It takes opening to existing culture and appreciation of whatever is valuable in that culture. I think we often repeat the famous mistake of Mahatma Gandhi. When he was in London he was asked, “What do you think of Western civilization?” He said, “It would be a good idea.” It is a nice quip, but there are aspects of Western civilization which I would not throw out with the bath water. I think there is a lot that is valuable in every culture.
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When you listen to Krishna’s pastimes it is never that you haven’t heard them before. You have heard them before, and yet we want to hear them again and again. When I think of Damodara, I think of thieves. Srila Prabhupada calls it the “stealing propensity.”
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Sūta Gosvāmī said: When the second millennium overlapped the third, the great sage [Vyāsadeva] was born to Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī, the daughter of Vasu.Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.4.14
There is a very simple answer to all questions about the spiritual world. A very simple one. In the spiritual world everything is possible. That is the nature of the spiritual world. This is the place where everything is possible. And one of the things that is possible … it is not likely, but it is possible, because if it wouldn’t be, it wouldn’t be the spiritual world … is that one leaves the spiritual world.
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