“It is better to go deep in Krishna consciousness than to go broad to go here and there looking for different philosophies and processes. I think of an incident with a devotee of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu named Mukunda. In His Maha-prakasa Lila, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu called His devotees one by one and gave them sublime mercy, but he refused to call Mukunda. When Srivasa Pandita asked, ‘Why aren’t you calling Mukunda?’ Mahaprabhu replied, ‘When Mukunda is with us, he speaks like one of us, but when he is with the Mayavadis, he talks like a Mayavadi. It’s like he is offering Me a flower with one hand and beating Me on the head with a club with the other. He has committed an offense against devotional service. Therefore he cannot see Me.’ There is more to the story, and eventually Mahaprabhu did call him. But coming back to the point of remaining fixed and going deep, it’s like you are digging for water. So, you go down three feet and say, ‘I’ve been digging so much, I’ve already gone down three feet, and I still haven’t hit water, let me try somewhere else.’ Then you go somewhere else and dig three feet, and then you move on and dig three feet at another place. If you had just stayed where you were and kept going deeper three feet, six feet, nine feet, twelve feet you would have eventually hit water.”
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