"'Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master.' That means you want to know what the Absolute Truth is. Then you try, it says by approaching, you have to make that step that you want to hear. Then inquire submissively, first of all you had to have heard, you have a question, you hear, then you hear that. Then you render service, that means then you take that instruction and apply it. It is the same thing with 'tad viddhi paripatena, pariprasnena sevaya.' You are having that interest, therefore you are wanting to know how to make the instruction work, therefore there is the inquiry, having inquired then you apply. That application will give you more understanding. At the same time, it will create more questions, so those are then asked again. Like this then the cycle develops very nicely."
- 16th Dec 2008, Sri Isopanishad Lecture, Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur
"A solution that doesn’t include Krsna consciousness isn’t actually a solution. It may get something immediately done, but because it is not connected to the eternal it won’t give any lasting result. You are dealing with trouble-shooting, it is superficial, it will immediately get rid of that observable detail of that trouble, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that whatever is causing the trouble has gone away."
- 16th Dec 2008, Sri Isopanishad Lecture, Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur
