Holy Name
Бхакти Вигьяна Госвами · Дубаи · 2006
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Om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya Om namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Nārāyaṇaṁ namaskṛtya naraṁ caiva narottamam devīṁ sarasvatīṁ vāsaṁ tato jayam udīrayet narāyaṇaḥ parō jyōtir nārāyaṇaḥ paraṁ padam
namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī- प्रचारine nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita-gadādhara-śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Liberation and qualification through chanting
sijaan vaitauerat, sivuru Bhaktavinda Krishna Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Krishna Rama Rama, Are Are Rama Rama So very happy to be here with you.
I'll speak a little bit about the philosophy of Krishna consciousness and specifically chanting the holy name. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 500 years ago appeared to bring this beautiful chanting.
In Kalisantarana Upanishad, this mantra which I chanting, 32-syllable mantra is called Taraka Brahma. Which means that this is the mantra which gives liberation. Mantra which liberates us from this bondage of karma.
Mantra which saves us from being enslaved in this material world. Of course, our charyas explain that not only this is karaka mantra, a mantra which gives liberation, it's also paraka brahma mantra.
Which means that this mantra is giving us special qualification. A very special process is taking place within our heart when we chant this mantra.
Basically, when we chant this mantra, not only we get purified or liberated from the bad habits, but also we get qualification to love God in personal relationship.
Which is much higher achievement than anything else in this material world. Basically when we chant this mantra, we prepare ourselves for the personal meeting with the Lord.
We prepare ourselves how to relate or how to interact personally with the Supreme Personality of God.
And therefore, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu brought this beautiful mantra and the meaning of this mantra is basically not only to purify our heart but also give a very sublime feelings within our heart and the sublime feelings can eternally reside within our hearts.
This is called Baob.
Bao means when this feeling towards the Lord as a person becomes permanent, when it becomes firmly established within our consciousness, within our heart. Then we achieve this level of power and then we become the most fortunate, most glorious and most happy, blissful people in the earth.
Personal reciprocation with the Supreme Lord
This is what this mantra can give us. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to Jagannātha Purī to spend his last 18 years in Jagannātha Purī.
And in Jagannātha Purī he was interacting personally with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Jagannātha. And you can see how blissful this exchange is.
You know, you can wash the Lord, you can feed the Lord, you can dress the Lord, you can speak with the Lord. Sometimes people say that Lord is too far away.
He is just really far away and he couldn't care less about you folks. Sometimes people say that you know Lord is so great how you can feed him. He doesn't need our food. He does.
He himself says, He says, Give me just one fruit, just one leaf, one little flower, and then aśnāmi prayatṁātmanaḥ.
I will take it, I will accept it, I will eat it in front of you because I'm hungry not for the fruit, not for the flower, not for the leaf. God has enough leaves in the spiritual world. He is hungry for our love.
He is hungry for the love that's in our heart which makes him eager to accept this offering. And he says it himself: if you do it with love, I will accept it. There is no doubt about it.
And this is the sweetness of reciprocation between Bhakta and Bhagavan. Sometimes people say that Lord is impersonal ultimately.
And on the Vyavaharika platform, on the mundane conventional platform, we can interact with the Lord. But ultimately we are one. Vaiṣṇava says that this is worse than hell to become one with the Lord.
Because if you become one with the Lord, it means that you're deprived of these feelings of love. And what is the use to live if you don't have love?
Once I was speaking with a group of well to do people in Russia. There were businessmen, businesswoman, there were fifteen, twenty of them.
And I told them, just imagine that you have everything in this world. All the cars, all the palaces, all the everything, everything you can imagine is yours. But you don't love anyone and nobody loves you.
Would you feel happy? They thought a little bit. For some time. And they said, no, probably not. And they said, just imagine that you don't have anything in this world. This prospect was not very pleasing to them.
So just imagine for one second. Don't worry. I'm not going to take anything from you. But just imagine you don't have anything but you love everyone and everyone loves you. How would you feel?
They said we would feel good probably. I said what do we want? The first one or second one? They said we want both, but actually actually even when they get some some material things. We only get it to gain the love.
Sometimes people think if I have this car, then everyone will love me because this is a nice car. Actually nobody cares what kind of car you have. It's not important.
But people are in this illusion that, you know, they think that if I have this money, that everyone will love me. No. Love is either there or not there. It's either it's an ability. As I said, it's qualification.
This is what mantra gives us. Mantra makes us qualified to love and to receive love.
Discerning between liberation and pure devotion
Because to get this gift of love you have to be qualified. And it is said in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that Krishna is very careful to give bhakti. To give bhakti, to give mukti, he's free. He's very liberal.
You know, if you want bhakti, you go to Lord and you say, My dear Lord, I want some money. I will look at you and take it. Or maybe he will not even notice you.
If you come to him and say I want liberation, I want to be free from all these sufferings in this material world.
But if you go to him and say I want bhakti, he will look very deeply within your heart. And only if the complete sincerity is there, then only he will give bhakti.
Because he knows by bhakti you can control him. This is the amazing power of bhakti.
Malaya should that you know she is running with the stick behind the Lord. And the Lord is trying and saying, no no no ma I will not do it anymore. And she says, no, you rascal. This is the power of bhakti.
The power of bhakti you can chastise the Lord. You can you can really you can really get heavy with the Lord. And he likes it. This is the most amazing.
He says the most amazing power of bhakti is that you can control the Lord Himself. This is uh the the power of controlling the Lord, this is the most amazing gift which the Lord can give.
Therefore, before giving somebody bhakti, the Lord is very careful. He is not very liberal when it comes to this. And he knows what it is because this is the most important.
When you have bhakti, this is a sweet feeling within your heart. And this sweet feeling permeates your whole existence. Your whole existence becomes sweet because this feeling is within your heart.
Whatever you feel, whatever you touch, whatever you do is sweet. Whereas if you have Moho or whatever, all these six things within your heart, your whole existence will become bitter.
If you have this envy within your heart, you know, somebody gets something. What is the feeling within your heart? You become sad. You know you, know. Why does he get this nice car? I also love this nice car.
And you start working and working and working and working and you get this nice car, and you do not become happy. Because matsarya is there and matsarya poisons your existence.
You always look at some other people and you don't like these people and you see that these people are doing better, they're getting more money, they're getting some better children of doing something better and you always envious and envious and envious.
And the only second when you get nice feeling within your heart if when with somebody something bad happens then you're happy yes yes this is what I want something happens to your neighbor you're happy this is envy
This is matsarya, matsarya means matsar. From the Sanskrit etymological point of view, matsar means you go beyond me. That's what it means. You go higher than me.
And when you have this competitive feeling, and the modern world we are living with is basically it's based on these feelings.
You know everyone has to do better and better and better and better and everyone is slave of their matsary. Everyone is a slave of their kama and krodha and lobha and moha and madha. All these things are there within the heart.
And Krishna says that the only sane, reasonable alternative to this is to have bhakti within your heart. Because when the bhakti is there, everything becomes sweet for you. You love everyone and everyone loves you.
And the most important, God also loves you. Because you like God. And He gives you everything which you need. He says Himself that, "yoga-क्षेमं वहाम्यहम्." I personally will take what you need. I will preserve what you have.
And I will take what you need and bring it to you.
Dangers of offensive chanting
So what I wanted to speak a little bit about this was an introduction. Huh? Well said, okay.
What I wanted to talk is about this chanting of the holy name, how the chanting of the holy name can make us qualified, but how the offensive chanting of the Holy Name can destroy our qualification for bhakti.
As I said, bhakti, we have to make it very clear within our mind, is the most important thing in the world.
But if we are not careful, if we are negligent, if we don't appreciate this gift of bhakti, if we don't appreciate this gift of the holy name, then this gift of the holy name can disappear.
Bhakti or mantra can very easily withdraw the power. We all know that when we came in contact with Krishna consciousness, this chanting of the holy name gave us complete experience of bliss.
I remember when I became a devotee. Before that, I was very upward-moving person.
I was doing my PhD degree, I was very gifted, and everyone was talking about my bright future and then I met with devotees and I started chanting. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Hare Hare And
everything went wrong after that. Absolutely everything.
All my career was finished because KGB, the secret police of the Soviet Union, came to me and he said, you will not get your PhD degree, you will not get any benefits, you will be just kicked out from the job, and it did happen.
But the amazing thing is that before, even though I was going up, I was totally miserable inside.
But when everything went wrong and I started chanting, because of the mercy of the Supreme Lord, I became very happy and nobody could understand what's wrong with this man.
My relatives told me, you know, what's wrong with you? Why are you so happy? You're not supposed to be happy. I said, what can I do? I am happy. I can stop it. I can I can change it. I am happy.
This is the condition of my heart. This is what mantra gives you. If you associate with devotees, if you take prasad and if you chant the holy name you become happy.
But there is one big but which we have to know very carefully. If we are negligent or not careful or not really grateful for this gift. Very easily mantra can withdraw its power.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravarti Ṭhākura says that it's like a rich relative. If you have a rich relative, rich relative can give you so much benefits.
He can give you, you know, free scholarship or he can help you, he can give you apartment, he can give you everything.
But then the rich relative, if you offend him, the rich relative very easily can withdraw all his favors. Because it's all based on the relationship. So in the same way, we are poor.
Poor in the sense that we don't have love within our heart. And when we chant, very easily our heart becomes soft and we become happy.
But then if we offend the holy name, who is no different from the Lord, then the Holy Name withdraws its powers. And by withdrawing its powers, the Holy Name makes us miserable.
And we are thinking, you know, what's happening? What's wrong with me? And the only thing which we have to remember is that we have to be very careful when we chant.
Actually, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains that there are five amazing effects of the offenses. Five results which can completely change our consciousness to worse if we chant the holy name but not doing it properly.
It is explained that aparādha offense. Apagata-rāda iti aparādha. Something which drives us away from Rādhā. And Rādhā means love. Aparadha is something which is opposite to this spirit of worship.
When we come to the Lord, we understand that we have to worship Him, that He is so beautiful, He is so kind, He is so wise, He is so amazing
that we have to worship Him and this sweet feeling which is the beginning of love, this sweet feeling of gratitude which is the beginning of love, is the beginning of our devotional service.
And when we chant, we have to keep this feeling very carefully within our heart because this is our worship.
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare Hariyam Hariyam Dham Ari Hari Sometimes we do it mechanically. Sometimes we think you know okay, okay, sixteen rounds, yes, yes. No. Lord is a personal.
And He wants personal reciprocation and chanting of His holy name is your way to reciprocate with Him, is your way to express your feelings.
And you have to very clearly understand this, this is my chance to say something to the Lord. And he doesn't want to hear you know you you make a test.
You go to somebody and look at him with a very you know uh dead look in your eyes and say blah blah blah bla bla bla bla. Will he like it or not. No, he wants something personal from you because he is a person.
You are speaking with the Lord. And to speak with the Lord you have to invest some feelings from your heart within your speech.
And therefore Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says, if you do not if you're not really careful if you're not really attentive about chanting if you're not really trying to speak from your heart.
Hypocrisy as a result of offense
Then what happens? He says five things will happen with you. And this is horrible things. He says the first thing which may happen with you, if you are not really careful, is you become crooked. You become hypocritical.
Because you are talking Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, and you are thinking something else.
Your mind is you're saying Krishna Krishna Krishna in your mind saying joke jump jump joke joke joke joke money money money money money money somebody even made uh uh new Hare Krishna mantra. Hare dollar Hare Dollar Dollar Dollar Hari Hari Hari Ura Hari Yura Euro Hariura So you're changing
Hare Krishna and inside yourself. I need dollars, dollars, dollars. Dirhams, dirhams, dirhams. So this is hypocritical. And and you become hypocritical. The hypocrisy or crookedness becomes your second nature.
So the Jīva Gosvāmī gives an example of what happens because of offense.
He said because of offense, you invite Krishna, you call Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, but Krishna doesn't come to you because he knows that you don't really want him.
And he gives a very beautiful example from Mahābhārata when Krishna came to Hastināpura and Duryodhana made a very nice arrangement for Krishna. He invited the best cooks. You know, the best, very best cooks were cooking huge feast for Krishna. Because Duryodhana knew Krishna likes to eat.
And in Jagannātha Purī he eats many times. So Duryodhana knew, he, this guy likes to eat. So let's cook something for him. And he gave him the best palace. Actually, Duḥśāsana in Hastināpura had the best palace.
He said, just move out for a few days, we'll put Krishna there. And he made some dancing girls invited and you know because Krishna likes music and likes dance. So he made very nice arrangement.
He made a whole festival for Krishna. Krishna is coming. Let's make a big festival. And then he invited him. He said, Krishna, I made a special palace for you, there is a big feast and there will be dancing girls there.
And Krishna said, no I'm not going. He said, why? And because Vidura invited me and he's going to give me some banana peels. So I'm going to take banana peels from Vidura. I'm not going to take your food. He said, why?
I've been I've been working so hard to make this arrangement and this is bhakti. Krishna said, no, this is not bhakti. This is hypocrisy. He said, why? He said, because you do not want me. Duryodhana asked, how do you know?
And Krishna said, because you hate my devotees. You're inviting me. But if you like me, you have to like my devotee, Pāṇḍavas. And you hate them. And because you hate them, I hate you.
And I will go to Vidura because he is not hypocritical. And Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains that this crookedness, this is the manifestation of crookedness.
We say Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, yes, yes, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna. And we don't notice the devotees. We don't notice everything which belongs to Krishna and therefore we're hypocritical.
And he said this is the result of aparādha. He says, cauṭilya is the result of aparādha, this crookedness of the heart.
Loss of faith through aparadha
And then he said another result or another effect of the offensive worship. When we are offensive, when we are not really careful, when we're not really appreciative of this process of bhakti.
He says another result is Ashrada. Ashrada means facelessness. You lose your faith. And he again gives very interesting example. He explains what it means, ashrada.
He says ashrada means that you see the glory of the Lord and you see the glory of the devotee. And it's so obvious it's just there in front of your heart.
And you still don't believe and don't recognize, and you still cannot really you know have this feeling of amazement which is the beginning of bhakti.
He says this is again the result of offensive chanting when you lose the faith and he gives example of uh of Duryodhana when Duryodhana saw the universal form of the Lord. At one point Krishna showed universal form.
And this universal form was glorious, you know. Duryodhana saw everything. And everyone was praying to the Lord.
Just imagine, you know, the universal form is here. You see the whole universe. You see all the demigods, all the devas are there, all the demons are there, everyone is there, just within the body of Krishna.
And what does he say? He says, oh, this is just focus, focus. This is just mystic trick of some yogi. You know, who cares?
And that's what Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains what facelessness is. He says, facelessness is you see the glory of the Lord. You see how this chanting of the holy name is changing the hearts of people, how it works, and you still don't believe.
You see how Lord is powerful, how beautiful is the book, just one book of Bhagavad-gītā, 700 verses only, how it can change the lives of so many people and still you don't believe in Krishna.
Still you have some doubts, still you have some problems within your heart, still you you think is Krishna there or not, you know, I'm not sure, you know. Maybe they say he is there, but who knows?
So he says, this is aśraddhā. Again, the result of offense.
And then he says then the next result of offense or offensive bhakti, offensive worship when we are not careful or mechanical in our worship is that we become slack.
We become really negligent, even more negligent in our worship. You commit some offense and you lose the taste. And because you lose the taste, you become more and more mechanical.
You can see it, you know, in the beginning you have full face and full bliss of kirtan, and then at the end you have uh You
You look at us other people and other people are dancing and you're not, you don't feel like dancing. You you cannot move your leg because it's too heavy. And Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says this is what happens.
If you commit offense, that bhakti becomes heavy for you.
Krishna himself says, su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam, this is an easy process, this is a natural process, this is the process which is blissful. If you perform it, and what is more easy?
You just eat some prasāda and you just dance and you just chant the holy name, but
then you don't feel like doing it because it's so heavy for you, you know, you just even eating prasāda becomes a big job you know big problem because you lost the taste. You completely lost the taste.
You just don't feel it anymore. Don't feel the bliss of bhakti. And again, this is the curse which is coming because you are not careful, because you're not performing this process carefully.
And he gives again a very interesting example from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam this time. He gives an example of Mahārāja Indradyumna from the eighth canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. But Mahārāja Indradyumna was worshiping the Lord.
He was doing puja. And he was doing it very carefully and in a very nice manner. And then a Muni came, one sage, saintly person, sadhu came and knocked on the door and came.
And Mahārāja Indradyumna couldn't care less. He just didn't move. You know, he was doing this puja for the Lord, trying to see with the corner of his eyes whether this saint is impressed by him or not.
And Krishna didn't like it. It's offense.
Krishna says that you really have to respect every living being and if a Vaishnava comes to you when you do worship, you give up worship, you stop your worship and you worship Vaishnava because he came to it.
And because he didn't do this, in his next life he became an elephant. An elephant is not very diligent when it comes to sadhana.
He's not jumping really, Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare. He becomes really—an elephant has a very thick skin.
And that's what it means, śaithilya. Śaithilya means you become thick-skinned like an elephant. You don't feel anything, you know.
Returning to harmful material attachments
You don't feel the bliss and uh this is this is the result of offensive chanting. And then he says uh the fourth result of offensive chanting or offensive worship, offensive chanting of the holy name is that you become attached to the things which are detrimental to your devotional service.
In the beginning, when you come to devotional service, you feel so much happiness that it's very easy for you to give it up. To give up smoking, to give up meat eating, to give up drinking.
Like yesterday I was with one businessman. And this businessman said one year back, I could not imagine life without cigarettes, without wine, and without meat.
If somebody would tell me to give it up, I would tell him I better commit suicide. I just couldn't imagine that I can give up smoking and drinking. It just was not possible. It was just it was just a crazy idea.
But then he said, I read Prabhupada's books and here I am for one year. I am not drinking, I am not smoking, I am not eating meat, I am not even drinking teas. Nice.
And he said when I when I feel the smoke of the cigarette I feel like vomiting.
And when when I think about drinking, about whiskey you know it's just it's disgusting and this experience the real experience comes to your heart because of the practice of bhakti.
But when you become offensive, all these habits may come back. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says that due to offense you may again develop attachment to the things which are detrimental to devotional service.
Or sometimes, you know, there is another problem, big problem, watching TV. I will not ask who of you watches TV? Just just in case.
Sometimes people say Prabhupada said we can watch news and they watch news and then they watch everything else without end. But this is horrible. Actually, this is the most vicious invention of Kali Yuga because
it destroys everything. It destroys your consciousness. It really destroys. Really destroys. It's not as innocent as it can seem or appear in the moment.
Of course, if you watch some sadhu channel, it's maybe okay, but again you get so much māyāvāda from this so whatever some spiritual channels are also there.
Anyway so but you get the attachment and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī says this attachment is coming back to you because of the offenses. And he gives an example of Maharaja Bharata.
Mahārāja Bharata gave up his wife, who was as beautiful as apsarā, and he gave up his little son. You know he the son was so beautiful and so obedient and so nice he gave him up.
He just walked out from his palace, went to the forest because he wanted to worship the Lord and when he was worshipping, he was worshiping with the tears in his eyes.
He was chanting the mantras, he was worshiping, he was so happy. But then because of the offense, he got attached to whom? To little deer.
He gave up his wife, he gave up his palace, he gave up his son to get attached to the deer. And he couldn't worship anymore. Because his attachment to the deer was most strong.
You know, he was not saying Krishna, Krishna, he was saying dear, dear, dear, dear, my dear, dear. Wherever he would see, he would look, he would see the deer. You know, he was looking in the moon.
And he saw the deer in the moon. And he said, Oh, this moon looks like my deer. And he was looking at the trees and he said, Wow, where's my deer, my little deer who is coming to me, and I want to protect him.
And again, uh Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains, this is the result of we are doing something wrong.
False pride and repeated offenses
If we are developing attachments which are detrimental to the spiritual life, it means that something we are doing wrong. And then the last thing which he is talking about is pride. And this is the most horrible thing.
He says when you are doing something in devotional service, but at the same time are not careful to avoid aparādhas, offenses. Then at one point you lose everything, you lose the taste, you lose your faith.
You lose the simplicity of your heart, the real feeling of worship, the real feeling of gratitude towards the Lord. But then at the same time you become very proud and you say, I'm such a great devotee. Look at me.
Just look. Just look. Am I not great? Just look, look, look carefully. He says, people become proud. And we can see sometimes devotees become proud, they say, Oh, I opened this temple and I did this and I did this.
You know, who are you? This is all ahaṅkāra, this is all false pride because everything is being done by the Lord. And Bhakti means to understand that the Lord is acting through us. Nimitta-mātraṁ bhava savyasācin.
The Lord says, to Arjuna, you become an instrument in my hands. You become my instrument and I will do through you miracles. But then we become proud. This is me. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
I converted so many people and so many people are yeah yeah yeah, and Krishna says this is the worst what can happen to you actually when you become proud, especially if you become proud by your so-called bhakti, your so-called devotional service or your so-called achievements in devotional service, this is the beginning of your fall down.
And Srila Prabhupada explains that he gives an example of Daksha. Daksha was offensive. He offended Lord Shiva.
Lord Shiva was performing uh Lord Shiva was there during the sacrifice of Daksha. And he didn't really, you know, pay obeisances or didn't express any respect towards Daksha.
Daksha became so angry and he offended him. And because of this offense, he was born next time. Because of this offense, he got the, you know, goat's head. There is goat's head and there is goat's head.
So he he got the head of the goat. Which is which is not very nice, you know. Just imagine all of a sudden you get the nice, you know, head of the goat.
And Daksha was very much into family life and probably his wife didn't like that all of a sudden he has the head of the goat. That was a that was a punishment for his offense.
But what happened to him, because of this offense, he was born again as Daksha. And what he did again? He again offended Nārada Muni. He became proud and he became very rich.
Sometimes the wealth comes to you as a result of offense. You're offending Krishna, you're worshiping him and he gives you wealth, and this wealth becomes curse for you. Because with this wealth you lose bhakti.
And this is exactly what happened with Daksha. Daksha offended Lord Shiva, but the next lifetime he again offended.
And this is the vicious circle of pride because when you become proud, you know you commit offense after offense after offense after offense and you fall down lower and lower and lower and lower.
Overcoming external obstacles in preaching
So this is this is the five things which I wanted to talk about and I have to finish now because this is already twelve thirty.
But what I wanted to tell you is that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave us this blissful, amazing, wonderful process of Krishna Bhakti.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama. And this is I mean this is his amazing gift to us. And we have to be really, really careful and really really grateful
to Caitanya Mahāprabhu and to Śrīla Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda is the one who brought this gift to us. He was so merciful and so compassionate that he gave it to us.
And his followers are preaching all over the world to continue this mission. And this mission is the most blissful. Once Prabhupada said that you just, you know what's so difficult.
You chant and dance, and then you dance, you wait to Godhead. Just dance. And you're there. At one point, you're there with Krishna and you're dancing till the rest of eternity. So this is what Krishna Bhakti can give us.
But if we are negligent, if we're not careful, if we're not appreciative, And if we are not really careful about keeping this gift with us, this gift can be very easily taken.
And here we will see now this videos from Kazakhstan. We experience the same in Russia, in Moscow. When the devotees become oppressed from outside, And sometimes devotees ask why Krishna allows this?
Why Krishna allows this to happen? The answer is very simple. Actually, this is blessing to these guys. Because this is what makes us stronger. This what really makes us more appreciative of what we have.
Like these devotees in Kazakhstan, they had these beautiful buildings, and now they know what it is, you know. And Krishna makes it to make us stronger, to make us more, uh, actually more determined to go.
And this is a test for our devotion. But then uh if if we don't have this oppression from outside then you know we may be destroyed from inside from this internal quarrel, offenses, and everything.
And Prabhupada said that nobody can destroy this movement from outside, Nobody. Including Kazakh government. They will not be able to do it. There's no doubt about it.
They're just trying, but they will just, you know, they don't know what they're doing. They don't know what they're talking about. In Russia they were trying. In Russia they were trying to destroy this movement.
Now we're building the most beautiful temple in the earth. Finally they gave us the land, and by building this temple, And the same I'm sure the same will happen in Kazakhstan. This is what Krishna is doing with the It
makes us stronger, to make us more united. And we should see this as an opportunity to become more united and to appreciate more what Śrīla Prabhupāda gave to us.
Really, this is a lesson for us to appreciate much more what we have and to pray to Krishna that he would continue developing this movement which is the blessing for the whole world. Thank you very much.