The humble motto of a Sankirtan devotee (preaching the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu) is in the poem below.

For all those who sincerely attempt to preach the glories of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and help spread His message around the world, one WILL be tested.

Even though he/she is also having their own personal struggle within their heart against the temptations of lust and material attachment that Maya will try to use and exploit them with, one should NEVER give up attempting to serve their Spiritual Master even if one stumbles on the path and falls down.

Like a child learning to walk, one MUST get up and keep trying.

Remember, as soon as you attempt to serve and know Krishna, Maya WILL find in your heart and throw at you, the deep selfish desires hidden there, to see if it is REALLY service to Krishna you want.

This Soviet campaign we served 30 years ago was so massive that Maya threw EVERYTHING at us to see if it was really the Soviet devotees we wanted to help, or was there some hidden selfish desires for mundane sense gratification we really wanted.

Maya's duty is to test everyone who tries to know Krishna to make sure they are genuine.

And yes in some areas we did sadly fail but we NEVER gave up even in the face of failure.

In fact failure WAS the pillar of success, we prayed more intensely and sincerely "PLEASE my Lord use us in your plan, give us the strength to say no to temptation!

We never stopped praying to Prabhupada and attempting to free imprisoned Hare Krishna devotees in the Soviet Union.

This poem by an American President Theodore Roosevelt tells our struggle, our story -

"The credit really belongs to the men/women who are actually in the arena of preaching; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and often comes up short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends themselves in a worthy cause and who, if at best in the end, knows the triumph of higher treatment and high achievements and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their soul shall never be with those cold and timid ones who know neither victory nor defeat".