Responsibility

Here is a very strong piece of instruction from Maharaj’s diary.

The keyword is responsibility. Conditional souls are lazy. They have an inborn tendency not to accept responsibility. Especially there is a tendency in the conditioned soul not to accept responsibility for his spiritual growth, for improving himself. A person may be busy, busy, busy doing so many tasks putting in 70 hours a week, but if by doing so, he avoids the work of improving himself, of refining his character, he is lazy.

Until you accept full responsibility of what you make of your life and take a stand, you can take birth over and over and do the same useless programme of laying blame elsewhere for lifetimes. What’s the use? Why not shake off all this ignorance in this life, tighten your belt and face the music? Make a decision that no matter what, I am going to mold my life to Krsna Consciousness, this is success thinking in spiritual life.

Such success goes only to those who accept full responsibility and who makes a firm, non-negotiable, non-retractable decision to do whatever it takes to become Krsna Conscious, starting today.

- Kalacakra Krsna das. Minneapolis.

Chant,

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna

Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama

Hare Hare

and be happy.