We should take advantage of a crisis as an opportunity to make spiritual advancement and the real goal is to develop love of Krishna. As Srila Prabhupada writes in the Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 8 Chapter 24, Text 52 purport, "The real purpose of life is to go back home back to Godhead and live with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, play with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, dance with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and eat with the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

Many of Srila Prabhupada's disciples are getting older. Old age and death
are like sisters. So many have already left, like Tamal Krishna Maharaja,
Bhakti Swarup Damodar Maharaja, Aindra Prabhu, Yamuna Prabhu, etc. To
prepare for this, it is essential we go deeper into our bhakti. The purpose
of sadhana bhakti is to come to bhava bhakti. And of course, the purpose of
bhava bhakti is to come to prema bhakti. In this material body, prema bhakti
is beyond us. At least we can come to the stage of bhava bhakti.

We are all accustomed to traveling here and there, attending various
festivals, seminars, etc. but here is an interesting quote from Srila
Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Recently I was reading about Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and his activities
in Nilacala, Sri Jagannath Puri Dhama and I came across this reference which
I found very interesting, and which in some ways relate to our position now
with the Vaisnavas staying in one place and we are not able to move around.

Bhaktivinoda Thakura was instructed to stay in Jagannath Puri. We find
ourselves staying in a temple which of course is non-different from
Vrndavana, Mayapur or Jagannath Puri.

"While crying and speaking in this way I went to the birthplace of the Lord
at Sri Mayapur. Still my mind did not become peaceful. Thereafter I left my
place in search of the Lord and after arriving at Puri, I began to roll on
the god-like sand. At that time, the Lord informed me in my heart, 'O
well-wisher of the devotees. May you obtain peace. The nature that the
living entities have developed, according to their respective karma from
birth after birth in this world, influences them to engage in fruitive
activities. Until desires opposed to devotional service are destroyed from
the heart, no amount of good instruction can bring any auspiciousness. Such
instructions will simply come out of the ear holes and will not enter into
the heart. No amount of preaching to them or discussing devotional service
will produce a good result because of their bad karma. Your discourses and
discussions will therefore not yield any result. My order to you is that you
should live at this place where I kept my dear Haridas and where I loudly
chanted the holy names of the Lord. You should, constantly sing the glories
of the holy names for the benefit of the fallen souls. As a result of the
piety that people will achieve by hearing from you and the faith they will
develop, they will attain unduplicitous faith in pure devotional service in
a future lifetime.'

Following these instructions of our beloved Lord Krishna Caitanya we built
our bhajana kutir in the attractive land surrounded by huge waves."
(Sajjana-Tosani 15/1 Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava compiled by Sripada
Sundarananda-vidyanoda) taken from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava Volume 2
Chapter entitled Further Contentious Issues Page 209 by Bhakti Vikash Swami.

It seems here that Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was instructed by the Lord
Himself to live in Puri, and loudly chant the holy names of the Lord for the
benefit of the fallen souls. Lord Caitanya says, "No amount of preaching to
them or discussing devotional service will produce a good result because of
their bad karma".

This is somewhat unusual because we are encouraged to preach actively. Here
Lord Caitanya is instructing Bhaktivinoda Thakura to stay in one place and
simply chant loudly. Although he does say in the above quote, "As a result
of the piety that people will achieve by hearing from you and the faith they
will develop, they will attain unduplicitous faith in pure devotional
service in a future lifetime".

Some confusion here-that people will hear from him, I would assume it's just
the holy name of the Lord. And Bhaktivinoda Thakura is being encouraged to
pray for all jivas, sakala brahmanda jivera, in the mood of Vasudeva Datta.

So we find ourselves also situated in one place attempting to increase our
bhajana, sravanam, kirtanam and smaranam, hearing, chanting and praying for
the spiritual development and spiritual upliftment of all the conditioned
souls throughout the world.

Therefore I see this present crisis as an opportunity to increase the
quality and quantity of our sravanam, kirtanam and smaranam based on Srila
Prabhupada's instructions and the instructions of our guru parampara.

I hope you are happy and well in all respects.

I remain,
Your well-wisher,

Partha-sarathi Das Goswami