760706e - Lecture - Srila Prabhupada Speaks a Nectar Drop in Washington DC

Nectar Drops from Srila Prabhupada
"So service of Kṛṣṇa is not idleness. There are different methods of spiritual realization, especially jñāna and yoga. That is all right. But actual process of self-realization is service. If you speculate to know about God . . . You can do so, but after knowing God, if you do not know what God desires you to do, then such kind of knowledge is simply waste of time. That is, you may . . . Of course, that is not real knowledge. Real knowledge is to—that will be explained—to be induced to give some service to the Lord. In the beginning, this is called śānta-rasa, to understand the greatness of God: "God is great."
760706 - Lecture CC Madhya 20.101 - Washington D.C.