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Prabhupada, \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to be critical, but to find the good is rare.\u201d
\nAniruddha: I had an ecstatic experience at the wonderful San Francisco Ratha-yatra, and I wrote Prabhupada a letter about what I felt.
\nPrabhupada answered, \u201cThe car festival was very simple. After all, it is a car with four wheels, but it attracted the people so enthusiastically because there was His Lordship, Jagannatha.
\n“Atheistic people may say that Jagannatha was made of wood, and the car was also made of wood, but spiritual bliss can be exacted from anything, simply in Krishna consciousness.
\n\u201cEven accepting the whole affair as wooden, a Krishna conscious person can understand that wood is nothing but a display of Krishna\u2019s energy. So it is the Krishna conscious energy that gives us transcendental bliss, just like it is the electric energy passing through a copper cable that gives us electric light and heat.
\n\u201cSimply the Krishna conscious electric energy can immediately be attractive by developing our sense of Krishna consciousness, which I am sure you are experiencing gradually how easily it can be done\u2026
\n\u201cTo implement this transcendental bliss to the people of your country there is immense work to be done ahead and this Ratha-yatra festival is only a sample. If we get the opportunity we shall be able to over flood your country with waves of transcendental bliss, by the grace of Krishna.
\n\u201cWe can introduce various other ceremonies in connection with Krishna and His different expansions or thing and become immersed in Krishna consciousness \u2026 There is not one incident like Ratha-yatra, but there are many hundreds of thousands of incidents in different appearances of the incarnations of Lord Krishna.
\n\u201cIn different cities and different centers we can introduce such multi-pastimes ceremonies of Lord Krishna. And certainly people will be engladdened to observe such transcendental and happy ceremonies.\u201d
\nThat was a very enlivening letter.
\nMakanlal, Nara Narayan\u2019s brother, was in San Francisco when I was there. He and his brother joined in San Francisco in the early days and were sincere devotees.
\nPrabhupada said that they were very nice but a little eccentric (Makanlal said it was all right for me to say this).
\nMakanlal and Nara-Narayan were long-haired hippies who wore typical clothes of those days and were a bit Shakespearean when they spoke.
\nWith a sonorous voice, Makanlal would chant, \u201cHare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,\u201d and it used to irritate me terribly. I would get disturbed during the kirtans.
\nThen once, Makanlal had a preaching engagement at the YWCA in Berkeley, and I drove Srila Prabhupada there and back.
\nThe engagement was very nice, but all of a sudden who was leading the kirtan but Makanlal and I showed my distaste\u2014I left the room. I was not very tolerant and didn\u2019t have the right understanding.
\nSo, when I was driving Prabhupada home, he looked at me and said, \u201cAniruddha, this Makanlal sings very nicely, don\u2019t you think?\u201d I had to say, \u201cJaya, Prabhupada.\u201d
\nManadena kirtaniyah sada harih. In a humble mode you can preach and chant incessantly, and that was Prabhupada\u2019s mode. He knew exactly how to utilize everybody\u2019s service.
\nEven though there were some qualities that were not very nice, he never found fault. He found only the good.
\nPrabhupada used to say, \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to be critical, but to find the good is rare.\u201d
\nI didn\u2019t have the ability to see only the good, but I\u2019m beginning to understand how magnificently Prabhupada had it.
\nTo see the good in others is the way to preach, the way to not disturb anybody.
\nPrabhupada was a perfect Vaishnava. One of the qualities of a pure Vaishnava is that he\u2019s a perfect gentleman.
\nHe doesn\u2019t disturb anybody\u2019s mind. He\u2019s able to see the good in others and evoke it.
\nThat\u2019s why we all wanted to serve Prabhupada, and that\u2019s why we have difficulty with people who don\u2019t evoke the good in us.
\nIt\u2019s very rare to achieve that ability in fullness. But we can achieve it if we follow Prabhupada\u2019s example.
\n\u2014Aniruddha
\nExcerpt from \u201cMemories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint\u201d
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Prabhupada, “It’s very easy to be critical, but to find the good is rare.”
\nAniruddha: I had an ecstatic experience at the wonderful San Francisco Ratha-yatra, and I wrote Prabhupada a letter about what I felt.
\nPrabhupada answered, “The car festival was very simple. After all, it is a car with four wheels, but it attracted the people so enthusiastically because there was His Lordship, Jagannatha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169","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\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65472,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions\/65472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}