The Price of Advancing in Devotional Service: Eagerness to Hear Krishna Katha | Kovvur | 28 Dec 2025

You will have different opportunities at different stages of your life, even as Prabhupāda showed by his example. At the time when Prabhupāda was working and he has family, he went to one of the yātrās of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, but he only had one day out of ten because he was so busy. But in that one day, he took advantage by staying and hearing from his Guru—so much so that his Guru noticed: "Here is this person that doesn’t go away, that likes to hear." Because half the other pilgrims went away to visit a temple. They were given a choice; they were saying, "Some who want to go see Śeṣaśāyī Viṣṇu, you can come now, or you can listen to Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta speak." So many people left. They thought, "Oh, I'll go see the Deity." And Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta commented, "What will they be able to see?" But he also noted those who stayed. So, it’s not necessarily the quantity, because you might find somebody who has access every day to the Deities—they live in the āśrama. Let’s say somebody is in a brahmacārī āśrama, but they’re thinking, "I wish I could go out and see a movie right now." Or you might be living in a gṛhastha āśrama, working behind something like a computer screen, and you might be thinking, "I wish I was in darśana right now." Which one’s better? It’s an internal process, and it grows more robust as we develop that desire, that greed—'tatra laulyam api mūlyam ekalam'—when we’re held back sometimes we have more greed because we’re thinking, "Why can’t I get anything?" This is one of the moods of when we are feeling greedy: "See, everybody else got something. I can’t even get one drop." And we’re praying, 'Kṛṣṇa, please give me one drop.' It’s an awakening of this taste, that we want more. So, that can happen from any āśrama... ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose