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The Nectar Of Instruction is exactly that, instructions for leading a nectarean life in Krishna Consciousness. We begin the path by controlling the senses: Chanting, eating prasadam, having KC children, Krishna Katha, Sankirtan.  We advance further by submitting to a spiritual master, who brings us further on the path to KC.  By offering up everything to Krishna, we advance. The highest form is prema, total dependence on Krishna, just like Radharani and the gopis.

How does one recognize a spiritual master? The spiritual master is kind and compassionate to all jivas, even animal-bodied ones. The spiritual master works for the upliftment of jivas, desiring all to reach Goloka-Vridavan.  But most importantly, the true spiritual master is all about Krishna. The spiritual master can use the most mundane things for the glory of Krishna. The spiritual master turns the dross of material life to the gold of spiritual life by revealing how to follow the regulative princip

“In the material world one has to work for the maintenance of the body and soul, but how can one perform such work in a way that is favorable to the execution of Krishna Consciousness?”>(NOI.2.Purport, HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

>Activity is required in the material world. Unfortunately, without dovetailing all actions to Krishna Consciousness, one is simply wasting their time in fruitless pursuits of sense gratification. In Srila Prabhupada’s purport from the Bhagavad Gita 5.2, he says “action in Krsna Consciousness automatically helps one escape the result of fruitive action so that one need not descend to the material platform.” By engaging in devotional service and chanting the maha-mantra Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna, Krsna, Hare, Hare,  Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare, even in the beginning stages, one can quickly see how Krishna shows his mercy. A higher taste is aroused but it must be carefully nurtured in order for it to take root and rise to the le