Message from Srila Prabhupada

[Guest guest]

Bombay

 

May 6, 1977

 

 

My dear beloved disciples,

 

 

Please accept my blessings. I know that over the past years you have suffered

so many tribulations to push forward Krsna consciousness in Germany. But this

has not stopped you from your determination to serve the cause of Lord Caitanya

Mahaprabhu. A devotee is pleased when there is difficulty, for in these

difficulties he is forced to remember Krsna. We cannot expect that the people

of Kali-yuga will welcome our attempt to spread Krsna consciousness. It is just

like a lunatic asylum: The patients are running around madly and when the

doctor tries to give them treatment, they insist that they are not crazy.

Sometimes the patient even strikes the doctor. So our task is like that. We

cannot stand to see people suffering due to ignorance. What is that ignorance?

They do not know that they are not their body. This Krsna consciousness

movement is meant to deliver people to the proper understanding that they are

not their body, that they are pure spirit soul. We may or may not be a!

ppreciated, that is not our concern.. We must execute the order of Sri

Caitanya Mahaprabhu which is:

 

"Yare dekha tare kaha krsna upadesa

amara ajna guru haya tara ei desa

 

"Whomever you meet, instruct them to follow the orders of Sri Krsna as they are

given in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way by My order

become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land."

 

So our business is to satisfy the acaryas and Krsna. If they are pleased then

we know our work is successful.

 

Go on spreading the sankirtana movement more and more. I am only one person,

but because all of you have kindly cooperated with me, this movement has now

become a success all over the world. Be assured that there is no more direct

way to preach than to distribute Krsna conscious books. Whoever gets a book is

benefitted. If he reads the book he is benefitted still more, or if he gives

the book to someone else for reading, both he and the other person is

benefitted. Even if one does not read the book but simply holds if and sees it,

he is benefitted. If he simply gives small donation towards the work of Krsna

consciousness he is benefitted. And anyone who distributes these transcendental

literatures, he is also benefitted. Therefore sankirtana is the prime

benediction for the age:

 

krsna varnam tvisa krsna sango vangastra parsadam

yajnaih sankirtana prayair yajanti sumedhasah

 

Hoping this meets you all well.

 

 

Your ever well-wisher,

 

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

 

 

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