The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena of Sankirtan, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly to spread the mission of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Everyone who is absorbed in the great arena of Sankirtan forgets the fault finders and envious critics who can only watch from the sidelines.

"It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

And who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

(Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States)

Who knows what pious or impious actions each of us have done over millions of life times?

And who knows what each of us have done over a million life times?

We must never forget as devotees the purpose of being serverly punished for one's sins is meant to eventually rehabilitate the fallen soul, NOT to annihilate him which is not possible anyway.

As the Bhagavad Gita tells us, the jiva soul is beginningless and endless and CANNOT be destroyed in anyway when the gross material body decays and fades away no matter WHAT sinful acts are performed!!

Everyone, even Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Bundy, Dharma get another chance.

The fact is, all of us in previous lives have done horrible nasty unspeakable things otherwise how else have we ended up in this degrading Kali-yuga?

Prabhupada once said "demons" in Satya yuga take birth in Kali-yuga as sinful lusty meat eaters (Conversation with devotees in room Febuary 1973 Sydney Australia)

Also the nonsense Christian concept of "Eternal Damnation" is total fantasy to a devotee of Krishna,

Everyone gets UNLIMITED CHANCES once their sins are paid for, they just try again!

There is no such thing as a permanent hell

The fallen jiva HAS to pay dearly for their sins of abuse, exploitation, arrogent pride and patronizing others.

The endeavour of seeking perfection will always continue no matter what one has done, this endevour may take a long, long time as Gita tells us, taking many, many births before one AGAIN becomes sinless, a pure devotee of Krishna and reaching their ORIGINAL possition from where they fell from.

So in this life, if one takes genuinely to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan Movement, then even the biggest PERVERT WILL be saved!! 🎩

Only a cruel uncaring unloving bogus God would teach "Eternal Damnation"

Do devotees of Lord Krishna believe in the Christian belief of "Eternal Damnation" for horrible sinful acts?

The purpose for server hash punishment for unspeakable sins like child abuse and selfish exploitation, IS needed to teach those souls who choose such degradation a lesson.

All punishments in the material world are really meant for rehabilitation.

A devotee of Krishna understands such punishment is meant to eventually rehabilitate the fallen soul and NEVER attempt to annihilate him/her as some wrongly believe and teach in some religions.

Such wishful thinking by those with limited knowledge only see the material bodily vessel or container the soul is trapped in while in the material creation, is not possible anyway because the soul within is eternal, without a beginning or end nor can it ever be destroyed.

As Gita tells us, the jiva is beginningless and endless and cannot be destroyed when the material body is destroyed no matter what sinful adts one has performed.

Punishment and reward (karma) in the material creation are NOT forever! Which means the Christian concept of "Eternal Damnation" is total fantasy to a devotee of Krishna.

Any God that casts one to an "eternal hell fire" to burn in hell forever, is a cruel uncaring unloving God that should be rejected.

Of course the fallen jivas who have performed horrible deeds, does HAVE to pay dearly for their sins of abuse and exploitation that may take many, many births to atone.

The point is, punishment is meant to rehabilitate the offenders and not condemn him/her to an eternal hell.

Sometimes in server cases, the death penality is also needed as punishment and atonement however, that simply means the slate will be cleaned for the next birth because they paid their debt in this life with the "death penalty".

Or for how many births it takes to atone for what ever horrible sinful degrading acts one has done.

And yes, often it does take many, many, many births of suffering in broken material bodies.

But if one takes genuinely to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Sankirtan Movement then they can save themselves from a lot of suffering over many horrible births in the material world.

Explaining the division in Spiritual Sky between the Spiritual (75%) and material (25%) Worlds and Lord Krishna's 64 qualities.

Explaining the division in Spiritual Sky between the Spiritual and material Worlds and Lord Krishna's 64 qualities.

Here is explained the 64 Qualities of Lord Krishna (God) who has the full potential of 100% of His own unique qualities being the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.

Lord Krishna is the maintainer of all Spiritual and Material Universes that exist in a beginningless and endless Spiritual Sky.

75% of the Spiritual Sky are the perpetual Vaikuntha Planets and Goloka Vrindavana that are ever fresh and never experience decay.

Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana have no beginning meaning these blissful abodes of the Lord have eternally existed and will never cease to exist .

The other 25% of the Spiritual Sky is a temporary manifestation always in a state of decay, death and and rebirth.

The material creation is also known as the Maha-tattva that is in a constant state of decline and decomposition where all souls who enter, are covered by its material energy that manifests as a temporary material bodily vessel or container that also exhibits a constant state of decay from birth, youth, middle age, old age and death.

Everything in the temporary material world man possesses is in a constant state of decline and decomposition and therefore always needs maintenance and renewal.

Lord Krishna and His devotees on the other hand, are not effected by this dark decaying material cloud that is in one corner of the Spiritual Sky

The material World is NOT eternal, it was created by Maha Vishnu and known as His prison house creation meant for the rebellious souls who have no interest in serving Krishna or Narayana (Vishnu) in Goloka Vrindavana or Vaikuntha.

Lord Krishna's Sixty four transcendental qualities.

It is important to understand that Krishna has four more qualities that none of His expasions have.

This means the four additional qualities are not manifest even in His brother Balarama and His 4 armed Narayana or Vishnu forms of Godhead which includes Maha Vishnu, Garbhodakashayi Vishnu etc.

1 - All the Narayana or Vishnu forms have 93% of Krishna's qualities.

2 - Lord Shiva is in a category of his own and has 84% of Krishna's qualities

3 - Lord Brahma and all marginal living entities (jiva tattvas or jivatmas) have 78% of Krishna's qualities.

Less than 10% of marginal living entities are imprisoned in this material creation.

All marginal living entities have 78% of Krishna's qualities.

All marginal living entities that enter the material creation, are covered by one of the 8 million 400 thousand material bodily containers or vessels that make up all the species of life in the material Universes.

Lord Krishna's unique 4 extra qualities that not even Vishnu has in full are as follows: -

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

Shrila Rupa Gosvami, after consulting various scriptures, has enumerated the transcendental qualities of the Lord Shri Krishna as follows:

(1) beautiful features of the entire body;

(2) marked with all auspicious characteristics;

(3) extremely pleasing;

(4) effulgent;

(5) strong;

(6) ever youthful;

(7) wonderful linguist;

(8) truthful;

(9) talks pleasingly;

(10) fluent;

(11) highly learned;

(12) highly intelligent;

(13) a genius;

(14) artistic;

(15) extremely clever;

(16) expert;

(17) grateful;

(18) firmly determined;

(19) an expert judge of time and circumstances;

(20) sees and speaks on the authority of Vedas, or scriptures;

(21) pure;

(22) self-controlled;

(23) steadfast;

(24) forbearing;

(25) forgiving;

(26) grave;

(27) self-satisfied;

(28) possessing equilibrium;

(29) magnanimous;

(30) religious;

(31) heroic;

(32) compassionate;

(33) respectful;

(34) gentle;

(35) liberal;

(36) shy;

(37) the protector of surrendered souls;

(38) happy;

(39) the well-wisher of devotees;

(40) controlled by love;

(41) all-auspicious;

(42) most powerful;

(43) all-famous;

(44) popular;

(45) partial to devotees;

(46) very attractive to all women;

(47) all-worshipable;

(48) all-opulent;

(49) all-honorable;

(50) the supreme controller.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has all these fifty transcendental qualities in fullness as deep as the ocean. In other words, the extent of His qualities is inconceivable.

As parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, the individual living entities can also possess all of these qualities in minute quantities, provided they become pure devotees of the Lord.

In other words, all of the above transcendental qualities can be present in the devotees in minute quantity, whereas the qualities in fullness are always present in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Besides these, there are other transcendental qualities which are described by Lord Siva to Parvati in the Padma Purana, and in the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam in connection with a conversation between the deity of the earth and the King of religion, Yamaraja.

It is said therein, "Persons who who are desirous of becoming great personalities must be decorated with the following qualities:

truthfulness,
cleanliness,
mercy,
perseverance,
renunciation,
peacefulness,
simplicity,
control of the senses,
equilibrium of the mind,
austerity,
equality,
forbearance,
placidity,
learning,
knowledge,
detachment,
opulence,
chivalry,
influence,
strength,
memory,
independence,
tactfulness,
luster,
patience,
kind-heartedness,
ingenuity,
gentility,
mannerliness,
determination,
perfection in all knowledge,
proper execution,
possession of all objects of enjoyment,
gravity,
steadiness,
faithfulness,
fame,
respectfulness and lack of false egotism."

Persons who are desiring to become great souls cannot be without any of the above qualities, so we can know for certain that these qualities are found in Lord Krishna, the supreme soul.

Besides all of the above-mentioned fifty qualities, Lord Krishna possesses five more, which are sometimes partially manifested in the persons of Lord Brahma or Lord Siva.

These transcendental qualities are as follows:

(51) changeless;

(52) all-cognizant;

(53) ever fresh;

(54) sac-cid-ananda (possessing an eternal blissful body);

(55) possessing all mystic perfections.

Krishna also possesses five other qualities, which are manifest in the body of Narayana, and they are listed as follows:

(56) He has inconceivable potency.

(57) Uncountable universes generate from His body.

(58) He is the original source of all incarnations.

(59) He is the giver of salvation to the enemies whom He kills.

(60) He is the attractor of liberated souls.

All these transcendental qualities are manifest wonderfully in the personal feature of Lord Krishna.

Besides these sixty transcendental qualities, Krishna has four more, which are not manifest even in the Narayana form of Godhead, what to speak of the demigods or living entities:

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

Adding to the list these four exceptional qualities of Krishna, it is to be understood that the aggregate number of qualities of Krishna is sixty-four.

(61) He is the performer of wonderful varieties of pastimes (especially His childhood pastimes).

(62) He is surrounded by devotees endowed with wonderful love of Godhead.

(63) He can attract all living entities all over the universes by playing on His flute.

(64) He has a wonderful excellence of beauty which cannot be rivaled anywhere in the creation.

Srila Rupa Gosvami has attempted to give evidences from various scriptures about all sixty-four qualities present in the person of the Supreme Lord Shri Krishna.

Lord Nrsimhadeva the half man half lion incarnation of Lord Krishna. He appeared to save the great saint Prahlada Maharaja from his demonic father Hiranyakasipu.

Lord NARASIMHA DEV at ISKCON Juhu Beach Temple Mumbai India.

Lord Nrsimhadeva the half man half lion incarnation of Lord Krishna.

He appeared to save the great saint Prahlada Maharaja from his demonic father Hiranyakasipu.

By performing the rigorous austerity of standing on the tips of his toes for one hundred and twenty five years Hiranyakasipu became so powerful that the demigods prayed to Lord Brahma to keep him from destroying the universe.

Due to his austerity Lord Brahma offered Hiranyakasipu his hearts desire. Hiranyakasipu requested that he should never die.

Lord Brahma explained to him that even he must die that his life was only four million three hundred thousand times 1000 times 30 times 12 times 100 times 2 years.

So Hiranyakasipu demanded that he should never be killed in the day or in the night and Lord Brahma agreed to this. Hiranyakasipu then requested that he should not die on land or in the air or in the water, to which Lord Brahma agreed.

Hiranyakasipu, having received this promise, became very bold and asked that he should not be killed by any man or beast. Lord Brahma again agreed.

Hiranyakasipu still not satisfied with the benedictions he had received from Lord Brahma, then asked for the benediction that he could not be killed by any weapon.

To which Lord Brahma also agreed to give Hiranyakasipu this benediction and then left.

After receiving these benedictions Hiranyakasipu became more demonic and began conquering the material universe. With each new victory and increase in his power the Demigods became more and more worried.

In time Hiranyakasipu had a son calle Prahlada. Prahlada was a great devotee of Lord Krishna even from birth. As a small boy of five he would preach about Krishna to his school friends any time the teachers left the room.

Prahlada’s preaching infuriated his father, Hiranyakasipu. When his father demanded to know what this foolishness was, what was this Krishna. Prahlada explained that because his father was too attached to his own sense gratification, he was determined to deny Krishna’s existence.

Due to this he could not understand even if he took lessons. To understand Krishna one must first give everything to Krishna then Krishna would reveal himself.

Hiranyakasipu became so angry that he ordered Prahlada to be thrown in to a circle of cannibals. When he was thrown to the cannibals Prahlada began to chant Hare Krishna and the cannibals had no power to harm him.

His father then ordered that Prahlada be thrown into boiling hot oil but because he was chanting Hare Krishna Prahlada was unharmed. Seeing that Prahlada was not harmed by the boiling oil his father ordered that he be taken to a small island to endure a huge hurricane.

But Prahlada kept chanting Hare Krishna and he was protected by Krishna’s holy name. Hiranyakasipu, seeing that none of these things could kill Prahlada, threw him off a the top of a cliff, but due to his chanting Hare Krishna Krishna caught him and Prahlada was not harmed.

Infuriated Hiranyakasipu demanded that Prahlada be trampled under the feet of an elephant. When this also did not work Hiranyakasipu called for his guards to throw Prahlada into a snake pit.

The pit was filled with venomous snakes but because Prahlada was study in his faith and continued to chant Hare Krishna the snakes could not harm him.

Since through all this Prahlada was not harmed, Hiranyakasipu thought he must have some mystic power. He pretended to be sorry for trying to harm Prahlada and invited him to lunch.

In desperation, Hiranyakasipu poisoned Prahlada’s food, with enough poison to kill hundreds of full-grown men. Rather then eating his food Prahlada first offered it Krishna and it became prasadam and as pure as God and free from all poisonous effects.

When the poisoned food had no effect on Prahlada Hiranyakasipu became so enraged he lifted Prahlada above his head and smashed him to the floor. When Prahlada still was not harmed Hiranyakasipu demanded to know where he got his super human powers from.

Prahlada replied that he got his strength from the same place as Hiranyakasipu did–from God. Hiranyakasipu demanded to know what was this God where was this God.

Prahlada explained that God is everywhere that everything comes from God. Hiranyakasipu, despite all that had happened, could not believe in God and began pointing to things demanding if they were God. Hiranyakasipu demanded if God was in a big pillar nearby in the palace.

When Prahlada said, “Yes, my Lord is in that pillar,” Hiranyakasipu stated that he would kill Prahlada’s God by using his mace to smash the pillar. As he smashed the pillar Lord Nrsimhadeva, the half man, half lion incarnation of Krishna appeared from the broken pillar and pounced on the shocked demon.

Nrsimhadeva stretched Hiranyakasipu across his lap and with his long nails, he ripped apart the demon. Hiranyakasipu died instantly on Nrsimhadeva’s blood drenched lap.

He was killed neither on the land, sea nor in the air but on the lap of the Supreme Lord. He was killed neither during the day or the night but in the twilight.

He was killed by neither beast nor man, but by the lord’s lotus hands and was kill with no weapons but with the nails of Lord Nrsimhadeva.

Thus Hiranyakasipu’s benediction from Lord Brahma remained intact and he was killed by the personification of fear, Krishna Himself in His half-man, half-lion form, Lord Nrsimhadeva.

Srila Prabhupada made MANY comments about the home of the jiva souls being Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana and that once there, they can NEVER fall from from Vaikuntha. BUT why do some devotees only accept those comments when in his other writings, he says they CAN fall from Vaikuntha even saying only less than 10% DO choose to leave.

Srila Prabhupada made MANY comments about the jiva souls in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana and if they can or cannot fall from from there.

Therefore why only accept one comment by Prabhupada below quoted by those who think that once one is in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana they can never leave?

Many should understand that Maya or the material energy does NOT exist in Vaikuntha, therefore fall down is NOT caused by Maya in anyway.

However, what DOES exist eternally in Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana is "free will and the ability to choose", such qualities make us all individual unique different persons each with their own abilities and talents in their full potental as Krishna's eternal servant.

These attributes and spiritual qualities of each indivual jiva soul are NEVER lost.

And if they are, then the jivatmas are no better than dead stone.

1 - Srila Prabhupada - "The conclusion is that no one falls from the spiritual world, or Vaikuntha, for it is the eternal abode." (SB 3.16.26 purport)

But then Srila Prabhupada also made these following conclusions that we CAN fall (By choice) from Vaikuntha -

1 - Srila Prabhupada - ” So, even in the Vaikuntha, if I desire that ‘Why shall I serve Krishna? Why not become Krishna?’ I immediately fall down. That is natural. A servant is serving the master, but sometimes he may think that, “If I could become the master.” They are thinking like that; they are trying to become God. That is delusion. You cannot become God. That is not possible. But he’s wrongly thinking”. July 8, 1976 in Washington, D.C.

2 - Srila Prabhupada – ''Regarding your questions about how and from where did the conditioned souls fall. Your first question if someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down? The souls are endowed with minute independence as part of their nature and this minute independence may be utilized rightly or wrongly at anytime. So there is always a chance of falling down by misuse of one’s independence'' Letter to Jagadisa Prabhu, 4/25/1970.

3 - Srila Prabhupada – Regarding your several questions like where are the spirit souls coming from? These spirit souls and all spirit souls are coming from Vaikuntha. There is no new soul. 'New' and 'Old' are due to this material body, the soul is NEVER born and NEVER dies, so if there is no birth how there can be new soul'' Letter to Jagadisa 7/9/1970.

4 - Srila Prabhupada - "In the broader sense everyone comes from Krishna Loka. When one forgets Krishna he is conditioned, when one remembers Krishna he is liberated". (Letter to Mukunda, June 10, 1969)

5 - Srila Prabhupada - "We cannot say therefore that we are not with Krsna. As soon as we try to become Lord, immediately Maya covers us. "Formerly we were with Krsna in His lila or sport". But this covering of Maya may be of very, very, very, very long duration; therefore many creations are coming and going". (Letter to Madhudvisa Swami May 1972 Australia)

6 - Srila Prabhupada  - "Formerly we were with Krsna in His lila or sport". But this covering of Maya may be of very, very, very, very long duration; therefore many creations are coming and going". (Letter to Madhudvisa Swami May 1972 Australia)

7 - Srila Prabhupada – ''Regarding your questions about how and from where did the conditioned souls fall. Your first question if someone has a relationship with Lord Krsna on Krsnaloka, does he ever fall down? The souls are endowed with minute independence as part of their nature and this minute independence may be utilized rightly or wrongly at anytime. So there is always a chance of falling down by misuse of one’s independence'' Letter to Jagadisa Prabhu, 4/25/1970.

8 - Srila Prabhupada - “We have also come down from Vaikuntha some millions and millions of years ago.” - (Lecture on Bhagavad-gita on August 6, 1973)

9 - Srila Prabhupada - ‘’These spirit souls and all spirit souls are coming from Vaikuntha”. Letter to Jagadisa das.

10 - Srila Prabhupada - "The jiva is originally with Krsna. But even with Krsna “there is a dormant attitude for forgetting Krsna and creating an atmosphere for enjoying independently.” (Letter to Madhudvisa Swami June 1972 Australia)

11 - Srila Prabhupada - “As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness has now become polluted by the material atmosphere.” Original Hare Krsna Happening record album New York 1966.

The fact is 90% of the jivatmas actually NEVER "choose" to leave Vaikuntha and Goloka Vrindavana and enter the decaying material creation of repeated birth and death only less than 10% do choose to leave Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrindavana.

However Prabhupada also says this  -

2 - Srila Prabhupada - "The conclusion is that the origin of all life is the bodily effulgence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead." (SB 4.30.5 purport)

Then Srila Prabhupada says it was NOT from the effulgent impersonal aspect of Brahman the jiva originate.

Srila Prabhupada - ''Existence in the impersonal brahman is also within the category of non-Krsna consciousness. Those who are in the brahman effulgence are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition. When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition. The non-fallen condition is Krsna consciousness''. Letter to: Revatinandana — Los Angeles 13 June, 1970

He is saying the jiva did NOT generate from a clear sheet of consciousness that is expanding and growing with new souls. This nonsense idea is impersonal because what condition was the individual soul (jivatma) in before it was generated, appeared or created?

Actually, there is NO creation of the living entity because the soul is beginningless!!

When the word ”impersonal origin” is used it means the non existent or inactive state of the jiva as an individual and then from where the soul is generated which really means where the soul originates from.

Some say, ”they generate from a ”clear sheet of consciousness that is growing and producing new souls” however it is this ”impersonal” concept  that Prabhupada rejects –

Srila Prabhupada - "There is no “ NEW” souls. “New'’ and “old'’ are due to this material body, the soul is NEVER born and NEVER dies, so if there is no birth how there can be new soul'' Letter to Jagadisa 7/9/1970.

Jivas are NOT generated from a clear sheet of consciousness and there are NO new souls, all souls have always been and NEVER created nor can they be annihilated”

Srila Prabhupada rejects the concept that ”souls are generated from a clear sheet of consciousness”

Srila Prabhupada - ''Those who are in the brahman effulgence (Impersonal Brahmajyoti) are also in the fallen condition, so there is no question of falling down from a fallen condition". Letter to: Revatinandana — Los Angeles 13 June, 1970

Srila Prabhupada - ''When fall takes place, it means falling down from the non-fallen condition. The non-fallen condition is Krsna consciousness''. Letter to: Revatinandana — Los Angeles 13 June, 1970

A devotee of Krishna does everything he can to help others succeed and remain on the path of pure devotional service that will take them back home back to Godhead.

Spiritual life is like learning to walk no matter how many times you or others fall down, you must always get up again and again and keep trying until you succeed.

This also includes doing everything we can to help others succeed and remain on the path back home back to Godhead.

When chanted the maha-mantra is a petition to God:

“O Krishna, O energy of Krishna, please engage me in Your service.”

The conclusion is we should never give up trying to help ourselves and as many living entities as possible to become Krishna Conscious no matter what one has done in the past or that others claim you are too fallen and wretched to win Lord Caitanya's special mercy in this age of Kali-yuga

The fact is, the special mercy in this rare Kali-yuga of receiving Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu mercy is for EVERYONE

And He promises that He has come to save the MOST fallen souls.

In remembrance of Bhakta Andy Goss who at just 24 years of age in 1988 was killed while preaching on the Travelling Temple Bus (hit by a car) during the Australian Soviet campaign to free his Hare Krishna friends in the Soviet Union.

Dedicated to Bhakta Andy Goss who at 24 years of age in 1988 was killed while preaching on the Travelling Temple Bus (hit by a car) during the Australian Soviet campaign to free his friends in the Soviet Union.

In 1985 I sitting in a shop and heard the song below over the radio, being a child of the 1960s, I was very moved by it and thought in a similar way we are trying to help Hare Krishna devotees in the Soviet Union.

And like in the song, some of our wonderful Hare Krishna heroes also died trying free others.

1985 was a time in ISKCON's history when we needed inspiration for our campaign to help free imprisioned and persecuted Hare Krishna devotees in the Soviet Union imprisioned for their religious beliefs.

It is a beautiful song understood by those who lived through the turbulent times of the 1960s who are all now in their late 60s early 70s.

Srila Prabhupada told us we can use anything to inspire our Krishna Conscious endeavours and that even if a fool gives good advice it should be followed.

Even Gold he said is covered by stool that does not take away the value of the Gold bar.

At the time this song to me that there still are good people left in this world despite all the turmoil happening in the 1960s.

This song is dedicated to Bhakta Andy Goss who at 24 years of age in 1988 was killed while preaching on the Bus (hit by a car) during the Australian Soviet campaign to free his friends in the Soviet Union.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5hFMy4pTrs