When Maya is so powerful, what is our hope for being delivered?

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world is so vast and the temptations are so many the illusory ocean is so big so how can we what is the hope that we can go across this ocean our hope is Krishna now devotee may be helpless but a devotee is never hopeless sometimes in a situation where there seems to be no solution so we may think that there is no help but there is always hope because Krishna is still with us so Gajendra prays that my dear lord you are please have mercy on me and liberate me from this animal body which I caught liberate me from this body and he says why should you liberate you are yourself free and yes I am free but you are bound by your own karma you deserve it but you are extremely merciful so even if somebody is undeserving you will give mercy to that person I gave you mercy so many times you kept neglecting it my dear lord you never get tired of giving mercy so please don’t get tired of me so yes we have gone through millions of lifetimes that is true but it is also true that Krishna has gone through with us millions of lifetimes so Krishna has not given up on us for millions of lifetimes why should we think of giving up in only one lifetime in this life we keep practicing bhakti Krishna is there to help us and as I said the devotees if our focus is on the temptations to be overcome then sooner or later we will be overcome but if our focus is on Krishna who is beyond the temptations who can lift us beyond the temptations Krishna says in 12.67 in the Bhagavad Gita he says that if you fix your consciousness on me soon without much delay I will liberate you from existence so Krishna is our hope and when we feel that there are big problems and there is big discouragement happening then we need to associate with those who will encourage us we need to have some friends who see the potential within us and who give us encouragement and positivity when Sita was abducted by Ravana month after month after month it was just going on and on and one time one of the demons he was a sorcerer magician in the Ravana’s army he made a effigy of Ram and he cut off the head and then Ravana came there he said you were so proud that Ram will come and rescue you just see I didn’t even have to fight my demon went and killed him I threw the head and the corpse Sita was shattered she fainted over there and she came back to consciousness you know Ravana was jeering at her and she looked at her she said oh the astrologer said that I would never be able to save you and die with my lord Ravana said what happened he thought she will come to me but instead of coming to me she is getting grief he said I don’t want to tolerate this woman crying because Ravana is not to save her for a long time so he is not going to save her now he cried tears his eyes and repeated One time a devotee wrote to him and said that, Prabhupada, I want to assist you in saving fallen souls all over the world. And Prabhupada wrote back, then he said, yes, it is good to save the whole world, but first we should save ourselves. It is like somebody is over ambitious, isn’t it? Prabhupada calmed him down.
Another time, another devotee wrote to Prabhupada, Prabhupada, you know, I have so many anarthas. I am utterly useless. What can I do for you, Prabhupada? So, Prabhupada wrote back a letter, I need many useless souls like you who can help me in saving all the souls all over the world.
So, Prabhupada, he was an expert, depending on the mood. So, if somebody is discouraged, at that time, the devotees around should take it as a responsibility to encourage that person. So, all of us will stumble, all of us will sometimes fall, and we all need an association that will encourage us.
And both, we ourselves try to fix our focus on Krishna and rather than on the problems that are there, the conditionings, the temptations, and also we strive to associate with those who help us fix our vision on Krishna. Hare Krishna. On behalf of all of you, I want to thank this great gentleman, Dharam Prabhu, for this speech to the head, and Dharmasundari Mataji for the speech to the heart.
Thank you all very much. Let us express our appreciation by loudly chanting three times Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna.
Hare Krishna. Hare Krishna. We’ll have a question and answer session in future, so if any of you have questions, you can note them down.
Not now. You can note them down, and do you have some place to submit? Or we’ll inform later? We’ll inform. You can note them down and we’ll be having a full session of question and answers in future.
Thank you. Thanks. Bookings can be made outside? Yeah.
Thank you, Prabhupada. Wonderful. Very nice lecture.
So much, so much to learn. The last one was beautiful. Yeah, very beautiful.
We were discussing yesterday. I said, why we haven’t heard of this before? Like, you know. Nowhere, even Amritsar, anywhere, we have tried to sing this before and all.