hang on the side and you have to
try and get back on there so every
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Yeah yeah, so its like you feel it
when you start sliding down and
once in a while you get under the
elephant and its intense, yeah,
what to do? it takes a while to
recover. But vaishnavas are very
precious, devotees are very
precious people, that one should
always appreciate because these
devotees they carry the blessings
of Krishna and therefore Krishna
is favouring them and anybody
who turns towards a devotee, he
will be favoured.
:there is no doubt about it. So if
whatever we do we have this good
intelligence to never
underestimate the importance of a
devotee, then always be
appreciative, generous, kind and
so on with the devotees then
somehow or other we will get
blessings, tremendous blessings
and then Krishna will make some
arrangements for us, because
ultimately we all need some
openings, we all need some
favourable arrangements, it’s not
so easy to step in the sankirtana
movement and here it is here’s the
process now just surrender. I am
who I am , it’s not so easy but
then Krishna makes an opening,
he may send someone, just like
when I became involved seriously
in the Hare Krishna movement I
found it not so easy at first. I was
in India and they were really like
pushing like anything. It’s like I
stood in front of the deities and
like they were pushing me saying
“dance! dance!” and I was like
come on dance when its like
happening, you know its got to
happen at least can’t just dance
dance – “dance you got to dance”
its more spaghetti western type of
stuff- dance ! dance !

was quite different, it was like

So I couldn’t relate to it, I
thought it was too pushy, but the
devotees were quite closable in
India , they were taking a lot of
interest in one’s person, the
person they were dealing with.
Visa ran out and I came back to
Europe and when I came back to
Europe the mood in the temple
very impersonal and very rigid, it
was really like err.. I would not
have made it, right, people would
talk about the process of Krishna
consciousness but there was no
human interaction, from …how
are you?, that was maya that was
not done and I couldn’t handle
that and there was one devotee
from America, a black devotee,
black bodied devotee and
everyone thought he was strange
and he would ask people how are
you and I liked him immediately,
wow, a human being, that makes
the whole thing possible for me,
you could be human in this
movement. So Krishna made an
arrangement, he made an opening
for me. And I had hepatitis in
India and the result was I was on a
heavy diet and no ghee, right, and
no halva so it was a great disaster,
when you join and there’s no
halva especially in those days that
was really too much, no halva, so
my friend he was cooking quite a
bit so he cooked some nice raisin
bread for me which was full of
dried fruit….instead of halva I
had that …so by his mercy I
survived. So he made an opening He’ll create an opening for us.
for me, he made it something That is the result of the blessing of
sustainable. a vaishnava if one is not so strong,
So Krishna makes arrangements therefore we must be very careful
for us and the more we please with the vaishnava, be very
Krishna’s devotees then somehow careful with the way we deal with
or other Krishna always makes an the vaishnavas and that’s actually
arrangement for us no matter how the principle we are discussing
strong or weak we are. here.
When a devotee distributes
prasadam remnants of food
offered to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, in order
to maintain our spiritual
devotional service we must accept
this prasadam as the Lord’s grace
received through the pure
devotees …sanskrit…one who has
no faith in the prasadam of Lord
Govinda, such a person can never
get the benefits of devotional
service.
This prasadam is very important.
The Chaitanya Caritamrita is
describing the nature of this
prasadam and is saying that
actually Krishna has personally
taken this prasadam and ….put it
back on the plate, it doesn’t say
that in caitanya caritamrita but
elsewhere it is described.
Krishna has personally tasted it
and touched it with his lips and
therefore this prasadam is now
different, it is what was ordinary
foodstuff that has become
transformed, it is now really
spiritually potent and because
whatever is spiritual is fully
surcharged with the potency of
Krishna and automatically makes
one attached to Krishna, the
prasadam makes us attached to
Krishna. So it is very wonderful,
so it is a very important thing, of
course we must share prasadam
with the vaishnavas, again, maybe
not just keep it for ourselves but
give, give, giving is a big thing.
Some people give away prasadam,
very nice, I got some today, it
was nice. Srila Prabhupada writes
even in normal social activities
these six types of dealings
between two loving friends are
absolutely necessary for instance
this man wishes to contact another
business man he arranges a feast
in a hotel and over the feast
openly expresses what he wishes
to do.
He then enquires through his
business friend how he should act,
sometimes presents are
exchanged. Thus whenever there
is a dealing of priti or love these
six activities are executed, yes, so
that is also important how Srila
Prabhupada explaining that these
activities are characteristics of
love and how we have to learn…
we just don’t know, we just come
from these material relationships
where we are like dogs right
‘RAAAH! We just bark at each
other’RAAAH RAAAH’

not interested leave me alone and
so on and different barks and very
envious not at all appreciative of
each other. The what are so called
normal relationships are envious
relationships and everyone is
thinking about everyone, ‘oh
who’s that guy oh who’s that’ and
the whole world is just thinking
‘huh this one’s that’ and so on
‘that one’s this’ and people are
full of distrust and so on. So
amongst vaishnavas that gradually
has to disappear, in the previous
verse Srila Rupa Goswami has
advised that one should
renonunce, worldly association
and keep company with the
devotees….sanskirt…
The International Society of
Krishna Consciousness has been
established to facilitate six kinds
of loving exchanges between the
devotees and so that’s very
important that we just try to really
change our mood in this
movement. So it’s a big challenge
to live together and be together.
Somehow or other Hare Krishna
temples are, what shall I say, they
are extraordinary, that’s one word,
for it, in all respects they are non
different to the spiritual world,
they are always, they are bit
chaotic, they are full, there are
people, many times lots of people
doing all types of things in a small
space relatively, just squeeze
together on a floor, eating, so
many things are going on and it’s
all happening around the
Prasadam just like big time
events. So many things are there
but the most wonderful thing is
when the devotees are actually
very kind and gentle, so we have
to become kind and gentle, we
have to practise and be generous.
When Srila Prabhupada started
what he called the Sunday love
feast it was a fifteen course feast,
fifteen preparations and each
preparation was special and even
in the late 70s and early 80s it was
like that and somewhere on the
line it changed and became less
and less, but it was fifteen
preparations they would cook,
start cooking Saturday. Saturday
they would start doing the sweets
and the whole thing Sunday doing
the rest and the big thing, big big
feast every Sunday for free, so it
represents the mood of the
vaishnava who gives causeless
mercy, causeless mercy, causeless
mercy means you get so much and
you wonder I didn’t really deserve
all that, and they’re giving all this
and they are not even charging,
that’s how it should be actually,
there should be an exchange with
that mood and we see Srila
Prabhupada was there, that’s how
it was very great generosity and
that is how this movement will
conquer. We will conquer by
extraordinary generosity that is
the nature of Lord Chaitanya,