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Question: How much can we rely on discipline and how important is it to bring the aspect of taste, greed and longing into our practice?

Answer: There are two forms of bhakti: one is where taste has not yet developed, ajata-ruci-bhakti, and secondly, jata -ruci-bhakti, bhakti with taste. In Saranagati there a prayer of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura: “Please maintain me,” the devotee prays, “by giving me taste.”

So how does the birth of taste take place?

Of course, we can pray for it, but more specifically it comes when you learn about how the devotees relate with Krsna, and how Krsna relates with the devotees. Then you become very interested, “Oh, I must also relate to Krsna like this.”

For instance, you hear about Krsna coming home from the meadows, and Nanda Maharaja knows that the cows will not give milk, if Krsna doesn’t start milking them, they wait for Him. Krsna also knows this, so He comes, sits down, puts sandals on His feet, and nods t

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