But when Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu comes to the world, "pātra apātra-vicāra nāhi," He doesn't care who the recipient is, whether their mode is goodness or their mode is ignorance. And we find that people everywhere are astounded by the mercy of Caitanya Mahāprabhu when it comes upon them. In fact, several years ago, when I was here in Laguna Beach, this jewel by the ocean, this temple that is a jewel by the ocean, we went out on book distribution, then out several times together, and then one day we went to an area where there were tire shops, pizza parlors, hair salons, and nail salons, because they are ubiquitous in the world.

And we also found a bar. And are we allowed to walk into a bar as Vaiṣṇavas? Don't answer. I'm going to answer for you. Everybody: pātra apātra-vicāra nāhi, nāhi sthānāsthāna, yei yāṅhā pāya, tāṅhā kare prema-dāna." Seven of us approached the bar right here in SoCal, Orange County, on a fine, sunny morning, wearing dhōtīs, tilaka, and sārīs, and we walked up to the bar, and there was a man taking a breather, leaning against the door on the outside. I looked at him, he looked at me. No words were exchanged. He pulled out $20 and gave it to me. We went in the bar and went table to table, and we could perceive that there was a sense of relief from the people there and their absolute boredom doing the same old thing, not being able to come out of the rut, that we were there, intervening in their lives.

When we left that place, I turned to the devotees, and I said, "Why did that guy hand me $20 with no questions asked, no words spoken?" And one devotee, with a very knowing look on his face, said, "He felt embarrassed." And this is the embarrassment of the soul here in the material world hanging around, loitering. The whole material world is a Costco parking lot, or even worse, a 7-11), and there's a sign on every one of them that says, "Don't hang around, buddy. We're here to make money," and that's the material world. When people get tired of that and they want something heartfelt, something real, a relationship that's eternal and perceivably loving, not tit for tat, they surrender to Lord Caitanya. He's there, ready to reach out to us, and anyone who comes in contact with that mood of the devotees who are pātra apātra-vicāra nāhi, they don't care who you are. They just know you're a spirit soul inside, and they want to give you the same access to the spiritual world as they got. And when they realize that's what we're doing, they want to join.

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