much smoke that if you were down, looking up, you couldn’t see anything. Picture that you are one of these soldiers or police officers in this cloud of smoke, and up above you, there is this hail of bullets from the terrorists shooting at you. One of those soldiers was one of our devotees. At one point, they were trying to chase these people through the hotel. They are trapped. The terrorists were throwing all these grenades. They are in a complete cloud of smoke. They cannot see one foot in front of their face. They can’t see left, right or anything, and this hail of bullets is being fired at them. Just a wall of bullets coming at them. This devotee police officer, in the middle of two other police officers, was actually completely helpless. He couldn’t see left or right; he couldn’t see h is colleagues. He remembered that he had the Nrsimhadeva prayers as the ring tone on his phone. He began playing the Nrsimhadeva prayers and praying intently to Lord Nrsimhadeva: “Please I am absolutely helpless. I am going to die. Save me, in an absolutely hopeless state.” When the shooting stopped, the smoke cleared. His friend to the right and his friend to the left were completely killed, riddled with bullets, and he was unscathed. In front of him, which he couldn’t see at the time, was a giant pillar. And because they were shooting at him the pillar protected him. He thought, “Just as Lord Nrsimhadeva came out of the pillar to save Prahlada, He put a pillar here to save me!” So my point is simple : if we have that faith, “Oh, how will I be taken care of? ” Krishna will take care of
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