Feb 02 2025 38 mins 1
There was a pūjārī here for many years, taking care of this Deity, and something amazing happened to him that increased his faith a million-fold in Advaita Ācārya. Should I say what it is? He was sitting here one day, and he saw Westerners come here. They were chanting just like we were when we came in, and they were offering obeisances to Advaita Ācārya and walking over. It was the first time he had ever seen Western people come here. And he approached one of them and said, "Who are you? Where did you come from?" And they said, "Oh, we're disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda." The man broke into tears, and he said, "He did it, he did it."
And then he told them the story that one day, when he was here in this lonely place because not many people used to come here, he saw a sādhu all alone come here, sit down, and was praying all day long here. He approached him and asked him who he was and what he was doing. This sādhu told him that, "My spiritual master has given me an impossible assignment, at least in my life I don't see how it's possible because I'm now approaching seventy years old, and he asked me to go to the West to teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the Westerners.
And he said I have no money. I'm trying to get passage on a ship to go to America, and I have to fulfill the order of My Spiritual Master, but I'm not sure how it will happen. I just know I have to do it, and therefore I've come here to pray to Advaita Ācārya, who's the one who inaugurated the Krishna Consciousness Movement by inviting Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu."
That man never saw that sādhu again, ever, until these Westerners came back here and showed him a picture of the Back to Godhead magazine. There was Prabhupāda with his international movement. He had reached every continent of the world, and people everywhere were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. He had opened 108 temples, and that Bhagavad-gītā class, just like Advaita Ācārya had started here hundreds of years ago, was now going on in Des Moines, Iowa; London, Mombasa, Toledo, Siberia, San Francisco, Bolivia - La Paz, Argentina, Toronto. I mean, there's a huge community in Toronto. How did it get there? It started here with Prabhupāda's prayers, and we can go on all day, shouting out cities, and we'll know that it's there. The Bhagavad-gītā, as it is, is being taught in all these places. So this There was a pūjārī here for many years, taking care of this Deity, and something amazing happened to him that increased his faith a million-fold in Advaita Ācārya. Should I say what it is? He was sitting here one day, and he saw Westerners come here. They were chanting just like we were when we came in, and they were offering obeisances to Advaita Ācārya and walking over. It was the first time he had ever seen Western people come here. And he approached one of them and said, "Who are you? Where did you come from?" And they said, "Oh, we're disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda." The man broke into tears, and he said, "He did it, he did it."
And then he told them the story that one day, when he was here in this lonely place because not many people used to come here, he saw a sādhu all alone come here, sit down, and was praying all day long here. He approached him and asked him who he was and what he was doing. This sādhu told him that, "My spiritual master has given me an impossible assignment, at least in my life I don't see how it's possible because I'm now approaching seventy years old, and he asked me to go to the West to teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the Westerners.
And he said I have no money. I'm trying to get passage on a ship to go to America, and I have to fulfill the order of My Spiritual Master, but I'm not sure how it will happen. I just know I have to do it, and therefore I've come here to pray to Advaita Ācārya, who's the one who inaugurated the Krishna Consciousness Movement by inviting Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu."
And then he told them the story that one day, when he was here in this lonely place because not many people used to come here, he saw a sādhu all alone come here, sit down, and was praying all day long here. He approached him and asked him who he was and what he was doing. This sādhu told him that, "My spiritual master has given me an impossible assignment, at least in my life I don't see how it's possible because I'm now approaching seventy years old, and he asked me to go to the West to teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the Westerners.
And he said I have no money. I'm trying to get passage on a ship to go to America, and I have to fulfill the order of My Spiritual Master, but I'm not sure how it will happen. I just know I have to do it, and therefore I've come here to pray to Advaita Ācārya, who's the one who inaugurated the Krishna Consciousness Movement by inviting Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu."
That man never saw that sādhu again, ever, until these Westerners came back here and showed him a picture of the Back to Godhead magazine. There was Prabhupāda with his international movement. He had reached every continent of the world, and people everywhere were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. He had opened 108 temples, and that Bhagavad-gītā class, just like Advaita Ācārya had started here hundreds of years ago, was now going on in Des Moines, Iowa; London, Mombasa, Toledo, Siberia, San Francisco, Bolivia - La Paz, Argentina, Toronto. I mean, there's a huge community in Toronto. How did it get there? It started here with Prabhupāda's prayers, and we can go on all day, shouting out cities, and we'll know that it's there. The Bhagavad-gītā, as it is, is being taught in all these places. So this There was a pūjārī here for many years, taking care of this Deity, and something amazing happened to him that increased his faith a million-fold in Advaita Ācārya. Should I say what it is? He was sitting here one day, and he saw Westerners come here. They were chanting just like we were when we came in, and they were offering obeisances to Advaita Ācārya and walking over. It was the first time he had ever seen Western people come here. And he approached one of them and said, "Who are you? Where did you come from?" And they said, "Oh, we're disciples of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda." The man broke into tears, and he said, "He did it, he did it."
And then he told them the story that one day, when he was here in this lonely place because not many people used to come here, he saw a sādhu all alone come here, sit down, and was praying all day long here. He approached him and asked him who he was and what he was doing. This sādhu told him that, "My spiritual master has given me an impossible assignment, at least in my life I don't see how it's possible because I'm now approaching seventy years old, and he asked me to go to the West to teach Kṛṣṇa consciousness to the Westerners.
And he said I have no money. I'm trying to get passage on a ship to go to America, and I have to fulfill the order of My Spiritual Master, but I'm not sure how it will happen. I just know I have to do it, and therefore I've come here to pray to Advaita Ācārya, who's the one who inaugurated the Krishna Consciousness Movement by inviting Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu."
