Great Souls

 Great Souls, by Haripada dasa

In relation to this subject, in Gita, 7, 3, God or Krishna says that of many thousands of men, one may strive for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one really knows Me. In the same chapter, verse 19, God or Krishna says that after many births and deaths, he who truly has knowledge gives himself to Me, knowing that I am the cause of all causes and all that exists. A soul this big is very hard to find.

In the Bhagavatam, 6, 14, 5, it is said that Oh, great sage! Of the many millions of liberated and perfect people in the knowledge of liberation, perhaps one is a devotee of Lord Nārāyaṇa, Kṛiṣhṇa. Finding one of those completely peaceful devotees is something extraordinarily difficult.

And in Chaitanya Charitamrita it is said that the only peaceful person is the pure devotee of God or Krishna, everyone else has material desires, the fruitive worker, wants to enjoy matter, the mental speculator, wants to mitigate his sufferings, the mystic yogi He wants mystical powers, but the pure devotee of God or Krishna does not want anything material, his only wish is that the whole world be happy in Krishna consciousness.

When Srila Prabhupada arrived in the USA, he wrote very beautiful poems, in one of them he said that when all people are happy in Krishna consciousness, the wishes of the pure devotees of God or Krishna will be fulfilled.