{"id":75805,"date":"2026-02-02T02:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=75805"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:58:01","slug":"any-devotional-service-is-to-our-eternal-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/any-devotional-service-is-to-our-eternal-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Devotional Service is to our Eternal Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The wonderful thing about any devotional service that we offer to the Lord is to our eternal benefit.\u00a0 We never lose out as Krsna says in Bhagavad Gita<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this endeavor there is no loss or diminution and a little advancement can protect you from the most dangerous type of fear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All of the pastimes in the Srimad Bhagavatam are full of pertinent instructions for all time and all places and all people. This material world is a place of danger. Even if we seem to have a nice situation for now, at any moment that can change. Calamities are an inbuilt factor in this world but they do serve a real purpose. They teach us to turn our attention to the lord. Human life is one of responsibility, as distinct from animal life, in which we have higher consciousness to question our purpose here, why we suffer and who we really are. This is the beginning of spiritual life.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Bhagavad\u2013gita 8.16 it is said from the highest planet down to the lowest, all are places of misery where repeated birth and death take place.\u00a0 But Krsna is so merciful that He wants to bring us to our natural constitutional position of serving Him in eternal life, full of bliss and knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also it is stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Mur\u0101ri, the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf\u2019s hoof-print. Their goal is param padam, Vaikuntha, the place where there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter what situation we find ourselves in we can take shelter of Krsna primarily through the chanting of His names,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hare Krsna Hare Krsna<\/span><\/p>\n

Krsna Krsna Hare Hare<\/span><\/p>\n

Hare Rama Hare Rama<\/span><\/p>\n

Rama Rama Hare Hare<\/span><\/p>\n

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as this is the recommended process in this difficult age of Kali Yuga, the age of distress.\u00a0 We only have to look around us to see so much strife in the world, wars disease natural disturbances etc etc\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n



\nThis is a section of the book \u201cBrilliant As the Sun\u201d(English).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>click here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n



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The wonderful thing about any devotional service that we offer to the Lord is to our eternal benefit.\u00a0 We never lose out as Krsna says in Bhagavad Gita: \u201cIn this endeavor there is no loss or … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":75806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-75805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-brilliant-as-the-sun-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:19:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}