An earnest aspiration to achieve perfection in devotional service —
When will I bloom in a life of servitude as Your eternal devotee, my heart pacified due to all other desires being consumed by engagement in Your uninterrupted service?
— Sri Yamunacaryya
[from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-goswami Maharaja, Sri Prapanna Jivanamrtam 3.17]Supramundane attachment also develops —
The Scriptures may say whatever they have to say (in their various areas of jurisdiction), and the expert logicians may interpret them as they wish. But as far as I am concerned, the sweet nectar of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanyacandra is my life and soul.
— Sri Prabodhananda Saraswati
[from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-goswami Maharaja, Sri Prapanna Jivanamrtam 3.16]Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph. D., Serving Director of the Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science (BVISCS) in Princeton, New Jersey, describes the central concept with which the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science is concerned, in its Eastern and Western philosophical context and how it relates to modern science.
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Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph. D., Serving Director of the Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science (BVISCS) in Princeton, New Jersey, describes his involvement as a founding charter member and the historical development of the original Bhaktivedanta Institute, and the development of the Princeton BVISCS.
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Exclusive dedication is born from service to the devotees—
My friends may forsake me and my (traditional) teachers may denounce me, but the light of my life will always be Sri Govinda, the personification of divine ecstasy.
—Sri Kulasekhar
[from Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev-goswami Maharaja, Sri Prapanna Jivanamrtam 3.15]