What do football games, rock concerts, political rallies, boxing matches and revival meetings all have in common?
The mass glorification of a person or persons engaged in extraordinary feats — a very exciting, even electrifying experience which can give incredible pleasure to large groups of people. This phenomenon is known as kirtana. To glorify, reciprocate, and communicate with a “super person” is very natural and pleasurable for everyone. But when the politician is scandalized, the football player is injured or the rock star overdoses, the pleasure-giving relationship is broken. Immediately, the search for a new, higher relationship begins. This search is the purpose of human life. This search for unending pleasure in a permanent relationship is going on throughout the creation, manifesting in endless varieties of would-be heroes and their would-be followers. This fundamental desire of the human being can never be satisfied on the material plane where old age, disease, death and dishonor destroy all such temporary relationships. Glorification of God alone can bring the highest happiness in an
