We should inquire from the spiritual master submissively, not with the desire to acquire knowledge but the desire to serve, not with the desire to become learned, but the desire to surrender. And we find also detachment, renunciation… although Raghunatha Das Goswami is such an embodiment of renunciation we should follow in his footsteps but if we artificially put too much of our consciousness of trying to be renounced, Prabhupada said it causes hard heartedness. Bhakti means soft heartedness, the whole process of bhakti is to make our heart soft like butter then Krsna will steal it, that is the perfection of our life. Trying to become Krsna conscious by performing all kinds of tapyasa and in the process our heart is getting hard, we are getting more proud, we are becoming more indifferent to personalities. Sometimes even detachment, if it is artificially done, one becomes excessively self centred, instead of being para dukha dukhi, we become so absorbed in torturing ourselves of fasting and giving up sleep and giving up all of our bodily necessities, we are always thinking about our bodies all the time, we are thinking about how renounced we are, we are thinking about how everybody else are sense enjoyers. I am fasting on ekadashi and he is eating vegetables, sense enjoyer! fallen soul! Hare Krsna. We may say oh you are very nice but in our heart we may be thinking like this, I am better than you, it is hard heartedness.
H H Radhanath Swami Maharaj
