Aashishs Blog

I just found this video on the internet and it shows the amazing preaching work that Drutakarma Prabhu is doing in Russia. If you don't know him, he is the author of some ground-breaking books such as Forbidden Archaeology, which challenges Darwin's Theory of Evolution. That book has since become an underground classic.

"Sometimes we do not appreciate being happy outside and free, and we complain about this and that situation, or we are happy that someone is creating some small problems for us and so on.  I promise you that if once, even for a short time, you have to stay behind iron doors, where there is nothing except dirty and dark walls, then as soon as you come out you will appreciate wherever you live, even if it is an old apartment or an uncomfortable environment.  You will surely appreciate the open sky and the singing of the birds, your broken chair and rusted bicycle, the old car and the job that pays less than you want.

Sometimes in the many years since I have been free from jail I have noticed that even devotees of Krishna can start to get attached to material things, which actually bring us only a little  happiness and lots of troubles.  Humans always want more and more from this material world than we actually need.  It is impossible to satisfy out heart's desire or the senses which are more powerful than a fire, ready to burn all surroundings just to satisfy the tiny temporary and actually useless desires.  When we complain about the situation we are in, Krishna teaches us a good lesson, by placing us temporarily in a worse situation; so that we will appreciate the gift we had just a week or month ago.  Then we understand the most important thing in life which I think is that this material world is a place of miseries and that the only solution to our problems is fully surrendering to Krishna."

Salted Bread, A true story, Gagik Buniatyan, pp144 - 145
Religious Persecution in the former USSR