One mistake of judgment often made by the neophyte devotees is that any time there is some disturbance or some difficulty they are considering that the conditions or the external circumstances under which the difficulty took place are the cause of the difficulty itself. That is not the fact.

    In this material world there is always some difficulty, no matter in this situation or that situation. Therefore simply by changing my status of occupation or my status of life, that will not help anything. Because the real fact is that if there is any difficulty with others, that is my lack of Krsna consciousness, not theirs. Is this clear?

　　初级奉献常常产生一个错误的判断就是，何时有了一些困难或者干扰，他们就认为条件或者外部环境是产生困难本身的原因。这不是真相。

　　在物质世界里总有困难，不论是在这个情形下还是那个场合之中。因此单纯地靠改变自己的职业状况或者生活的环境，不会有任何帮助。因为真实的情况是如果有任何的困难，那是因为我缺少奎师那意识，而不在于其他。明白了吗？

圣帕布帕德写给玛度卡尔的信，1983年1月4日