People keep asking me where these kids come from, and I say, "I don’t know but they are here now and it’s time for us to transform the world." No more pussyfooting around. We have to organize to get all the books translated into every language. There should be a marathon going on constantly for translation.
More paintings. Dhṛti said the day Prabhupāda left the world, she felt a void in her life. Because when she walked into the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, it was right during the Caitanya-caritāmṛta Marathon. And as soon as she landed in Los Angeles as just a little kid, practically, they took her to a room and said, “You know how to paint? Start painting.” And she didn’t stop until Prabhupāda left the planet. They would just bring her a little khichdi with some lime, and she stayed in there until Prabhupāda left about six years later, and then she said the music stopped.
The music shouldn’t stop. We should carry it on. It should be on every street corner in New York, in San Francisco. Who said baseline? Ekacakra Pran. It’s become the baseline now. The 100,008 (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam set distribution worldwide), we haven’t counted it all yet, so we’ll see. But we need bigger baselines in our own practice—a bigger baseline for hearing Prabhupāda’s books. If your baseline is nothing, you can increase by a 1,000% just by reading a page a day. But try to raise it by 10,000%. After all, we only have a few minutes left in our lives. It goes by in a flash.
labdhvā su-durlabhaṁ idaṁ bahu-saṁbhavānte
mānuṣyam arthadam anityam apīha dhīraḥ (SB 11.9.29)
It’s so temporary. Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita said to me, “I hope you live another 60-100 years.” And I said, “I’m hanging by a thread right now.” And it’s what Svavasa Prabhu and I always say to each other. One day I got out of the car in Los Angeles. I said, “How are you doing?” He said, “Hanging by a thread.” And now that’s what I say, too, because that’s the condition we’re all in. So on this day, Śrī Vyāsa-pūjā, we remember how kind Kṛṣṇa is that He writes it down for us in the form of Śrīla Vyāsadeva. Kṛṣṇa comes as Śrīla Vyāsadeva. He writes it down so we get the memo, so we can read it again and again and remember every morning what the goal of life is and not miss a day.
I thank all of you very much for your diligence in carrying out this saṅkīrtana and taking care of the Deities. We have devotees doing service all over the world. All of you who are doing services to maintain the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement—let us do it in a mood of surrender. And as the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam tells us, it’s the intention that counts for offering it to Kṛṣṇa with love, no expectation in return. Ahaituky apratihatā—becomes extremely valuable. (26:37)
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