The world is in no need of any reformer

“The world is in no need of any reformer. The world has a very competent person for guiding its minutest happenings. The person who finds that there is scope for reform of the world, himself stands in need of reform. The world goes on it its own perfect way. No person can deflect it by the breadth of a hair from the course chalked out for it by providence…What is necessary is to change our outlook to this very world…The scriptures declare that it is only necessary to listen with an open mind to the name of Krishna from the lips of a bona fide devotee. As soon as Krishna enters the listening ear, He clears up the vision of the listener so that he no longer has any ambition of ever acting the part of a reformer of any other person, because he finds that nobody is left without the very highest guidance. It is therefore his own reform by the grace of God, whose supreme necessity and nature he is increasingly able to realize by the eternally continuing mercy of the Supreme Lord.”

 

–from an article called “Sri Chaitanya in South India”in Sajjana Toshani. May 1932 issue, No.11