Excellent words prabhu, thank you ... I have not yet personally taken Srila Narayan Maharaj's darshan, being so bound up by the demands of the material energy ... I hope to be able to do so soon ... meanwhile, I am sad to see so much neophyte 'my' camp vs. 'yours' continue to plague our spiritual community ... but at least I have been able to see how I also used to arrogantly participate in the same mentality (as in bhaktas vs karmis, brahmacaris vs grihasthas, men vs women, book distributors vs pujaris and other temple servants, ISKCON vs Gaudiya Matha, this 'guru/zone' vs that one .... and so on). When we are 'too close to the wood to see the trees,' we imagine that the point of contention is the point itself ... but if we stand back and see how the self-same contention has been arising again and again under the pretext of so many different contexts, we may recognize that the actual problem lies within ourselves, that, as the old saying goes: "wherever you go, there you are" - so that if we keep running into the same basic divisive argumentation wherever we go, we may at last recognize the source of this divisiveness is not out there, but within me, within my own inability to actually live inside of a consciousness of yoga, of seeing everything in connection with the Suprem Lord, Who alone is the owner, enjoyer and friend of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING.
And in this regard, to be a potent agent of change again requires internalising rather than externalising the problem/solution ... so that as Gandhi said, "you be the change you wish to see in the world." In other words, if I wish to be an agent of harmony and of ending divisive and judgemental disagreements, then I must myself learn to respect and embrace others ... and so on, prabhu. Sorry, I didn't mean to get on a soap-box! Thank you for your wonderful words and sentiments, all glories and gratitude to the all-merciful devotees of the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who are appearing in so many different settings to spread Mahaprabhu's mercy to everyone.
Hare Krsna
Narasingha Gurudas