Today in photo below, the entire world can see the dream and massive vision Srila Bhaktivenode Thakur saw in Mayapur across the empty fields 120 years ago
The fact is being a devotee ANYTHING is possible in service to Krishna, this is how Prabhupada trained us.
In the story of the Brahmana and the cobbler, the proud brahmana laughed at Naradha Muni when Naradha told the brahmana what Vishnu was doing in Vaikuntha - and that Vishnu was threading an Elephant through the eye of a needle!
The brahmana laughed and cursed Naradha calling him a crazy fool while the humble cobbler rejoiced in ecstasy saying how wonderful our Lord is and that He can do anything He wants and nothing is impossible for the Lord and His devotees to achieve.
Years ago the media laughed at us in Melbourne in early 1972 when 10 of us were living in a run down house in the back streets of St kilda, a slum back then, having no money and having oats flavored with orange peel for breakfast every morning and very little food at night, mostly small remanants from the offerings.
And during the day we were often being thrown in jail for chanting Hare Krishna on the streets by the Government because back then street gathering were illegal
We told the media back then -
"Things may seem difficult now but we have faith in Krishna that "anything is possible" as devotees of the Lord and servants of our Spiritual Master.
The sky is the limit!
We told them, one day we will have a massive 5 million dollar Temple for Radha and Krishna's comfort where the Temple room will be all solid Marble and even the Government will also help us and provide the funds to feed thousands of people around Melbourne"
Of couse the media people laughed at us and said we were dreaming.
The fact is, within a few years we DID get our beautiful Temple valued today at not five million dollars, but rather 18 million dollars today!
And in 2016 the Premier of the State Government of Victoria came to the Temple and gave ISKCON 500,000 dollars to build a kitchen to feed prasadam to 10s of thousand of people around Melbourne.
LOL, 45 years earlier they were throwing us in Jail for chanting Hare Krishna and distributing Prabhupada's books
Yes without any doubts this proves "anything is possible".
As one congregational member once said to Prabhupada
- "You have came here to the West with nothing but you had a dream of building a Temple for every City on the planet and now you have achieved that by opening Temples everywhere on the planet".
Srila Bhaktivenode also had a dream 120 Years ago saying that soon the greatest Temple on the Planet will be built at Mayapur dharm
He said this while while looking across the empty fields of Mayapur in the 19th Century.
He had faith that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu can and will make ANYTHING for Krishna possible!
Like the story of the Brahmana and the cobbler and Lord Vishnu putting an Elephant through the eye of a needle.
Visit Mayapur like I did last year and be amazed that Krishna can make "ANYTHING POSSIBLE"
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