The Supreme Swan

 The Supreme Swan, by Haripada dasa

Once Srila Prabhupada visited one of his temples in the USA, in the house in front of the temple they had painted a great insult against the Hare Krishnas, there he said that the Hare Krishna are a children of ..., so that Srila Prabhupada would not see this when He went out to do his morning walk, he was surrounded by the highest devotees, in one way or another Srila Prabhupada saw the insult and said that this house is the luckiest house in the USA, because it says Krishna, the highest level devotees are called paramahansas, that means the supreme swan, the swan has the ability that from a mixture of water and milk, he will take the milk and will not touch the water, in the same way the devotee who lives in pure goodness has the ability to drink from this world the spiritual part, the positive part, and he never touches the material part or the negative part, in other words, he takes gold even from poison, Srila Prabhupada, Jesus, Srila Haridasa Thakura, etc., envious and ignorant they attack them a lot, in the period Germany's most important story on the first page put a great criticism against Srila Prabhupada, there he said that in Los Angeles, USA, there is a guru who has his disciples like crazy selling his books, while he lives a life full of luxury.

People generally do not understand the pure devotee of God or Krishna, only a pure devotee can understand another pure devotee, in the Bhagavatam, 8.7.44 it is said that great personalities usually accept voluntary sufferings to alleviate the suffering of people common. This is considered to be the highest form of worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is in everyone's heart, and in the purport Srila Prabhupada says that we should strive for that which we cannot attain even if we travel the entire universe. from top to bottom, carried away by the reactions of karma. And what is that? We should strive to be Krishna conscious. When someone tries to spread Krishna consciousness all over the world, it should be understood that he is doing the best beneficial activity. Immediately, the Lord is very pleased with him, and if the Lord is pleased with him, what more can he get? It is very possible that the person who has been recognized by the Lord does not ask the Lord for anything, but the Lord, who is in everyone's heart, will give him whatever he wants. This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānāṁ yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham). And, as stated in this verse, tapyante loka-tāpena sādhavaḥ prāyaśo janāḥ. The best beneficial activity is raising people to Krishna consciousness, for the suffering of conditioned souls is solely due to their lack of Krishna consciousness.

Cheers up! Srila Prabhupada instructed us and said that everyone should follow Jayananda prabhu's example, let's all try to obey this instruction together and make Jagat-guru Srila Prabhupada Mahasaya happy, and not do anything that displeases him.