(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2005)

If you go by statistics, than enough people become involved in Krishna Consciousness – and so many thousands were, and where are they now! They came. Sometimes they call this movement a revolving door…a revolving door and people come in, they spin around and then they go out from the other side. That is what is going on – the revolving door. So basically we are speaking about the revolving door dynamics! But they will come in and they shoot back out – and they will come in again – then they shoot back out again……come in again and gradually they will stay longer. So you have to look at it over a longer time span. We are just looking at it at a too shorter time span.

So many people interrupt their connection with Krishna Consciousness for a while and then they pick it back up. All along they are still thinking about it and its still working in that….. and they took a little distance…….then they get back into it. So its not like all those people who went through the revolving doors came in, and went forever – never to come back… it's not like that. Once touched – it doesn't just go away, it's an ongoing fermentation process! That's what you see, if you look at it over a longer time span, than it may take longer than one life… that's all – it's not a big deal. Some people do it over a couple of lives! Whilst some do it over many years!

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Amsterdam, 2010)

Empowerment means that even when we can do something, we don't… we let others do it so that in the course of doing it, they grow and become powerful. The whole sankirtan movement is based on this principle where Lord Caitanya lets others to do. This is also the principal of devotional service. Therefore Prabhupada said: In the material world, if you want a job you have to go for a job interview and they are testing if you have the qualifications… but in spiritual life, first you get the position and then the qualification.

That's the nature of spiritual life because it's based on the principle of empowerment!

So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wants us to distribute the fruit. Because it is said that when you distribute the fruit you have, afterwards you will find that you have more than you had before. So that is also there. And in our vaishnava community, the same principle of empowerment is needed which means that if there is someone who can do what we are doing, then let them do… but then what will we do? If we let others who come up behind us take over by giving them some support and help… what will we do?

If we give someone our service, then we try and do a bigger service! Each service is a preparation for the next…