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Feelings of loneliness are simply temporary manifestations due to past conditioning.
We should try to concentrate our attention our eternal friendship with Krishna.
- Letter to Kulasekara, November 2, 1969.

These two things are always side by side – Maya and Krishna – Krishna is service and Maya is sense gratification.
Our duty is therefore to be very, very careful. The poison is personal ambition.
- Letter to Satyabhama, November 1, 1970.

We may discover so many defending instruments or weapons, but there is no defense from the cruel hands of death.
However you may be advanced in manufacturing so many nice things, you cannot manufacture anything that can save you from death, or from disease, or from old age.
- Los Angeles, April 16, 1970.

A spiritual master is not a fashion, that, “Oh, I should have a spiritual master.” People after fashion.
No. One must be very much inquisitive to know what is the highest perfection of life. If one is actually inquisitive to understand about the highest perfectional stage of our life, then he should search after a spiritual master.
- New Vrindavan, May 22, 1969.

"The man with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand, although by material science one can see things far away by means of television. Factually, the spiritually developed person is able to have the television of the kingdom of God always reflected within his heart.
That is the mystery of knowledge of the Personality of Godhead. Srimad-Bhagavatam,Canto 2: "The Cosmic Manifestation" SB 2.9: Answers by Citing the Lord's Version: SB 2.9.35 On the mirror if there is dust, you cannot see your face very nicely.
If you wipe the mirror very nicely… So this Hare Krishna chanting is the process of wiping out the dust accumulated on the mirror of my mind.
- Montreal, October 25, 1968.

Anything can be done by practice.
So if we take Krishna-prasadam, the tongue is restricted, locked to some limited… Then all our other senses become controlled. - Vrindavan, October 21, 1977

Simply we have to desire to please Him, and not desire anything for ourselves.
Then we become simply instruments for His will. This is the important essence of Krishna consciousness.
- Letter to Atreya Rsi, October 20, 1973