How can we attract materially comfortable people who don’t feel the need for spirituality?
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thank you so if some people they don’t even realize they are spiritually sick they think everything is nice so how can we attract them towards bhakti yes the life in life we all go through different phases and sometimes in life we may be in a comfortable situation so actually preaching means to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comforted so preaching means to comfort the afflicted now say somebody has lost a loved one a close family member and then they are very grief struck at that time you should tell them actually Krishna is always there with you and Krishna will take care of you you have to comfort them you know they are already in distress and everything is temporary you lost one relative all other relatives are also going to lose them so they are actually hurt and we are hurting them more that is not preaching that is anti-preaching so preaching means to comfort the afflicted if somebody is in distress we have to assure them about Krishna’s love, Krishna’s guidance in the third canto I think Kardamani says that one who travels around the world assuring people of fearlessness in bhakti that person becomes very dear to the lord we all have fears in this world but when we connect with Krishna there is fearlessness over there so one aspect of preaching is that we comfort the afflicted another aspect is that preaching also involves afflicting the comforted afflicting the comforted means Prabhupada would say that when he went to America you have so much prosperity now so much wealth but how long is this going to last Prabhupada will give the example of JFK John F. Kennedy he was young powerful handsome influential he had the most powerful post in the world at that time and he had a landslide victory in his re-election and then just when he was going for his re-election address everything was over was over so I was just in Alachua Alachua is in America a couple of months ago there I met Ambarish Prabhu he is the descendant of Henry Ford very well fabulously wealthy person Henry Ford was and his descendants are also very wealthy so Ambarish Prabhu told me when he met Ambarish