# Six Principles for Progress *On utsāhāt, dhairyāt, niścayāt, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sato vṛtteḥ, sādhu-saṅge* --- ### Six Principles > The sixteen rounds must be chanted. Rise early in the morning, go... All the duties must be done. *Tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt. Sato vṛtteḥ,* and one must be very honest, not dishonest. Dishonest men cannot go to back to home, back to Godhead. That is false. God is pure. One must be very, very pure. A thing which is not fire, it cannot be allowed to enter into the fire. One must become fire; then there is no trouble. Fire can enter fire. So, *sato vṛtteḥ sādhu-saṅga,* and always keep company with devotees. Don't keep company with nondevotee. Then it..., everything will be spoiled. *Sato vṛtteḥ, sādhu-saṅga, ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ. Saḍbhir,* six. *Utsāhāt, dhairyāt, niścayāt,* firm conviction. *Utsāhāt, dhairyāt, niścayāt, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sato vṛtteḥ sādhu-saṅga* [Upadeśāmṛta 3]. Six. If you keep these six principles always before you, you'll never fail; you'll make progress. — [[spoken/1974/740128in.hon|Initiation Lecture, Honolulu, January 28, 1974]] --- ### Enthusiasm First > If you want actually to make progress in our devotional life, the *utsāhāt,* enthusiasm, is the first thing. If you are lacking enthusiasm, then you should rest, instead of making too much agitation within the mind. The... If you cannot find out... Some, something has dropped in the water, in the river, you cannot see the things dropped within the water by agitating the water. Just stand still for sometimes. As soon as the water is settled up, you'll see the things as they are. — [[spoken/1973/730127nd.cal|The Nectar of Devotion, Calcutta, January 27, 1973]] --- ### Eating, Sleeping, Mating, Defending > Eating, sleeping, mating and fearing, this is in every life. There is no exception. So in this life, human life, if you are actually serious, restrict. Then life is successful. — [[spoken/1974/740128in.hon|Initiation Lecture, Honolulu, January 28, 1974]] --- ### Sadhana-bhakti Is Practice > That is confirmed in the *Bhagavad-gītā: māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ*. *Pāpa-yonayaḥ* means the lowest part of ignorance. So Kṛṣṇa recommends that anyone, even in *pāpa-yoni—striya, vaiśyās tathā śūdrās... Stri,* women, and *vaiśya* and *śūdra,* they're also considered not very in higher position. But Kṛṣṇa says all of them, if they take to real path of devotional service under the direction of spiritual master, then that is *sādhana-bhakti.* To act under the direction of spiritual master... Spiritual master directs means he knows *śāstra.* According to the direction of *śāstra* or *ācāryas,* he gives direction. And if we follow, that is called *sādhana-bhakti.* That is called practice. — [[spoken/1973/730125nd.cal|The Nectar of Devotion, Calcutta, January 25, 1973]] --- ### What Have I Done for Krishna? > Everything must be... So we do not hate anything, because we know that everything has got relationship with Kṛṣṇa. And if that thing is engaged in Kṛṣṇa's service, that is perfect. That is perfect. We are using everything—the electricity, the Dictaphone, the table—but we are not using it for sense gratification. Every moment we are engaged. *Avyartha-kālatvam,* that is higher advance, that "This time I have passed, what I have done for Kṛṣṇa?" This is character of advancement: "What I have done for Kṛṣṇa? What I have done for my Guru Mahārāja?" If in this way we lead our life, that is perfect. That is perfect. "Guru Mahārāja has entrusted me with this business. How far I have done this?" that is perfect. — [[spoken/1974/740130r1.tok|Room Conversation, Tokyo, January 30, 1974]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on the six principles for progress*