There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy
In a lecture on this occasion in 1976 in Mayapur Srila Prabhupada quoted his
Guru Maharaja:
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur Prabhupada . . . continued that “There is
no need of establishing many temples. Better we publish some books.” He said
like that.
He said that “We started our Gaudiya Matha in Ultadanga. The rent
was very small, and if we could gather two-hundred-fifty rupees, it was
going on very nicely. But since this J. V. Datta has given us this stone,
marble stone Thakurbari [Datta donate
The Highest Vaisnava Sees Himself as the Lowest of All
by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura Prabhupada
"Narottama Das Thakura prayed for a short-cut. He said, "I am so unfortunate, I am so unhappy. It is so difficult for me to control my mind. So Lord Nityananda, please just flood me with ecstasy. Flood me with Your mercy. Then I will be so attracted by the taste of the love flowing from Your lotus feet that automatically my mind will be absorbed. "
This is the devotee's short-cut. If we can get the mercy of Lord Nityananda, then very quickly we taste the ecstasy of pure love for Krishna. Then the
