Kadamba Kanana SwamiThere is only one adventure, the big adventure, the big adventure of crossing the ocean of nescience. Going back to the Spiritual World, and you don’t get it for nothing! You have to do better. Regularly you have to do better. You have to regularly look at your performance and think, “What have I done wrong? I have to do better”
If you don’t do better you will be dry and you will be a materialistic devotee. It is not so cheap, it is not cheap to be a pure devotee – but we can become. And if we don’t become pure devotees the alternative is that maya will pull at us. It’s not that there is a neutral stage. It is either: be ecstatic or be harassed by maya!
It’s one of the two. It’s like that, there is no in between – and it doesn’t matter where we hide: it does not matter whether we hide in the garb of a renunciant or whether we hide on a mountain, whether we hide in a cave or whether we hide in a room, whether we hide in the books or whether we hide in working very hard....it may not be enough to save us from the harassment of maya – until we get really absorbed, until we really get very serious about offenceless chanting! That’s really it! That’s where we have to put our energy in!
(Kadamba Kanana Swami 02/05/2005)
