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Question: What is the role of austerity in developing bhakti? Is it only to practice sense control or is there any other benefit?

Guru Maharaj: Of course, Dhruva Mahārāja was the grandson of Svyāmbhuva, the great grandson of Lord Brahmā. He was a kṣatriya and he wanted to achieve a post higher than his grandfather. But then he was fully concentrating on the Kṛṣṇa japa. So, by that means he was...
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