Be a first class devotee……..

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“Maintaining proper image is important but not for own egoistic

glorification of prestige. Why do we want to have an image in the eyes of the

devotees? Because, the better our image, the better the service we can render.

If you are following the principles nicely and you are enthusiastic to take

part in all spiritual activities and you are humbly trying to serve the

devotees, then that image of being the humble and sincere Vaishnava will

encourage so many other people. The most important service you can render to

the other devotees by being a good example. An example means image. But we are

not doing it to be glorified. We are doing it for service. The spiritual master

wants first class devotee to encourage all others. If you are not a first class

devotee, how will you encourage others to be first class? It is your service to

your spiritual master and all the Vaishnavas to be first class, humble servant

of the servant, strictly following the principles, enthusiastic,

always chanting kirtan, hearing the philosophy, serving Gurudev and serving

all devotees. But this is not a material image. We are not doing for our own

profit. We are not doing for our own adoration or our own distinction. We are

doing it because it is our service to our own spiritual master, for his

pleasure and also because, in this condition, we can do the most.”

His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja

Here is a notice posted by Srila Prabhupada in 1966, (4 months after ISKCON

was created) to help his followers become first class devotees:

 

 

 

CHANT HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE AND BE HAPPY

Your humble servant

radhabhava gaur das

 

 

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