Srila Prabhupada often said that being Krsna conscious is being at war with maya. He was prone to say that people only gave us donations because they thought we were poor beggars and deserved something. He was always aware that people were against the Krsna consciousness movement and plotting to harm or erase it. In a way, that’s the whole history of Krsna consciousness on earth, trying to establish a Krsna consciousness “beach head” in an envious, materialistic world. It reminds me of a saying supposedly attributed to Maria Callas, the well-known singer: “When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I’m slipping.”