“Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities.”
– Srila Prabhupada
If we live in quadrant 3, Krishna will guide us to quadrant 4.
If we predominantly live in quadrant 1 or 2, we’d find Bhakti Yoga practises hackneyed. Our spiritual life would be dull and unexciting. Or worse,…
“Because we are Krishna’s children, we have a very intimate relationship with Krishna and since we have given Him up and we have forgotten Him, therefore we are suffering.”
– Srila Prabhupada (December 11, 1974, Bombay, lecture on Shrimad Bhagavatam 3.25.43)
As you manage your busy schedules and fulfil your various responsibilities, you also remember…
“Being attracted by external opulence, the non-devotee always forgets his intimate relationship with Krishna. Such a person does not like the idea of becoming Krishna conscious.”
– Srila Prabhupada (Purport to Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya, 12.184)
The four quadrants of a relationship with God
Now, let us merge both figures 1 and 2.
You have four…
“Religion means to know God and to love him.” – Srila Prabhupada
An exercise will help you discover where you stand in your relationship with Krishna/God:
Open your mind’s eye. Now visualize a screen/board and draw a vertical line - the line of struggle. (Figure 1).
The space on the left of the line denotes ‘No…