Material World:
- Materialistic sense gratification is simply filling of the holes (knowledge acquiring senses). The more we fill the more we become empty and hungrier. The only way these holes can be filled is when we fill them with the complete Whole.
- Sense gratification distances us away from the Lord who is in the heart.
- The intrinsic problem in trying to enjoy this world is…. we are not the controller.
- Sense gratification means we are using the instrument (human body) meant for liberation and using it for our bondage.
- Opulence and material joy is nothing but suffering for the soul. The soul is in misery, as the mind and the senses are in the illusion of enjoyment.
- In this world, all pleasure are sources of pain.
- Padam Padam Yat vipadam na tesam…. this is the eternal reality in a temporary world.
Suffering:
- We get suffering in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna’s message. Understand, “Suffering is part of my karma”, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.
- All the suffering are worthwhile if you go through them in proper consciousness, because they will bring closer to the goal of your life.
- When obstacles come in life, we should know that those obstacles are not bad. Whatever they may be, they are bad if you perceive them as bad and act accordingly. We should see the impediments that come in our life as opportunities to grow, opportunities to go deeper into our surrender to God, opportunities to be more helpless and we should cry out for the Lord’s help.
- Difficulties are just the nature of world, whoever we are, But Krishna us, or He allow the right kind of difficulty to come, so that He can be there to save us. Otherwise, we become complacent.
Pleasure and Pain:
- You may have all kinds of pleasure, but one pain. And that one pain becomes prominent.
- You may have all kinds of pain, but one pleasure. And that pleasure will be insignificant.
- Everyone is seeking pleasure. But there is only one pleasure that can reach the heart: the pleasure of experiencing its need to love and receiving love. We need love, that’s our nature.
- It is worth going through tears to give pleasure to others.
Death:
- For a devotee death is not the end but just the beginning. Beginning of entrance into a realm of eternity. But for materialists, death is simply an end. An end of everything they identify with.
- To forget Krishna is worse than death.
Science:
- Materialistic Science heals in retail and kills in wholesale.
Wealth:
- Real wealth that Krishna gives us is the fortune to be allowed to be enjoyed by him, to serve him and to be with his devotees.
- Real wealth is that which brings real happiness to oneself and to others.
Sports:
- Your national pride won’t grow if India wins, it will grow if you live with integrity.
- A Sport is innocent, but when it becomes big business, it becomes a frenzy and a toll in the hands of kali.
- An athlete gains more and more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.
- Devotee’s goal is not to be great but humble instruments in the hands of the Great. In cricket, the hero (batsman) is glorified, not his bat.
- If one team wins the world cup, dozens lose. This shows that in the material world the ratio of people suffe
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