Krishna Favours Those Who Continue | SB 1.2.19 | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 03 May 2026

It’s helpful to be relentless in your practice of devotional service, and it’s quite natural to be unsteady in the beginning. Part of being relentless means you have to be willing to continue, even if you feel that you’re not making that much progress. That requires evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā. You have to be situated in your intelligence at that point, because you may not have as much taste as you might need—and you get a lot of credit for staying a long time. In fact, my godbrother Puṣkar Prabhu was just telling me the other day: Śrīla Prabhupāda once commented when devotees were asking these types of questions (and they were brand new), he said, "Wait 50–60 years in your practice." He commented and said, "See who’s still around in 50–60 years." Many people shoot up, and they may have various motives, and then they’re huge—and then all of a sudden they’re not there. But who’s there in 50–60 years? One thing is to make a determination to continue no matter what. That’s very important, because a "big shot" is just a "little shot" who kept on shooting. That’s the case in almost all areas of discipline: somebody who just stuck with it. It’s like, "That guy? How’d he get in here?" It’s like, "he kept doing it. You guys quit." So, we have to keep going. sva-pāda-mūlaṁ bhajataḥ priyasya tyaktānya-bhāvasya hariḥ pareśaḥ vikarma yac cotpatitaṁ kathañcid dhunoti sarvaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ (SB 11.5.42) Kṛṣṇa favors those who continue. This verse says that if you just keep going—even though you keep doing stupid stuff and you think, "Why am I doing that?"—it’s because you’re still "stupid," but you’re smart enough to keep going. That is a sign of sincerity. The sign of sincerity is that you keep going. Have you ever seen a little animal or a kid who’s totally inept at something, or maybe they’re even deformed or injured or whatever but they just keep trying? Everyone runs to them and says, "Help them! Help that one over there, they can't walk." You see people all the time; they adopt a little beagle that has no back legs, and then they’ll get a skateboard and hook it up because they want to help them out. So Kṛṣṇa is like that. If we keep going, even though we’re the worst of the worst, if you just keep going, then there’s magic that happens from chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. We have to remember that Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful. nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto 'bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ There’s no difference between Kṛṣṇa and His name. And He’s transformative; He’s cintāmaṇi. If you remember this, it’s like: "I don't like the way my life is." All right, how about let's change it? What do you think? Yeah, good idea. How are you going to change it? Try YouTube? No—try chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. If you just keep trying it, because Kṛṣṇa and His name are non-different, you go to the reservoir and you just drink, and you don’t have to do anything else. That’s why: vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam It happens quickly when you chant—do something direct. Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, it is transformative. So, keep going to that reservoir that changes everything. Who changes everything? It’s Kṛṣṇa. He’s the cintāmaṇi stone. Don’t give up on it. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?