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CHAPTER 13. KRISHNA GOES TO THE WEST
crosses the last frontier of mentation. Meera never walked on that path; she came to love straight
away. She cannot have the profundity of Chaitanya.
Question 4
QUESTIONER: TODAY A MOVEMENT BY THE NAME OF KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS IS
GETTING POPULAR IN AMERICA, ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WEST
WHERE THINGS LIKE KIRTAN ARE BECOMING FASHIONABLE. IS IT A NEW VARIETY OF
ENTERTAINMENT OR A FAD? OR DO YOU THINK THAT THE GROUND IS BEING PREPARED
FOR KRISHNA’S BIRTH IN THE WEST?
This event has deeper implications.
The movement for Krishna Consciousness is growing fast in America and Europe. Like the villages
of Bengal of Chaitanya’s days, the streets of New York and London today are resounding with God’s
songs. And this is not accidental.
The whole of the West today has collectively reached a point where Chaitanya had once reached
individually. It is the same last frontier of mind and intellect, where Chaitanya absolutely tired of
thinking and realized that it leads nowhere. In the same way the West is now tired of thinking. From
Socrates to Bertrand Russell, the West has long tried to find truth through thinking. It was a great
and unique adventure to search for reality through reason and logic, and the West has consecrated
all its energy to this quest. The West has always refused to accept that truth is beyond the boundary
of intellect and reason, that reality is illogical and unthinkable. It has trusted only mind and intellect.
For twenty-five hundred years the West has traveled the path of intellect with dedication, and yet
failed to have a glimpse of reality. Many times its great minds felt reality was within reach, but it
continued to elude them. Each time they had only ideas and concepts in their hand, not truth. And
now the whole of the West feels fed up with mentation.
Today the collective consciousness of the West is exactly where Chaitanya had found himself
individually a few centuries ago. It is now on the brink of an explosion, a transformation which
is every day coming closer. The first flowers of spring have already blossomed and new winds are
blowing. Cracks have appeared in the old order and the young generation is rebelling against old
ways and decaying values – against tradition itself. And they are now turning their ears to the music
and message of that which is unthinkable the mysterious.
And if the West has to go in the direction of the mysterious, Krishna is going to be its hero. He is
the best representative of the truth that is beyond mind and its logic, that is mysterious. Mahavira
and Buddha cannot serve that purpose. Mahavira is very logical; even when he speaks about
the mysterious he uses the language of logic and reason; he sticks to the process of consistent
and logical thinking. As far as Buddha is concerned, he persistently refuses to speak about the
mysterious whenever he is asked about it. He just says it is inexplicable. He goes only as far as
logic, not beyond.
The mental stress and tension the West is suffering from today is the direct result of too much
thinking. The anxiety and anguish of the West comes from thinking stretched to its ultimate; it is
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