Because, to see Lord Caitanya’s mercy go out to the people of every town and village of the world, to see it, that is for me most wonderful because I’m seeing that pictures, the pastimes that are above in the spiritual world have come down to the ground, that they have come into my ugly, illusory world- “Oh have you also heard about the ugly, material world? The Age of Kali? It’s rapid, it’s everywhere, it’s bad- the material world?” No! In the midst of that bad material world, something very beautiful is happening, something amazing is happening- Lord Caitanya is touching the people everywhere! One year, here in Durban during Ratha Yatra, there was a swami visiting from the Gaudiya Math, and nice swami. So they sort of asked me to kind of look after him. So we were walking in the parade and at one point, the Maharaja he said, “Oh! Preaching, preaching, preaching in the West is very difficult- very, very diificult,” he said, “because the people, they don’t follow any standards. You’re trying but they don’t follow any standards.” I said to him, “Well, I appreciate that, I appreciate; that is true that in the West the standards are a little lower than in India, I know that. It is a fact, even in South Africa the standards are not as high as they are in Sridam Mayapura or in Vrndavana Dham. It is a fact; we become a little compromised with the modern way of life, you know what I mean! Such is life! But look, look, look at these African devotees- look at them- we are walking in the parade, we are talking. They’re not talking, not one of them is talking. From the beginning of the parade, from the beginning of the kirtana, not one of them has been talking, from the beginning of the kirtana they have been into it- absorbed! They have danced, they have chanted with their whole heart!” I said, “In that way, in that way they are lifetimes- lifetimes- advanced!”(HH KKS, Durban, SA, 2007)
