Saintly people can touch the heart of all. In this day and age, as soon as we speak about a saintly person, we turn to Srila Prabhupada first. He is the emblem for us of a saintly person. His qualities of saintliness are important and it is that which should be in the forefront in our spiritual life - to become saintly. It's not about belonging to a society, it's not about being part of a certain temple, it's not about belonging to a certain group of people. That's not enough. That's just some arrangement to give us some help and support in becoming saintly people.
Krsna says that the sadhus, the saintly persons, they are dear to Him. And Krsna is dear to the saintly persons and thus never for a moment, forgets the saintly persons. Not for a moment are they out of His mind.
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 11th April 2010, Durban, South Africa)
