There are so many crisis’s, there are so many sufferings all around in this world, in our personal life terrible misery is either taking place or eminent and when we hear what is taking place in the news, we find terrible droughts and floods and earth-quakes, epidemic diseases, greed, crime, drug-addiction, alcoholism, murders, wars, cold wars, hot wars, nuclear bombs, we can list forever practically the various ways to suffer in this world and it is all around us. And we should not hide our eyes from the facts, the realities. And through the United Nations and through the various social, political and philanthropic organizations, they are trying to at the most relief some of the symptoms of material miseries. But despite all our technology, all our science and all our developed diplomacy, the world is in terrible condition of conflict and suffering. Because there is only one process in this age of Kaliyuga to actually relieve the sufferings of this world and that is to get out of this world.
We were explaining that this material existence is like vast unlimited ocean of suffering of birth and death and if you are in the middle of that ocean, you cannot avoid from getting wet. If you are cast in the ocean, can you become dry? It’s not possible. Nor is it possible to be in the association of material suffering and not suffer. Therefore Krishna is so inconceivably merciful that out of love and compassion for all of His children, for all living entities, He appears within this material world only for our sake, to attract us through His beautiful loving pastimes, to give us proper instructions and to reveal His divine name and He is coming to throw us that life-raft to take us out of this ocean of suffering. And through His Name and His devotees, the great Acharyas in the parampara system, they are coming to give us the life-raft of Krishna's mercy to take us out of the ocean of material suffering. But how foolish material civilization is today, that the life-raft is there, we are wet with the material suffering and we say “please take the life-raft, take the name of Krishna, take the association of His devotees, come out of this material world, transcend it today.” But what did they say? “I don't have time to take the life-raft because I am too busy, trying to dry myself off in this ocean. I am too busy trying to relieve the sufferings in this world of sufferings.”
