Prabhupada’s war stratey for penetrating America

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Hare Krishna On the occasion of Shri Prabhupada’s arrival in America let’s contemplate on what this momentous event meant for all of us and in fact for the whole world it is one of the most courageous one of the most heroic one of the most historically unprecedented events in the history of the entire world that an old man almost 70 years old without any money without any contacts without any past experience of travel to the west goes all alone on a cargo ship and reaches America when Shri Prabhupada reached America for a normal human being all kinds of thoughts could have been there most Indians when they go to America they are thinking America is a land of opportunity and prosperity and they are dreaming of making it big in America an elderly person if he goes to America he will be worrying about safety and security what was Shri Prabhupada thinking about generally generally if a warrior wins a great victory in a battle, an unlikely victory a small army facing a big army and this warrior, this general leading the small army wins the war then people want to know what was the strategy, what was the action plan by which you achieved such an unlikely victory so what was going on in Shri Prabhupada’s mind what was his war strategy when he was going to launch a single handed attack on the greatest stronghold of the material energy in the modern world, it was America and in America from Boston Shri Prabhupada eventually went to New York city so we find out what was Shri Prabhupada’s battle plan, what was going on in his mind in the song Markini Bhagwat Dharma which he wrote when he saw the Boston fire and there we see how the heart of a devotee even when he is doing the most courageous, most extraordinary thing in the world is so filled with devotion humility, helplessness and simultaneously the greatest confidence when Shri Prabhupada saw the American skyline with its tall skyscraper buildings, with its fast cars and with its busy people Shri Prabhupada did not see happy, prosperous Americans as would most people have seen, he saw forgotten lost souls who had forgotten Krishna and were suffering in mortal existence, the souls who were overcome by the modes of passion and ignorance and with all the compassion of his heart Shri Prabhupada prayed Krishna make my words understandable to them so here we see Shri Prabhupada is completely rooted in Shastra the most impressive display of the mortal energy did not allure or attract Shri Prabhupada but inspired compassion in his heart and what did he pray? He had complete faith that if even these people who had never heard of Krishna, if they hear Bhagavad Katha, they will become sober and Shri Prabhupada prayed, I am going to speak it but I don’t know whether my words will be understandable to them, but Shri Prabhupada is praying this, he is not praying that my accent is un-understandable he is actually considering the great cultural conceptual barrier that separated him from his audiences and Prabhupada prayed Krishna make me dance, make me dance make me dance and we know how Krishna made Shri Prabhupada dance so wonderfully all around the world 14 times inspiring thousands and thousands of devotees to come closer and closer to Krishna so on this day we can meditate how Shri Prabhupada attempted the impossible and did the impossible preaching Krishna consciousness is not mission impossible it is mission unstoppable, because it is the mission of Krishna and Shri Prabhupada had that confidence because he had faith in Krishna so whenever we are faced with herculean obstacles in our sharing of Krishna consciousness then we can meditate on what Shri Prabhupada has done by the mercy of Krishna and by his determined faith and we can draw inspiration to overcome whatever small mountains we have to cross in our journey towards Krishna and in our endeavours to get others closer to Krishna so on this sacred day let us pray to Shri Prabhupada that he may grant us by his mercy a drop of that oceanic determination which he had for the service of Krishna if we get even a little bit of that determination then we will be able to scale whatever obstacles we are facing and be able to make our service and our life a worthwhile offering for Shri Prabhupada and the glorious mission of Lord Krishna that he has given to us and to the whole world. Thank you very much