Text 11] Narada’s Instructions on Srimad-Bhagavatam 235

there will be a change of heart, and naturally the people in general will
follow them. The mass of people in general are tools in the hands of the
modern politicians and leaders of the people. If there is a change of heart
of the leaders only, certainly there will be a radical change in the atmos-
phere of the world. We know that our honest attempt to present this
great literature conveying transcendental messages for reviving the God
consciousness of the people in general and respiritualizing the world
atmosphere is fraught with many difficulties. Our presenting this matter in
adequate language, especially a foreign language, will certainly fail, and
there will be so many literary discrepancies despite our honest attempt to
present it in the proper way. But we are sure that with all our faults in this
connection the seriousness of the subject matter will be taken into con-
sideration, and the leaders of society will still accept this due to its being
an honest attempt to glorify the Almighty God. When there is fire in a
house, the inmates of the house go out to get help from the neighbors who
may be foreigners, and yet without knowing the language the victims of
the fire express themselves, and the neighbors understand the need, even
though not expressed in the same language. The same spirit of cooperation
is needed to broadcast this transcendental message of the Srimad-
Bhagavatam throughout the polluted atmosphere of the world. After all, it
is a technical science of spiritual values, and thus we are concerned with
the techniques and not with the language. If the techniques of this great
literature are understood by the people of the world, there will be success.

When there are too many materialistic activities by the people in general
all over the world, there is no wonder that a person or a nation attacks
another person or nation on slight provocation. That is the rule of this age
of Kali or quarrel. The atmosphere is already polluted with corruption of
all description, and everyone knows it well. There are so many unwanted
literatures full of materialistic ideas of sense gratification. The people in
general want to read (that is a natural instinct), but because their minds
are polluted they want such literatures. Under the circumstances, transcen-
dental literature like Srimad-Bhagavatam will not only diminish the
activities of the corrupt mind of the people in general, but also it will
supply food for their hankering after reading some interesting literature.
In the beginning they may not like it because one suffering from jaundice
is reluctant to take sugar-candy, but we should know that sugar-candy is
the only remedy for the jaundice. Similarly, let there be systematic
propaganda for popularizing reading of the Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-
Bhagavatam which will act like sugar-candy for the jaundice-like condition
of sense gratification. When men have a taste for this literature, the other
