Shouldn’t we expect to grow to the higher stages of bhakti?
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we say that we should not expect, we should contribute but then there are stages of bhakti which we are meant to go through, should we expect to grow over there, actually right now our focus is talking about externals, relationship with others, relationship with institution, within that I was talking about that we should focus more on contribution than on expectation and apart from that also in the inner growth certainly there is this whole concept of lalsami what aspiring for the advanced in your bhakti for hankering for Krishna at the same time there is also the principle that there is a devotee’s asha vada and devotee keeps serving Krishna even if Krishna himself says there is no hope for him, so the devotee keeps serving Krishna so what does that mean that’s what asha vada is talked about in samhita hope against hope that means that certainly we want the advanced stage of devotion at the same time we from our side should be ready for practicing bhakti, always no matter what happens I think in the 4th canto in 1 par 4 the Prabhupada writes that the devotee desires the darshan of Krishna but the devotee doesn’t demand the darshan of Krishna so if we don’t desire then where is our bhakti but if we demand then again where is our bhakti demand means we are thinking that Krishna is my order supplier it’s not like that so we desire but then after desiring we depend on Krishna then Krishna fulfills our desire so aspiring is definitely required in a sense aspiration is more from our side, expectation is from someone else’s side so we should always have the aspiration to grow to attain advanced stages but the expectation now I have done so much, why is this not happening I have chanted so much tears are not coming from my eyes that sort of expectation is something which may again make our bhakti conditional and which may limit us if the expectation is not fulfilled so we can have anticipation but the anticipation doesn’t become a demand we have a desire but along with the desire keep practicing bhakti whenever Krishna wants, he will bestow the advanced stages of darshan any questions? we will stop with this