Tolerate and Manage

His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Evening class, Sri Nrisingha Palli
8 March 2020, part 2, translated from Bengali

I saw today one devotee from ISKCON from far when we were near our Nabadwip Temple. He used to come at every Gaura Purnima and rent some room near our temple, and this time I saw he was doing parikrama on his own with two carts or vans—one for Radha Krishna, and one for Gaura Nitai. He was sitting and doing parikrama in this way. As you know, there is coronavirus now, and because of the virus he was wearing a mask, and I saw that he also put masks on Gaura Nitai's faces!

What kind of crazy people there are in this world! He puts a mask on the Deities' faces! Have you not seen it? I noticed it. How many people there in this world like this—this world is so variegated. What to say? I am myself a very low and very fallen soul, but Gurudev has given me such a heavy duty, and I am going everywhere carrying it on my shoulders. It is necessary to tolerate so many things and to have so much patience.

You must all be very careful. One boy in a house near our temple got pox, I told them to keep him in the house and not him let go out so much. Try to be careful. When you have a body, you have to struggle and suffer—everyone struggles with their bodies in various ways and then leaves. Yet we always see that those who are Vaishnav-aparadhi (who criticise Vaishnavs) suffer much more. So, we must try to steer clear of all this...

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