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Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,<\/p>\nHare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,<\/p>\n
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupad and Gurudev.<\/p>\n
Recently I heard an awe-inspiring incident from one of the devotees. There was a very very notorious criminal,(who had two files full of crirminal records) in one of the Far-east countries and the police were on the look out for that person. The criminal decided to hide himself in the Hare Krishna Temple. After staying in the temple for a few months, his heart was purified and he ultimately changed to a devotee. He had his head-shaven and started distributing books to various people. Once while he was distributing books, he was recognized by the police and they took him to jail. Because of the severity of his criminal acts, the government wanted to send him to an island (Hard core criminals are sent to island for the sentenced period and also to avoid prisoners escaping from the jail, they give an injection so that it tranquilizes their brain. They forget their original identity and they become almost like a vegetable). The devotees of the temple went and pleaded to the police commissioner to release the devotee as he had completely changed his way of life.<\/p>\n
But the Commissioner expressed his inability that because of the huge criminal records, the devotee has to undergo the punishment and there is no escape from that. The prisoners in the camp were very badly treated. The police used to throw loaves of bread on the ground and the criminals had to fight among themselves like dogs to get the morsel of bread. Since the temple devotees requested a lot, the Commissioner agreed not to give injection to this devotee since he has changed totally. The devotee was sent to this island and after few months the Commissioner went there to see the status of criminals in that island. To his astonishment there was no more throwing of bread to the prisoners. Each prisoner will get his loaf of bread and then they would offer it to the Radha-Krishna deity they had made out of sand and then take them as prasadam. All the prisoners were chanting the Mahamantra and they were completely transformed into devotees by associating with the criminal turned devotee. The Commissioner came back from island and informed the temple about the developments in the island and he was quite happy about transformation of character of such notorious criminals including the devotee criminal. He was completely stunned at the whole episode and decided to reduce the sentence of the devotee criminal in the island.<\/p>\n
This Hare Krishna movement as predicted by HDG Bhaktivinod Thakura and Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, has inundated every nook and corner of the world. This of course reminds us our beloved Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada whose invaluable contribution has really created a revolution in this world of deterioration.<\/p>\n
This reminds of a beautiful verse in Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.11,<\/p>\n
tad-vaag-visargo janataagha-viplavo yasmin prati-shlokam abaddhavaty api naamaany anantasya yasho ‘nkitaani yat shrnvanti gaayanti grnanti saadhavah<\/em><\/p>\n “On the other hand, that literature which is full of descriptions of the transcendental glories of the name, fame, forms, pastimes, etc., of the unlimited Supreme Lord is a different creation, full of transcendental words directed toward bringing about a revolution in the impious lives of this world’s misdirected civilization. Such<\/p>\n transcendental literatures, even though imperfectly composed, are heard, sung and accepted by purified men who are thoroughly honest.”<\/p>\n Srila Prabhupad in his unparalleled purport gives how the transcendental literatures can create a revolution.<\/p>\n “But a saint is far above the level of an ordinary man. He is always absorbed in glorifying the Supreme Lord because by broadcasting the holy name and fame of the Supreme Lord, the polluted atmosphere of the world will change, and as a result of propagating the transcendental literatures like Srimad-Bhagavatam, people will become sane in their transactions.”<\/p>\n The revolution was possible in the island because of the devotee’s (originally criminal) unflinching faith in Srila Prabhupada and the Holy name of the Lord.<\/p>\n I used to wonder that inspite of my little knowledge about the sastras, Why I am not able to convince even few people who are pious and religious to chant the holy names of the Lord. Now I understand that the reason is the lack of faith in Srila Prabhupad and his books. I therefore pray at the lotus feet of Gurudev and Lord Sri Krishna to shower their mercy by instilling unflinching faith in Srila Prabhupada which alone is the only way for perfection.<\/p>\n Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupad ki jai! <\/p>\n Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupad and Gurudev Why I am not able to convince even few people who are pious and religious to chant the holy names of the Lord. Now I understand that the reason is the lack of faith in Srila Prabhupad and his books. I therefore pray at the lotus feet of Gurudev and Lord Sri Krishna to shower their mercy by instilling unflinching faith in Srila Prabhupada which alone is the only way for perfection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSajjana priya Krishna Das
\nAbudhabi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Hare](\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bhakade.jpg\")
By Sajjana priya Krishna Das<\/strong><\/p>\n