Last week I happened to go for book distribution near a bus stand. It was not very crowded place. It was getting dark and thus fast food restaurants were getting filled with people. While I was holding books and roaming around, a middle aged, lean man, slightly drunkard approaches me and asks me in an impatient manner – where is the wine shop here? He was already too drunk to go to wine shop again but he was getting strength from his inner desire and that was fuelling him to have more of this nectarine toxic. This man has already had enough but still he is not satisfied, he wants to have more, he wants to taste more, he is so determined to have one more time that even his unbalanced condition could not stop his urge to have more.
Like a drunkard man, we all have opportunities to taste nectarine Holy name, but our laziness and no taste for holy name keeps us away from having any attachment with holy name. A drunkard is never satisfied, he wants to taste more, similarly we should not get satisfied by our sevas, not be complacent by our seva and this will improve the quality of our present seva and get us more sevas and that’s the ultimate aim of life – to get into the circle of devotional service of the Lord.
By Ashish Kumar
ISKCON Convention Centre
Bangalore
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