjoyed. That means eternal, blissful life. Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.