Jayapataka Swami: Yes! You asked simple questions. If more people attended the parikrama, will that help? Yes! If they stay out in the holy dham, will that help? Yes! You see, just like the sages did sacrifice in Naimisaranya, which is considered the hub of the universe. By that, the whole universe gets better! So, although we see that the material world has got various problems, you see also people are generally more concerned about the ecology, they are more in the mode of goodness in one sense, at the least the younger people. They are concerned about the future of our planet. Whether this is due to observance of the Navadvip parikrama, our previous acaryas have said that by observing this Navadvip parikrama, we can influence the whole universe. Now, because this is a holy dham, so everything that happens here, done here, affects the whole universe. By observing the Navadvip parikrama, gradually the people are benefited spiritually, and we are seeing how the movement is gradually growing and growing! So certainly the Navadvip parikrama is not herding anything. Maybe it is the cause! Hard to pin it down! But our previous acaryas say that this affects the whole world favorably! We know that at present there is an emergency, kind of a special threat of the COVID-19 or Corona virus, that the stock market has lost something like trillions of dollars and people are worried. So this is a good opportunity to preach to the people, how they should be satvic. It is interesting that some south Indian saint had predicted some thousand years ago, that people would eat creatures that would have some kind of poison and that they would get some kind of breathing problem, and then they would die. So the symptom of this corona virus is respiratory problems. And some people die! So, this is a good opportunity to get people to become vegetarian! Ha! Instead of eating creatures! And then at this time, to chant Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!
02-MARCH-2020 SRI MAYAPUR DHAM, INDIA