If we see wrongdoers go unpunished in our movement, what should we do?
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So, if we see some people who have done something wrong and still they seem to have had no consequences and they are just going along unpunished.
What can we do about it? See, in our life we all have to choose our battles. If a soldier is fighting now the same soldier cannot fight with 10 soldiers of the same type. The soldier might say, I will fight with this soldier after I finish fighting with this soldier then I can fight with that soldier.
Then I can fight with that soldier. So, we all have to choose our battles. So, when we choose our battles, we choose that area on which we have some chance of winning, some chance of some controlling.
So, just as there are many things wrong in the material world, we can’t go about setting all of them right. Now, what we feel in one small area where we feel inspired, we may do something like that. So, like that sometimes even within the Krishna Consciousness movement there may be some things or many things that may be wrong.
We have to see what is in my control. And if we find something seriously wrong, then we can report to the necessary authorities and see if things can be corrected better. But if that doesn’t happen, now we have to be clear, what have I come to the Krishna Consciousness movement for? I have come to the Krishna Consciousness movement to practice Krishna Consciousness.
I have come here to practice Bhakti. So, while I am practicing Bhakti, if I can help others, if I can set things right for others, that’s good. Now, objectively speaking, I can say confidently that I can practice Bhakti much better in the Krishna Consciousness movement than outside it.
So now, whether everyone in the Krishna Consciousness movement is practicing Bhakti or not, I don’t know. There may be people who may come with some ulterior motives and they may be flourishing also. So I can’t, I don’t have the power to set everything right in the moment.
But I have come here to purify myself. I have come here to elevate myself. Does the Krishna Consciousness movement offer me facility for doing that? Yes, it offers me facility.
So let me take that facility. And if Krishna wants, if I am sincere in the service that I am doing right now, then Krishna will see that and Krishna will reciprocate by giving me more facility for service, more position or power for doing service. And then I can set bigger things right.
So, you know that, if we look for negativities, sometimes negativities are just visible directly to us also, but if we focus on them, then that is what we will see. And in that sense, Krishna is like a Kalpataru. If we come to Krishna for getting Bhakti, He will give us Bhakti.
But if we come to Krishna for seeing negativity, we will see negativity. If we come to Krishna for seeing controversy, we will see controversy. If we come to Krishna for seeing you know, offenses to others, we will see offenses to others.
So it’s not just that we come to the Krishna Consciousness movement, that is enough. It’s we come to the Krishna Consciousness movement for practicing Krishna Consciousness. Our purpose has to be clear enough.
And if we keep doing, if we keep that purpose clear, then we will find that there are wonderful facilities for practicing Krishna Consciousness. So I was just a few days ago with Ravindra Swarup Prabhu, senior Prabhupada disciple, and he was telling me that ISKCON is far worse than what we can imagine, and ISKCON is far better than what we can imagine. It is for us to decide what part of it we want to focus on.
See, ultimately this is Kali Yuga. And because it is Kali Yuga, people are contaminated. And some contaminated people may also come in the Krishna Consciousness movement.
So there are things going wrong here, but there are also things going right. And if we practice bhakti, we can see that things become right in our life also by the practice of bhakti. So we focus on practicing bhakti.
It sounds simple?