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Austerities and Penances Are Blessings

9899550071?profile=RESIZE_584x(Srila Prabhupada boarding the Jaladuta en route to America, August 13, 1965)
 
"I was on the sea for one month and ten days continually, and that was a horrible account. Perhaps you have read it in my diary which you collected in Vrindaban. So let us forget our past difficulties and in Krishna Consciousness, if anyone faces difficulties, it is considered as blessings, because without tapasya, or voluntarily accepting some inconveniences, nobody can realize the Transcendence. So when we are put
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