Krishna is pushing us to feel helpless and if we are too much attached to those external things, those external arrangements that when Krishna pulls out, we immediately start clambering for everything we just had. We start thinking these are the things that will protect me, my prestige, my assets. But actually that is material. A devotee has to plant his feet firmly in the realization that No, real shelter is Krishna, everything else is temporary. If we want real shelter, if we really want solid ground to stand on, then the most solid ground to stand on is full dependence on the lotus feet of the Lord.
Reading from the 'Nectar of book distribution' in Hartford, 1992