19810908 Arrival Address

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The following is an Arrival Address given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on September 8, 1981 – in Atlanta, USA

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Rajamiki namasanki sanaki naki devotee all glory to the assembled devotee all glory to the assemble devotee all glory to single and singor asking grace.

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Rabani prachari visa sunavadi.

Jayasiki shina jaya jaitagoran harasi, Washington.

Very nice to be back in. I just apologize for the confusion. First class welcome. Spontaneous, spontaneous. This is the cabo. Everyone depends in the western civilization. So much happy technology, which always in the crutch breaks down big airports. When the traffic controllers go on strike, then all the machines take fire that you went out. Actually, the timing was perfect, though. All these civilization clearing the smoke away from the heart, making it blaze, making a cookie distance, the way they do it, the way the door opens. I went to a temple in the winter. I go visit places connected with Boa Chetani stress. And I was probably quite astral. He made a trust that I am a chairman for life, for doing excavation work, pastimes, places and the places that we associate. Actually, just in the new Diaz pūjā.

He didn’t also get our Diaz Puccia in Miami. Have you seen him yet? I saw one in France. Technology. So there I saw it just. I wasn’t able to fully read. But the Prabhupāda’s original legal devotees, handwritten manuscripts of prabhupāda. So there it mentioned also that preservation of the four things of or six things of upper Goswami, excavation of the places of Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya. Samsung, he also left program. So I went to this temple of Gauri das Panda, to a subala, and was a friend, maybe I told you and that the deity was life size, 7ft tall. They were carved in the presence of what she can. He was like a model for. So then I wanted to have a darshan. So I came there and I was looking just for about two minutes. Suddenly they closed the door.

They opened the door shut about halfway through another pronoun mantra. And they closed the door again. What’s going on? And again they opened the door. So then the pujari could understand that. I was a little bit astonished what was going on with the opening, closing of the doors. So then he said they were doing this because this is the custom since 500 years ago. So the deities, one time they ran out because they became very attracted to one of the devotees and they went out. Goidaz planet had to bring them back. So therefore, so they don’t get too attached to any devotee. We just let the door open for a few minutes, otherwise they may go off. So then, of course, that aroused my curiosity to get the full story.

So were able to research and we found that actual circumstance was that Lord Chetanyama, they went to visit Gauridas. Pandit Goridas Pamdit is actually also the uncle in law of Nitinandebu. His brother Sarakila, Śrīnidas Sarakila, whose two daughters are Janawa and Vasudhae, who are the two wives of. So they used to live north of Māyāpur, but then they moved south to the Ganges side. When the Ganges shifted from where they were living, they always wanted to stay by the Ganges. So just by the shore of the Ganges, Gauri Das Hamlet was living. And when Nitāi Gord, they went to visit him, they were going to go off again. He said, listen, you leave that. Who will I talk to? will I associate with? Who will I offer my kushat to? You have to give me one to eat chicken.

Said, I am coming to devote you. How come in my presence, can I allow my deity to be worshipped? Listen, I don’t know all these things. I want a deity or you personally stay. One of the two means, on a friendly basis, make an exception. So they brought big, nimble logs and one carpenter, special craftsman from Abadwig, and he carved the two deities of the Taipur. So then finally, when the deities were Kyle, the lord Shaita Ali Tanana says, now we want to go. The deities have fully finished everything. He said that no deity and you are not different, so let the deity go. So then Loj said, all right, and he lifted up. They both lifted up the entire. Lifted up their arms like that, and they became wooden up here.

And the deities, they became movable and.

They started walking off and then go.

Ahead and ranch and said, no, no, you must stay. Let them go. Let their deities go. All right.

They lifted up their arms and they became wouldn’t like. And the deities came, goodbye.

No, you stay. Let them go. All right. Then again they did. Then again, the fourth time, he said, no, no, you stay.

All right, then, all right, you went. So you couldn’t even remember which one was there. He installed it in the temple and worship. So what happened? One day he went out preaching, and he came back. While he was out preaching for a day or two, his disciple Harida, ay nadas, was doing a hujan, just taking care for a little bit. So in the meantime, he decided that there should be a special celebration for, I believe it was for the gorapornima. And he told the villagers to bring all kinds of prashat off of boga, rice, milk, yogurt, sonami. So all the villagers became very enthusiastic. A big feast. They all went out. They collected vegetables and provisions, milk products, grain. And they gradually started to advertise all around that there was going to be a big festival, big feast for Royce Mapuru.

And they started bringing in. The cardinals started to come. Just at that time, Borido’s pandit, he came back, and then, you see there’s some commotion going, what’s happened? The Lord went to heaven festival. Al Rudy became very angry inwardly. He was actually satisfied that his disciple was taking some initiative, but he didn’t ask permission. So it was a little bit impetuous. They confessed to without asking permission.

So he chastised them without permission. How you can have such a festival? There will be no festival. You’re trying to jump over the guru, something like chastisement.

So then just go and check your jabra. Then another one to the Gantz night with his chairman Jabbar Guru back. No festival should have asked permission. Meanwhile, villagers started coming, cart load after cart load of grain, milk, yogurt, chip fries, coconuts, boatloading. And they started coming down. Segurias found that the huge crowds are coming. So many provisions were coming. How bad did I note? I like having this ready. Overjoyed. So they took all the villagers, and they had a big sankirtan outside the temple near the Ganges side. And they were chanting and dancing. And there were so many madranga players and kartha players leading the kīrtana hours and hours together. Then go. He das found that he was organizing a prashadim, and so he had the deity played. Everything was all made up. He brought the deity played into the offer to Nitāi.

Gordon had the asan, everything. So when they brought in the deity plate to offer the Nithai gor, they looked inside the temple.

Where are Nithai gore? Where? Nitor? Nidor. They’re gone. The time of our goal, the deities weren’t there. He ran outside, looked around left and right, looked everywhere.

Where were the deities? They’re gone.

His whole heart just became empty. He practically broke out in like a cold sweat completely. Just the whole world became empty.

His life and soul that he did gone.

He looked around there he saw Hriday.

Nanda with all the devotees jumping and dancing in Kīrtana. There he saw amongst them just dancing.

And jumping in Kirktan he said, oh, they have done this to trick me. Trying to run out, leaving me all alone again. I will have no one to speak to, no one to offer Prasad. He went and grabbed a one stick for hurting the cows and he ran out to the Sankirtan party with a stick. Nikai bor, you get back to the temple right now. Don’t you try to treat me like this. I have given everything for you. Now if you run up then how will I do? Nithai gor. When they saw him coming and they.

Became very frightened, the Lord chased them.

And he hid and hidden in his. That’s why Hudaya became known as Hriday Choytamina whose hired is holy. And that astonished Gorida’s conduct. Lord Kamiya entered into the heart of his disciple but just for a moment it halted him. Get back in the temple now. Immediately. Your prasad is waiting. Don’t run off like this. So this I go.

They ran into the temple again. Put down the place as you please. Take your prasad. Your bhoga is waiting for you. Don’t run out like that. And who will I have to speak to? Who will I have to serve? So they offered the person. So from that time apparently they’re still closing the door afraid that they leave it open too long again. Many temples they do Ayodhya, the temple of Sītā Viran palace called Janak Purī or something like that. Beautiful, beautiful palace. Every time, every devotee buy bog there and you bring the bog up and they offer. Every time they offer they have a very light va. They close it and offer the boat to the deities and throw it back. I don’t know if it’s true.

One of the sets of deities there they say was actually installed by Kṛṣṇa after he defeated jarson. I haven’t been able to document. So we asked the prabhupāda that we’re building a temple. One had a very big door. Everybody can see Kṛṣṇa from all handles. Everybody says, no, it shouldn’t be so easy to see Kṛṣṇa. People should strain a little now benefit one. It’s very easy. Kṛṣṇa is like a place hard to get. That way one can appreciate more. Just like we give Chetanya mercy. He’s actually. He gives so easily. Some other groups are there. They’re charging $200, $4,000. People think, oh, this is something. But they hare Kṛṣṇa. It’s free. Just like in St. Louis. They were first of all giving out free Prashant. No one would come, and they raised it to 150 for all you can eat. The place was packed.

Good deal. This is a dream. People, they don’t believe anymore in anything free. The prophet said, if you walk up and give someone, here’s a diamond, then they will think, oh, he’s going to make some glass. It’s a real diamond. Still, he’d never believe it. This fruit, this tree of love of God, so many fruits and flowers and fruits which Lord Caitanya has cultivated. Lord Caitanya is saying that.

How many.

Fruits can I eat myself?

How many can I give alone? How many can I give out alone? I want so many people.

Come, take the fruit.

Give out the fruit. So he’s the gardener. He also wanted to be the tree because the tree is so magnificent, more munificent. Whatever someone wants from a tree, you go to the tree, you want leaf, you want twig, you want the whole.

Limb, you want the flower fruit, the.

Bottom dark, you want to cut down or whatever you want, the tree is there, take it. So, like that. Lord Jacob wanted to be both.

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It doesn’t cost any money. Of course, if they know their real price tag on the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, that’s the thing, is that India say no. That’s why sometimes it’s difficult, because the westerners, of course, Hare Kṛṣṇa is free. The Indians know that hare Kṛṣṇa means everything. Ultimately, it means everything. Ran life, bachelor words Buddhi my intelligence and kay monokai baku body, everything in the service of mission. First of all, by any means, get them to accept Kṛṣṇa. Once they understood that they’re the servant of Kṛṣṇa, then introduce the different systems, rules, regulations, which will enable them to reach the goal very quickly. Initially, if you say, these are all our rules, people will be put off. It’s too much. Once one has a taste for Kṛṣṇa, once he’s understood who is Kṛṣṇa, what is the goal of life?

Except that I am a servant of Kṛṣṇa, then it’s very natural to want to purify the consciousness, to become more involved, more strongly situated on the spiritual platform. But for the gross materialist, he doesn’t understand Lord Jaytani Mahapou. He gives out his mercy very freely. Even to those who are really unfortunate, who think that they’re otherwise unqualified, they also get the grace. But those who approach Caitanya Mahāprabhu with some idea that, well, I will somehow get lots of money from the temple or I will make some profit. They can’t understand the real meaning of what she tells. Obviously. I see india, because we hire drivers, we hire so many people, they come in the beginning. I really like the atmosphere here. I like to get a job. They give him a job. I haven’t seen one. Hardly.

Very rare that even one such person, as soon as they get a chance, they stay as far away from the devotees as possible. Maybe in the west they don’t get their chance, but there they will just stay up the front gate here, just stay away as much as possible. Really hard to make those people practice great endeavor. When I get them a chance to come around. Some exception, of course, which is more or less backing up what Śrīla Prabhupāda said. People come thinking that out of this Kansas movement, I will make some money, fame, prestige.

So these things fish that may give them, but they won’t understand what’s the real essence of Lord Sheeta and Babaji Shil Prabhupāda told us in my report that these big buildings we have built for preaching, some of us to live in these buildings very comfortably, have a nice comfortable time, don’t exert oneself too much. And enjoy all the facilities. Then Kṛṣṇa will let you do that. That will be your result, that will be your fruit. But you won’t get love for Kṛṣṇa. You won’t get pure premature, you will get a nice living. That will be your result. So of course the vote in absolute. Does that mean that we have to go live out on the law? No, we have to set our sights properly. Just like when the libyan bombers or jet fighters came and were attacking or something. The American over the Mediterranean.

Then in Europe, according to the report, they shot at the Americans and then they went, an American did a whole loop de loop, came around and were going right at them. So then they head right into the sun because the heat finding missiles that go after the heat from the engine. If you go right into the sun, then they will go right to the sun. They won’t go to because the sun has got more heat. So they are going. But naturally the american fighters, they know this. So how far can you go? So they just stayed right behind them. As soon as they veered over, they couldn’t go any further right into the sun. And they have to, because it was getting too high altitude, they had to go up. They sent their sight and the missile found this target.

So if we are heading for some other destination, setting our sight on something else, then in that direction, ill for us. But when we actually setting our destination at Kṛṣṇa, we may be going to so many different levels en route, but we don’t get stuck up. Sanātana Goswami described how the jīva sometimes goes through so many planetary systems, one after another on the way to Kṛṣṇa. Sometimes he stays for a few days, a few million years in one particular place. But his sights are fixed on Kṛṣṇa. He doesn’t stay there, goes on to the next. Finally he reaches Vrindava. But someone sights are not set. Then of course they can anywhere along the way start. That will be their final resting place for that person. So this is the opportunity that Caitani Mahu is giving us. The clue. He’s giving us the essence. What?

To set our sights on where our energy is being directed. That is the whole essence. If our energy is properly being directed, then it will reach to the supreme destination. As Prabhupāda gave a simple example, when that person is doing operation, he’s also contained with a knife. He’s taking out organ. The same knife. Someone takes it on the street. Give me your watch. Cuts the guy’s belly up. But he’s not giving any Nobel prize for his surgery. He’s getting a life sentence or death sentence. That’s all. Because why he’s objective. You get the watch. The other person is trying to cure the person’s disease. So one is a welfare or at least a different mentality than the murderer or the thief. So in the same way, if we approach Kṛṣṇa, we should know what we should want from Kṛṣṇa.

What we should be doing in relation to Kṛṣṇa. It’s one thing to be devotee, to be chanting. But more than that is to be devoted to he knows where he’s going, why we read our books, why we distribute. Because everything is based on knowing what is the goal of life, Purush Arthur, what is the purpose and goal of life? If we know that and then we act with our sights headed, then it’s a short hit. Nothing can stop that progress. But if we get blinded by some other object, even maybe appear just like the sun. But it’s temporary. It’s not the Samam Bonav. It’s not the actual goal we are seeking, not Kṛṣṇa, not absolute truth. Then we will expend our energy there. It won’t go to the supreme destination. We will get stuck up. So therefore it’s very important to purify our desires.

Prabhupāda gave that story about the wedding party rowing the whole night, having the anchor in the boat. Woke up in the morning, didn’t get anywhere. You all know that story. So the what is it? Purport. It desires. You may put on the show outwardly, of course. If you do enough, you see, it may pull out the anchor. Nonetheless, we have to go on. But the real thing is to purify them. To take out all the anchor which are holding us into the material concept of life. Pull them all out. Tie the rope to Kṛṣṇa. When I was in Bangkok, there a little tugboat was pulling two huge barges in tandem. Just a little boat. I mean, the boat was no more than from here to that lotus design. Even not quite that big, maybe only less.

But although it was a small boat, it was able to take such a huge load. When someone is empowered, take so much load. That little boat has very big engine. So it’s able to pull a big load, the neutron bob that they have now, this warhead is just so small that it can destroy so many tanks and people. Because the more they condense the power. So we’re taking our power not from diesel, not from atomic energy. We’re getting our power direct from the spiritual world, linking up to that supreme source of transcendental energy, Subda devī. Yoga Māyā, she cast her protection over all the devotees. Kṛṣṇa has got different energies. So we want to get under that direct spiritual protection, spiritual shelter, get the spiritual potential. To do that, there has to be the closed circuit.

What energy we’re getting from Kṛṣṇa to go back to Kṛṣṇa, why? What is coming from the powerhouse? And what is going back to the powerhouse? Unless there’s a. Somehow there’s a closed current closed circuit. If it’s open circuit, then it doesn’t pass. If it’s leaking out, it’s a waste of energy. So the current how we close it, we take from Kṛṣṇa, we give back to Kṛṣṇa. So then the more we give to Kṛṣṇa, the least leakage there is. The least energy is misspent. That means the least resistance is there. We are taking whatever energy we are giving to Kṛṣṇa. Then we get more and more. Because Kṛṣṇa is always increasing. He is not static. He is dynamic. If you shout out Ka’s name, it doesn’t echo like an ordinary name. If you shout it to the wall, it will go like in a well.

If you shout out or something, it will go build. They drop the ball gradually lower because of friction. Actually, here, when we shout out Kṛṣṇa, maybe the shell of the external sound that we hear, that may seem to follow the same laws of other sounds, but actually the divine potency of that name is increasing as it is going. Finally, when it reaches Indra, when it reaches BraHma, that Harinam is very loud. Sometimes the kīrtana shakes him. That’s why they come present. When we say all glories to the temple, devotees say, praising all the demigods who have come to attend the kīrtana unseen. So many demigods are there attending the kirta. So we’re praising him. So similarly, the more that we give to Kṛṣṇa, the more energy we get, compounded multiple times. Then we have to keep our sights focused on Kṛṣṇa.

Single pointing, or as Prabhupāda Bible can put it, not divided attention, undivided, unseparated attention and focus on Kṛṣṇa. That is gradually developing materialist. He has so many desires. Just as I was struggling to get here to Atlanta in the air ticket office, I went there to get my ticket. So I have a new eastern timetable valid from September 9. I got it in Boston, just had off the press. So everywhere else they have the August 1. So one lady was asking there, do you have the new timetable? And when she saw my timetable, she said, there’s a new one. How did you get a new one? Don’t you have one? We don’t think we didn’t get them yet. And if I would have had an extra timetable to give her, she would have been very happy.

So like this, from this little simple thing we can understand something philosophical. That in this world there are so many little obstacles always put up. Take a train, plane or train. You have to have a timetable. Can’t even get the up to date timetable because the August 1 timetable is useless. They have already changed all the flights. So there’s so many little things like that. And then one is always being obstructed in the path of getting their sense gratification. Like doing what they want to do. So then when she gets the timetable, where do you have this very happen? So many little obstacles are there. When we overcome them, we think, oh, this is bliss. This is really great. So some little anxieties and so many so called happinesses. All of which are completely irrelevant.

I don’t have a 36 inch color tv microphone, 19 inch. When we get the 24 inch or the 36 inch or whatever, the big one, then that one anxiety is gone. But like that they’re unlimited. Unlimited branches of desiree. And each little branch, when they get little fulfilled, one branch, oh happy for ten minutes, five minutes, one day, whatever, then it is going on and on. There is no end. So this way the energy is simply expended on it. No purpose. What is the Yusuf? She said the devotee doesn’t become infatuated with happiness. Doesn’t become dejected with failure, with distress. Knowing that in this material world there’s going to be success. There’s going to be failure. Sometimes you’re going to make the plane and sometimes you’re going to miss it. Bound to happen.

Sometimes they will be phone up in time and sometimes they wont. So theres no use of being very elated when something goes right or very dejected when something goes wrong. But of course, for Kṛṣṇa service we should try to do everything first class. But especially for our own personal matters. Sometimes we’re healthy, sometimes we’re sick. It’s bound to happen. So long as we have a body in this world. It’s going to go through different changes. So devotee doesn’t become, but it’s natural. Like we eat something, alright. When our sense is satisfied, then we feel some joy. It’s a natural thing. And when we’re hungry, we may feel some distress because we have a body. But the actual happiness of taking prasada. When one realizes that spiritual bliss, that this prasad is Kṛṣṇa.

And actually not just the physical feeling and even when one is hungry, when one’s desire to serve Kṛṣṇa isn’t at all displayed, one doesn’t become hopeless, no matter what happens. These are signs of progress in the path of spiritual life. Everything is so well organized in the modern day, or at least the attempt is there. So what happens if something is a little bit off? All over the world, wherever you go, they have the intercontinental hotels. Practically speaking, every hotel is more or less the same, although they may have different chandelier, different, you know. But everywhere you go, five star hotel means it’s the same. Everywhere. Same drinks make this, that air conditioning. So people that go to India stay in a five star hotel. It’s practically. There’s.

No matter where you’re going, they’re staying in this, and they go out just for a little peak, for a few hours, look around and come back to the hotel. Then what happens when the air conditioning breaks down? Isn’t that one big building? Air conditioning broke down in New York. Hundreds of people suffocating. In Switzerland, they have a big air conditioned train, goes through this tunnel through the Alps, 20 miles long tunnel in the middle of electric failure. Train was stuck, everyone suffocated. Biggest train accident in history. Hundreds and hundreds. People become so dependent, like it says in the Bhāgavatam, that when there’s a natural holocaust in Kali Yuga, the people will be so dependent on artificial things that they will be standing and there will be fruit on the trees, there will be food there, but they won’t know what it is. They will stand and die.

I was told that in Hawaii, many of the people, the fruit that grows down the tree in their own yard, they pay people to take it away. And they may have good mango tree, the body is going, they take all the mango, but they will go to the store and buy two mangoes in a plastic bag. They think that’s like prophylactic, pure, hard coat of the plastic. And the trade might have some armor or something. It’s through the amp that is pure, all pure. So like that. People will be so addicted, so habituated to everything artificial, that finally, when everything breaks down, power failure, this and that thing, some nuclear power, whatever, people will stand, they won’t know. How can. How can the people in the american city, how they can survive?

What do they know about if they have to go now, just like in Vietnam, they empty. Now they go outside Hanoi, the whole city, they emptied out. Now you all go out in the village and faridgesthe, when there’s a look at the world here, people are going to need a big fix. They don’t have the slightest idea about natural. Go out to the zoo, see the animals, get back to nature. Very few people have an idea now the trend is there. People are interested in stress. We should show them how to natural living and high thinking. Not that, just go back in the forest and become a monkey. That’s called markup monkey pronunciation. But to actually have the high objective, then know how to live practically under all sides circumstances. It’s like when we first joined Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

At that time Śrīvava said, I won 108 temples. Before I leave this world, I won 108 temples. Everybody has to go and open temples. So were immediately told that you have to learn how to cook, do pūjā, play the madranga karthals, give a lecture, do accounts, distribute books, everything. So it was like a regular thing to know how to make the simply wonderful rollers parties. So I was trained up with cooking, especially washing pots. It’s one of the sciences. At one point, when our temple president decided to go and open another temple, and he left me with five people in the temple. Then I was, although only six year old, six months before Tikara go, he said to be the temple president. I was a temple president, Cook Gujari and treasurer. And thank you.

That was like at least one felt secure that under any circumstance one could survive. This is not a code. Nowadays, people, they’re going further and further away. Everything has to be arranged. So this is actually. They think that this very good, but what it is it’s weakness. People become very weak because they become so dependent on so many different things that ultimately are those things. Just like if you have an army, the army one hand is as strong as its weapons and the soldiers and everything. But on the other hand, even you have the best weapons, the best soldiers, the best everything. But it’s also only as strong as the supply line. If you caught the supply line, the army is finished. How the Russians were able to defeat the Germans in that war. They were able to cut the supply line.

When they attacked Russia in the winter, they cut off behind the supply line. Everybody froze. Helpful. So in the same way, the people, they feel, oh, they build up, but actually they’re dependent on so many things. When those things break down, how do they survive? The supply line is cut, finished. They don’t know how to do the alternative supply map. Alternative is there, they don’t know it. That’s why Prabhupāda said that in the future, our farm projects that thousands and thousands of people will come to us to teach them how to survive. That was the goal that he had, that we have farm project, that it should be prepared to train people and to give shelter. Pretty big goal. So here we’re in a friendline, distributing books, going around, getting people out of the smoke.

Somehow or another, all their desires are there to be fulfilled in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all their desires. But instead in material life, there’s no hope, because whatever desire they have, another a million replaced it. As soon as one is fulfilled, ten more come out. As soon as one has one idea for enjoyment, then that didn’t satisfy him. But he’s already figured another ten ways to improve on it in the future. So that’s the proof that there’s no satisfaction. There’s no ultimate end to sense satisfaction. So people just become a little bit conscious that there is another alternative, positive alternative. They don’t have to take overdoses. They don’t have to kill themselves with sleeping pills and jump off buildings or just trying to, like an ostrich, put their head on the ground and just always stay intoxicated or ignorant. Close their eyes.

People have to be brought to the reality of what life is really about. In London, they had a special series. I don’t know if they send it, if it’s come on our ace Cod tv video yet. They had a wonderful series. And each day they did a different. They said the series was on cults. The series was terrible, but, I mean, inshallah, ISKCOn was very surprising. Each day they had the DM’s, the Scientology. Each one they destroyed. It was like expose when they came to the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. Then every. You know, the whole show, you’re just waiting. When Arya is up to now, it was all right, no one’s going to go off. First they show how one devotee he did before he had the hair, he was learning karate.

And then he got into that karate was developed by the Buddhists and wanted to get into the philosophy. Then he met the Arya Kṛṣṇa devotees. So then finally he himself became a devotee. Came home, interviewed the mother and father. Father said, well, the first time he walked through the door without his hair, the mother fainted, to say the least. Then they came back to him later and said, bob, he’s happy. He’s not doing anything wrong. He’s old enough to decide for himself. And then they showed devotee getting up at two in the morning, taking a shower, doing his job. I don’t know what temple that was. Came out and he. Chandler’s job for the attended the Mumbai went through the whole day of a devotee.

Then that devotee who was, they did the life sketch on, they showed him he was cooking for the restaurant. And I guess they do it to all the whole life. And they show the different. The gurukul, the deities, everything, and all the Indians coming for the festival to the whole thing. And then they show the devotee, you know, in the end, expressing very concise Kṛṣṇa consciousness. What is Kṛṣṇa consciousness? And that was it. There was nothing, you know, the whole half hour show. And, you know, after the whole thing, it just went. He went, it’s gonna slam it off and try to, you know, twist something and make a bandaid. They just presented it as it was. So people are there to be favorable.

People will understand that this Kṛṣṇa, if we continue to present it as Prabhupāda, gave it to us in its pure form, if we present it in the pure form, we go on sincerely intelligent people. They will appreciate it, that we are people with a goal, that we have some integrity, and this will affect them still, we’re at this danger. So many people, they see and they just make a look because they don’t know what’s going on. They don’t know what it means. They see someone with a shaved head, they think, well, this is something unusual, but as time goes on, they will be able to relate. Oh, shaved head. He said, monk, he’s a priest. It’s a religious. Already they know it’s religion, but now they don’t know exactly.

So if we go on preaching, gradually more and more people will become aware through our distributing books. The Lord chaintime, he has contact. Their heart becomes purified. One of our Sankirtan devotees was doing Sankirtan in New York, and there was one store he was always doing Saṅkīrtana out of. And the gatekeeper of the store was so envious, he would break up sales, come out and say, these people are called Hare Kṛṣṇa. This time, don’t buy any book. So he had to stay a little bit distant from the. Sometimes you go out and threatened, you know, just come close. But they already was working at the same spot, more or less for about a few months. So then they got into distributing either yogī bars or some kind of ladoos or something.

So when they were giving out the Ladus during Christmas marathon, then he saw that the guy was looking. Someone opened one up, the guy was looking at him. So then the studio spotted them a little interested. So I granted, gave him a whole handful of prashada all right. He went in the back, you know, made it, came back very good. In the end, the same guy, he was going out. When people go out, the stories get a book from good people. Display association Chetanya Chai said that even those who were criticized for Chetanya, so many used to criticize Chetanimah. He was criticized. They also. At first they thought he was a drunkard, jumping up and down, dancing. Sometimes he’d fall over. He thought he’s just some drunkard. Isn’t that religion? Jumping up and down, singing, crying. What is this? People are madmen.

But those same people who were, Quinn aside, they became pure devotees in due course, simply by the mercy of our children. So that same mercy we see every day how it affects even some so inevitable. He practically threatened at one point. I think even he tore out the book, you know, that same person. In the end, he ended up helping selling books. That’s the prophet said, this is our. We don’t someone that criticizes us. But if we see a little spark of interest in spiritual life and we bring them take prashada, dance and sing with us and their heart will be purified. They will be able to understand just by source of life, universal. Somehow or another, were wandering through this material universe.

Somehow or other, the mercy of Chetani Mahbulu is extended so that we get this great opportunity to serve in the Sankiritan movement of Chitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Chaitanya, Doya, Koroho, Bichar Bodile. Meditate, consider the mercy of Chetan imam. If someone analyzes and just tries to understand what is actually the mercy of Chetan imam, then he will become filled with wonder, with astonishment, with admiration. How wonderful it is. How wonderful it is. What Chaitanya Mahabharata is giving. Any questions? Does anyone have any questions? Mamaya shadow partial expression. What’s the Māyā Mahatmaya? Keeps them, people and souls away from Kṛṣṇa, pulls them down, keeps them away, keeps them angry. From the yoga mind, directly, that’s directly Kṛṣṇa personal. They have anything directly in connection and directly in relation with Kṛṣṇa.

Mahamaya is indirect, like jesoda sees Kṛṣṇa as the sun, and then sometimes it sees Kṛṣṇa in his mouth all the universes and then becomes overwhelmed. And then again it’s overcome with a mood of parental affection. That dogonite, she doesn’t see Kṛṣṇa as God, but sees Kṛṣṇa as. And that you don’t see Kṛṣṇa at all. Kṛṣṇa cannot as dead as mom. So the bodies are engaged in their service sometimes and stated it said that he falls into mighty. Doesn’t happen. He wants to Surya Kṛṣṇa. But he’s now restrained from Surya Kṛṣṇa because of he didn’t get enough sleep last night. Or needs to read more like that is that which is taking us away. YoGA Māyā, that’s what takes us away from Kṛṣṇa. Is Mahamaya Ramaya directly in relation to Kṛṣṇa. Some are approaching Kṛṣṇa, maybe bewildered. That’s another thing.

But the Actual that’s the proximity of Kṛṣṇa. But this is we’re surveying. And then something is taking our attention to Māyā. True illusion. Ma Ya means to go. Ma means not, you can’t go to Kṛṣṇa. That’s my idea. And YOgA means to join, to connect yoga, Māyā means the opposite. To connect with Kṛṣṇa. Nobody needs to link, to connect to that MĀYĀ which is an energy which is in connection with Kṛṣṇa, which is personally covering Kṛṣṇa. So he’s a varying in different Ways, but is directly surrounding Kṛṣṇa. That spiritual concept changed over life. And that which is taking our, that always is focusing on Kṛṣṇa, but in different Ways. Like always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. So that’s not always thinking about Kṛṣṇa, but in different Ways. So there is some connection of Yoga MahaRaj.

When someone who’s thinking about this example that comes up day and night, he was always afraid of Kṛṣṇa. So when he died, he got Mufti. There’s another king who used to hate Kṛṣṇa part time. Whenever anybody would say Kṛṣṇa, he would say.