So we can see that it is the desire of the pure devotee. Whatever Krsna wants, He does not have to work at all. His desires are immediately fulfilled simply by His desiring. Everything is fulfilled. By Krsna's finger signal the whole material creation is created, brought about, and it's maintained by His separate energies. And everything is annihilated by Krsna's will and created again. And Krsna, He is fulfilling all His infinite desires in the spiritual world also. So as Krsna's desires are immediately fulfilled, the pure devotee's desires are also fulfilled. That's because he is one with the Lord. His interests are the same are Krsna's. This is the oneness, that the pure devotee has no desire but to see that Krsna is satisfied. And so by Srila Prabhupada's desiring this to come about, praying to Krsna, therefore the devotees also praying and endeavoring have brought about that now Toronto is situated in such a nice temple, and just since opening that temple now so many new devotees have come and joined. So it's now very firmly situated in this big North American city to go on spreading Krsna consciousness.

So we should be always so grateful to Srila Prabhupada, not only for coming and visiting us in our temples, whereby we can actually see in this instance how by his visit this came about, that a year later now such a big, big temple is there... That anyone can plainly see. It is phenomenal. It can be seen. But also we should be grateful that by his instructions... Because the physical presence is not always appreciable. Sometimes he is here and some, then he is not here. But always Srila Prabhupada is with us by our following his instructions. We simply have to be obedient to these instructions. As Srila Prabhupada was saying last night in the initiation lecture, that human life is meant to follow these instructions of tapo-divyam [SB 5.5.1], going to the difficulty of giving up sinful habits, meat-eating, illicit sex, intoxication, gambling, and engaging in chanting Hare Krsna. So we do these things very sincerely, then we shall always have Srila Prabhupada guiding us. Krsna is in the heart, and when Krsna in the heart sees that we are trying to follow the instructions of the pure devotee, who's also a manifestation of Krsna... Krsna within is the Supersoul. Krsna manifested before is us the spiritual master. So the Lord within the heart will see that we are trying to follow the instructions of the spiritual master and will enlighten us how to always stay strong in Krsna consciousness, how to always feel the direct association and direction of the spiritual master by obedience to his instructions. So all these things we'll realize more and more if we simply faithfully stick to Prabhupada's instruction, and his main instruction is that we simply all be happy and engage in Krsna consciousness.

So just like Prahlada Maharaja, Srila Prabhupada, even at this advanced age, in spite of so many difficulties... Just like I'm somehow or another Srila Prabhupada's secretary, and I'm always trying to arrange for his physical comforts. But he's always saying, "To preach means to accept discomfort," that for an older person to travel on airplanes and to always move about and to go here and there for the service of the Lord is naturally more difficult than for a very young person. But Prabhupada is accepting this uncomfortable situation simply to establish Krsna consciousness throughout the world, at least to give people the opportunity that "Choose, if you like, between the internal potency and the external potency." The external potency means you're forced. We have no choice. We're forced to undergo repetition of birth and death. Janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi [Bg. 13.9]. Nobody likes to grow old, but this youthful age, soon it will become old age. And nobody likes to die. So present-day civilization is blindly going on. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanas: [SB 7.5.31] the blind leading the blind. People are thinking that "My parents did it. Their parents did it. Generations have done it. So also we engage blindly in materialistic way of life and everything will be okay." But the result is that everyone is simply suffering, and after this lifetime they also have to suffer the consequences of this present life's activities blindly, not knowing that they're responsible for their activities.

So we have a choice now whether to follow a representative of God, Krsna, who can bring us to the internal potency of the Lord. This internal potency is not dry. It is the origin of bliss, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1]. It is not impersonal, void, lifeless, without any happiness. It is what everyone is actually looking for, simply pervertedly within this material world. So this opportunity is here. Before Prabhupada came to the Western countries, actually there was no hope. There was no hope at all. There was no such knowledge, there was no such opportunity to choose between material life and something else. There was no reality other than this body, and for everyone it was simply a very hopeless, distressful situation. But Prabhupada personally, even at advanced age, he's coming simply to give this opportunity to the Westerners and to everyone throughout the world, that besides this material life, there is another, eternal life, and if you utilize your independence very carefully to transfer your attachment to this internal potency of devotional service and service to the Vaisnavas and to Krsna, then you can become free forever from the encumbrance of repeated birth and death and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the great fortune that has come upon us in the form of this Krsna consciousness movement, in the form of association with the pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada, and in the form of chanting the holy name. In so many ways we are being benedicted, and if we can simply remain fixed in the pure knowledge of Krsna consciousness and we don't become illusioned by this material energy, thinking just like the animal that there's some happiness there... The animal is running after the mirage, but there's no water there. Similarly the foolish human beings, as Prabhupada aptly mentioned the other day to these professors who came to visit him, the dog is running with four legs, here and there, very, very busy, and the human being also he's running, but he's running in an automobile with four wheels. But he's thinking that his running is superior to the dog's running. Why? He's very busy running here and there for the same activities, and the dog is running with four legs. The activities are the same. So without culture the running in the car and the running of the dog is the same. So this Krsna culture is now being spread all throughout the world. It's giving people to see how actually human life should be lived. And the temple is a place where practically we can set an ideal example of human life for the whole of human society. Therefore we're greatly indebted to Srila Prabhupada.

The material world is created for a specific purpose by the Supreme Lord. That purpose is to give a chance to the forgetful living beings who have tried to exercise independence from Krsna to once again understand their position. They're put into various conditions of material existence in order to learn that they are not the enjoyers and controllers. Krsna is the supreme enjoyer. Param isvara. He's the supreme controller. Everything is meant for His satisfaction. In Bhagavad-gita Krsna is described, describes Himself, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8], that "All material and spiritual worlds are created by Me. Everything is emanating from Me." So created by Krsna for His pleasure, just as a father or a man takes a wife and has children and gets a house and he expands himself in this way for enjoyment. He tries to enjoy by expanding his influence in the material world. So this is because he's part and parcel of Krsna, and he has the same tendency as Krsna. Krsna is the supreme enjoyer, and He has expanded Himself in multi-energies to enjoy Himself, and the conditioned souls are also part of that multifarious energy. They are called marginal. Jiva-sakti. And that means they can go one way or the other. They can choose to use their independence to please Krsna or they can choose to use their independence otherwise. That otherwise means that they must come to the material world. That is Krsna's purpose in creating the material worldto give a chance to these foolish living entities to revive their eternal relationship with Krsna and go back to home back to Godhead.

So within human society... This is also stated in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye: [Bg. 7.3] "Out of many thousands of men, one may endeavor for perfection. And of many such perfected men, hardly one knows Me in truth." So the material world is a very dangerous place. The living beings within the material world are ksatram. They do not know the purpose of life. They are simply interested in their own advancement, somehow or other. So they engage in all kinds of destructive activities which cause harm to themselves and to others. So this is the condition of the material world. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada has stated that this is no place for a gentleman. In the material world everyone is, just as we are observing... I was visiting the Krsna consciousness farm in British Columbia, and on the road we were passing large herds of beef cows. We were discussing that the farmer thinks of these cows not as spirit souls but as commodities. He simply puts them in a field to eat, and when they get big enough, kills them and takes the money for his enjoyment. He doesn't see that these are living entities, spirit souls. So this activity of the human beings, killing the cows, helpless cows by the thousands daily, is causing the..., or is an indication that there is no merciful quality in the human beings. They are simply interested in their own aggrandizement and welfare. If they don't surrender to Krsna, that is the only alternative.

Therefore Krsna comes and canvasses, and He tells the conditioned souls, "You must surrender to Me." And if one chooses not to surrender to Krsna, that means that he himself wants to become Krsnawithout any qualification. The spirit soul is infinitesimal spark of Krsna. And that spark, when not in touch with Krsna, the fire, becomes like the sparks of the fire not in contact with the fire: extinguished. So there is no good qualities for the living beings who are outside Krsna consciousness. So the four types of men who surrender to Krsna, they're doing so with some selfish interest. All of the conditioned souls are acting for their own selfish interest. They do not know otherwise. But somehow or other, if one of the conditioned souls will surrender to Krsna by the grace of a pure devotee, then that immediately puts him into a situation of becoming purified. The greatest purification is to come in touch with a pure devotee of the Lord. There are many many ritualistic activities prescribed in the Vedic literatures for gradual purification. But, as Srila Rupa Gosvami points out in his Upadesamrta, what is the good of undergoing so much atonement and pious activity if the heart remains contaminated and the living entity remains sinful, ready to..., just acting for his own benefit? Therefore the greatest opportunity for the conditioned soul is when he gets the chance to associate with a pure devotee of the Lord.

The pure devotee of the Lord instructs the conditioned soul to engage in activities just to please Krsna, as Srila Rupa Gosvami explains. Anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady anavrtam [Brs. 1.1.11]. Without any separate interest, no mixture of jnana or karma, no desire for sense gratification or acquisition of knowledge, just to engage in activities for the pleasure of the Supreme. This is the perfection. Otherwise, without coming in touch with a pure devotee of the Lord no one could understand this. And especially in this age of Kali when the human society is so degraded, that if it weren't for some laws prohibiting, and even despite those laws, the human beings are engaged in cut-throat activities, killing one another. Just like this abortion. Now they've passed some law which allows killing. So now it is going on, wholesale slaughtering, by mothers of their own children. This is the condition of human society.

So the International Society for Krishna Consciousness is specifically formed by Srila Prabhupada to help those of us who are lost and entangled in this material condition to associate with one another under his guidance and achieve, by this process recommended by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, chanting the holy name, we can achieve rapid purification, and in this one lifetime, Srila Prabhupada has promised that we can go back to home back to Godhead. So we should try to cooperate together. There is no other purpose. Once one comes in touch with the pure devotee and understands his message, and there's no other purpose for living in this material world than to serve the mission of the Lord. And that mission of the Lord as already explained, is to reclaim the conditioned souls who have fallen into the material world and are lost, helplessly entrapped. So we should try and cooperate together. Learn Srila Prabhupada's instructions very perfectly and try to carry them out, following the four regulative principles, chanting sixteen rounds and working together to spread the Krsna consciousness movement all over the world so that its influence can affect all the living beings who are living on the face of the earth. Actually in the Caitanya-caritamrta, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami has stated that the Krsna consciousness movement will spread all over the universe. So Srila Prabhupada is undoubtedly empowered by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He's doing such wonderful service, spreading Krsna consciousness all over this globe and we should pray that we can help in some small way. Thank you very much.

This is Indian culture, they should be proud that Indian culture is being accepted by the foreigners. And they are living, they are becoming bara sahib? What is this? Now it is your duty to deliver these bara sahibs. That they are not taking interest in Krsna consciousness. So is there any other outsider Indian present?