If we feel that Krishna is not reciprocating, should we intensify our devotion?

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so is it that if we feel that Krishna is not reciprocating then isn’t that at that time we need to put more endeavour yes there is diligence and there is dependence on Krishna so diligence we can try to increase now at the same time the reciprocation from Krishna it’s not always so easily quantifiable Sushila Prabhupada in India was trying to share Krishna bhakti for 30-40 years and there is no result so was the absence of that result sign that Krishna was not reciprocating reciprocating with him Krishna did not reciprocate at the external level but internally Prabhupada’s commitment to Krishna didn’t waver at all and that internal commitment itself was in a sense the result of Krishna’s reciprocation despite having no material results Prabhupada was persevering in his service to his spiritual boss, in his service to Krishna so he is experiencing Krishna internally that was the reciprocation so Krishna’s reciprocation can come in various ways but if we, so we didn’t stereotype Krishna’s reciprocation to one particular way that I am doing this service and in this service if the results come that’s Krishna reciprocating sometimes it may just not work out like that but we may find that we are doing some other service, then we are getting nice results we may decide to focus on this sometimes in our relationships there is some devotee we try to please and we do so many things and nothing seems to please that devotee but there may be some other devotee who offers so much warmth, so much affection so much kindness, love and we take that devotee for granted so Krishna is offering his love but if we expect that love from this one channel and it’s not going to come but Krishna may be offering his love from some other channel so basically we have to have openness to appreciate Krishna’s reciprocation and if we feel that Krishna’s reciprocation is not coming then we may have to pray internally and we consult some of our spiritual guides is this the service that I should keep doing or should I do something else Prabhupada here he had got started league of devotees in Jhansi at that time there was a clique against him that property where he was going to make his headquarter that was being taken away from and he didn’t know what to do so he went to his god brother Sridhar Maharaj he went to and he said that we have got a small community coming up over here but we need to get this property so can you come and can you make this as a center of your mutt and I will take care of the so that his god brother came and travelled all the way and then he saw the property and he said that actually wanted us to build temples in big cities so Jhansi is a very small place I don’t want to do we won’t be able to invest over here so Sridhar Prabhupada took both the opposition that he got from the people over there the clique as well as his god brother telling that our spiritual master wanted us to build temples in big cities he took both of them as an indication that I needn’t fight this battle just walk away from the league of devotees center in Jhansi and then later on he tried other things and then he came to America and established Krishna Varkara consciousness so the point is that if we feel the reciprocation is not coming in external sense and we do need it because we still have the mode of passion we want to see some tangible results so if it is not coming in external sense then we may consult devotees pray in our own hearts, introspect and then decide that this service is not what I will do I will do some other service or sometimes you may decide I will pursue this service so as long as we are connected with Krishna through a mode of service that means that capacity to connect with him is itself at one level Krishna reciprocation, otherwise we would not pursue in Krishna bhakti but because we want to serve Krishna not just in our heart, we also want to serve in this world so we may adapt different things so that externally also the results come out