Why do so few people becomes devotees? Why do some devotees fall away?

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Bhakti after starting it off or why do people don’t come in large numbers? There are several reasons, first is that Am I audible to everyone? First is that as I told in the beginning about a person who, a doctor who says that for getting cured you have to give up the eating sugar if you have got diabetes so like that Bhakti certainly cures people gives people higher happiness but at the same time there is also a price to be paid and not many people are ready to pay the price that’s the first thing second thing is that most people especially in our times don’t even know much about spiritual life and that’s why in general if we share the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness with others when we share Krishna Consciousness people do come and that is how all of us have come to Krishna Consciousness so now regarding why do people leave? That is because they do not follow the process properly and they do not understand what is at stake properly what is the true thing I said did not follow the process properly means if one is chanting Hare Krishna but is not chanting attentively one is basically ultimately the process of Krishna Consciousness is meant to give us a higher happiness so if I am not attentive for example if I have to take a medicine Am I audible? Am I audible Pramod? yes sir ok yes let me know if there is a break then so if I take if I am supposed to take a tonic to cure myself or to improve my health and if sometimes a small child is there the child doesn’t the mother tells him take the tonic and the child takes the tonic and pours it near his mouth and let it all spill on the ground now the mother may think that the tonic is being taken but it is being spilled and naturally the child will not get cured so like that Krishna Consciousness is like a tonic so when we chant Hare Krishna when we hear the philosophy if we are not attentive if we are not absorbed then it is like the medicine is coming but it is coming near the mouth and then it is spilled away then naturally we don’t get cured we don’t get the benefit of the process and when we don’t get the benefit of the process we start wondering why should I do the sacrifice for the process but those who actually practice the process seriously they experience the benefits and when they experience the benefits they will never give up the process so those who have given up it is because somehow they have not been able to practice it properly and because of not practicing they have not got the benefit so if we if they get the proper guidance then they will surely start practicing and that is what is happening now many devotees who leave the movement also especially when they get old and they get some disease or they realize that actually there is no material enjoyment available in the world then they do come back to Krishna’s lotus feet and there are many stories, we don’t have the time to tell now but there are many stories of devotees who leave Krishna Consciousness because they feel there is not much happiness here and there is so much material enjoyment available but actually when they go to material life and see that actually there is only suffering then eventually they come back to Krishna Consciousness so that is how we understand that less people come but people who sometimes come if they don’t practice properly