Amrita Droplets - Lessons From the Life of Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami
But in the kaliyuga, the parents are afraid when they see their children surrendering to Krsna. They want to keep them away from Krsna. “Don’t spend so much time chanting god’s name. Do not spend so much time going temple and being with devotees, why you are always reading these books?” They become very fearful, “what about your material life. This Krsna consciousness, when you become very old and retired, then you can do these things, look at me, I am your father, I am your mother, and I am working like an ass, foaming at the mouth, suffering miserably. You should be like me, you shouldn’t be like these devotee, dancing, chanting, smiling all the time. Your life will be a failure.” so this is the conditioning in this age of kali https://soundcloud.com/radhanath-swami/lessons-from-the-life-of-srila-gopala-bhatta-goswami
But in the kaliyuga, the parents are afraid when they see their children surrendering to Krsna. They want to keep them away from Krsna. “Don’t spend so much time chanting god’s name. Do not spend so much time going temple and being with devotees, why you are always reading these books?” They become very fearful, “what about your material life. This Krsna consciousness, when you become very old and retired, then you can do these things, look at me, I am your father, I am your mother, and I am working like an ass, foaming at the mouth, suffering miserably. You should be like me, you shouldn’t be like these devotee, dancing, chanting, smiling all the time. Your life will be a failure.” so this is the conditioning in this age of kali https://soundcloud.com/radhanath-swami/lessons-from-the-life-of-srila-gopala-bhatta-goswami