Lecture 2 - “Proper kind of struggle”
We have to decide what is our position. We should be honest and say “No, we’re not happy”. We’re not happy, because we’ve always been troubled here in this material world. We’re troubled with our own mind which we are very intimately connected with. We’re troubled by our senses, other living entities, nature. This is the actual position. It’s a position of struggle. Bhagavad gita says that living entities are struggling hard with the material nature. A living entity is very tiny particle of the Lord and when it comes with contact with the material energy, it has to struggle. That’s struggle is normal here. Everybody has to struggle. Hard struggle for existence. But instead of struggling just to exist so we can remain here in this prison house, we should struggle to get out. We can’t avoid struggling. Therefore Srila Prabhupada used to say: “Easy going life and Krsna consciousness go ill together”. We have to decide that it is a struggle and that we’ll have to struggle for the rest of our life. But where do we want to direct that struggle? That should be our consciousness. Let us struggle to control our senses, let us struggle to improve our sadhana, let us struggle to push on this Movement. That’s the proper kind of struggle. Then, by that struggle Krsna will become pleased. When Krsna is pleased, He’ll easily bring us to His abode. This is His promise. “My devotee is never vanquished” Simply we have to agree to be His devotee. And this means that we put His interest first. And He clearly makes it to us that He’s most pleased when someone is explaining this process of devotional service, this subject of devotional service to innocent people. So, this is our mission. We want to please the Lord, therefore we take up this preaching mission.
