When it comes to housework, little things count. Even the simplest of things, like this box of matches used in the kitchen... If it is clean, one will like to use it.
Similarly, Srila Prabhupada described the clean water container and sitting place at his school as well as the personal cleanliness standards of the maintenance man himself: "You'll like to drink water." he said. "In our school days there were sweeper, they were a different quarter. So you like to sit down. So clean. The sweeper, cleansing the toilet, bangi. But when you come to his house, living quarter, oh, it is so clean. The bed, the room, the utensils." -rm conversation, 8/24/76, Hyderabad
A doormat also says "welcome" when it's clean
Of course, two days later this got sawdust over it when a hard working husband got home. Like the Buddhist mandala, it gets messed up at the end, but we can clean it all over again because its for Krishna!
And bigger things can get clean by doing little by little each day
What motivates such cleanliness is life with Lord Krishna, who is purity personified. Krishna doesn't live in a dirty place, and devotees don't like to live without Krishna!
Similarly, Srila Prabhupada described the clean water container and sitting place at his school as well as the personal cleanliness standards of the maintenance man himself: "You'll like to drink water." he said. "In our school days there were sweeper, they were a different quarter. So you like to sit down. So clean. The sweeper, cleansing the toilet, bangi. But when you come to his house, living quarter, oh, it is so clean. The bed, the room, the utensils." -rm conversation, 8/24/76, Hyderabad
A doormat also says "welcome" when it's clean
Of course, two days later this got sawdust over it when a hard working husband got home. Like the Buddhist mandala, it gets messed up at the end, but we can clean it all over again because its for Krishna!
And bigger things can get clean by doing little by little each day
What motivates such cleanliness is life with Lord Krishna, who is purity personified. Krishna doesn't live in a dirty place, and devotees don't like to live without Krishna!