With so many things competing for our attention, how does a person become interested enough in anything - especially a spiritual pursuit - to really follow it?
You can know you're on the path of improvement when you can consistently look back at the previous year and say, "What was I thinking? What was I doing?"
"Why you are producing iron stools and instruments and motors and tires and collecting petrol far away from Arabia? Krishna never says, 'You do all this nonsense.' He said, 'Grow food grains.'"