"When one seriously engages in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, fixing the Lord's lotus feet within one's heart as the only goal of life, one can destroy the innumerable impure desires lodged within the heart as a result of one's previous fruitive work within the three modes of material nature. When the heart is thus purified one can directly perceive both the Supreme Lord and one's self as transcendental entities. Thus one becomes perfect in spiritual understanding through direct experience, just as one can directly experience the sunshine through normal, healthy vision." [ SB. 11.3.40 purport ]

"We worship the father of the three worlds, who emits the excellent fragrance that nourishes all. As a cucumber is released from it's bondage to the stem, may we be freed from death to immortality." [ Mahamrtyunjaya ] 

"Prabhupada cleared the room - sent everyone out. Then he asked me how the preaching was, and I told him how it was in Ahmedabad. Then he did a very touching thing at the end. He got up from behind his little desk and he came over to me and took me in his arms. He pressed me very tightly. He put his head on one side of my head, and then on the other side, and then the other side again, and he said, 'Now take that sannyasa mantra in your heart, keep it always in your heart, and go and preach everywhere.'"  

[ Tamal Krsna Goswami, quoted in Journal of Vaishnava Studies, Volume 11, No 2, page 164, March 2003 ]