• Dream

• Desire
• Delay
• Difficulty
• Dead End
• Deliverance
 Complete Conviction
• Unflinching trust in
something sublime
• 1/10,000 tip of hair
• Planets float like body
• Brahma svayam bhu
• Krishna can make anything possible
“if you surrender, all duties finished”
• Sour faced devotees,
like vinegar
• Wants to do great
things in your life
• According to your
faith it will be done
• You get to choose how much I bless your life.
You believe & I’ll bless. Everything is possible
for the person who has faith
• Muscle building
• God uses a predictable process to build faith
“Those who are not faithful in
this devotional service cannot
attain Me. They return to birth &
death in this material world.”
Gita 9/3
• Why is this happening to me?
• Without knowing six phases,
depressed, resentful, fearful, worried,
can’t cooperate with God
• Oh I’m in stage four etc..
• How do you know it’s God and not
the bad lasagna you ate last night
“According to the modes of nature
acquired by the embodied soul,
one’s faith can be of three kinds -
in goodness, passion, or
ignorance. As one exists under the
various modes of nature, one
evolves a particular kind of faith.”
Gita 17/2,3
“The humble sages, by virtue
of true knowledge, see with
equal vision a learned &
gentle brahmin, a cow, an
elephant, a dog & a dog
eater.” Gita 5/18
 adau sraddha tatah sadhu-
sango 'tha bhajana-kriya
tato 'nartha-nivrttih syat
tato nistha rucis tatah
(Cc Madhya 23.14
"In the beginning there must be faith. Then one
becomes interested in associating with pure
devotees. Thereafter one is initiated by the
spiritual master and executes the regulative
principles under his orders. Thus one is freed from
all unwanted habits and becomes firmly fixed in
devotional service. Thereafter, one develops taste
and attachment. This is the way of sadhana-bhakti,
the execution of devotional service according to
the regulative principles.”
Regulative Principles
• God able to do more than we can
dream of, so big can’t do it on your
own

• Krishna’s will will never contradict

his word, not leaving family &
Hollywood
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston
Hughes
Bhaktivinode Thakur
Soon, by the single handed efforts of Srila
Bhaktivinode Thakur, a beautiful temple
was erected on the spot and Srila
Bhaktivinode's vision began to expand. He
predicted in his Sri Chaitanya Sikshamrita
a day when people of foreign lands would
join with their Indian brothers at the holy
land of Sri Mayapur chanting "Jaya
Sachinandana, Jaya Sachinandana" and
dancing in the ecstasy of Sri Krishna
Sankirtan. And he wrote of a great
personality who would soon appear to
fulfill this prediction.
Some people prefer bondage rather than
risk. They'll put up with a bad situation
that is not God's will rather than take a
risk and trust God on some situation; the
risk to be open, the risk be to free, the
risk to confront a problem.
• Do something about your dream
• For every 10 dreamers, only one decision
maker
• Faith active & not passive
• Decision is a faith building activity, use
your muscles
Prabhupada is the dream fulfiller of
Bhaktivinode Thakura under the direction
and guidance of his dearmost
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura
Prabhupada.The conception came in
Thakura Bhaktivinode and Bhaktisiddhanta
Saraswati Thakura gave shape to that in the
form of Gaudiya Matha. From that he sent
out his missionaries and one of them, A. C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, took
that dream and fulfilled it all over the world.
We are proud being associated with him."
He did what only others could dream of.
• Time
• Money
• Energy
• Reputation
“Sacrifices take different
forms according to the
particular faith of the
performer. When one’s
faith reaches the stage of
transcendental
knowledge, the performer
should be considered
more advanced, for
without attainment of
knowledge there is no
spiritual benefit.”
Purport Gita 4/33
• Let go of security..examples
• To walk on water get out of the boat
• Trapeze can’t hold on both bars, second there in
thin air, 100 feet up, no net
• If you don’t let go and grab, swing back and stop
"Fix an ultimate goal for your life. Decide
where you will have to go and what you
will have to do, so that your soul will be
happy. Don't go towards material
enterprises. One day this mundane body
will become old and, poisoned by many
diseases, it will then be finished. Yet, at
that time, if you have given your body to
Krsna for His service, your life will be a
success. Offer this very wretched body to
Krsna.”
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati’s last words
• Americans hate to wait, fast
everything
• Especially in a hurry when God isn’t
• Mills of God grind slowly
Krishna wants to work on you before
working on the project
• Degree at ULTW (University of
Learning to Wait)
“Providence has its appointed hour
for everything. We cannot command
results, we can only strive”
 Learn to Wait

• Prabhupada waited
• Valmiki waited
• Even Hiranya Kashipu waited
• Waiting teaches us to trust in Him & His
timing
• Delays do not destroy the purpose
• ‘No’ and ‘Not Yet’ different
• Not only waiting, but problems while
you wait
• Circumstances & Critics
Following the desire of his spiritual master,
Prabhupada began publishing his Back to Godhead
magazine in 1944. It was difficult in the beginning. He
wrote them himself, had them printed, and even rode
into town on the bus to distribute these one page
sheets. But he never stopped. Srila Prabhupada had
also written a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that
was 1100 pages long, but somehow it was stolen. He
had also started his League of Devotees, a small
organization of Krishna conscious people. This was a
forerunner of what was to be The International Society
for Krishna Consciousness, which he founded after he
came to America. Prabhupada's wife, however, was
not interested in all this spiritual stuff. She used to
protest about the meetings and his preaching
activities. This was getting in the way of his mission.
• Difficulties become so bad
• Hopeless, Good company
• Problems become impossibilities
• Did I miss Krishna’s will, is this something I
thought up?
“Devotees take
pleasure in hearing &
glorifying the Lord in
devotional service.
They are convinced
that by doing so, all
their objectives will
be fulfilled.”
Purport Gita 7/30
Then, in a dream, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
appeared to him and called him to take
sannyasa, the renounced order of life.
Prabhupada later related, "I was horrified. Take
sannyasa? Leave my family? Give up my
business? I did not want to do this. But Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta forced me to do it. That is his
mercy." Thus, in 1959, Srila Prabhupada
accepted the order of sannyasa at the Gaudiya
Matha Keshava Temple in Mathura to give up
materialistic life and further execute the order of
his spiritual master by preaching and writing in
the English language.
Prabhupada was staying in the bowery with a
boy named David. The area, known as ‘skid
row”, was inhabited by drunks and vagrants. It
was the most corrupt place in the world. It was
no place for a gentleman. Undaunted,
Prabhupada chanted and translated. One day
David went mad on LSD and attacked
Prabhupada with a knife.
• Krishna loves to turn dead ends into
deliverance
• Devotee gets the glory
• Kunti prayer, “Vipadah Santu…”
 Dream
What is the dream Krishna has given me? If
you don't have a dream, start praying,
”Krishna give me Your dream." If you can't
write down the dream God has given you, you
need to be praying. If you don't have a dream
you're not living, you're just existing. Krishna
didn't plan that.
You're here on this earth for a purpose. When
you discover that purpose, that's your dream
Krishna wants you to go for.
 Decision
Some of you have got a dream from
Krishna but you've not made a
decision to go for it.
You're still sitting on the fence. God's
word for you at Phase 2 is "Go for it!"
Some of you need to make the decision
to surrender to Krishna.
 Delay
What has caused my dream to be delayed? If
your prayer hasn't been answered, it's OK.
You're in Krishna's waiting room. Do not
detour. When things don't happen on our time
table, we tend to run ahead of Krishna and
create detours to make it happen. You may
end up making the wrong decision. Wait, wait,
wait for Krishna to work His hand.
 Difficulties
What difficulties have I faced waiting for
the dream to be fulfilled? You are being
tested, but it's not going to be the last
time. You'll go through many, many
tests in life. Krishna says, "I know
exactly what you're going through. I see
it. I'm watching. Don't think I've
forgotten you; I haven't."
 Dead End
Have I come to the dead end yet? Some
of you are there ready to give up. You're
right where Krishna wants you. You're
getting prepared for deliverance. God's
word for you is "Hang on! Keep on
believing! Don't give up!"
 Deliverance
Do I expect and trust Krishna to deliver me?
He will. "According to your faith it will be
done unto you." Krishna is faithful. What He
tells us to do, He will do. But it doesn't happen
overnight. You go through Dream, Decision,
Delay, Difficulty, Dead End. And then comes
Deliverance.