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March 29. ISKCON 50 \u2013 S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations. March 29. ISKCON 50 – S.Prabhupada Daily Meditations.
\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Exploring His Western Audience.
\nSometimes his mood is light, and he commiserates with his fellow New Yorkers, chuckling about the difficulties they share: \u201cSuppose there is a heavy snowfall, the whole New York City is flooded with snow, and you are all put into inconvenience. That is a sort of suffering, but you have no control over it.\u201d Sometimes he praises Dr. Mishra\u2019s students for having learned so nicely from their teacher: \u201cNow, what Dr. Mishra is teaching is very nice. He is teaching that first of all you must know, \u2018Who am I?\u2019 That is very good, but that \u2018Who am I?\u2019 can be known from Bhagavad-gita also \u2013 \u2018I am not this body.\u2019\u201d And sometimes a guest suddenly speaks out with an irrelevant question, and the Swami patiently tries to consider it.
\nYet behind his tolerance, Prabhupada\u2019s mood is always one of urgency. Sometimes he talks quickly, and one senses his desire to establish Krishna consciousness in the West as soon as possible. He has no followers, only a few books, no temples, and he openly states that he is racing against time: \u201cI am an old man. I could leave at any time.\u201d So, behind the full delivery of Krishna conscious philosophy is an anxiety, an almost desperate desire to convince at least one soul to take up Krishna consciousness immediately.
\nNow the constrained situations of Butler and the Ananda Ashram and Dr. Mishra are behind him, he is free to speak about the Absolute Truth in full. Throughout his life he has prepared for this, yet he is still discovering the best ways to present Krishna, exploring his Western audience, testing their reactions.
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\nSatsvarupa dasa Goswami: Exploring His Western Audience.
\nSometimes his mood is light, and he commiserates with his fellow New Yorkers, chuckling about the difficulties they share: “Suppose there is a heavy snowfall, the whole New York City is flooded with snow, and you are all put into inconvenience. That is a sort of suffering, but you have no control over it.” Sometimes he praises Dr. Mishra’s students for having learned so nicely from their teacher: “Now, what Dr. Mishra is teaching is very nice. He is teaching that first of all you must know, ‘Who am I?’ That is very good, but that ‘Who am I?’ can be known from Bhagavad-gita also – ‘I am not this body.’” And sometimes a guest suddenly speaks out with an irrelevant question, and the Swami patiently tries to consider it.
\nYet behind his tolerance, Prabhupada’s mood is always one of urgency. Sometimes he talks quickly, and one senses his desire to establish Krishna consciousness in the West as soon as possible. He has no followers, only a few books, no temples, and he openly states that he is racing against time: “I am an old man. I could leave at any time.” So, behind the full delivery of Krishna conscious philosophy is an anxiety, an almost desperate desire to convince at least one soul to take up Krishna consciousness immediately.
\nNow the constrained situations of Butler and the Ananda Ashram and Dr. Mishra are behind him, he is free to speak about the Absolute Truth in full. Throughout his life he has prepared for this, yet he is still discovering the best ways to present Krishna, exploring his Western audience, testing their reactions.
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