What would Kṛṣṇa be more pleased with? The cook who is thinking, "Okay, I could cook it this way or I could do that, that would be nicer for Kṛṣṇa," or the one who is thinking, "I got to surrender, I hate this cooking, I got to surrender."
Generally, most places, most authorities do engage people in proper activities, though they as persons may be hard to deal with, so as long as that is there, then it is an opportunity to develop humility, tolerance, forgiveness.
Kṛṣṇa is always saying, 'Perform your duty,' because then there is a relationship. But otherwise, [Arjuna] is leaving the battle out of fear of loss. It seems very nice that he is going and giving up, and compassion, and going to the forest, but it is actually fear of loss.
Prabhupāda doesn't go, 'Oh, a bunch of dirty hippies, what can we do?' No, he sees that they have caught this aspect of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, therefore then he cultivates. That is why he could do it and his Godbrothers couldn't.
Without faith you cannot move forward. But because we are coming from a faithless background, therefore breaking of faith is normal. Dogs bark and mundaners break faith.
There are so many ślokas that prove that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So what is so hidden in the Veda?
That association is good for hearing and chanting or just rendering service. But when we go into that association dragging behind us this very large bag of all of our material baggage, that's where the tiring comes.
The Lord, Gaurasundara, puts His devotees in various difficulties and associations to test their patience and strength of mind. Success depends upon their good fortune.
If we are following the order of the Spiritual Master very strictly, then that is our dharma. So one is following dharma, but now the material dharma becomes replaced with the instruction of the Spiritual Master.
Just managerially you become Guru, you don't have to have any spiritual qualification. Just by being the temple president then you are automatically Guru. That's all, this is just politics.