If someone says the sparks of Krishna’s splendor are enough for me how can we connect them with Krishna?
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if somebody says that the sparks are good enough for me how would I answer them yes, the sparks give a very little pleasure but when one does not have any experience of any higher pleasure that is what I want if somebody is starving and they don’t have any food you tell him give up this rukhi chapat no, how can I live without it it’s when they get a taste of a big feast you want more of this feast, give up this chapat then they can get it so the point is, the whole process of bhakti is about giving experience of higher reality of giving experience of higher happiness pratyaksha avagamam dharmyam su-sukham karmam 9.25 verses can directly experience so what we can do is we give people the opportunity to experience Krishna and sometimes even after that people may not be ready at that time in the Bhagavatam there is a story in the 11th canto of a king named Pururava he was infatuated with Urvashi and to get Urvashi he worshipped Vishnu now he was seeing Vishnu but he asked Vishnu please give me Urvashi so that means he was not ready for Vishnu at that time but his darshan of Vishnu did not go in vain later on he realized, yes I should have been desiring Vishnu so if we give people the experience of Krishna according to whatever is possible then it is up to them not everyone will be ready for spiritual growth right now so sooner or later whatever they are infatuated with right now sooner or later they will realize that it is disaccommodating that it doesn’t live up to its promise when they realize that then what is the course that they will explore so we can try to philosophically explain to people that yes this will make a spark but sometimes people don’t get it philosophically just give them an experience and then keep the door open for them it’s not that they are bad people because they are not practicing bhakti they are just smart men different people are at different stages in their spiritual evolution and if you just keep the door open for them then whatever they are doing, they realize that this doesn’t work then they will come towards Krishna so somebody is retired