Prabhupada’s Heart

The gift of an artist is his ability to feel something with love and then convey it in an interesting way.  The art should infect others with the exact same sentiment that the artist felt.  A God-conscious teacher is able to do that, too.  He has love of God, and he has the gift of conveying it.  It was Lord Caitanya’s desire to convey Krishna-prema by chanting Hare Krishna.  Prabhupada was empowered to do that – to chant Hare Krishna and to explain Hare Krishna.  He was generous in interspersing his basic Krishna conscious talks with direct introductions into the topmost sphere of Goloka Vrindavana.  Furthermore, he did it in plain language.  Goloka Vrindavana is itself down-to-earth.  The earth is cintamani, but nevertheless, it is earthy.  It is not like Vaikuntha, with emphasis on the celestial.  Vrindavana’s emphasis is on the humanlike.  When Prabhupada talked about Krishna-loka, he did it like that, speaking as a resident and telling us what it was really like.