Whether festival day or ordinary day, time ticks unabated. It is always alert, ticking very nicely whether it is for president of the country or a beggar in the street.

Our connection to Krishna is determined by how much we are ready to satisfy the Lord and not satisfy our senses and those who satisfy the Lord, automatically their senses will be satisfied."

Maharaj said, "Someone may say, 'Maharaj I have no envy for you', but if you do not follow my instructions then I take it that you are actually envious and the symptom of your envy is in the lack of following."

When we accept that "Krishna's plan is so great, I do not know His plan", that is the first step in accepting our destiny.

2. How to know Krishna’s plans?  "the best way to know the plan of Krishna, is to accept that you do not know the plan of Krishna. This is the starting point of understanding His plan

When we realize that nothing can come with us, then we accept our destiny. It is very important that when you cannot accept that nothing goes with you, then you cannot accept anything in your life. That is why we always must remember the day of our death.

Use your intelligence to be eager to study Bhagavatam and be with Krishna. If you are with Krishna in any program, anywhere, just by remembering Him, He will give you inspiration to be always enthused.

We are nobody to judge others. Krishna is the only Supreme Judge. Do not poke your nose in matters where you are not needed to. Do not comment on the things which can hurt others. Be loving and kind to all.

Be more humble than a blade of grass. Blade of grass, you walk on it, it will not shout or scream. It will tolerate. Mahaprabhu tells we should be more humble than this grass. You have to find out the defects of your own self instead of blaming others. We should always inspect ourselves .

One can chant the holy name of the Lord, in a humble state of mind, thinking himself lower than the straw in the street. One should be more tolerant than the tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and ready to offer all respects to others. ln such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly

The residents of Dvaraka are immensely separated from Krishna and they run towards Him as soon as Krishna enters Dvaraka blowing the fat-boweled conchshell, the sound of which removes the fear of all living entities. 

The very reason for our miserable material existence is our tendency to lord over and Gurudev in this lecture very clearly and lovingly explains this point and instructs the way to get out of this tendency. 

We are just asking you to come together and hear Bhagavatam and take Bhagavatam back and seriously study it." One who does that with his own sweat and blood, will see Krishna in no time.

One who is sober, he is gentle because he can understand the true condition he is in. One who is not dhira, one who does not contemplate on Krishna, he cannot be gentle. 

Maharaj said the whole point of Bhagavatam is to become gentle. When one is gentle, everything comes together. One cannot become submissive until he is gentle.

Here we notice how before we came to Krishna consciousness, we may have read Bhagavad Gita 100 times, but we did not understand it. But when we approach Bhagavad Gita with bhakti, with submission, the whole Bhagavad Gita becomes revealed to us. So material intelligence does not help us because it has nothing to do with Krishna.

One who remembers Krishna, he will always be inspired even in death or in life.

"We should carry the flag of gratitude. Whatever we were yesterday, tomorrow we must change. Otherwise this Bhagavatam speaking is just a social ritual. What is the point if tomorrow I cannot put this into practice? Then Bhagavatam also becomes a ritual. So Maharaj said, never make anything related to Krishna, a ritual. Never. Every day is a new day. Every day we have to put our hands together and every day we should be prepared to be grateful to Krishna."

Krishna is the property of the materially impoverished: The devotees of the Lord are never bereft of transcendental opulence.

If you want to have attraction for Krishna, it starts by being Krishna matih. We must first be attentive to Krishna.

Very often we run after Krishna with all the material paraphernalia but we do not realize that He is not interested in that. He is interested only if you run after His devotees.

"Krishna is not a commodity to be possessed, evaluated, and disposed of."

 For Bhagavatam, our head needs to be cool. For this, we must try and make it practical that we always remember Krishna whenever we can. This must be a practical point in our lives.

We never trust Krishna' words in Bhagavad Gita verse 9.22, "But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form, to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have." 

3. Contemplation leads to practice  the more time you spend with our spiritual father Bhagavatam, the more time you contemplate on how to put it into practice, Krishna will reveal it to you.

So speakers, if you really want to touch the heart of someone, then remember, Bhagavatam equals to behavior. If behaviour is changed, then you are doing justice to others.

A devotee who wants to remember the lotus feet of the Lord will get inspiration because of his eagerness to do whatever is necessary for devotional service.

If there is Bhagavatam and there is no change in our lives, that means we are just reading Bhagavatam, but we are not accepting Bhagavatam. Whatever we were one year ago, we should not be one year later.

"What to speak of 24 Gurus? We can have millions of Gurus. In fact, we can learn something from everyone, and hence, in that sense, everything and everybody in this world is our Guru. If we are humble and sincere, Krishna will reveal all the transcendental knowledge through all the different entities in this world."

"In the beginning of Krishna consciousness, one may not fully discharge the injunctions of the Lord, but because one is not resentful of this principle and works sincerely without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Krishna consciousness."