—Rudradas

This material world is full of misery and ignorance. It is comprised of wars, prejudice, sexual perversion, quarrel and divorce. So we the young are thrust into this chaos and told to get a job and become nice respectable citizens. Those with the intelligence see the nonsense of this proposition and dropout. From there a search is started. We know the answers do not lie in this society of hypocrites, murderers and fools. But where do we go? Where do we turn? Immediately most take to drugs and sex life. But no matter how many trips and how many sexual experiences we are not satisfied. There is not peace. So here we are completely confused and yet despite all this confusion we keep hoping something or someone will come and show us something, a way, truth.

Three years ago Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta tame to this Western world at the age of seventy and thus fulfilled the desire of His Spiritual Master and the desire of the Supreme Being Krishna. He brought us, the seekers of the truth, chanting! dancing! feasting! Not just an hour a day or once a week, but a most sublime and ecstatic knowledge that we his initiated disciples enjoy every minute of every day of every week.

All it requires to follow this pure devotee is to realize that we are ignorant. Our knowledge of the truth amounts to nothing. Everyone is walking around claiming, "I think this, or I think that," and yet they obviously radiate no peace or love and are always in anxiety. Even those who are trying to find God have no concept of what they are trying to find. Most people tend to think of the Supreme Being as an unfeeling computer located in some distant place pushing buttons for the rain to fall and pushing buttons for the sun to shine. Or the latest arising trend is to say that I am God, you are God and we have just forgotten it.

What utter nonsense. The Supreme Truth, the Creator, does not forget. How could God be subject to birth, death, disease, or old age? So Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta has given us, at last we can finally know, the knowledge. The Supreme Truth is not a massive computer, but actually He has a spiritual body, a spiritual name and a spiritual world where all eternally liberated spirit souls are dwelling in a loving relationship with the Supreme Personality Krishna! So at last there is a person, a divine person, who has brought us complete truth, the final truth, as is said in The Bhagavad-gita, beyond the White Light, the unmanifested, the complete Truth-Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

So let us stop our speculative nonsense of saying I think this and I think that and let us learn from and surrender unto this humble, loving and knowledgeable spiritual master, one who is in direct disciplic succession from when Krishna appeared on this planet five thousand years ago. He is the spiritual master of the world for He is bringing us knowledge of Krishna. What other so-called spiritual master is doing this? He brings us the complete truth, not just a partial truth. So everyone please take the time out to submissively examine what this divine saint is giving us. You will find that He will answer every question you can ask and the answers are backed up by the authority of the Vedas. You will find that this is not an emotional movement but a movement of knowledge. So take up this yoga of bhakti or devotion to Krishna and follow Krishna's representative and dance in ecstasy, and as you follow your love for this saint will grow a blossom like a flower and if you please the spiritual master then you please Krishna. And just seeing Prabhupad just once who could not immediately feel this attraction for Him? He radiates complete Peace, Love and Knowledge.

There are so many things to be said about Prabhupad, but who could ever do Him justice? How can one even hope to describe a pure devotee of Krishna?

-Rudradas