If someone goes to a hospital and sees that the doctors and nurses are not even on speaking terms with one another, will they want to lay down their lives in the hands of those doctors and nurses? Similarly, people are frustrated. If they come and see that Krishna Consciousness works with harmony and peace, there is love and cooperation amongst devotees, people will think, yes, I trust them, this is what I want, I will hear what they say.

But if they see that we have our own petty little conflicts, then they will think, what is the difference? What is the difference between this and everything I am reading about in the newspapers?

So we have a great responsibility to cooperate with one another, and the only way we can cooperate in this age of Kali is to take Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s golden rule to heart:

trnad api sunicena

taror api sahisnuna

amanina manadena

kirtaniyah sada harih

To be more humble than a blade of grass; to be more tolerant than a tree; to offer all respect to others and to expect none in return and in this way chant the name of the Lord always. If we strive to live by this, the most important of all the instructions, we can live together peacefully. In that peaceful coexistence we can do great, great things for this world.