Tales of Intolerance, and Self-Sacrifice, Krishna style
1973, We six celibate brahmacaries of the Toronto Radha Krishna temple were on our way south for the winter. I was age 19. The blue Blue Bird bus was made out with a rough kitchen and steel shower (no hot water) and a temple room which doubled as sleeping bag space at night, plus storage space.
As we travelled down through Windsor, we were searched at the border ; they found nothing, then we cruised into Detroit temple. Huge eyed Jagannatha Deities, and nice kirtana with our local godbrothers, and of course maha-prasadam!, were there to greet us.
We did kirtan in the streets, and distributed Srila Prabhupada's books as we went city to city in a general southerly direction.
In Nashville, at our rented temple home, several travelling sankirtana parties of monks congregated. One evening, a local fanatic Christian threw a Molotov cockltail into our temple and burned one young devotee very severely, such that he later died.
So, the devotees of Krishna know what is meant by demonic attacks.
I one day sat in our brahmacari bunk house, Montreal, watching a swat cop with a loaded automatic weapon come running through and around all the beds and then back out the same door he came in. Hilarious! Like Keystone cops! There were about 24 cop cars outside, Quebec provincial police, and three helicopters circling overhead! It was like we had Godzilla hidden away in the kitchen or temple room or an invasion force ready to go or something ! They proceeded to haul away a 21 year old woman devotee, who the cops then took to an insane asylum, but she was back in about two months time, once she could legally get away from these demonic insane Catholic persecutors.
I was myself tackled by three Tulsa city cops, and our party escorted later to the city limits. I was arrested for soliciting in Montreal, had a machete swung at me by a Muslim in Bengal, etc. various incidents over the years.
And i am but one person. Altogether, we have been attacked in many ways; shot, beaten, homes bulldozed, members drugged and placed in Russian gulags, raped, abused, others dismembered by Chinese government killers, machine gunned, jailed, disinheritted, poisoned, blown up, money stolen, banned, attacked by fake Hindus and false propagandists, but we have still carried transcendental spiritual knowledge deep into almost every country on earth now. Even vocabularies have changed as a direct result of our concerted efforts.
So our sacrifices for mankind have been rewarded with fruits, and those who sacrificed in larger ways will no doubt be benefitting in full in their eternal spiritual forms, due to selflessly distributing liberating non-sectarian Krsna conscious mercy to all without discrimination.
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