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August 25

Does Krishna want the leaf, the fruit, the flower or the water? They are all His anyway. We may offer Him a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water but what makes Him inclined to accept it? It’s not because it’s a leaf. Imagine that we go out, pull off a leaf from the tree, throw it on the altar and say: “OK, Krsna, You asked for a leaf, there it is. Now, where is my reward?” Unfortunately, sometimes people do like that - they come in, take darsan of the Deity, drop a little donation in the box and go home waiting to see how it will be turned into a palace. But that’s not service, it’s mixed service. Some mixed motives are there. We should always be hankering for an opportunity to serve.

May 15, 2011, Kishinev