The fly goes for the sore.

[Guest guest]

Dear Mahakratu Prabhu,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Certainly your portrayer of India is correct, and I am definitely not blind

to it. But as Canakya Pandita pointed out that an intelligent person must be

able to find gold in a pile of mud, just as a poor man marrying a girl from

a rich family. Anyone will definitely agree that there is no better place to

be Krishna conscious in the world than India, especially in the holy places

like Vrindavana and Mayapura. I will personally not stay for one day in

India if I have to take into consideration what is going in on in the

present day Indian towns and cities. But just to recount to you the beauty

part of Indians, I once rode a train from Calcultta to Delhi with few

devotees, and we decided to hold kirtan. We started kirtan, and everybody

all over the train compartment were very happily taking part giving up their

regular chais for the moment. The whole episode culminated in a non-stop

preaching for hours. And this was a good Rajdhani trains. Such and

experience is unthinkable in the West.

Being a devotee of the Lord is quite difficult in the West as you have to

constantly deal with the mind, environments and all sorts of unimaginable

disturbances. But here in India, the only struggle is coping with the

unattainment of the desired goal of life, love of Godhead, in speedier

manner, at least I am speaking for a serious devotee.

Let's try to be more inward in our thinking and see more about the beauty

that is Vedic culture in India. There must be reason why Krishna made all

His appearances in India. If her people are not more closer to Krishna, why

would He made unneccessary effort to appear there.

In reality, Westerners are more crooked than the Indians. Indians pysches

are made up of simplicity. As they say "simplicity is vaisnavism"

 

Your servant,

 

Isvara dasa.