Niranjana Swami

Niranjana Swami

July 6, 2021 - A Recent Letter to a Sincere Devotee (from the Blog)

Somehow we need to cultivate faith in pure devotional service, even though we are impure and we know we are impure. It's only by hearing about pure devotional service and by chanting in the association of devotees who inspire us to keep hope in that goal that we can stay in the society of devotees. Even just a "little" faith in pure devotional service can save us from all forms of suffering. In fact, even one moment's faith in pure devotional service can save us from lifetimes of suffering.

Srila Prabhupada

Letter to Rayarama, 15 October, 1968

I have noted with great attention your statement that you are sitting at one desk in a tiny office, room, which is ferociously hot in summer and freezing cold in winter. So people might think you mad if they heard of your crazy work. So spiritual activities are like that. Sometimes my contemporaries from India, they also write that in this age, the age of 73, when people would naturally like to retire, and I am working here. So this is all possible by Grace of Krishna. Krishna can adjust opposing elements. In the material world, yes and no are two opposing elements, but by Krishna's inconceivable power, yes can be no, and no can be yes. That is the law of Krishna. And austerity, Krishna Consciousness, there is some austerity. So we should not be afraid of any condition. Narayana para sarve na kutascana Vivyati - that means, those who are in Krishna Consciousness, they are not afraid of anything. Either they are in hell, or heaven, for them, they are all equal. They do not make any distinction in the material world; this is good, or this is bad, this is hell, or this is heaven.