

Consciousness
The way for embracing and going into kirtan is endless. When a group of people gather together, we touch each other through sound vibration, and it’s endlessly exciting and changing and different at every moment, just like we are. Consciousness means that we’re changing; it’s nothing static. As we open ourselves through the chanting, through…

Commitment
You need commitment! So to be committed you need to be focused. You can’t get chanting, you can’t get hearing, you can’t get desire, you can’t get serving, you can’t get any of it unless you’re committed to do so. That means we put our attention—we consciously become committed and focused on getting those things. And…

Three things are required
So Srila Prabhupada told us to try to just understand that Krishna consciousness will not always be easy, and then he said, “Three things are required for success in Krishna consciousness, and you must always rely on them—enthusiasm, will (or determination) and patience.” So now you can take just that one little instruction from Srila…