Promoting Love and Tolerance

The doctrine of universal love must therefore stand opposed to all sectarian ideas. A sectarian missionary preaching universal love is but a great inconsistency.

Bhaktivinode Thakur in the Hindu Idols Jan. 1899.

This quote really says enough to understand the high expectation coming towards each one of us. In the same spirit the Bhaktivedanta Charity Trust was founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to “bring unity amongst the Gaudiya Vaisnavas, especially the followers of his divine grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura”.

How can we become free from all this party spirit? That is one big challenge we all face in order to start the WVA with full strength.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada said that we should preach in Europe, America. That was his desire. And his other desire was that we all work together jointly to preach.

Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speaking to Srila Bhakti Vedanta Narayana Maharaj:

“It will be done, there is no other way. Either we will try to accomplish it, or it will be done in the future by other Vaisnavas.”

Nobody can stop the plan of Krishna and his pure devotees. Whatever obstacles appear, they are only their to increase our enthusiasm to fight against Maya. And love means to forgive all the time. What to speak of the offenses done by children. Mother in the form of advanced Vaisnavas will not even consider those mistakes.

We have to be generous with one and all to not lose ourselves in endless stories of the past in order to find reasons, why we do not want to participate in the WVA. If only one Vaisnava Mission, Sannyasi, Prabhu or didi is missing in the spirit of the WVA, we will not really have accomplished Srila Jiva Goswami’s goal.

Mahaprabhu has come. Let the whole world know of this. let us bring everyone to the shore of the Nectar ocean and pray that the thirst will make them drink.