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Krishna Katha and Devotion: Key Points from Lecture

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] all together [Music] [Music] thank you foreign of Columbus and in fact in the last one year I think I was their last Karthik and then we all came whole family came in April and then again now in the month of September so very happy that has called again Dr Saros of all the devotees before I begin I want to offer my respectful obeisances at the Lotus feet of all the devotees present here please bless me please pray for me so that I am able to serve all of you all in the right spirit and in the right mood of being the servant of the servant of the servant please accept my very humble obeisances we see that in the srimad-bhagavatam is primarily a conversation between two personalities we have shukadev goswami on one side and then we have the king Maharaja parikshit who was ready to give up everything his kingdom his family his wealth absolutely everything to sit on the banks of Ganga one pointed and near Krishna and very few times we find that a person who possesses every material aspect all the material attributes that people are looking out for very few times we find they are ready to give up everything and hear Krishna very few and in English we see there is a very famous saying like father like sir okay like father like son but in the case of parikshit Maharaj it was little different parikshit Maharaj was very devoted very inclined to hear Krishna Katha but his son was little different was very different the father was very much interested to hear Krishna but the son generally I was least interested he was not interested to hear Krishna now devotees are very intelligent Krishna bhakta or at least they are supposed to be intelligent devotees of the Lord are very intelligent so money was called that General is not hearing Krishna Katha you do something you are very intelligent very scholarly do whatever it takes but get him to the Lotus feet of Radha and Krishna came and he just said two words because when the person is not in a position to hear Katha you cannot speak when there is no hunger even if you keep the person will not eat the hunger has to be there so was least interested and just said two words please repeat first and second go haranam first is one of hungam and second is goharanam foreign he explained as to how the cows of maharat virata were stolen and Arjuna went and reclaimed them back so what was the first word what was the second now he said these two words and explained them in one one sentence Now The Thirst increased in the heart of Jeremiah he said well don't stop here say something more so from vanabangam Oni ended up explaining the whole of ramayan he started with one line that is how Hanuman set the whole thing on fire and then Pura ramayan full ramayan was told and then now from goharanam he explained the whole of Mahabharata so it started with one word then one sentence then the whole book the whole book was explained and now who was least interested ended up not just hearing Krishna but he ended up hearing him he ended up hearing and Mahabharata very interesting I was recently at one place in South Carolina and I was I was making this point oh his cows were stolen so at the end one small boy he came to me I'm six seven years old he came to me and said that Virat had cows so I said yeah here it comes he said oh in the TV I always see him with a bag I said not without calling [Laughter] I couldn't even I was thinking my goodness India is in such a sad State Cricket is more famous than Mahabharata he was convinced that I was talking about Virat Kohli sitting on the grasses I had to tell him that now name is same personalities are different he has cows he has bad so very interesting so was initially least interested now ends up becoming devotional start sharing starts chanting so preaching is always an art like in Hindi they say those who are from India English well straightforward preaching doesn't work sometimes we have to modify too so why shampoo use this intelligence started with one word made that into one sentence and then it blossomed into a complete scripture in itself so this point is made that sometimes there is a difference like the saying is like father like son but may not be always applicable and sastra is replete with examples it has so many examples demon son mahaja pradasan Village so father is demonic son is divine his son is demonic his son is divine One Time One one son went to his father and he said that my dear father sriram became great by following the instructions of his father dasharat Maharaja and prahlad Maharaj became great by not following the instructions of his father hirender my dear father what should I do should I follow you or not sometimes children come up with such logical questions Ram became great by following his father his father so my dear father what should I do father was also very intelligent he said my dear son we are not living in nor are we living in yoga but we are living in Kali and in Kali it is good for both of us that we follow your mother so that there is mental peace in the home my goodness these these kids they come up with so many valid questions father is also intelligent to maintain grass atmosphere follow the mother s so we find that Krishna Consciousness this is a very sweet path a very sweet process and unfortunately 500 years in the past prior to the appearance of mahaprada it was a sad state people who are into worshiping of Durga chanti and Karma Kanda and otherwise his heart would bleed he would think only if the Supreme Lord comes down and he preaches then the whole Nadiya can transform classes describes you give classes but he would extol the glories of bhakti and this Krishna Katha that which is already sweet now you can imagine the Katha that is already sweet when it is presented acharya how sweet that Katha will be what will be the atmosphere when the Katha which is already Sweet is presented by the best among personalities mission the personality who invoked mahaprabhu down to this world is now speaking Katha so we can imagine what the power will be goswami he explains the glories the qualities of Krishna Katha Brahman Krishna punya Madrid three qualities the first quality of Krishna is it is pure and of this there is no doubt anyone who comes in this current of All Pure Krishna Katha Purity is guaranteed but you see when you take life insurance policy and all those things everything will be written in bold but down below some small and like alphabet will be written which you cannot even see so similarly Krishna Katha is Sweet It Is pure but there is terms and condition if it needs to apply in our lives if we want to take effect then the terms and condition is the sincerity should be there the intention of becoming Beyond should be there if the intention of hearing Krishna Katha is not to become pure then the purification will take time what is the example heard the same bhagavad-gita same versus real time from Sanjaya who was also very exalted but what was the intention the intention was not purification the intention was simply to understand what is happening to his sons so he got purification but the purification came after a very long time another example kashmiri knew all the shastra big time think which I Pandit very scholarly but he got humility after humiliation after he got humiliated then he got humility so the point I'm trying to make is if the purpose of hearing Krishna Katha is not purification then the purification takes time and these two are prime examples and there are many examples that shastra comes up with but if the intention is one pointed to become pure then Krishna Katha acts very fast so what is the First Quality Krishna Katha is second madhavi it is very sweet is very sweet we say medicines of this world are so bitter if the medicine to cure they her own the feces of the body is so bitter how damn bitter should the medicine be to cure the disease of bhavarog repeated birth and death it should be so bitter right if the medicine to cure body is bitter the medicine to cure power repeated birth and that should be so bitter but interestingly we find Krishna tatha is not bitter it is sweet and what is the praman what is the proof it is sweet all of us sitting here if Krishna Katha was boring then we will not make Endeavors to come to the temple and hear there is some sweetness that we have got in Krishna which is impelling us and magnetizing us to come to the Lotus feet of sushi so the first quality of Krishna is it is punya it is very pure second madhvi it is very sweet and third Krishna as Krishna enters the heart of the listener and starts cleaning dirt like we have it's famous spotless no dirt no contamination no adulteration enters and starts cleaning and kidnaps the sins it kidnaps the sins that are there and Krishna is one of the best among Thieves the stealing the lying the cheating whatever Krishna does is best [Music] foreign the Supreme Lord in whichever Incarnation he comes he steals when he comes as RAM he steals the complexion do not just have human beings in the audience we have some special personalities here about me is it the same one I would have been traumatized I trust you but I know I glorified parikshit but Krishna huh So Below I'm gonna talk about says my dear Lord when you come as RAM you steal the complexion of the grass when you come as Krishna you steal the complexion of the cloud and between the grass and the cloud where are people running behind gold so my dear Lord in Kali you have stolen the complexion of gold also you have stolen the complexion in all the three yogas sriram Shri Krishna and gauranga mahaprab my idea of Lord I beg you now as Krishna Katha please enter my heart and steal the dirt I will consider you a thief well you stole in the previous yoga it is okay I didn't see it I will consider you a Big Time Thief if you enter my heart and can steal my sins away so very beautifully sarcastically he's he's using a satire to glorify the Lord and kind of challenging the Lord Almighty that my dear Lord enter my heart and clean the dirt so Krishna is very sweet and now advaita is presenting this Krishna Katha and this nectar we find pramupada is given in his books made a very profound statement said these book distribution scores are keeping me alive very powerful statement these book distribution scores are keeping your life One Time One disciple he was in Europe and he wrote a letter to prabhupada that prabhupada this is a foreign land we are coming first time to Europe and the book distribution is working fantastic we have set up a table and the one side of the table we have kept mahaprasadam and to the other side of the table we have kept the books which is free they take plate in their hand the hand is completely full and now they come to your books and they start reading them and they start purchasing proper this plan is working prasadam is entering and their purchasing books wrote back this is my mission their hand should be full and their pocket should be empty robot would be so why is the way he would articulate things this is my mission the hand should be full of the pocket should be empty disciples would probably disciples are so intelligent that they come up with different techniques even now and even in the past to spread Krishna Consciousness and the benefit is we are reaping those benefits they did the struggle and we are reaping the benefits but the the point here that our Archer is explained is this Krishna which is already sweet if condition G was find katha's field How Sweet It Is for those who are very advanced Lord explains Lord Shiva decides to leave kailas to come to navadweep to your gaur Katha from the Lotus lips of suta goswami foreign but this is not that time of sharanya there is another name ends up speaking and Lord Shiva when he hears this is ready to leave kailash and is ready to come down so much so that when Lord Shiva is coming who was the order carrier of Lord Shiva nandi he sits on nandi and he's coming and at one point he realized that this nandi is very slow if this is the way nandi is going to go I fear that Qatar will end I will reach only for prasadam Shiva is that anxiety reaching at the end for prasadam he said I always say this in his current temples for Katha you have what 50 for prasadam you have about 100 the number completely doubles and from where it doubles even we don't know but the number completely doubles so Lord Shiva was coming in the nandi and he understood that and he's very slow so he he parked his nandi he just kept the nandi to the side and he went to brahmaji and he asked brahmaji that my dear brahmaji my order carrier is very slow but you have an auto carrier which is Swan hamsa you have a swan anyway you are meditating the eyes are closed and you are not using the swan if you give this Swan to me I will sit on the Swan and I can go to night so brahmaji agreed and Lord Shiva sits on the back of the Swan and ends up going to number three and here's gaur Katha for seven days so Lord Shiva who is so eager that he leaves kailas and comes down to here decides to live up his aristocratic Rich opulent life who came to his village foreign doesn't mean we take inspiration but she does Babaji gives up his life and prahlad Maharaja pradhas Maharaj is ready to fight the demoniac forces sent by his father just by the power of Krishna that year from Narada so if condition living entities find it attractive how much more attractive and sweet it is for those who are very exalted and this is why our acharya say Krishna Katha is like digestive fire digestive fire before eating we have the digestive fire the digestive fire has a quality it has a property it burns The Unwanted substance but it absorbs the nutrients it doesn't burn the nutrients it absorbs the nutrients but Burns The Unwanted substance similarly digestive fire it burns the anarthas but helps us absorb in this mood of being the servant of the servant of the servant it helps us absorb in this mood of krishna's Eternal devotees that is but when this Krishna Katha is not heard just like Krishna Katha is heard the doors of the spiritual World fly open for that person but when krishna-kata is not heard equally the terms of the lone planets fly open for that person will give us a red carpet VIP entry if a person does not hear Krishna Katha so just by hearing Krishna Katha the doors of spiritual World fly open and likewise by not hearing Krishna Katha by not engaging the ears in hearing about the Supreme Lord the doors of the lower planets the hell gets opened arrived in Heathrow Airport London and you will see when your robot arrives they would mop from the reporters put more problems with only questions so they started asking and bombarding broke up with different questions and one of the questions that the reporter asked for open the swamiji can you define hell no this is not the time you give a bhagavatam classes you know they're there in the airport and prabhupada has only 30 seconds to answer now if we just put ourselves in the place and if we are asked we will probably think for some time how do you define hell in 30 seconds when they asked that swamiji how do you define hell prabhupa said hell it is called dark and gloomy just like your London [Laughter] prabhupada would have such wonderful brilliant answers and on the spot it is called dark and gloomy just like your London and she didn't tell any answer well that is true a hair is cold it is Jarred and it is gloomy foreign so it is not baffling to see when so many people in the past have lived their family life so many others have left it is not difficult to understand and believe why we shuru left his family life and accepted sannyas few days back we celebrated in fact this whole week was so auspicious appearance disappearance it's anything else yes sir yes anything else I think we covered us seven days all seven festivals are done so the whole week was packed with festivals and as prabhupada would say every step is a dance and every day is a festival and this is actual proof this whole week every day was a festival one time one person came to prabhupada and he said swamiji what if at the end of life you realize that Krishna doesn't exist what if you realize that you did so many things at the end Krishna doesn't exist prabhupa said even if Krishna didn't exist there is nothing to lose because every day we celebrated a festival even Ganesha is worship of electoral devotion explains even Radha gopinath we find there is not Ganesha so akshaya foreign I was at one place and I asked that what is there for panchami and one devotee in the audience put his hand up and said I said nag panchami is not that is not a comedy of Festival so we are right five six yes seven eight nine Ram know me and Sita Nami and lemon Ade thirteen nithyananda [Music] is literally a festival every step is dance and every day is first two so he came to prabhupada and said swamiji what if you realize at the end Krishna doesn't exist even if Krishna doesn't exist there is nothing lost we have had Sunday fees Saturday fees every day was a festival so even if Krishna doesn't exist still we have enjoyed now I flip the question what if at the end you realize Krishna actually exists actually exists your game is up you cannot do anything is this true even if hypothetically well we are convinced Krishna exists but hypothetical even if he doesn't exist still there is no wrong we have enjoyed our life to the fullest but Krishna really exists then that person who is not performing this game is up entry foreign so we find by hearing this Katha of advice explained are the byproducts knowledge and renunciation comes naturally we don't have to force it we don't have to artificially force it it comes naturally when we advance renunciation is a byproduct and we see vishwaru ended up leaving his family and accepted sannyas but sometimes we find most people when we are coming the car also because we were discussing that sometimes when when we are preaching there are there are a few people who naturally accept srimad-bhagavatam they will not ask questions they will naturally accept and some will keep asking questions why is this like this why not like that why is Krishna blue why is mahaprabhu golden why is Ram green so on and so what some people keep asking questions the good thing is if you ask questions and you become a devotee then great but if you just keep asking questions and there is no end result then that's that's a problem one time so the point I'm saying is people are into logic and debates and questions and answers and things like that one time there was there was a logician and he was into asking questions for everything so a logician went to a farmer and this farmer had a bull and in the neck he had put a small bell so the logician asked why have you put this Bell for the pool Bell for the pool why have you put the bell for the pool and the farmer said well I put the Bell because whenever the bull walks I will understand by hearing the sound if I'm working I will understand that the bull is walking so the logician said what if the bull is standing at one place and just moving its head so the farmer said it is a bull not a magician like you he will not do it he is a bull not a logician like you so people are into logic and questions and answers but if they take it up it's good if they don't take it out then it's it's little difficult so be sure we find get so much get so renounced that ends up leaving his family and except sannyas and naturally when the older brother does something it serves as an inspiration for the younger brother when the older brother does something her mother is inspired I can say it from experience in a good way if my dear brother was watching in a good way I am glorifying definitely I'm deserves as an inspiration I can with hands on my heart I can say when I was small I could I could see him naturally interverses and reading and hearing Etc so it just helps when two brothers are inclined it inspires the younger brother to take it up naturally so we find vishwaru except our sannyas and now that served as an inspiration for his brother who is vishwambar vishwambar Mishra that is mahaprabhu's passport name when mahapra was traveling immigration it served as an inspiration from him also and he ended up taking sannyas and srila prabhupal being the right representative of vishwaroop and SRI chaitanya mahaprabhu also took sannyas on the day of mahasa foreign tradition [Music] and also gave it to his disciples but there's a very interesting point that comes up this is the last 10 minutes of our discussion there is a very interesting point comes up in as to srila prabhupada giving the sannyas tradition down until this time if we were not attentive it's still okay but these last 10 minutes is a very interesting story I got to hear when I was in new vendama recently I was paying a few proper disciples there and they told me this story and I was so inspired that I couldn't hold myself but I wanted to share it when Sheila prabhupada came to America 17th of September 1965 on the jaladuta Boston Harbor Commonwealth Pier CE landed on the 18th of September that same ship was again going back to India because it was a car question so it was again going back to India and two American boys hopped onto that ship Keith and Howard they hopped on to that ship with this desire of exploring the religions of the East because they had heard that India is a place where there's so much variegated culture and religion and it's easy for Spiritual advancement so the hard desire was there so they hopped on to this jaladuda to go to India to check prabhupada lands on 17 September these two boys teens 18th of September they hop on the jaladuta and they go to India they stay in India for one year in the search of Guru but they don't get Guru they get only Kang gurus they get gurus who keep can ahead for money can gurus you see people around they have gurus who keep dakshina thing and you put money but they will not give you any spiritual knowledge can Guru so they didn't get proper qualified gurus and on top of that the feather the food the water it was foreign for them especially we find those who are not accustomed to the Indian culture when you go for the first time you will naturally experience some transcendental symptoms some ecstasies will be there the Ecstasy will be there if you have not not used to it so these two boys one year they had a big challenge they would they couldn't eat properly they would puke water would not work out and after one year they became so frustrated then they decided to come back to America no more spirituality let's let's just come back so they came back to America and they were walking in the streets of Manhattan New York as they were walking to the other side they saw prabhupada walking with the stick was walking so they saw and they decided to cross and they looked and said swamiji because they didn't know prabhupas this new Indian gurus are called Swami they said swamiji are you from India prabhupa said yes a typical film it said yes I am I'm from India they said are you a guru yes I am a guru so these two boys said swamiji we were actually in India we just came prabha said why they said that we had gone to search for Guru but we didn't get anything so disappointed we have again come back so prabhupa said I take bhagavad-gita classes Monday Wednesday Friday and I am a guru so I can help you so why don't you all come for my Gita classes by this time profile had already found out the 26 Second Avenue the storefront matchless gifts so these two boys swamiji we will come prabhupas are not like this held their hand and took them to 26 Second Avenue ropa said you will say yes now but what if tomorrow you start searching and you don't know where to come no GPS Alexa mataji is not there Siri mother is not there who will help so broken held a hand and said I will take you so tomorrow you know where to come tomorrow he will come next day they actually came they came for probable class and probable was very happy to see them and prabhupa's class someone not being inspired only cannot happen so they were naturally inspired they heard prabhupada once and they got inspired and then after that was in a conversation with them what do you do and Howard he said that prabhupada I have a masters in English literature said what you have Masters in English can you help me can you help me proofread my books can you help me edit my books because prabhupada was very scholarly as far as Sanskrit is concerned but he wanted a local to check for the English grammar someone who can proofread so Howard centered so many let me come few more times and then we will see proper said I can teach you what the content is I can teach you everything is and then we will see so prabhupa did not force robber never forced when the heart is inspired we see the person does it naturally but when you force it it's only a matter of time it's only a matter of time they will Drift Away so prabhupa started speaking to them they started coming to the classes and eventually hold and Keith got so inspired that probably now again asked can you help me in editing my books checking the grammar and Howard said yes now I will do it because I know what the content is and prabhupada initiated both these scenes and Keith became kirtan Ananda and Howard became becomes the first editor in our iskcon movement empowered him trusted him gave him the content was always ready to hold his hand in every step and probably empowered and he became the first editor of our iskcon movement and everything was going picture perfect but what to do the past Temptations are like forest fire and they sometimes come and devour our Krishna bhakti completely the past Temptations prior to joining Krishna consciousness it's very difficult to give them up and sometimes like a forest fire they're blazing in the heart and they just come and completely dissipate whatever Krishna conscious we have in the heart and exactly the same thing happened for higher Prabhu who was the first editor got inspired by prabhupada the past Temptations took control like a forest fire and now you drifted away from the moment he drifted away not to be seen and when prabhupada got to know in his eye said what I agree were left because High agreement Prabhu was also working at NYU and from that stipend from that salary he would give the rent 26 Second Avenue for proper so he helped like no one whether it's editing whether it is giving money and now the proper got to know that he left prabhupak his heart was bleeding finally after about two years Robert was at Hawaii and ropa got to know that high agreement was here in Hawaii so he told them to bring hayagri I agree what people came and gone were those days gone was the shave and clean phase now he had a beard gone was the complete shaven head he had hair he had beard he had karmy clothes completely new person gone was a tilak a complete new appearance but prabhupada's love for him had not reduced prabhupada still loved him the same way that he used to love and when Prophet saw him tears in his eyes where were you you were my first editor where were you seeing that love of shilaprabhupada just broke down completely he completely broke down and Sheila prabhupada asked whatever happened in the past is the past do you want to join me again do you want to do some service I will again help you so he asked Robert how can I serve I said same service that you were doing editing my books how can I do it I was finding it difficult to even hold on to the regulative principles and your books are going to be the law books for the next 10 000 years I cannot do it bro but said no no if you're there around with others they will inspire you and you can do it and prohibit again trusted him and gave him the service and he again started editing profiles books checking for the grammar proofreading when he came back again in 1969 it was instrumental in finding the new vrindavan property he found out that he wrote down property and now a proper got to know that high agreement was found out prabhupada wanted to make Prabhu the temple president he wanted to make him the temple president he knew that Rupa is going to ask this so he made all the reasoning if raupa says this I will say this I will say this making sure that I don't want to take Temple responsibilities or management responsibilities it can get difficult sometimes so he decided one after another I will give these these reasons to prabhupada and Robert called him and said my dear High agree I have one service for you and he was convinced profile is going to his Prabhu become the temple president he was convinced and his answer was literally there in the tip of wisdom he was waiting when prabhupada will say and when I can refute it said my dear Eva my service for you is I want you to become sannyasi sannyas I you know I I left two times I had left yes no no wasn't no if you're there with them because they were very prominent during those days they still are if you stay with them you can hold on everybody I cannot do it no no you can do it you can keep writing letters to me and you can take inspiration and they are all there I agreement I cannot you ask me to do any other service I will do not disturbate [Laughter] [Applause] was very intelligent he treats no answer key they're very sweet so now had no option so now he will get the temple president he found out the property and Robert made him the temple president foreign s never stop haunting for some they again came back like a blazing forest fire and sadly again left he again left and this time that he left he was not to be found for a very very long time she left over had tears of compassion where did I agree or promo go and no one knew where Ohio River was no one had any idea finally 1989 after about 17 years in fact even that 1972 famous foreign Ty in very profound very instructive was there but after that he interrupted next 17 years he was not to be seen so 1972 Plus 17. 89 1989 he got to know that high agreement Prabhu is wandering and loitering in the beaches of Goa so he went and you see during a rainy season whenever there's a beach during rainy season the boats are upside down so that water doesn't accumulate the boats are kept upside down underneath one of those boards High agreement like semicircular back was was hiding not hiding but just taking rest because it was raining and srinaji prabhuisa and said where have you been it's been so many years we have been looking out for you where have you been please come we have a congregation rather gopin out we have a congregation please come those days was just budding 1989 1990. and I agreement said I can't get up I can't get up leave alone walking I can't even get up srinachi Prabhu said you at least come with us we will do some tests and we will see what the issue is so they took him they did some tests and it was revealed he had a terminal four stage four terminal cancer so much so that he had become paraplegic below the waist cannot walk cannot move nothing they brought him to Radha gopinath but now that he again came back he came back with readable enthusiasm setbacks should always be like spring bones they should come we have to come back with readable enthusiasm just like I agree or propose life our life also goes through ups and downs waves of sometimes being enthused and sometimes not being enthused sometimes wanting to chant more japa sometimes even 60 is a struggle sometimes wanting to do more vaishna Seva and sometimes not wanting to do anything so we also go fluctuate and I agree or proposed life is something that we can kind of relate to he comes back with enthusiasm and now that he came back he literally followed he would not waste any time he would chant because there was nothing more he could do at this stage because he was paraplegic at that time came to meet and this is so sweet and in the course of the discussion that my dear Maharaj there is one regret that I have in my heart and Mara said what is it he would beg me to to edit and proofread his books but I was somehow drifting away coming back drifting away coming back I could have thought so much I had youth on my side I had energy I had air in my lungs I could have sowed prabhupada so much he would ask me so much but I just drifted away and as he was saying were just flowing from his eyes I could have sword my Guru Maharaja so much but I couldn't do it and now the regret the guilt in the heart was so much that now his enthusiasm in bhakti peeked to the Limit a constant absorption finally he told Maharaja and Maharaj there is nothing I can do to proper at this stage I cannot do dirty worship I cannot tour for Namsan kirtan I cannot serve classes I cannot mob the floor I cannot cook prasadam for the devotees I cannot do anything but if there is one thing I can do right now foreign there was one instruction that he gave me 1969 but I backed out I said I'm not qualified my dear Maharaj this is one instruction that I can follow right now and fulfill at least one desire one dream of prabhupada Maharaja in 1969 asked me to take sannyas I couldn't do it back then yes we are talking about this because we are talking about Bishop except in sannyas foreign but he also went through the human struggle which we cannot forget life serves as hope for all of us he went through the struggles the waves of emotions Calamity is anxiety is being drifted away sometimes being enthused sometimes not being enthused but it gives all of us hope that Krishna Consciousness if performed even once and even if we drift away we may forget Krishna Krishna will never forget us Krishna will never forget us Krishna always remembers so high agreement eventually God sannyas and he became and when juvenile devotees were saying this they were saying that during the final days his during the last few days he was here in New vrindavan and even now the devotees will be to Newman down they'll find there is samadhi or I agree or high agreement so his life went through ups and downs and obstacles but gives us hope that even if there are struggles even if we are going to difficulties even if we are going through challenges of chanting 16 getting up in the morning serving devotees being enthused on this path Krishna is there and Krishna will protect us Krishna will give us the inspiration all that is required is sincerity even if we showed an iota of sincerity Krishna will make sure that we come back on this path of Krishna Consciousness so prabhu's life serves as inspiration for all of us as to how he went through ups and downs but eventually accepted the path of sannyas having said this I very humbly want to stop here and thank each and every devotee present here thank you so much for coming and inspiring me with your presence and I can't wait to come back again to serve all of you all and serve sushi in the best of ability that I can thank you very much