2. Single-handed attack on an
entire civilization
Eg Arjuna at Virata

3. Flow from Bengali to
Sanskrit as in CC
From from personal
expression to scriptural
revelation

4. Dynamic dance between
•Dependence on Krishna &
•Diligence for Krishna

7. No followers,
No money,
No institutional support,
No sound health.

8. Opportunity to serve is
mercy
When the mind counts
problems, let the intelligence
count blessings

9. We can’t be grateful for
all situations, but we
can be grateful in all
situations

10. 1. Look at what is right
2. Look at the right that can set
the wrong right
3. Look for the future when right
will come out of the wrong

13. No uncertainty about perennial
intention
But uncertainty about practical
action inevitable in this messy
world

14. 1. Krishna is in control
2. Krishna has some
purpose

15. Not just certainty but
openness to possibility
Devotee: Perplexed, but
not discouraged

16. Shastra-chakshu
Seeing
not material prosperity,
but spiritual poverty

19. Not language, not culture,
not pronunciation
But lower modes

20. Sees deeper symptoms
and sees cure

21. Can be started in any
mode
But sustaining requires
goodness

24. Miracles are not against
nature, they are above
nature
Mercy can happen in
natural ways too

25. We don’t just believe in
miracles
We depend on miracles

26. Focus not on what you can
or can’t do – focus on
what Krishna can do
Eg Arjuna to Krishna

29. Rasika
Eg seeing Bharatnatyam
(SB 8.3.6)

30. Krishna’s mercy is
reciprocal, but not
necessarily proportional
Eg Bible story

31. Focus not on what you can
or can’t do – focus on
what Krishna can do
Eg Arjuna to Krishna

34. Mood: “I am not the
doer or deliverer
– you are.”

35. By his will, we have our will
Krishna is responsive, we
are responsible

38. We may trigger the
inner bulb, but we
don’t power it

39. Understanding means the
intelligence gets it
Realization means the
mind gets it

42. Same as Vyasadeva’s
vision (1.7.4-7)
Bhagavatam cleanses
the heart

43. Hear to realize the one who
is always near
Hear to perceive that
sensual pleasure is
never there

47. Ignorance – Past
Passion – Future
Goodness – Present
Pure Goodness – Krishna

48. Live in the present, but
don’t live for the present
– live for Krishna (1.7.7)

51. As long as our reference point is the
world, we can’t understand pure
devotee’s humility
When compared to Krishna’s purity
and love, our ability and effort
seems nothing

52. When we feel we can’t do
it, but Krishna can,
we stop coming in
Krishna’s way of doing
it through us

55. Despite our half-hearted,
distracted practices,
Krishna has got us so far.
He will take us all the way
too

56. If proud, look ahead to see
how far we have to go
If discouraged, look back to
see how far we have
come

59. What we are is Krishna’s
gift to us
What we become is our gift
to Krishna

60. •Let talent take us to the
source of the talent
•Work as worship, not work
is worship

63. While speaking, no agenda
except to benefit others
and to please Krishna

64. Why preach?
Simply sharing the
medicine that has
helped us Bg 6.32

67. Jesus: Let thy will be done
&
Arjuna: I will do your will

68. Our bonds are not a
prisoner’s shackles, but
a puppeteer’s strings
Dance for Krishna, not
Maya

71. Political: More open
immigration policy
Religious: Second Vatican
Council
Cultural: Counterculture

72. • “It’s an astonishing story. If someone told
you a story like this, you wouldn’t believe it.
Here’s this person, he’s seventy years old,
he’s going to a country where he’s never
been before, he doesn’t know anybody
there, he has no money, has no contacts. He
has none of the things, you would say, that
make for success.

73. • “He’s going to recruit people not on any
systematic basis, but just picking up
whomever he comes across and he’s going
to give them responsibility for organizing a
worldwide movement. You’d say, ‘What kind
of program is that?’

74. • There are precedents perhaps. Jesus of Nazareth
went around saying, ‘Come follow me. Drop your
nets, or leave your tax collecting, and come with
me and be my disciple.’ But in his case, he wasn’t
an old man in a strange society dealing with
people whose backgrounds were totally different
from his own. He was dealing with his own
community. Bhaktivedanta Swami’s achievement,
then, must be seen as unique.”
• Prof. Thomas Hopkins

75. Not mission impossible
But mission unstoppable
Gita 11.33 & 18.78