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POWER OF CONSISTENTCY - POWER OF DAILY LITTLE


 
Yesterday, we completed our discussion on the second canto of Srimad-bhagavatam in our daily morning Facebook class. It's a really wonderful feeling to have been blessed with this opportunity to serve the devotees and read and share based on Srila Prabhupada's purports. Very grateful for this opportunity to serve and thankful to all the devotees who supported me in this service. Reading Prabhupada books is on one level but when you share and preach based on what you read, then the experience is all together different. Only with sharing does the process of reading gets complete. May all devotees experience the joy of reading and sharing Srila Prabhupada's books.

 
I have also realised time and again the power of consistency, the power of steadiness and the power of daily little.
As Srimad-bhagavatam itself encourages us - "nityam bhagavata sevaya".

Just by doing few slokas everyday, we completed the first canto and now the second canto. Every task seems big, as long we don't start working on it, bit by bit. Every journey seems long, as long as we don't start walking on it, step by step. A drop of water seems soft and powerless. But if that drop of water keeps falling on a rock, day in and day out, the drop of water can make a hole even in the hardest rock. That is the power of consistency, steadiness and daily little.

- Achyut Gopal Das

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