We have to earnestly and honestly try our best to keep ourselves in strength. When we are reading everyday, hearing Srimad Bhagavatam everyday, coming before the deities everyday, when we are chanting our rounds everyday, when we are associating with sincere devotees everyday, we are showing Krsna I want to be strong, because these are things that give us strength; if we neglect these things, we are showing Krsna I don’t really care to be strong, when the test comes I don’t really care. We really have to show Krsna we are very sincere and this is how, by following the regulative principles carefully, chanting our japa attentively, coming into the kirtan with sincere devotees, developing intimate loving relationship with devotees, eating only Krsna prasad and not karmic food, these are things, reading Srila Prabhupada’s books, hearing the Bhagavatam, they give us spiritual strength and when we are nicely situated in our varna and asrama we are accepting the means by which Krsna gives us strength. Krsna says yes this person is serious, this person is taking everything I’m giving him or her so I will help that devotee over come the tendency of previous conditions and become pure.H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj
