Kaumudaki dasi : Srila Prabhupada gave some wonderful classes. The one I remember the most was a class in the new temple room where Srila Prabhupada said, “Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita among thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, for self-realization. And out of many thousands of such men, only one may know Me in truth.” So then Srila Prabhupada looked around at the temple, and the whole temple room was packed and the whole balcony was packed. I was sitting up in the front of the balcony so I could see clearly, and Srila Prabhupada was looking at all of us and he said, “So does this mean that only a few of you are going to become Krishna conscious and be with Krishna?” He said, “No. Every one of you can be with Krishna. Every one of you can know Krishna in truth. You have come to Krishna after past lives of making progress in spiritual life.“
But Srila Prabhupada was saying that when we come to Krishna consciousness, we take up where we left off in our past lives. So someone might come and they might struggle with the very simple things even after years, and someone might come and they might very quickly become a very advanced preacher or have wonderful spiritual realizations right away. Srila Prabhupada explained that that’s because of past development in past lifetimes. But Srila Prabhupada was saying that “Every one of you can be with Krishna.”
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Kaumudaki Dasi
