One Krishna Conscious Man Can Deliver Millions

Lord Sri Krishna explains in the Bhagavad-gita 3.21:

yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas
tat tad evetaro janaḥ
sa yat pramāṇaṁ kurute
lokas tad anuvartate

"Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues."

In this connection Srila Prabhupada says that if one man becomes Krishna conscious, he can deliver many millions of people. So just as the great Vaisnava acaryas who are now departed were very powerful for influencing millions of people to take up Krishna consciousness, it is now our duty that we should also become powerful Vaisnava acaryas to carry on with our family business of delivering the entire world.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada Out to Save the World

Srila Prabhupada Out to Save the World

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:

Question: Is Liberation Doing What You Don't Want to Do?

Dear Guruji,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

It is said that lord Krishna is the enjoyer, but if that is the case, isn't he the one who also suffers, i.e. the sufferer?

Also I have read from other gurus that liberation is not doing what we want but doing what we don't want. Is that correct? Does that mean that we shouldn't have any choices and just do what others tell us?

Thanks

Sameer

Answer: Liberation: Your Desires Are One With Krishna's Desires

Krishna does not suffer, He only enjoys His transcendental pastimes. But yet at the same time He is in great anxiety to see how much we are suffering here in this material world. Therefore He appears as Lord Caitanya to inaugurate the sankirtana movement for the deliverance of all the suffering souls back to home, back to Godhead.

Liberation does not means doing what you don't want to do. Liberation means doing what you really want to do. When one realizes that He is suffering in the material world birth after birth because he is not doing what Krishna wants him to do, he naturally wants to give up doing what he wants to do replacing it with what Krishna wants him to do. This is what he truly wants to do, and consequently he adopts the disciplined process of sadhana bhakti, regulated devotional service. Then as he progresses on the path of bhakti by always doing Krishna wants him to do, his desires become so much purified that he finds himself spontaneously wanting to do exactly the same things that Krishna wants him to do. This transformation gradually unfolds because his desires are now becoming one with the Lord's desires as he attains the platform of spontaneous love.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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