Burlingame, CA
Whereas transiting the Bangkok airport I noticed an commercial in entrance of a sporting good retailer that includes the next quote from well-known Argentine footballer, Leo Messi:
“I educated 17 years to be an in a single day success.”
Messi’s slogan jogged my memory concerning the significance of being affected person in a single’s observe of devotional service.
The method of bhakti is so highly effective {that a} regular effort over time will convey unimaginable rewards. Training endurance signifies that one might should tolerate even one’s personal shortcomings, occurring with the method with confidence that Krishna is so highly effective that he can and can elevate even the slowest or most unqualified practitioners.
Srila Prabhupada:
“One shouldn’t be discouraged within the discharge of devotional service. Failures is probably not detrimental; they will be the pillars of success. One should have good religion within the regulative rules adopted by the self-realized souls, and one shouldn’t be uncertain concerning the final results of such devotional service . . . We should always not take into account going again to Godhead a plaything. We should take it significantly, as enjoined within the scriptures. For a strict follower, the result’s certain and sure, and when the time is correct the outcome will come of its personal pressure.” (Gentle of the Bhagavata; Verse 43)
Om Tat Sat
Vaisesika Dasa
The bhakti creeper drastically expands within the Goloka Vrndavana planet, and there it produces the fruit of affection for Krsna. Though remaining within the materials world, the gardener often sprinkles the creeper with the water of listening to and chanting.