“‘He is the Supreme Lord, He is the Supersoul, and He is the supreme spiritual master.’ In this way. He’s the supreme spiritual master within you. As soon as you will take to devotional service, He’ll give you dictation, ‘You do this.’ What dictation? To go to hell? No. Buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam. In the Bhagavad-gītā: ‘I give him intelligence.’ Why? What for? Yena mām upayānti te: ‘By which he can come back to Me.’ That buddhi-yogam. He’ll help you. If you think something… If He takes seriously about your case, if you are fully surrendered, then He’ll direct you in such a way that you cannot go elsewhere except to Him, even sometimes you may find that ‘He is doing something against my will.’ I have got my personal experience. I never tried, never accepted that I shall become a sannyāsī. And I tried my best to keep myself in this material world. And He has, several times He has frustrated me and has brought me by force to this life. And now I am happy. I can understand that how much favor has Kṛṣṇa showed me. Yes. I did not understand in the beginning.” Srila Prabhupada Lecture, New York, November 23, 1966 |
