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From \u201cBy Your Anxiety\u201d in Among Friends, Volume 2 #3 (1993):<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I were to boil down what I want from my disciples, it would be that I am asking them to improve. That is the thrust of my own attempts in devotional service, to always try to improve and deepen my Krishna consciousness. I don\u2019t ever want to think that I have improved enough. Inspiration for improvement comes from hearing. No matter what stage we are in in our lives, we can always hear something and then aspire to improve ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne time some devotees asked Prabhupada, \u2018How can we please Krishna?\u2019 Prabhupada answered, \u2018By your anxiety.\u2019 It was such an unusual and unexpected answer that the devotees laughed nervously. Prabhupada then said, \u2018If you have a sense that I did something wrong, I did not serve nicely, then you can improve. But if you think, \u201cI did everything nicely, I am already advanced,\u201d then how can you improve?\u2019 Krishna can enjoy everything we offer Him without our help. He is pleased by our anxiety and eagerness to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a disciple shows that anxiety or eagerness to improve and takes help from the spiritual master, then the guru-disciple relationship deepens to the point where the guru and disciple can discuss k\u1e5bish\u1e47a-katha. When that happens, it\u2019s pleasing both to the guru and the disciple. Prabhupada says in his purport to Bhag. 10.1.4: \u2018For k\u1e5bish\u1e47a-katha, topics about Krishna consciousness, there must be a speaker and a hearer, both of whom can be interested in Krishna consciousness if they are no longer interested in material topics.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From \u201cBy Your Anxiety\u201d in Among Friends, Volume 2 #3 (1993): \u201cIf I were to boil down what I want from my disciples, it would be that I am asking them to improve. That is the thrust of my own attempts in devotional service, to always try to improve and deepen my Krishna consciousness. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105175,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105174\/revisions\/105175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}