One thing to remember is that Kṛṣṇa is directly available to us all the time; it's just a matter of reaching out. I saw a video of somebody in the Los Angeles fires. It was a woman; it sounded like because you couldn't see her. She was someone holding the camera, and she was driving her car down the road where there's fire on all sides. And she started praying, 'Oh my God, please help me. Please save me.' And she drove through a tunnel, and when she came out the other side, it was even more fiery. And over and over again, she just kept saying, 'Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, please save me.' And I was just realizing how, as it says in the Bhāgavatam, we're always in danger at every step. It's only when we come to an awareness of our existential crisis that we actually pray to God. And everybody does it, but devotees are preemptive. They realize that Kṛṣṇa is my best friend. I'm eternally related to Him. It's sublime service just to chant His name, because that's my eternal relationship. It's just to glorify Him. And they follow His advice, 'sarva-dharmān parityajya,' don't get involved in all kinds of entangling activities in this world. Just chant the Lord's name. Thank you, everybody, for being stalwarts, keeping the transcendental vibration going. All good comes from remembering Kṛṣṇa, especially chanting His holy name and remembering Him in that way.

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