Niranjana Swami

Niranjana Swami

Lectures from a Disciple, Vol. 2, Association, p. 217

The best service we can render the senior Vaisnavas is to donate our ears - to give submissive, aural reception. By giving our ears and eagerly hearing their katha, our own desire to serve Krishna will awaken more and more.

Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 13.26, Delhi, September 22, 1974

Krsna has agreed to take your service. Because you cannot see Krsna physically. You can see. This Krsna, when He's present in this murti, Deity, He's physically present, because you cannot work without Krsna's being physically present. Krsna is everything. So because you cannot see Krsna otherwise, therefore Krsna has appeared before you just like a stone statue. Because you cannot see Krsna without His becoming a stone statue or wooden statue. That is Krsna's mercy. But that does not mean Krsna is stone. Krsna is everything. So mad-yajinah. To accept your worship, Krsna is here. Don't consider that "Here is a stone Deity." No, He's Krsna. He has agreed. Because mad-yajinah. Krsna says, "One who worships Me..." Now, ordinarily, where is Krsna, we don't find. Therefore Krsna is available in this form. Krsna is so kind, that "You take Me. You offer Me service." Mad-yajinah. "I will accept." We should worship Krsna in that spirit, not that "We are worshiping a stone. He cannot see. Let me do all nonsense in the Deity room." No. He is seeing. Don't be so much cunning. He's more cunning than you. You see. He can see.