all glories to him

Krishna is all pleasure. Mahaprabhu is God. The audience started to show visible signs of agitation. The speaker on the stage did not stop his bold speech. He was preaching like a lion, the glories of Mahaprabhu and establishing the supremacy of God. Seeing the agitation of the audience, there was a second speaker on stage standing next to the bold speaker became very nervous and very apprehensive and had fear in his heart. But the main speaker was roaring like a lion establishing the greatness of Krishna and Mahaprabhu. It was a site to witness. The speech was predominantly to Christian audience, hence the agitation. The speech was in a really huge auditorium where there was a sea of audience. This speech of glorifying Krishna was not in the agenda and hence the audience did not expect this glorification of Krishna and Mahaprabhu. Since this glorification was not in the agenda and people could not stand the glorification of Mahaprabhu, the audience could not take it anymore and people started to walk off their seats and headed for the exits. There was particularly one member in the audience (who was an Indian), as he was leaving forcefully tried to harass the main speaker and was shouting “why did you do this..?” the second speaker was shaken by this but the main speaker was standing solid as a rock in this harassment. While the scene could have gotten worse, the organizer stopped further altercations. The organizer, who was a great sympathizer to the speakers, was very disturbed and asked “why did you do this?”

Suddenly…the dream ended and I woke up. I was excited when I woke up that I witnessed a powerful preacher in my dream. This person, among all agitation around, was standing his ground and preached the glories of Mahaprabhu.

Now…one may ask what is so special about this that it is worth taking bytes in cyberspace. Actually, the most astonishing part of the dream for me personally is the identity of the main speaker on stage and the secondary speaker standing next to him.

The main speaker who was preaching boldly solid as a rock was none other than my elder brother and the nervous second speaker was me.

I was very impressed with the speech my elder brother was giving in the dream. Actually, my elder brother, in all reality has natural qualities to be a Vaishnava. He was always humble and tolerant in the times I was with him. H.H. Radhanath Swami in one of his lecture mentioned that Vaishnava etiquette brings beauty to a Vaishnava. In other words, Vaishnavism is not an external show of chanting or temple worship or getting initiated or doing service. It is our internal qualities of humility, tolerance, compassion and love to all living entities and Krishna. My elder brother was naturally equipped with such qualities of humility and tolerance.

Although he is not initiated currently, I personally think he is more than qualified to get initiated (assuming he follows the external rules of chanting and regulative principles). When a person is naturally equipped with higher nature, Srila Prabhupada once said that it is because of higher birth. My elder brother surely fits that bill.

This dream happened early in the morning at brahmamuhurta time and I am very happy to have insignificantly and nervously stood next to this bold preacher. I sincerely pray and hope one day he does preach like a lion and i stand next to him as his order carrier!

All glories to him!

Hare Krishna