Prabhupada Vyasapuja offering at Radha Gopinath temple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBt1D8u6us4

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
Hare Krishna among the many things about Prabhupada that are very inspiring one of the most inspiring for me is his song Markini Bhagavad Dharma which he composed when he was on the ship Jaladuta on the way to Vrindavan so Prabhupada is like a single handed warrior going to attack not just an army but a whole civilization because he is going to teach something which is radically opposed to the materialism rampant in the west and normally even for an ordinary war when a warrior goes the most treasured possession of the warrior is the weapon so what was the weapon which Prabhupada was going to use to counter the materialism of the west that he reveals in this prayer and essentially what is the prayer the whole prayer is centered on Krishna Katha so first there are Bengali verses which Prabhupada composes and then he quotes from the Bhagavad Dharma section of the first second chapter of the Bhagavatam where it talks about the potency of Krishna Katha so Prabhupada is saying that the Bhagavat Katha is the avatar of Krishna and if people hear it regularly then they will become sober and what is he praying to Krishna for? Please let people understand this message and please make my words understandable to them so this was the weapon that Prabhupada wanted to use and sometimes in a war a general may change the strategy depending on the kind of opposition that is there but if you look at Prabhupada’s life, the last purport that he wrote is in the 14th chapter of the 10th canto so there is also this video of Sri Prabhupada the final exam where Prabhupada is dictating this purport and what is one of the last statements that he made as an instruction he again quotes one of these verses so he says that by staying in the association of devotees, by hearing Krishna Katha you can become purified and you will ultimately go back to Krishna so normally it is said that if you want to know who a person is, look at that person’s, what that person does alone in private everybody likes to have a public profile which is often made up but what the person actually is, is understood in private so when Prabhupada composed Jal Doodh, Markine Bhagwat Dharma prayers it was completely in the privacy and the sanctity of the presence of Krishna in his heart and no one else in fact for many years these prayers were lost and Prabhupada found them later and it is a great treasure not just for devotees but also for devotee historians so now this is in one sense what Prabhupada wanted to perpetuate a culture of hearing which will lead to purification and this is what we all can try to assimilate, we hear Krishna Katha, we share Krishna Katha and we help others to also develop an attraction for Krishna Katha nowadays there is a great talk in our movement about being faithful to Shila Prabhupada so that we can carry on his legacy so many devotees have the understanding that being faithful to Prabhupada means to be chastising like Shila Prabhupada but it is also to be and more importantly to be loving like Shila Prabhupada now to learn to love like Shila Prabhupada without learning to to not learn to love like Shila Prabhupada but instead to learn to chastise like Shila Prabhupada can be a disservice to him so Prabhupada because of his love for Krishna would chastise whatever was Krishna what would ever take people away from Krishna so developing the love so that Shila Prabhupada had at least a drop of that for Krishna Katha and not just for Krishna Katha not just for hearing Krishna Katha or speaking Krishna Katha but also for love for the recipients of Krishna Katha the present recipients and the potential recipients that is how Shila Prabhupada attracted millions and millions of people during his times and he continues to attract thereafter also there is a famous historian of India A. L. Bashan he wrote that the way Bhaktivedant Swami came to America and spread what he considered he says a new religion from India in the west he says this has never happened in the history of the world and it is one of the most significant events in the religious history of the western world and of course Prabhupada spread not just in America but also in India and we are all fortunate recipients of Prabhupada’s great mercy there is another scholar Thomas Hopkins I will conclude with this he said you know if somebody were to write a fiction novel like this that an old man at the age of 70 went without money, without any contacts to a distant land and build a worldwide movement he said when that fiction story would go to the editor the editor would reject it as unrealistic it would not even get published because it is such an unbelievable fiction story but this is not fiction, this is reality and he says where have we seen in the history of the world that a person went and just attracted and transformed hundreds and hundreds and thousands of others he said one example could be Jesus, he called people and he told people people were fishermen, he said give up your fishing and become a fisherman of men and they followed him but still there are differences Jesus was addressing people who were born and brought up in his own culture and he was in the prime of youth when he was preaching. His Bhaktivedant Swami was in his advanced age he uses the word Bhaktivedant Swami Prabhupada’s affectionate title that his followers use for him says Bhaktivedant Swami was in old age and he was communicating with people who were culturally religiously, intellectually socially age wise, every way they were different from him and to communicate something to somebody who is so radically dissimilar that is an achievement which has no parallels in history and so Prabhupada did this how was he able to do it if you look at it, one circle of Shila Prabhupada he is a distinguished learned, conservative person born in a very cultured devotional family and his followers are with all due respect to them, at least they were uncultured, philosophically uneducated, religiously uninformed, so what was the circle of intersection between them and Shila Prabhupada, that was the transcendental Krishna Katha and it is through this Krishna Katha that Shila Prabhupada transformed so many people he will transform our hearts and he will keep transforming thousands of hearts for many many years to come so I pray to Shila Prabhupada on this sacred day that he give me a taste of this Krishna Katha and transform my heart and make me in some small way an instrument in sharing the message of love that he has given to the whole world, thank you very much Shila Prabhupada Ki Jai