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In front of Caitanya Mahaprabhu you are chanting Hare Krsna mantra, and you are taking part in it very seriously. So my Guru Maharaja will be very, very much pleased upon you and bless you with all benefits

2021-08-02T11:24:26Z

Nirmal:

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<div class="heading">So now, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya Mahāprabhu and in the presence of my Guru Mahārāja, you are so nice boys and girls. So in front of Caitanya Mahāprabhu you are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and you are taking part in it very seriously. So my Guru Mahārāja will be very, very much pleased upon you and bless you with all benefits.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Atlanta, March 2, 1975|His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada's Appearance Day, Lecture -- Atlanta, March 2, 1975]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Prabhupāda: So now, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya Mahāprabhu and in the presence of my Guru Mahārāja, you are so nice boys and girls. So in front of Caitanya Mahāprabhu you are chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', and you are taking part in it very seriously. So my Guru Mahārāja will be very, very much pleased upon you and bless you with all benefits. (break)

So he wanted this, and he is not. . . It is not that he is dead and gone. That is not spiritual understanding. Even ordinary living being, he does not die. ''Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre'' ([[Vanisource:BG 2.20 (1972)|BG 2.20]]). And what to speak of such exalted, authorized personality like Bhaktisiddhānta. He is seeing. I never feel that I am alone. Of course, when I came to your country without any friend, without any means. . . Practically, just like a vagabond I came. But I had full faith that "My Guru Mahārāja is with me." I never lost this faith. And that is fact. There are two words, ''vāṇī'' and ''vapuḥ''. ''Vānī'' means words, and ''vapuḥ'' means this physical body. So ''vāṇī'' is more important than the ''vapuḥ''. ''Vapuḥ'' will be finished. This is material body. It will be finished. That is the nature. But if we keep to the ''vāṇī'', to the words of spiritual master, then we remain very fixed up. It doesn't matter.

Just like ''Bhagavad-gītā''. It was spoken five thousand years ago. But if you keep to the words of Kṛṣṇa, then it is always fresh and guiding. Not that because Arjuna personally listened to Kṛṣṇa about the instruction of ''Bhagavad-gītā'', therefore he knew it. That is not the fact. If you accept ''Bhagavad-gītā'' as it is, then you should know that Kṛṣṇa is present before you in His words in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''. This is called spiritual realization. It is not mundane historical incidences.
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Impossible is a word in a fool's dictionary

2021-08-02T10:34:23Z

Nirmal:

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<div class="heading">"Impossible" is a word found in fool's dictionary.
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Prabhupāda: . . . say "impossible" is a word found in fool's dictionary.

(car drives past devotees chanting)

Prabhupāda: ''Jaya''. Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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If you understand Krsna, then after giving up this body, you don't accept another material body

2021-08-02T10:14:53Z

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If you understand Kṛṣṇa, then after giving up this body, you don't accept another material body. And in the material existence the problems are not solved, because you have to, after death, you have to accept another material body. And as soon as you accept a material body, the sufferings are there, at least these four sufferings: birth, death, old age and disease.
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Translation: "One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna."

Prabhupāda: This is the solution of the real problem, that after . . . if you understand Kṛṣṇa, then after giving up this body, you don't accept another material body. And in the material existence the problems are not solved, because you have to, after death, you have to accept another material body. And as soon as you accept a material body, the sufferings are there, at least these four sufferings: birth, death, old age and disease. So it continues. If you take the body of a human being, the birth, death, old age, disease are there. If you take the body of a heavenly demigod, the birth, death, old age and disease are there. Or if you take the body of a dog, the birth, death, old age, disease are there. So any kind of birth, material body, you have to accept these four problems. And there are many other problems. But if you stop accepting a material body, then these things are finished. So we are training people, simply ''janma karma ca me divyam'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]).
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If you have got imperfect eyes, what you can see? First of all you admit that you have got imperfect eyes. Then what you can see with your imperfect eyes?

2021-08-02T08:46:58Z

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If you have got imperfect eyes, what you can see? First of all you admit that you have got imperfect eyes. Then what you can see with your imperfect eyes? If you are a blind man, what is the use of telling, "I do not see"? You are blind man, what you can see? First of all you admit that you are blind man, then talk of seeing.
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Prabhupāda: Therefore if you have got imperfect eyes, what you can see? First of all you admit that you have got imperfect eyes. Then what you can see with your imperfect eyes? If you are a blind man, what is the use of telling, "I do not see"? You are blind man, what you can see? First of all you admit that you are blind man, then talk of seeing. Therefore Vedic literature . . . ''Śāstra-cakṣusā.'' You should see through ''śāstra'', not your these blind eyes. ''Śāstra'' says, "There is Kṛṣṇa, He is doing like that, ''cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛk'' . . ." You should see like that. What you see with your eyes? Why you are so proud of your eyes? Blind eyes. That is submission. Do you see who is your father? Why do you accept by the recommendation of the mother that "He is your father." Do you see who is your father? Then what is the use of telling, "I want to see"? What you can see? You have to take the authority of the mother. Mother says, "Here is your father," that's all. You cannot say, "I have not seen that he is my father." Can you say? So there is no value of this statement, "I do not see" or "We cannot see."
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If you follow these six principles, namely enthusiasm, determination, patience, and executing the regulative principles and keep yourself honest and in the association of devotee, if you follow these six principle, then your success is sure

2021-07-29T15:36:37Z

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<div class="heading">Sato vṛtteḥ, dealing must be very honestly, no hypocrisy, tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt, sādhu-saṅga, and in the association of devotees. If you follow these six principles, namely enthusiasm, determination, patience, and executing the regulative principles and keep yourself honest and in the association of devotee, if you follow these six principle, then your success is sure.
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(translated into Spanish by Hṛdayānanda) Prabhupāda: So I thank you very much for your kindly receiving me in this temple, and I was very happy. So my request is that you continue your devotional service very faithfully and rigidly, then in this life you will be able to see Kṛṣṇa face to face. That is a fact.

So you follow the advice, as given by Rūpa Gosvāmī, ''utsāhāt''. The first thing is enthusiasm, that "I must see Kṛṣṇa." You are seeing Kṛṣṇa. The Deity of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa is not different. But even personally you can see. Simply we have to continue the enthusiasm. Enthusiasm means to take things very seriously, ''utsāhād dhairyāt'', and patiently. Although we are determined to go back to home, back to Godhead, so we should patiently follow the rules and regulations. So these are the six principles: endeavor, mean, enthusiasm, and firm determination, and patience, and executing the regulative principles, ''tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt'', and ''sato vṛtteḥ'', means behavior must be very honest, no duplicity, and. . . ''Utsāhād dhairyāt niścayāt tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt'' ([[Vanisource:NOI 3|NOI 3]]), and ''sato vṛtteḥ'', dealing must be very honestly, no hypocrisy, ''tat-tat-karma-pravartanāt'', ''sādhu-saṅga'', and in the association of devotees. If you follow these six principles, namely enthusiasm, determination, patience, and executing the regulative principle and keep yourself honest and in the association of devotee, if you follow these six principle, then your success is sure. So these are the six principle, positive. ''Ṣaḍbhir bhaktiḥ prasidhyati''. By following these six principle, success is assured.
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If you don't follow strictly, then it is useless to criticize them also. You are also victim; they are also victim

2021-07-29T15:25:20Z

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<div class="heading">They will never understand. You don't waste your time. Go on with your duty. When they will see that you are actually acting as brāhmaṇa, they will appreciate... But if you don't follow strictly, then it is useless to criticize them also. You are also victim; they are also victim.
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Devotee (7): Prabhupāda, in the movement there is sometimes difficulty, and . . .

Prabhupāda: What is the difficulty? You chant sixteen rounds and follow the regulative . . . Where is the difficulty?

Devotee (7): If they will not accept instruction, then . . .

Cyavana: Then what is your instruction? If they won't accept your instruction, then what is your instruction? Must be bogus. Huh? If your instruction is pure, then they'll accept. If your instruction is not pure, who will accept? I will not accept.

Prabhupāda: No, "Example is better than precept." If you actually follow strictly the rules and regulations and chant sixteen rounds, why they'll not follow? They'll follow. If you are not attending class, if you are not attending ''maṅgala ārati'', if you are not finishing sixteen rounds, then that is bad example.

Brahmānanda: This boy didn't attend ''maṅgala ārati''.

Prabhupāda: Don't set bad example. That is detrimental.

Devotee (7): Śrīla Prabhupāda, is it right for the advanced devotees to chastise?

Prabhupāda: Nobody is advanced. Everyone is student. He must follow. There is no question of advanced.

Devotee (7): I mean, they call ''śūdras'' . . . (indistinct) . . .

Prabhupāda: ''Śūdras''? ''Śūdra'', how he can be devotee? ''Śūdras'' are never devotee.

Indian man (4): No, he says sometimes the devotees, they call the other devotee that "You are ''śūdra''."

Prabhupāda: That is jokingly. (laughter)

Indian man (4): Prabhupāda, sometimes you have said that this ''Gāyatrī'' was first spoken by the Lord, and this is a sound vibration of the Kṛṣṇa's flute, and it was heard by Brahmā. Right? And these ''brāhmaṇas'', so-called ''brāhmaṇas'', they are . . .

Prabhupāda: There is no question of "so-called." We want real ''brāhmaṇa''. That's all. It was heard by the real ''brāhmaṇa'', Brahmā. Brahmā, Brahmā.

Indian man (4): So they worship ''Gāyatrī''. They say it like as a . . .

Prabhupāda: They . . . Whatever they say, you forget that. You do your own duty. You follow the rules and regulation and do the needful. Why you . . .?

Indian man (4): But we have to make them understand very clearly.

Prabhupāda: But they will never understand. You don't waste your time. Go on with your duty. When they will see that you are actually acting as ''brāhmaṇa'', they will appreciate.

Indian lady (3): Time will come. They will notice.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that they will appreciate. But if you don't follow strictly, then it is useless to criticize them also. You are also victim; they are also victim.

Devotee (8): When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere . . .

Prabhupāda: You should be sure.

Devotee (8): How can we be sure?

Prabhupāda: There is beads.

Brahmānanda: No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?

Prabhupāda: Therefore it is ''śāstra'': "You must." There is no question of understanding.

Brahmānanda: The quality of the chanting he's asking. How can we make the quality the best?

Prabhupāda: Quality, you'll understand first of all come to the quality. Without having quality, how he'll understand the quality? You follow the instruction of your spiritual master, of the ''śāstra''. That is your duty. Quality, no quality—it is not your position to understand. When the quality comes, there is no force. You will have a taste for chanting. You will desire at that time, "Why sixteen round? Why not sixteen thousand rounds?" That is quality. That is quality. It is by force. You'll not do it; therefore at least sixteen rounds. But when you come to the quality, you will feel yourself, "Why sixteen? Why not sixteen thousand?" That is quality, automatically.
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If you criticize my dress, I criticize your dress, that's all. Then you go on criticizing dress, where is the talk between gentlemen? That is our disease, that we are concerned with the dress, this body, not the person who has the dress

2021-07-29T11:18:55Z

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Just find out anyone who is equally dressed with you. Find out anyone. You are differently dressed from me, from them. And if you criticize my dress, I criticize your dress, that's all. Then you go on criticizing dress, where is the talk between gentlemen? That is our disease, that we are concerned with the dress, this body, not the person who has the dress. That is our disease.
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Prabhupāda: First of all, there is God; you have to accept. Then you study what is God.

Peter: That we have a nature too, and that if we go against our own nature . . .

Prabhupāda: That we have already explained, that you are nothing but a small fragment of God. So you can study God by studying yourself. Because you are small sample of God. There is no need of searching elsewhere. You study yourself, and you find God, because you are the sample of God. So you study yourself, and you find God. God is nothing . . . He is exactly like you, but very big. "God is great." You are small. So from small sample, you can understand what is the great.

Dr. Crossley: I think one of the things that Peter is saying, though, that I haven't really heard you address is that . . . he's not saying that he doesn't believe. He's saying that he has the same experiences as all the young people here, but he doesn't dress this way, he doesn't chant, he doesn't choose to call this praise to Kṛṣṇa; he chooses to call it something else. How is it essentially different? He's saying it's essentially the same.

Prabhupāda: That he can say also, that he does not dress like him, that's all. Not different. Difference is that . . . we are all differently dressed. It is not that every one of us who is sitting down not differently dressed. But we are not talking of the dress. We are talking ourselves. When I talk with you, you talk with me, you are not concerning about my dress or I am concerning your dress, I am talking with you as gentleman, that's all. What is the impediment of the dress? Anyone can dress as he likes. But he is a gentleman; you are a gentleman. Talk like a gentleman, that's all.

Dr. Crossley: If anyone can dress as he likes, why do you all dress alike?

Prabhupāda: Yes, we are already. Just find out anyone who is equally dressed with you. Find out anyone. You are differently dressed from me, from them. And if you criticize my dress, I criticize your dress, that's all. Then you go on criticizing dress, where is the talk between gentlemen? That is our disease, that we are concerned with the dress, this body, not the person who has the dress. That is our disease.

Dr. Wolfe: Śrīla Prabhupāda, the ''dhotī'' is not important then?

Prabhupāda: Not important. He can have ''dhotī'', you can have pant, you can have . . . it doesn't matter.

Dr. Orr: It's part of the beauty of the world. It's interesting, it's fun, it's enjoyable, and I see no reason for denial.

Prabhupāda: There are so many thing enjoyable, but who is enjoying? That is the question.
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If you accept that they are different part and parcel of Krsna - there must be relationship with Krsna - then it is correct

2021-07-29T10:05:43Z

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If you think that this finger is separate power, that is incorrect. This finger is powerful so long attached to the body. And if you cut the finger from the body, it has no power. Similarly, the demigods, if you accept that they are different part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—there must be relationship with Kṛṣṇa—then it is correct.
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Prabhupāda: That's all right. If there is sense . . . If there is sense that Lord Śiva is Kṛṣṇa's part and parcel, then it is all right. But if he thinks Lord Śiva is separate authority, then it is mistake. Kṛṣṇa says . . . What is that ''śloka''? Verse, you recite? ''Ye yathā mām ''. . .

Indian man: . . . (indistinct) . . .

Prabhupāda: There is "I," Kṛṣṇa. There is "I," Kṛṣṇa. If you understand this demigod . . . Just like this finger. If you understand this finger belongs to Swāmījī, then you are correct. And if you think that this finger is separate power, that is incorrect. This finger is powerful so long attached to the body. And if you cut the finger from the body, it has no power. Similarly, the demigods, if you accept that they are different part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa—there must be relationship with Kṛṣṇa—then it is correct. Just like it is said, ''sūrya, sūrya upāsanā'', that, or ''durgā upāsanā''. These are different ''upāsanā—sūrya'', or ''pañcopāsanā, durgā upāsanā, sūrya upāsanā, gaṇeśa upāsanā'' and ''viṣṇu upāsanā, pañcopāsanā''. So how we can worship? Just like Durgā. Durgā is worshiped by the Vaiṣṇava in this way, ''sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekā chāyeva ya'' . . . (Bs. 5.44).
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If we keep cows and grow food grains, fruits, vegetables, then we can live very peacefully like that. There is no need of going to the city

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You can produce your necessities; there is no difficulty. If we keep cows and grow food grains, fruits, vegetables, then we can live very peacefully like that. There is no need of going to the city. That is the plan of God, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa personally exhibited.
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Prabhupāda: So if you can stick to this village life and be satisfied whatever you produce... You can produce your necessities; there is no difficulty. If we keep cows and grow food grains, fruits, vegetables, then we can live very peacefully like that. There is no need of going to the city. That is the plan of God, Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa personally exhibited. Vṛndāvana is village; it is not city. We are trying to go to the village of Kṛṣṇa—Vṛndāvana. And He was Himself, although He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He was taking care of the calves and cows when He was child, although Nanda Mahārāja was king, village king. King means he had many cows—nine hundred thousand cows. Formerly one was considered to be rich man if he possessed many cows: dhānyena dhanavān gavayā dhanavān. Now, artificially, they have made such a plan that if you can possess some papers written only—hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, fifty dollars—then you are rich.
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If we get little cooperation from the authorities, we can push on this movement more solidly

2021-07-29T09:35:37Z

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Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change."

Prabhupāda: So this education is required. America is resourceful and they are intelligent. And the movement is already there, Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. People are appreciating gradually. So if we get little cooperation from the authorities, we can push on this movement more solidly. So you are the chief of this city. If you give us some facility, then we can be useful to counteract this position.

Mayor: Well, we'd like to cooperate, and we certainly need a different approach, I think, because we're not being successful now in trying to . . .

Prabhupāda: No, this way will never be successful. It will degrade more and more. So our process is very simple. That is the Caitanya Mahāprabhu's contribution, that we chant . . . (aside) Where is that letter? Professor Judah's? Just read that.

Brahmānanda: "I feel certain my book will help people both to understand the teachings of Kṛṣṇa and of His descent as Caitanya, and to realize how Kṛṣṇa consciousness has transformed lives from drug-addicted hippies to loving servants of Kṛṣṇa and humanity."

Prabhupāda: This is his study. He has written a book. So we can stop this, provided we are given the facility to work on.

Mayor: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Yes. So I was thinking. Just in front there is a very nice house, big house. You have knowledge about this house?

Mayor: No, I . . .

Prabhupāda: What is that building?

Śrī Govinda: Merrywood.

Mayor: Oh, we are right across the street from Merrywood, yes, uh-huh, which we're going to have as a city hall.

Prabhupāda: Oh. You have decided?

Mayor: Yes, uh-huh, about, oh, just two weeks ago actually, the council . . .

Prabhupāda: So is it not possible to use this house at least for some time for this movement?

Mayor: The, er . . . I'm not sure what the time schedule is, but it's my impression that they were going to start remodeling it for city purposes later this year. It's about a three-million-dollar project, both for the purchase of the land from the sisters and the remodeling to make it suitable for various city needs. And then they're going to . . . the city is now located at nine different locations, that is, their facilities. And they're trying to incorporate them all in this one place so that when people need city services, they can just go one place and get all the . . .

Prabhupāda: But this is more important. City service is going on, but criminals are increasing. So why not give us little opportunity?

Mayor: Well, I could certainly discuss this with the city manager and see what could be worked out.

Śrī Govinda: Possibly we could invite the city manager also to come to discuss with Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: No . . . so if we get a good place with the cooperation of the authorities, then our simple program is that, as Professor Judah has remarked, drug-addicted hippies, they have been turned into devotees. We shall invite anyone to come and chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'' and take ''prasādam''.
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If we can go there, then you'll haven't got to come back again in this darkness. This is Krsna consciousness movement

2021-07-29T09:24:20Z

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We are inviting or, rather, trying to go to that world where there is no need of sun, there is no need of moon, there is no need of electricity. And somehow or other, if we can go there, yad gatvā na nivartante, then you'll haven't got to come back again in this darkness. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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So actually we are in the darkness. This whole world is dark. It is . . . It requires, therefore, the sunlight, the moonlight, the electric light, the fire, the lamp, because it is dark. Because it is dark. But there is a spiritual world where there is no need of. ''Na yatra bhāsyate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ''. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' you'll find, ''na yatra bhāsyate sūryaḥ''. There is no need of this ''sūrya''. There is no need of ''sūrya. Sūrya'' is required, the sun is required, because this world, material world, is dark, very, very dark, dense darkness. And we are born in this darkness. Our heart is full of darkness. Simply by the Kṛṣṇa's grace there is sun, there is moon, there is fire, there is electric . . . Therefore we can see. Otherwise you remain in the darkness. But if you go to the spiritual world . . . ''Tamasi mā'': "You don't keep yourself in this darkness; come to the light." "What is that? There is also the sun, moon?" No. There is no need. ''Na yatra bhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ. Yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama'' ([[Vanisource:BG 15.6 (1972)|BG 15.6]]). These are there. (aside:) Where is ''Bhagavad-gītā''? Find out. ''Na yatra bhāsayate sūryaḥ''. Who will find out? This is spiritual world. There is no need of sun, moon, electricity, fire. (devotees look for verse)

Brahmānanda:

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"That abode of Mine is not illuminated by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never returns to this material world."

Prabhupāda: Yes. So we are inviting or, rather, trying to go to that world where there is no need of sun, there is no need of moon, there is no need of electricity. And somehow or other, if we can go there, ''yad gatvā na nivartante'', then you'll haven't got to come back again in this darkness. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.

So at least one life try to going back to that place. Then your whole problem will be solved. Here we are paying so much electricity bill, and if there is no sun, we are rotten place. So why do you suffer in this way? Come here. There is no need of sun; there is no need of electricity. And the prime gain is that if you can go there, there is no need of coming back again. So those who have no information of the spiritual world, they stick to this material world as everything is here. But those who have got knowledge, ''mahātmā'', whose ''ātmā'' is very great, who can understand the greatness of God and His great knowledge and take knowledge from Him, he is perfect. So here is the knowledge. Everything is there. He is giving . . . We . . . Not that back to home, back to Godhead, is our imagination. No, not imagination. Just like if somebody gives you information of America, that "America is very rich city. There are so many big, big bridges and road and motorcars," so naturally you become inclined: "Why not see once America, how it is?" So similarly, here is the information about the spiritual world, and why don't you try to go back to home, back to Godhead?

What is this foolishness? Why should you pay the electric bill?
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So suppose I am talking to you (Professor Lewcock) for the last more than one hour; you have not become my devotee. So we have to spend gallons of blood to make a devotee; therefore we cannot expect many number

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Professor Lewcock: Master, how many thousands of devotees of Kṛṣṇa consciousness are there?

Prabhupāda: That is very difficult to say. So suppose I am talking to you for the last more than one hour; you have not become my devotee. So we have to spend gallons of blood to make a devotee; therefore we cannot expect many number.

Professor Lewcock: No.

Prabhupāda: You have to talk like this for years, then one becomes a devotee. So we cannot expect a very large number. That is not possible. But if we can make one man devotee, then we think our preaching attempt is successful. Yes. It doesn't matter—one. We don't want many. Ekaś candras tamo hanti na ca tāra-sahasrasaḥ—one moon is sufficient; there is no need of millions of stars. What is the use if one does not understand? If one understands, that is sufficient. He'll make many others. That is our policy. But we cannot expect a large number. That is not possible. Still, we have got many thousands. But they are very rigid. Solid. Yes.

Professor Lewcock: Yes. But the movement is growing. Is the movement growing rather fast now? Kṛṣṇa's . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Everything there is, but still people do not come. (laughter) Everything fine. Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful. Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's prasādam is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's devotees are so nice. Everything nice—cent percent. But still people deny it. The same thing, that the hog, he is satisfied by eating stool, but if he is given nice halavā, he'll refuse. Hog taste.
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If people take advantage of these books they can stop this pravrtti, this intense desire for enjoying this material world

2021-07-29T08:48:25Z

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We don't want to stop the tendency of material enjoyment. No ''nivṛtti''. The human life is meant for ''nivṛtti''. The cats' and dogs' life is for ''pravṛtti''. The sex desire, they cannot stop it. It is not possible. If you teach some dogs that, "You forget the sex life," it is impossible. That is not possible. So they cannot stop this desire of sex life. But if a human being can be induced . . . therefore there is ''brahmacarya ''system, there is Vedic education, there is ''Bhagavad-gītā'', so many other things. If people take advantage of these books they can stop this pravṛtti, this intense desire for enjoying this material world. But the ''asuras'', they do not know that what we should accept and what we should not accept. ''Pravṛtti ''means to accept something, and ''nivṛtti ''means to deny something. So they do not know. This is the first symptom of the ''asuras''. ''Pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca na viduḥ''. ''Pravṛttiṁ ca nivṛttiṁ ca janā na vidur āsurāḥ''. ''Āsurāḥ janāḥ ''([[Vanisource:BG 16.7 (1972)|BG 16.7]]), those who are demons, ''asuras'', they do not know it.

Then next symptom? ''Na śaucam'': they are very unclean. These things you will find nowadays everywhere, all over the world. They are not clean. The cleanliness is next to godliness. To rise early in the morning and cleanse yourself, evacuate, then take bath, cleanse your teeth, cleanse your hands, legs, and be refreshed, that is required. ''Śaucam''. ''Śuci''. This is the ''brahmin's ''business. Just like ''brahmin's ''another name is ''śuci''. And one who does not observe the cleanliness process, he is called ''muci'', means cobbler. So this is the symptom, that the ''asuras'', they do not know which way is their goal of life. ''Na śaucam'': "They are very unclean." ''Na śaucam''.

''Nāpi ca ācāraḥ'': "They do not know etiquette." ''Ācāra''. ''Ācāra ''means one should learn how to behave. That makes a gentleman and a rough person. ''Nāpi cācāraḥ''. ''Ācāraḥ ''means . . . ''Ācāryavān puruṣo veda'' (''Chāndogya Upaniṣad'' 6.14.2). ''Ācāraḥ'', this is . . . ''ācāraḥ ''means he learns from the ''śāstra ''how we should live, that, preliminary, that you must take bath, you must wash your hands after eating or you must take bath after evacuating. So many things are there. ''Nitya-karma-vidhi''. In the Vedic literature you find all these directions. But now they have given up. Especially Vedic culture was there long, long ago all over the world. But now that is finished. Now in India, also, where little Vedic principles were still glowing, that is now being finished also. ''Nāpi cācāraḥ''. They are learning from the Westerns how to remain unclean, how to eat meat, how to drink wine and so on, so on, so many things.
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Prabhupāda: ''Na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate''. Kṛṣṇa . . . here He is playing on His flute, but His energies are working. Just like a big man, a big business magnate—he is sitting in his room, but his energy is working—big, big factory is going on, large amount of profit is coming automatically. So if it is possible for ordinary human being that he is sitting in one place, and still, things are going on by management of his energy, so why not Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord? He is sitting in one place. ''Goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ''. ''Ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ'', ''goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ ''(Bs. 5.37). He is situated in His planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana; still His energies are going on. The material energy is working, this material world. Kṛṣṇa says, ''mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram ''([[Vanisource:BG 9.10 (1972)|BG 9.10]]). Under His vigilance all the laws of material nature is going on. Exactly in time the sun is rising, the moon is rising. Everything is going on minutely, very nicely. ''Parāsya śaktiḥ''. ''Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''. It is going so nicely that Kṛṣṇa hasn't got to learn how to do it. The machine is so perfect, it is going on perfectly. The flower is coming by His energy. ''Puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca ''([[Vanisource:BG 7.9 (1972)|BG 7.9]]). The special seed you sow on the ground, and a particular type of plant will come out, then rose will come out, a particular flavor will come out. ''Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''.

We do not see how Kṛṣṇa's energies are working, but it is working. Don't think that, "It is automatically . . . there was a chunk and there was . . ." No. Not like that. Everything. But His energy is so perfect. Just like if you want to paint one nice flower, you have to arrange so many things—color, and the brush and the painting cloth—and you have to apply your energies and . . . but still, it will not come so perfect. But Kṛṣṇa's energies are so perfect that we see automatically. But there is supervision of Kṛṣṇa. There is no question of accident. Everything is supervised. ''Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''. We have to do it with our hand, to paint a picture of a nice rose flower, but in the nature the flower is coming out. We see "automatically." No. The Kṛṣṇa's energy is working there, but it is going on so swiftly, so, I mean to say, accurately, that He hasn't got to exact His energy, but it is working automatically. ''Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca''. Whatever knowledge is required . . . if you have studied, you will find in the petals of the flower the color exactly symmetrical, everything. Whatever color is required, it is coming out. We say "automatically." No automatically. ''Svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā''. The knowledge and the action of Kṛṣṇa is so perfect, it is coming out.
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So suppose I am talking to you (Professor Lewcock) for the last more than one hour; you have not become my devotee. So we have to spend gallons of blood to make a devotee; therefore we cannot expect many number

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Professor Lewcock: Master, how many thousands of devotees of Kṛṣṇa consciousness are there?

Prabhupāda: That is very difficult to say. So suppose I am talking to you for the last more than one hour; you have not become my devotee. So we have to spend gallons of blood to make a devotee; therefore we cannot expect many number.

Professor Lewcock: No.

Prabhupāda: You have to talk like this for years, then one becomes a devotee. So we cannot expect a very large number. That is not possible. But if we can make one man devotee, then we think our preaching attempt is successful. Yes. It doesn't matter—one. We don't want many. Ekaś candras tamo hanti na ca tāra-sahasrasaḥ—one moon is sufficient; there is no need of millions of stars. What is the use if one does not understand? If one understands, that is sufficient. He'll make many others. That is our policy. But we cannot expect a large number. That is not possible. Still, we have got many thousands. But they are very rigid. Solid. Yes.

Professor Lewcock: Yes. But the movement is growing. Is the movement growing rather fast now? Kṛṣṇa's . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Everything there is, but still people do not come. (laughter) Everything fine. Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful. Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's prasādam is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's devotees are so nice. Everything nice—cent percent. But still people deny it. The same thing, that the hog, he is satisfied by eating stool, but if he is given nice halavā, he'll refuse. Hog taste. (laughter)
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.13.7|SB 5.13.7, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sometimes, being defeated or plundered by a superior, powerful agent, a living entity loses all his possessions. He then becomes very morose, and lamenting their loss, he sometimes becomes unconscious. Sometimes he imagines a great palatial city in which he desires to live happily with his family members and riches. He thinks himself fully satisfied if this is possible, but such so-called happiness continues only for a moment.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The word gandharva-puram is very significant in this verse. Sometimes in the forest a very big castle appears, and this is called a castle in the air. Actually this castle does not exist anywhere but in one's imagination. This is called gandharva-pura. In the material forest, the conditioned soul sometimes contemplates great castles and skyscrapers, and he wastes his energy for such things, hoping to live in them very peacefully with his family forever. However, the laws of nature do not allow this. When he enters such castles, he temporarily thinks that he is very happy, even though his happiness is impermanent. His happiness may last for a few years, but because the owner of the castle has to leave the castle at the time of death, everything is eventually lost. This is the way of worldly transactions. Such happiness is described by Vidyāpati as the happiness one derives upon seeing a drop of water in the desert. The desert is heated by scorching sunshine, and if we want to reduce the desert temperature, we need huge amounts of water—millions and millions of gallons. What effect will one drop have? Water certainly has value, but one drop of water cannot reduce the heat of the desert. In this material world everyone is ambitious, but the heat is very scorching. What will an imaginary castle in the air do to help? Śrīla Vidyāpati has therefore sung: tāṭala saikate, vāri-bindu-sama, suta-mita-ramaṇi-samāje. The happiness of family life, friends and society is compared to a drop of water in the scorching desert. The entire material world is busy trying to attain happiness because happiness is the prerogative of the living being. Unfortunately, due to falling in contact with the material world, the living entity simply struggles for existence. Even if one becomes happy for a while, a very powerful enemy may plunder everything. There are many instances in which big businessmen suddenly become paupers in the street. Yet the nature of material existence is such that foolish people are attracted to these transactions and they forget the real business of self-realization.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 4.62|CC Madhya 4.62, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After the mahā-snāna was finished, the Deity was again massaged with scented oil and His body made glossy. Then the last bathing ceremony was performed with scented water kept within a conchshell.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>In his commentary on this occasion, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura quotes from the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa. Barley powder, wheat powder, vermilion powder, urad dhal powder and another powder preparation called āvāṭā (made by mixing banana powder and ground rice) are applied to the Deity's body with a brush made from the hair at the end of a cow's tail. This produces a nice finish. The oil smeared over the body of the Deity should be scented. To perform the mahā-snāna, at least two and a half mānas (about twenty-four gallons) of water are needed to pour over the body of the Deity.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG217LondonAugust231973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="77" link="Lecture on BG 2.17 -- London, August 23, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.17 -- London, August 23, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.17 -- London, August 23, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.17 -- London, August 23, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are trying, even our Kṛṣṇa consciousness mission, we are trying to awaken. Still they are so unfortunate they cannot give up sense gratification. So unfortunate. Condemned, unfortunate. Repeatedly we are spending our gallons of blood—"Don't do this"—still they are doing. Cannot give up even sleeping. So condemned. Kali-yuga. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG64647LosAngelesFebruary211969_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="224" link="Lecture on BG 6.46-47 -- Los Angeles, February 21, 1969" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.46-47 -- Los Angeles, February 21, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.46-47 -- Los Angeles, February 21, 1969|Lecture on BG 6.46-47 -- Los Angeles, February 21, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you want to evaporate hundred gallons of water you have got to make so many necessary arrangements. And here, millions of tons water is taken away immediately from the ocean and sea and turned into cloud, light cloud so that it may not fall down immediately. You see? Not like a tank. And it is reserved on the head of the mountain and it is sprayed all over the land so everything is there. You require water to produce grains, vegetables. So everything is there.</p>
<p>Pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idam (Īśopaniṣad, Invocation). Because it is manufactured by the complete intelligent brain, everything is complete. Similarly your body is also complete for spiritual realization.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1852LosAngelesMay141973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="261" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.52 -- Los Angeles, May 14, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.52 -- Los Angeles, May 14, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.52 -- Los Angeles, May 14, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.52 -- Los Angeles, May 14, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The whole world is muddy. It is impure, full of sinful activities. So if you want to clear the situation of the modern world, then this is the only remedy:</p>
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<p>There is no other way. And actually, we are seeing practically how by chanting this holy name of the Lord, Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, how nasty people are becoming purified, Vaiṣṇava, brāhmaṇa. Actually nasty. Now, here it is said that surākṛtam, a drop of wine makes the whole thing impure. And liquor drinking is our daily business. So the example is given that suppose here is one drop of wine, and the place has become impure. So if you bring another gallon of wine and just sweep over it, mop it with wine, that is not the process. You have to bring pure water and wash with it. Then it will purify. You cannot say that "Wine is also liquid. Why not cleanse it here by wine?" No.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11610LosAngelesJanuary71974_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="326" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.10 -- Los Angeles, January 7, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.10 -- Los Angeles, January 7, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.10 -- Los Angeles, January 7, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.10 -- Los Angeles, January 7, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rectified spirit means pure alcohol, from which whiskey is made. Absolute alcohol. So I know that the cost of rectified spirit, distilled by the government, was one rupee per gallon. One rupee per gallon. But the same rectified spirit, when turned into liquor by some process, not any very difficult process, just making it coloring or flavoring... The real thing is the rectified spirit. The government would charge sixty rupees per gallon. The cost, it is one rupee. And they would sixty charge rupees. Because government knew it or know it that when a man becomes drunkard, he will drink at any cost. At any cost.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB3251BombayNovember11974_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="423" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.1 -- Bombay, November 1, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.1 -- Bombay, November 1, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.1 -- Bombay, November 1, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.1 -- Bombay, November 1, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">When one will become detestful to material enjoyment, you will know, or he'll know. Personally one can understand how much he is advanced in spiritual life. Spiritual life does not mean that a sannyāsī is smoking and drinking tea, one gallon of tea. That is not spiritual life. He must be detestful. So this dharma, or spiritual life, means to have no more interest in material activities but only in the understanding of God, the Supreme, and His service. That is spiritual life.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBrahmasamhitaVerse32NewYorkJuly261971_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Brahma-samhita_Lectures" book="Lec" index="2" link="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971" link_text="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971|Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Verse 32 -- New York, July 26, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as there is morning, there is sunshine. So if sunshine is God, then you have seen God. Why do you deny? You cannot deny. Kṛṣṇa says, raso 'ham apsu kaunteya: ([[Vanisource:BG 7.8 (1972)|BG 7.8]]) "I am the taste of the water." So who has not tasted water? We are drinking, daily, gallons of water. We are thirsty, and the good taste which quench our thirst, that is Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud|Philosophy Discussion on Sigmund Freud]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The cost price of the rectified spirits is about Rs. 1/59 per gallon, and the government is selling at 60 rupees. For us it was five rupees, because we were manufacturers. So why (indistinct)? Restriction. Because unless the government takes this matter in their hands, people will distill... It is not very difficult. There are many illicit distillers also. That's why it is the duty of the excise department to arrest them. My point is that why is the government increasing the price? So that restricting, that people may not pay so much price, they may not drink (indistinct). When the government opens a liquor shop, it does not mean that all of you become drunkards. It is not an advertisement. Similarly, when śāstras give the permission that "You can have sex life by marriage," or "You can eat meat by offering the goat to goddess Kālī," or "You can drink by offering worship to Caṇḍī," it is restricted.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 4, 1973, London|Room Conversation -- August 4, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Professor Lewcock: Master, how many thousands of devotees of Kṛṣṇa consciousness are there?

Prabhupāda: That is very difficult to say. So suppose I am talking to you for the last more than one hour; you have not become my devotee. So we have to spend gallons of blood to make a devotee; therefore we cannot expect many number.

Professor Lewcock: No.

Prabhupāda: You have to talk like this for years, then one becomes a devotee. So we cannot expect a very large number. That is not possible. But if we can make one man devotee, then we think our preaching attempt is successful. Yes. It doesn't matter—one. We don't want many. Ekaś candras tamo hanti na ca tāra-sahasrasaḥ—one moon is sufficient; there is no need of millions of stars. What is the use if one does not understand? If one understands, that is sufficient. He'll make many others. That is our policy. But we cannot expect a large number. That is not possible. Still, we have got many thousands. But they are very rigid. Solid. Yes.

Professor Lewcock: Yes. But the movement is growing. Is the movement growing rather fast now? Kṛṣṇa's . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Everything there is, but still people do not come. (laughter) Everything fine. Kṛṣṇa is so beautiful. Kṛṣṇa's service is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's prasādam is so nice. Kṛṣṇa's devotees are so nice. Everything nice—cent percent. But still people deny it. The same thing, that the hog, he is satisfied by eating stool, but if he is given nice halavā, he'll refuse. Hog taste. (laughter)
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Bhāgyavān, opulent... If you earn money, you become bhāgyavān. Bhāgyavān means... The word has come from bhagavān, and bhaga means opulence, six kinds of opulence: riches... Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). So one who possess all these things not exactly like Bhagavān, but partially, according to his position, he's called bhāgyavān.</p>
<p>Nitāi: But in this verse that you just quoted, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhagyavān, how does one come, become to the stage of...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollars from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming... Just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, you have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead. If You think they are so inglorious, they cannot be taken, then give me all their sins to me. I shall suffer. You take them." That is Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="WalkAroundFarmAugust11975NewOrleans_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="164" link="Walk Around Farm -- August 1, 1975, New Orleans" link_text="Walk Around Farm -- August 1, 1975, New Orleans">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Walk Around Farm -- August 1, 1975, New Orleans|Walk Around Farm -- August 1, 1975, New Orleans]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmānanda: You keep figures on how much each milk per cow every day?</p>
<p>Nityānanda: You hear it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Then how the milk will be utilized?</p>
<p>Nityānanda: We make sweet rice and burfi, we take the cream to make butter and ghee, and all extra milk is made into curd. So it is all used. Thirty gallons a day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: One gallon means 6 pounds?</p>
<p>Nityānanda: Eight and a half.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eight and a half pounds. In Vrindaban they get 1,000 pounds daily, New Vrindaban.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 4, 1975, Mauritius|Room Conversation -- October 4, 1975, Mauritius]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (pause) You have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is so difficult task.</p>
<p>Cyavana: You have to spend?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Gallons of blood, waste.</p>
<p>Cyavana: In what way?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: By talking with him, with the rascal and foolish. You tax your brain and spoil your energy, blood.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: Spend so much food.</p>
<p>Cyavana: So we should do that.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Unless you are not a preacher. You should be prepared. Yes. They cuts, sacrifices life, what to speak of wasting blood. Wasting life. This is preacher. Then he is recognized by Kṛṣṇa: "He has done so much for Me."</p>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune111976LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="130" link="Morning Walk -- June 11, 1976, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 11, 1976, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 11, 1976, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 11, 1976, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāmeśvara: And then you wrote that one day the people will..., the taxes will become so great that the people will revolt, refuse to pay, and then the government will be finished. There will be chaos. You're giving all these warnings, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You've also warned them about taking the oil from the earth.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh? Yes. I think of these things. No, there is analogy, just like when you fly in the sky, you take sufficient petrol in the wings, sufficient, so many thousands of gallons. And if there is no petrol, then you'll fall down. So I theorize these things, (laughs) that these planets are floating in the air on account of petrol. If you finish the petrol stock, then we drop. Analogy. Indirectly, my desire is that "Why you are wasting your time in this way? Your life is short here. Then utilize it for self-realization.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune151976Detroit_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="138" link="Morning Walk -- June 15, 1976, Detroit" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 15, 1976, Detroit">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 15, 1976, Detroit|Morning Walk -- June 15, 1976, Detroit]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Satsvarūpa: I don't know. Ambarīṣa? How much are cigarettes?</p>
<p>Ambarīṣa: I think they're seventy-five cents. They are very highly taxed.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who cares for it? (laughter) Wine is highly taxed in India. When I was manager in Dr. Bose's laboratory, he was manufacturing alcohol(?) for medicinal purposes. The cost was one rupee eight annas per gallon. The government was levying duty. For medicinal purpose, five rupees per gallon, whereas purchasing liquor, fifty-eight. The government would take profit out of it, fifty-eight rupees.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune181976Toronto_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="149" link="Morning Walk -- June 18, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 18, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 18, 1976, Toronto|Morning Walk -- June 18, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-śauri: Germany is very famous for its beer festivals. Germany. It's very famous for it's beer festivals.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Beer. Yes. Sadānanda told me. He was drinking beer in barrels. (laughs) He told me.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: They even have a mug so big that it takes one gallon of beer at a time.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And they drink.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Yes. It's possible in the summer season, one of the big tourist attraction is to go to these big beer festivals. And you can go, they last about a fortnight, one week or a fortnight, and you can travel down the Rhine Valley and move every week to a new beer festival, like that, all through the summer. It's a big tourist thing.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwithGeorgeHarrisonJuly261976London_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="229" link="Conversation with George Harrison -- July 26, 1976, London" link_text="Conversation with George Harrison -- July 26, 1976, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with George Harrison -- July 26, 1976, London|Conversation with George Harrison -- July 26, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">George Harrison: No, just, well, that (indistinct) pond. Originally the lakes all were filled just like this as well as flooding the drains, and when it rained off the house everything would go, and we have a big storage tank, and then there's ball cocks, and underneath that big bank of rhododendrons was like a room built there, which was a storage tank. Then any other water he must have used just from the mains. But these days, you know, they have meters on the mains, so you have to pay for every gallon.</p>
<p>Mukunda: What about getting those water diviners to come and find water?</p>
<p>George Harrison: Well, you can find it I think anywhere if you just bore a hole. So what we did was just bore at the end of the lake. But you have to go down to the depth of the riverbed, and there there's not much water because the rain, it's all chalk and limestone, so the rains.... That's the problem with watering in the summer, if you put water...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: From your house the river is near?</p>
<p>George Harrison: Yes.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkAugust231976Hyderabad_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="280" link="Morning Walk -- August 23, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Morning Walk -- August 23, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- August 23, 1976, Hyderabad|Morning Walk -- August 23, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man: You are doing greatest service to the humanity throughout the world.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: At least, I am trying. But it is very difficult. We have to spoil hundreds of gallons blood before one comes to the point. It is very simple thing. Only our leaders of the society, they are sleeping. They are misguided themselves and misguiding others. That is the difficulty.</p>
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<div id="EveningDarsanaFebruary151977Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="87" link="Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura|Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So from restaurant you have got good income there?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Approximately, I would say, between $7,500 and $10,000 a month. That is not all profit, but that is the gross income. Profit? At least more than half profit. And much milk products are used. We supply the temple and the restaurant from the farm four hundred gallons of milk per week.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You get from the farm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Every week we give to New York temple four hundred gallons milk.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura|Evening Darsana -- February 15, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "In the year 1976 we cultivated 5 acres of vegetables, including 24 tons of potatoes. We also have 25 beehives, which produce 100 pounds of honey per hive. There is also a fruit orchard with a 150 trees, including apples, pears, peaches, and plum trees. Lastly, we are fortunate..."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Those fruits are nice fruits.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "Lastly we are fortunate to have two natural pure water mountain springs running continuously all year. The water is being bottled and then distributed." And we take that water to New York.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Very digestive.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, yes. And water sells now for a dollar a gallon now in New York. A good market.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just see.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "So we at ISKCON farm look forward to an even more bountiful harvest in the year 1977. This is subscribed and sworn before me by a notary public." So it is official report.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationMay81977Hrishikesh_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="163" link="Room Conversation -- May 8, 1977, Hrishikesh" link_text="Room Conversation -- May 8, 1977, Hrishikesh">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- May 8, 1977, Hrishikesh|Room Conversation -- May 8, 1977, Hrishikesh]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah, I mean, what is the purpose of... A man is foolish because he's attracted by sex life, but even in marriage...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is foolish, undoubtedly, but there is some concession. But this concession is so restriction that he'll become intelligent, that "What is the use of this concession?" Loke vyavāyāmiṣa-madya-sevā nityā hi jantoḥ. It is not encouragement. The so much restriction means to convince him indirectly that "This is nonsense. Better you give it up." Otherwise why restriction? In other things... Suppose eating bhagavat-prasādam. There is no such restriction...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Once every six...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...that "Once you eat and then do not eat for sixteen months." Is there any such restriction? This is encouraged.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Chanting.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. But as soon as there is restriction, that means, "Don't do it." Otherwise naturally they have got sex desire. What is the use of giving shastric injunction? That means to control him. The meat-eating... So everyone has got tendency to eat meat, but why śāstra should agree? Restriction means stop. The government's opening liquor shop—so much restriction in a heavy duty. The government charges excise duty. The liquor is produced, utmost, one rupee, eight annas, per gallon. This I know. I know. And government charges excise duty, sixty rupees. So it becomes sixty-one rupees spoiled. Then they have got to make profit. Huge profit government... They haven't got to do anything. The liquor manufacturer, he has to maintain the establishment, and everything he has to do. But when the actual liquor comes, it is there. This is the working system. The excise inspector is there. So unless the... When he takes liquor out of stock, that excise inspector shall come. He has his own key, just like bank, such custody. So in this way... And you have to pay duty first. Suppose stock is there, liquor, hundred gallons, say, thousand gallons. If you want to take ten gallons, so the excise inspector will see whether you have paid duty for hundred gallons. Then you'll be allowed to. So government, for nothing, has... They make huge profit. This is Kali-yuga government. They think that "To condone these are very common practice. Let them be drunk. Let them drink." They encourage them. And government means big ministers, secretaries. They get the profit and divide amongst themselves. So who cares for public? Similarly cloth. What is the cost of one...? One rupee per pound. But if you weigh one cloth, what is the weight? Not even one pound. And they charge twenty rupees.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Makhanlal -- Los Angeles 14 July, 1971|Letter to Makhanlal -- Los Angeles 14 July, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am so glad to hear that, because the sales manager of Darigold dairy is sympathetic to our Krishna Consciousness movement, you are being supplied 20 gallons of fresh milk weekly and free of charge. He is a good friend so keep him posted of our activities and encourage him sufficiently. Perhaps he will become our life member also. I have received one letter from Gaura Hari about his travelling sankirtana party across Canada and have given my blessings for such venture. And also I have noted how nicely Tulsi Devi is growing there in Seattle. Already she is three feet tall. That is a true credit to your devotion. Thank you very much.</p>
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<div id="LettertoTamalaKrsnaBhaktivedantaManor23August1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="291" link="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 August, 1973" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 August, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 August, 1973|Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Bhaktivedanta Manor 23 August, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have received one complaint from Indian devotee at Mayapur Prabharupa Das Brahmacari that he is mal treated by our American devotees. Kindly inquire into this matter and do the needful. Either Indian or foreign whoever joins us they are not under any obligation, our only tie is Love of Godhead. It should be our definite policy that nobody is ill treated that he may go away. We recruit a person to join us after spending gallons of blood. Everyone comes for reformation, you cannot expect everyone to be perfect, rather it is our duty to make everyone perfect as far as possible. So we shall be very much cautious and careful in this connection.</p>
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So the life, they're missing the aim of life. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ. Why? Manda-bhāgyāḥ: they are unfortunate. So you take it for granted. We are trying, even our Kṛṣṇa consciousness mission, we are trying to awaken. Still, they are so unfortunate they cannot give up sense gratification. So unfortunate. Condemned, unfortunate. Repeatedly we are spending our gallons of blood, "Don't do this"; still they are doing. Cannot give up even sleeping. So condemned, Kali-yuga. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ.
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So the life, they're missing the aim of life. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ. Why? Manda-bhāgyāḥ: they are unfortunate. So you take it for granted. We are trying, even our Kṛṣṇa consciousness mission, we are trying to awaken. Still, they are so unfortunate they cannot give up sense gratification. So unfortunate. Condemned, unfortunate. Repeatedly we are spending our gallons of blood, "Don't do this"; still they are doing. Cannot give up even sleeping. So condemned, Kali-yuga. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ.

So it is very difficult with these rascals. Very, very difficult. Therefore my Guru Mahārāja's Guru Mahārāja, Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, they were not preaching. They were disgusted, that "I have no power to reform these rascals. Better don't bother. Let them go to hell. At least . . . let them." But still, my Guru Mahārāja preached. He was so kind. And he asked us also to do the same thing. But it is very, very difficult job. People are so rascal, so condemned, so sinful, it is very, very difficult to raise them. Very difficult. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.10|SB 1.1.10]]). So only those who are very fortunate, they will understand that "I am eternal," avināśi, "I am imperishable. I am put into this condition of perishable condition due to this my material body." So how to get out of it? They have no ambition. Just like dogs and cats—simply sense gratification. Avināśi . . . Kṛṣṇa is so kind, how, very clearly explains, you try to understand what is the soul.

So who does not understand there is consciousness all over the body? Tad viddhi. Yena sarvam idaṁ tatam. They'll jump over, "Yes, I am the Supreme God." God's consciousness is also spread all over. That's all right. But is your consciousness spread all over the universe? Both of us, we are conscious. But He is supreme conscious. Therefore His consciousness is spread all over the universe, all over the creation. In the Thirteenth Chapter you'll find Kṛṣṇa says, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata ([[Vanisource:BG 13.3 (1972)|BG 13.3]]): "I am also kṣetra-jña," Supersoul. What is the difference between Supersoul and soul? Soul, consciousness, is spread all over this body. You are soul; your consciousness spread all over your body. I am soul, my consciousness spread all over the body. But my consciousness not spread all over your body, neither your consciousness spread all over my body. But God's, Kṛṣṇa's, consciousness is spread over your body and my body, His body and everyone.
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So the life, they're missing the aim of life. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ. Why? Manda-bhāgyāḥ: they are unfortunate. So you take it for granted. We are trying, even our Kṛṣṇa consciousness mission, we are trying to awaken. Still, they are so unfortunate they cannot give up sense gratification. So unfortunate. Condemned, unfortunate. Repeatedly we are spending our gallons of blood, "Don't do this"; still they are doing. Cannot give up even sleeping. So condemned, Kali-yuga. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayaḥ.

So it is very difficult with these rascals. Very, very difficult. Therefore my Guru Mahārāja's Guru Mahārāja, Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja, they were not preaching. They were disgusted, that "I have no power to reform these rascals. Better don't bother. Let them go to hell. At least . . . let them." But still, my Guru Mahārāja preached. He was so kind. And he asked us also to do the same thing. But it is very, very difficult job. People are so rascal, so condemned, so sinful, it is very, very difficult to raise them. Very difficult. Mandāḥ sumanda-matayo manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.10|SB 1.1.10]]). So only those who are very fortunate, they will understand that "I am eternal," avināśi, "I am imperishable. I am put into this condition of perishable condition due to this my material body." So how to get out of it? They have no ambition. Just like dogs and cats—simply sense gratification. Avināśi . . . Kṛṣṇa is so kind, how, very clearly explains, you try to understand what is the soul.

So who does not understand there is consciousness all over the body? Tad viddhi. Yena sarvam idaṁ tatam. They'll jump over, "Yes, I am the Supreme God." God's consciousness is also spread all over. That's all right. But is your consciousness spread all over the universe? Both of us, we are conscious. But He is supreme conscious. Therefore His consciousness is spread all over the universe, all over the creation. In the Thirteenth Chapter you'll find Kṛṣṇa says, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata ([[Vanisource:BG 13.3 (1972)|BG 13.3]]): "I am also kṣetra-jña," Supersoul. What is the difference between Supersoul and soul? Soul, consciousness, is spread all over this body. You are soul; your consciousness spread all over your body. I am soul, my consciousness spread all over the body. But my consciousness not spread all over your body, neither your consciousness spread all over my body. But God's, Kṛṣṇa's, consciousness is spread over your body and my body, His body and everyone.
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At least, I am trying. But it is very difficult. We have to spoil hundreds of gallons' blood before one comes to the point. It is very simple thing. Only our leaders of the society, they are sleeping. They are misguided themselves and misguiding others. That is the difficulty.
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Prabhupāda: Yes. There is everything. So as far as possible we are trying to give people the real knowledge from the śāstra. Now it is up to them to accept or take advantage of it.

Indian man: And practice.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Indian man: Will Swāmījī discourse this evening?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Mr. Ramrao: You are doing greatest service to the humanity throughout the world.

Prabhupāda: At least, I am trying. But it is very difficult. We have to spoil hundreds of gallons' blood before one comes to the point. It is very simple thing. Only our leaders of the society, they are sleeping. They are misguided themselves and misguiding others. That is the difficulty.

Mr. Ramrao: Swāmījī, here is another advocate

Prabhupāda: Now be advocate of Kṛṣṇa. (laughter) Yes. Janma sārthaka kari' kara paropakāra.

Indian man: How long you are going to be in Hyderabad, sir?

Prabhupāda: I am going day after tomorrow.

Indian man: To?

Prabhupāda: I'm going to Delhi.

Mr. Ramrao: Most of your time you are in the States.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Just now I am coming from Europe. States, Europe, then here.

Indian man: What is the method of attaining permanent and impermanent? Permanent ānanda?

Prabhupāda: That is spiritual life. When you are not enwrapped with this material body, then is ānanda.
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Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollar from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming . . . just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, You have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead.".
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Nitāi: How does one become bhāgyavān?

Prabhupāda: Bhāgyavān, opulent . . . if you earn money, you become bhāgyavān. Bhāgyavān means . . . the word has come from bhagavān, and bhaga means opulence, six kinds of opulence, riches . . . aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). So one who possess all these things not exactly like Bhagavān, but partially, according to his position, he's called bhāgyavān.

Nitāi: But in this verse that you just quoted, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhagyavān, how does one become to the stage of . . .

Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollar from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming . . . just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, You have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead. If You think they are so inglorious they cannot be taken, then give me all their sins to me. I shall suffer. You take them." And that is Vaiṣṇava. They are sacrific everything for these unfortunate rascals. Therefore they are becoming very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 18.69 (1972)|BG 18.69]]). Those who are sacrificing everything for giving . . . making fortunate these rascals, they become immediately very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Just like if a rich man gives his money for public welfare, immediately he's recognized by the government, "Yes." He's given some title. Why? Because he has given his possession for the benefit of the public. Similarly, the devotees, they are distributing their possession to these unfortunate people. Therefore he's immediately recognized. That is the process. But devotee does not want any recognition, but he knows that, "My Lord wants this rascal to go back to home, back to Godhead. So let me try my best." He knows the mind of the master; otherwise, why the master comes and canvasses, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]])? He has no business, but He wants that, "These rascals are suffering in this material condition. They are My part and parcel, My sons. Let Me try." And devotee understands that, "My Lord wants it. So let me do it on His behalf." Therefore devotee is so dear.
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Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollar from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming . . . just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, You have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead.".
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Sudāmā: They believe that this misery is good.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that I have explained. Unless they believe it is good, how they can be put into miserable condition? Just like some of the thieves, they go to jail, they think, "It is very nice. We haven't got to earn. We are getting food here, free of charges. Yes, it is very nice place. It is my father-in-law's house." (laughs) So unless they believe, how they can tolerate such tribulations? The worm in the stool, he believes, "This is enjoyment." You take it from the stool, put it here, no, it will go again. It thinks it is pleasurable. That is their position. Therefore they have been described as mūḍha. Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhaḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). When they believe it, "Oh, it is not good," that is their good fortune. Then they are fortunate. That is explained by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhāgyavān jīva. When they come to that fortunate position, that is first class.

Nitāi: How does one become bhāgyavān?

Prabhupāda: Bhāgyavān, opulent . . . if you earn money, you become bhāgyavān. Bhāgyavān means . . . the word has come from bhagavān, and bhaga means opulence, six kinds of opulence, riches . . . aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). So one who possess all these things not exactly like Bhagavān, but partially, according to his position, he's called bhāgyavān.

Nitāi: But in this verse that you just quoted, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhagyavān, how does one become to the stage of . . .

Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollar from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming . . . just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, You have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead. If You think they are so inglorious they cannot be taken, then give me all their sins to me. I shall suffer. You take them." And that is Vaiṣṇava. They are sacrific everything for these unfortunate rascals. Therefore they are becoming very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu ([[Vanisource:BG 18.69 (1972)|BG 18.69]]). Those who are sacrificing everything for giving . . . making fortunate these rascals, they become immediately very, very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Just like if a rich man gives his money for public welfare, immediately he's recognized by the government, "Yes." He's given some title. Why? Because he has given his possession for the benefit of the public. Similarly, the devotees, they are distributing their possession to these unfortunate people. Therefore he's immediately recognized. That is the process. But devotee does not want any recognition, but he knows that, "My Lord wants this rascal to go back to home, back to Godhead. So let me try my best." He knows the mind of the master; otherwise, why the master comes and canvasses, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]])? He has no business, but He wants that, "These rascals are suffering in this material condition. They are My part and parcel, My sons. Let Me try." And devotee understands that, "My Lord wants it. So let me do it on His behalf." Therefore devotee is so dear.
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If a man comes, follows the regulative principle even for some time and again he falls down, so, so long he has followed, that asset is permanent. Anything spiritual asset, that is never lost. So little, little, little, when it is complete, cent percent, then you become liberated. Spiritual asset is never lost. So even a person comes to the temple and follows the regulative principle for some time—again he falls down—he's not loser; he's gainer.
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Hṛdayānanda: (translating) Hṛdayānanda: (translating) If one can achieve Kṛṣṇa consciousness outside the temple?

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. You have to follow the rules and regulation, that's all.

Hṛdayānanda: He said, "In terms of the spiritual world, what is it like, and what are the activities of Kṛṣṇa there?"

Prabhupāda: The same activities. Simply there is no sinful activity, that's all.

Hṛdayānanda: (translating) When one breaks the principles, can Kṛṣṇa forgive him?

Prabhupāda: Yes, Kṛṣṇa can forgive you once, twice—not regularly. (laughter)

Hṛdayānanda: (translating) Sometimes people come join the temple and follow the four principles, and even so, there appear to be some fault in their character in terms of their treatment of other people who come to the temple. So he says that he feels undoubtedly that by following the process gradually the defects will be eliminated, but is there any way to more rapidly . . .

Prabhupāda: If a man comes, follows the regulative principle even for some time and again he falls down, so, so long he has followed, that asset is permanent. Anything spiritual asset, that is never lost. So little, little, little, when it is complete, cent percent, then you become liberated. Spiritual asset is never lost. So even a person comes to the temple and follows the regulative principle for some time—again he falls down—he's not loser; he's gainer. Others, who do not take this lesson and outside they may perform his so-called duties very perfectly, he's loser. So at least for some time let every one of you come here and follow the restriction. And if you become perfect, is all right. But even if you go away, whatever you have done, that is your permanent asset. That is stated in the ''Bhagavad'' . . . ''Svalpam apy asya dharmasya trāyate mahato bhayāt'' ([[Vanisource:BG 2.40 (1972)|BG 2.40]]). And even that little asset can help you to become free from the greatest danger. There are many examples. They are stated in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''. Therefore, in this human form of life, at least we shall try to get some spiritual asset.

So in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' it is stated, even such person falls down, he is given chance next life to take birth in very rich, aristocratic family or in a very pious ''brāhmaṇa'' family. So little spiritual asset in this human form of life will at least guarantee your next life in a very nice family. But without spiritual life there is no guarantee whether you are going to become human being or cat or dog.

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Prabhupāda: You should be sure.

Devotee (8): How can we be sure?

Prabhupāda: There is beads.

Brahmānanda: No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?

Prabhupāda: Therefore it is ''śāstra'': "You must." There is no question of understanding.

Brahmānanda: The quality of the chanting he's asking. How can we make the quality the best?

Prabhupāda: Quality, you'll understand first of all come to the quality. Without having quality, how he'll understand the quality? You follow the instruction of your spiritual master, of the ''śāstra''. That is your duty. Quality, no quality—it is not your position to understand. When the quality comes, there is no force. You will have a taste for chanting. You will desire at that time, "Why sixteen round? Why not sixteen thousand rounds?" That is quality. That is quality. It is by force. You'll not do it; therefore at least sixteen rounds. But when you come to the quality, you will feel yourself, "Why sixteen? Why not sixteen thousand?" That is quality, automatically. Just like Haridāsa Ṭhākura was doing. He was not forced to do. Even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He requested, "Now you are old enough. You can reduce." So he refused, "No. Up to the end of my life I shall go on." That is quality. Have you got such tendency that you will go on chanting and nothing to do? That is quality. Now you are forced to do. Where is the question of quality? That is given a chance so that one day you may come to the quality, not that you have come to the quality.

Quality is different. ''Athāśaktiḥ. Aśakti'', attachment. Just like Rūpa Gosvāmī says that "How shall I chant with one tongue? And how shall I hear, two ears? Had it been millions of tongue and trillions of ear, then I could enjoy it." This is quality. Quality is not so cheap. Maybe after many births. For the time being you go on following the rules and regulations. It is being done by force. Where is the quality? So you wanted to understand quality. This is the quality. You'll not be forced, but automatically you'll desire. That is quality. I am writing books. I am not being forced by anyone. Everyone can do that. Why one does not do it? Why I get up at night, one o'clock, and do this job? Because I cannot do without it. How one will do it artificially? This is quality. Therefore they like my purports. That quality is shown by Caitanya Mahāprabhu. ''Śunyayitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda virahena me'' (''Śikṣāṣṭaka'' 7): "Oh, I do not see Govinda. The whole world is vacant." ''Śunyayitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda virahena me''. This is quality. Just like we have got practical example: one man's beloved has died, and he is seeing the whole universe vacant. Is it vacant? So that is quality of love.
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Yesterday I was very much pleased to read the essays by our Bali-mardana dāsa. So similarly, you also write. Writing means if you have digested the idea, you can produce in your own words. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ. One who has actually heard attentively, his next business will be how to describe it.
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Vyāsadeva compiled the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''. The purpose was that ''anartha, anartha'' . . . This body is ''anartha. Anartha'' means unnecessary. But we are put into such condition that this . . . We are busy with . . . (break) . . . we don’t require, just like to remain without any dress, that is the original condition. Now you can dress with so many outward coverings. But we spirit soul, we do not require this material dress, but somehow or other we have got it. This is ''anartha''. ''Anartha '' means unwanted. So ''anarthopaśamam'', how to get out of this ''anartha'', unwanted thing. That means is ''bhakti-yoga''. ''Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje lokasya ajānatah''. People, though, do not know it. They are in the darkness of ignorance. Therefore this ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''.

So read ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', assimilate it and preach in your own language. Or repeat whatever there is in the purport. Yesterday I was very much pleased to read the essays by our Bali-mardana dāsa. So similarly, you also write. Writing means if you have digested the idea, you can produce in your own words. ''Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ''. One who has actually heard attentively, his next business will be how to describe it, ''kīrtanaṁ. Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ''. One who has heard nicely from the spiritual master, the next business will be how to chant it, repeat it. That is natural. ''Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam'' . . . ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]). These are the nine different processes.

So we have published so many books, not that simply for selling to others. We must read also, and digest, and write articles in our Back to Godhead. That is thoughtfulness. Vaiṣṇava, that another qualification is that he is a poet. Poet does not mean to write only big, big poetry; he is also maybe. Poet means one who can write. That is, out of the twenty-six qualifications, one of the qualification is every Vaiṣṇava should be expert in writing and . . . (indistinct) . . . That is required. These are the qualifications. And ''dakṣa''. ''Dakṣa'' means very expert. Any . . . Any business you give to Vaiṣṇava, he will be able to do it very nicely. There are twenty-six qualifications. So we have to develop these qualification. Vaiṣṇava does not means idle fools. No. Vaiṣṇava means expert in everything. Whatever Kṛṣṇa orders, there is. Very good.
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I say that because my Guru Maharaja appointed me for that purpose

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Prabhupāda: Patañjali, yes.

Dr. Patel: Patañjali ''yoga ''is also . . . He said, ''iśvaraḥ pari danaiva''. Doesn't he say in the ''rāja-yoga sutra ''that . . .

Prabhupāda: He is suggesting, but he has no clear idea.

Dr. Patel: He definitely has said in thirty-fourth ''sutra'', ''īśvaraḥ pari danaiva'': "If you can't vacate your mind, put God inside." ''Īśvaraḥ pari danaiva''.

Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. ''Jaya''. Holidays Inn Hotel? (break)

Yaśomatīnandana: . . . accept God. But if they do accept God, then none of their activity shows it. They're constantly trying to disprove God.

Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Indian man (2): Śrīla Prabhupāda? This boy wants to go in ''gurukula ''school.

Prabhupāda: Very good.

Jayapatāka: In your prayer we say, ''pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe''. But now don't you think we could say "''viśva''"? (Prabhupāda chuckles) I think that there's no place . . . you've not only covered Western world but practically whole world.

Prabhupāda: I say that because my Guru Mahārāja appointed me for that purpose. (break)

Jayapatāka: One of, er . . . there was a group of reporters who went to see the District Magistrate, and they were asking him, taking interview about so many different things. So finally they kept asking about ISKCON because of our Māyāpur center. So he said, "Well, I can't say anything about that. I can't say. . ." Finally one reporter said . . . asked another very direct question about their staying here, this, that. And he said, "I have order from Indira Gandhi that the officers, that ''maṭha gaṁrami na''.(?) No one, officer, should worry about ISKCON. You just do your own thing. So I can say nothing about them. I have got no authority to say anything about them. We've got this order from Indira Gandhi." Then the reporter said, "Oh, we can print that?" He said, "Please don't print that. Otherwise I will lose my job." So when the local Congress people heard that, they were very happy, our friends. So I think your visit did a great benefit.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.
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I have seen one girl. She saw another friend, "Oh, she has got a husband," whispering. So I can understand that everyone aspires after husband, but there is no hope. Hopelessness. This is the position

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Kartikeya: Is it because of the leaders are not following, therefore the population is not following?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Kartikeya: The wrong example is given?

Prabhupāda: Yes. ''Yad yad ācarati śreṣṭhas tat tad evetaro janaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 3.21 (1972)|BG 3.21]]). If the leaders are rascals, therefore they are rascals. If father is rascal, the son is rascal. Therefore ''Bhāgavata ''says that "If you are a rascal, don't become a father." ''Pita na sa syāt'', ''na mocayed ya samupeta-mṛtyum ''([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]). "If you are a rascal, don't become a mother." Stop population. They have therefore invented, "Yes, we shall become 'bachelor father,' 'bachelor daddy,' " not actual father but "bachelor father." Here woman at least think nowadays that she must have a husband. In the Western countries they don't think. "No, there is no need of husband." Am I right? Huh?

Girirāja: Yes.

Prabhupāda: They don't think there is need of husband. Eh? But they feel. That I know. I have seen one girl, she saw another friend, "Oh, she has got a husband," whispering. So I can understand that everyone aspires after husband, but there is no hope. Hopelessness. This is the position. Every woman wants a good husband, good home, good children, little ornaments, nice food. That is the ambition of every woman. But they are hopeless. Although they are well qualified, European, American girls, they are hopeless, not to get any husband, not to get any home. This is their position. I have studied thoroughly. Is it not?

Girirāja: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Hopelessness. When we see in our association all these girls, they are so nicely, well qualified. Whatever they are taught, they immediately pick up.

Kartikeya: In America they were asking my wife how Indian women are able to keep such devotion for their husbands. So they are actually very much interested and envious of this situation in India.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the nature. That is. . . They want to be a faithful wife, but there is no husband. Where to become faithful?

Harikeśa: So then they want to become liberated.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Being hopeless repeatedly, now they want liberation.
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I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything

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I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything. Therefore bhakti is the confidential part of understanding God. Otherwise they understand vaguely, impartially, not sufficiently.
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Prabhupāda: Spiritual world means there the Supreme Lord is supreme, nobody else. And all others, they are engaged in His service. This is spiritual world. Here, in the material world, everyone is trying to be master. In the spiritual world there is no such attempt. They know the master is only God, and all others, they are servants. That is the difference between material world and spiritual.

Guest: I think that covers that. Second question. We were talking about that in this documentary, "In Search of Truth." Do you think there is any other way to actually realize God in truth and . . .

Prabhupāda: God can be realized through ''bhakti'', surrender. Otherwise, even it is realized, it is partial, not complete.

Guest: Well, that answers that.

Prabhupāda: ''Bhakti ''. . . just like I have got some official servant, and I have got very confidential servant. So to my confidential servant everything is disclosed. He knows everything. But official servant, he may not know everything. Therefore ''bhakti'' is the confidential part of understanding God. Otherwise they understand vaguely, impartially, not sufficiently. In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' there is a verse, ''mayy āsakta-manā pārtha yoga yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ'', ''samagram'', ''asaṁśaya samagra mā yathā jñās ''. . . (aside) You can quote it. That is the first ''śloka ''of the Seventh Chapter.

Pusta Kṛṣṇa:

:''sri bhagavān uvāca''
:''mayy āsakta-manāḥ pārtha''
:''yogaṁ yuñjan mad-āśrayaḥ''
:''asaṁśayaṁ samagraṁ māṁ''
:''yathā jñāsyasi tac chṛṇu''
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"Now hear, O son of Pṛthā, Arjuna, how by practicing ''yoga ''in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt."

Guest: That answers it. Can I have that . . . chapter . . .

Pusta Kṛṣṇa: ''Bhagavad-gītā'', Seventh Chapter, first text. Seven, one.

Guest: Prabhupāda, I believe that answers all the questions I went through before that. We'd just like to say it's been very nice to meet you.

Prabhupāda: Thank you very much.

Guest: We're both, in our own way, trying to find truth ourselves. It's been . . .

Prabhupāda: ''Asaṁśa ''. . . these two words are very important: ''asaṁśayaṁ'', "Without any doubt." Everyone, every religion, they have no doubtless understanding of God. Everyone has some doubt. Neither complete. That is only in ''bhakti-yoga''.
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I don't teach them that I am God. I never taught. I always teach them I am servant of God, you are also servant

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Prabhupāda: Yes. Now these boys, they are coming from your Christian group, Jewish group, but they are taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One priest in Boston, he issued one pamphlet that, "These boys are our boys, and before this movement, they didn't care to come to the church. And now they are mad after God. How is it? The same boys." So indirectly he accepted this process as easier to understand God. And actually it is easier. What do they do? They don't go to the forest, or meditate, or make any very austere, what is called, penances. They simply chant in the morning and dance in ecstasy and then eat sumptuously. That's all. And now they have given up everything. Now, you bribe them, "You eat meat," they will never eat. They will not drink tea even. The method is . . . the American government, they spent lots of money for stopping this addiction to drugs. And these boys, as soon as they come to me, they give up. Ask them what money I have bribed them. You can ask how they have left it. How they have left it? How they have given meat-eating, how they have given drinking even tea, cigarette, everything? What I have given them? I am poor Indian. I have no money. (laughter) But how they have accepted?

Jesuit: It satisfies the longing in the heart we all have for God.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Now you can ask them. They will inform, that nobody of them, either Hindu or Christian, Indian . . . they are coming all from Christian group or Jewish group. So they are all educated boys. So there is no question of bluffing them. Young boys, they can earn money like anything, especially in America. But they have given everything. They are very respectable father's son. But they have given up . . .

Jesuit: The thing is like Augustine said that, "The heart is restless until it rests in You, our God." And I think that's . . .

Prabhupāda: No, I don't teach them that I am God. I never taught. I always teach them I am servant of God, you are also servant. And they accept it. Actually that is our position. This is bluff. When somebody says: "I am God," that is bluff, cheating. We protest very vehemently against this declaration that, "I am God." No. Nobody can become God. God is one.
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I am very glad that you are worshiping Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Nityananda Prabhu. So continue to do this. There is no need of installing Radha-Krsna, at least at the present moment

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I am very glad that you are worshiping Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu. So continue to do this. There is no need of installing Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, at least at the present moment. When you become more advanced in spiritual consciousness, you can establish. But even if you do not establish, it doesn't matter. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is sufficient. Śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is combination of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. In one place you worship Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. So I see this place is very nice, and you are also very nice.
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So Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, out of His great compassion for the fallen souls, He appeared. Kṛṣṇa comes also, but Kṛṣṇa is not so liberal. Kṛṣṇa makes condition, that "First of all you surrender. Then I take charge of you." But Caitanya Mahāprabhu is more compassionate than Kṛṣṇa, although Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the same thing. So by Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mercy we are so easily understanding Kṛṣṇa. So that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is present here. You worship Him. It is not very difficult. ''Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ''. ''Kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam, yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]]). You simply chant Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', and whatever you can, offer Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He is very kind. He does not take offense. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship is little difficult. We have to worship Him with great awe and veneration. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu has voluntarily come to deliver the fallen souls. Little service, He will be satisfied. He will be satisfied. But do not neglect. Because He is very kind and compassionate, that does not mean we should forget His position. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so we should offer Him very great respect, and as far as possible . . . But the advantage is that Caitanya Mahāprabhu does not take any offense. And to worship Him, to please Him, is very easy. ''Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]]). Simply you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mahā-mantra'' and dance, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu will be very pleased. He introduced this dancing and chanting, and this is the easiest process for God realization. So as far as possible . . . If possible, twenty-four hours. If that is not possible, at least four times, six times, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'' before Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and you will get success in your life. This is a fact.

So I am very glad that you are worshiping Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu. So continue to do this. There is no need of installing Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, at least at the present moment. When you become more advanced in spiritual consciousness, you can establish. But even if you do not establish, it doesn't matter. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is sufficient. ''Śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya rādhā-kṛṣṇa nahe anya''. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is combination of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. In one place you worship Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. So I see this place is very nice, and you are also very nice. Take advantage of this opportunity and go on chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa ''mantra'', and worship Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He will bless you sufficiently to become successful in getting shelter of the lotus feet of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.
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I am thinking when making millions of dollars, he may not be lost. Millions of dollars, I shall do. I have got money. I want one soul saved, that is more than millions of dollars

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Devotee: . . . is starting to sell, to make more money. It's not very big . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: No. He has done a mistake, so he wants to rectify it. He wants to bring money, (chuckles) but if the money is lost, it is lost. Let him come back. What is there? A life saved is more important than save the money. So if I could know the address. . . (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa . . . then I could write.

Bhāgavata: Well, we can . . . Revatīnandana, I think is staying in the . . . by Los Angeles, right near San Diego. San Diego or. . . I think either San Diego or that other one, Laguna Beach. I think . . .

Prabhupāda: So I wanted to write him a letter.

Bhāgavata: Revatīnandana might be able to give you the address.

Prabhupāda: (greets a man in Hindi) ''Jaya''! Hah. Vṛndāvana ''hogya''.

Bhāgavata: Might be able to give the address.

Prabhupāda: No, if you know Revatīnandana's address, he can forward.

Devotee: Yes, he can forward.

Harikeśa: Śyāmasundara told me that he wanted to make millions of dollars for you so that he could . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes. (chuckles) And I am thinking when making millions of dollars, he may not be lost. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa, ''Jaya''. (break) . . . millions of dollars, what shall I do with? I have got money. I want one soul saved. That is more than millions of dollars.
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Human being or animal, they are not different, because the body is made of the same ingredient. If you manufacture a dog like a dog, like a man, what is the difference? The ingredient is the same: earth

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Dr. Patel: You see, anything which is read out of context is no reading. You must read it reference to context. If you read some nonsense somebody must have spoken or written, he's not all what he has written or spoken. So if Yaśomatīnandana reads that and Prabhupādajī talks something about the spirituality, not this moment . . . please. Because time is short and heart is long, and our heart is beating like muffled drums, so let us fulfill ourself before we die.

Prabhupāda: No, you have got your injection. (laughter)

Dr. Patel: That is not for me. I give only . . . (laughs) His wife was brought yesterday to me, Yaśodānandana, and she told me that she was operated in the stomach for some growth. "What sort of growth was that? Was it malignant?" And she's suffering. Why don't you send her back or get the reports from the American hospital, what operation was performed on her, and we'll get out? Or she'll suffer all the time. That is the story of injection. Now let us talk . . . (indistinct) . . . Until you realize God, then you are spirit. Up to then, you are always . . .

Prabhupāda: "I am Indian." "I am American."

Dr. Patel: More important: "I am a human being and others are lower animals." That is the greatest ''abhimana''.

Prabhupāda: No, that is also.

Dr. Patel: ''Abhimana''.

Prabhupāda: That is also, what is called, false ego. Human being or animal, they are not different, because the body is made of the same ingredient. If you manufacture a dog like a dog, like a man, what is the difference? The ingredient is the same: earth.

Dr. Patel: Five ''bhūtas'', ''pañca-bhūta''.

Prabhupāda: ''Pañca-bhūta''. So where is the difference? A man who knows, he will see so many dolls made of earth. He knows they are all earth. ''Ekatvam anupaśyataḥ ''([[Vanisource:ISO 7|ISO 7]]).

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:''brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā''
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Sum of it all, no?

Prabhupāda: First of all let me . . . understand: This bodily transformation does not make any difference. Either it is made like a dog or it is made like a man, it is made from the earth. So one who knows the ingredient, he does not make any difference, because he knows the dog or the man made of the same ingredient.
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How about Kabir (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching is the summary of all Vaisnava-Ramanuja, Ramananda, Madhvacarya, and Visnu Svami, Nimbarka. There are four sampradayas. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu follows everyone. There is no difference much)?

2021-07-26T16:14:03Z

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Dr. Copeland: Have you done that? Have you wandered around from village to village?

Prabhupāda: Not village to village, but town to town. Even in foreign countries.

Dr. Copeland: (laughs) Even in Australia, too. To get back more to the origins of the movement, why do you follow the teachings of Caitanya rather than, say, Vallabha or Rāmānuja or Rāmānanda?

Prabhupāda: No, there is no difference. Rather, Caitanya Mahāprabhu's teaching is the summary of all Vaiṣṇava—Rāmānuja, Rāmānanda, Madhvācārya and Viṣṇu Svāmī, Nimbārka. There are four ''sampradāyas''. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu follows everyone. There is no difference much.

Dr. Copeland: Oh, you found. How about Kabīr?

Prabhupāda: Kabīr is not in the ''sampradāya''.

Dr. Copeland: No.

Prabhupāda: He is upstart. (Dr. Copeland laughs) He says ''mālāja pare śālā''. He is abusing a person who chants Hare Kṛṣṇa. He is such a rascal. ''Mālāja pare śālā. Śālā'' is abusive language. But he said ''mālāja pare śālā''. All the Vaiṣṇava ''sampradāyas'', they chant with beads, and he is speaking ''śālā'', abusive language. How fallen he is. That is the difficulty, that our system is accepting the previous ''ācārya'', authority. So anyone who does not follow this principle, he is outstart. He is not accepted as authority. So Kabīr is not an authority.

Dr. Copeland: Does that mean you go back to Śaṅkarācārya?

Prabhupāda: No. Śaṅkarācārya is also not authority, because he does not follow the ''ācāryas''. Of course, Māyāvāda philosophy was there always, but that was never taken very seriously. Vyāsadeva is the authority. So Vyāsadeva is not Māyāvādī. He is Vaiṣṇava. We belong to Vyāsadeva's ''sampradāya'', Brahma-sampradāya. Therefore we worship our spiritual master as Vyāsadeva's representative, ''vyāsa-pūjā''.

Dr. Copeland: And how about in the south? Do you have many . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, everywhere. South is the same thing.

Dr. Copeland: Surely not as many as in the north, or as much?

Prabhupāda: Well, that is the influence of the time. Otherwise, everything is there in the ''Bhagavad-gītā'', and anyone can follow. Either south or north, it doesn't matter. Or east and west. But if you don't follow, and still you say that, "I belong to this'' sampradāya''," that is another . . .

Dr. Copeland: And do you . . . when you translate the texts that you use, they come from Caitanya?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Copeland: So you don't worry about . . .

Prabhupāda: We have no worries. Because we have got . . .

Dr. Copeland: I don't have any worries either. (laughs) That's good.

Prabhupāda: Because we follow the standard. Just like a small child. He follows his parents, and he knows, "My parents are there." Therefore he has no worries. Is it not?

Dr. Copeland: Well, no. (laughs)

Prabhupāda: So we shall remain like a child, being protected by our predecessor. Then there is no worries. And if you want to manufacture something of your concocted brain, then there is worries.
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How a learned scholar brahmana and a dog can be seen on equal level? But it can be seen. It is on the spiritual platform, that every one of us is spirit soul

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How a learned scholar brāhmaṇa and a dog can be seen on equal level? But it can be seen. Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ. It is on the spiritual platform, that every one of us is spirit soul. We are, by different karma, we are covered with different material dress. A dog is also a soul, and a learned brāhmaṇa is also a soul. But he is covered with different body, and he is covered with different body. So one who does not see the body, he can see on the same level.
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Prabhupāda: Thirty years. What they (the United Nations) have done? All the best men of the whole world, they are there, but no united, simply disunited. Common platform, they are not agreeable. They do not accept God.

Yogi Bhajan: Um-hmm.

Prabhupāda: That is the difficulty—no central point. You have got your own philosophy, I have got my own philosophy; he has got his own philosophy. Now, how we will agree?

Yogi Bhajan: No, I may not agree with your philosophy, and you may not agree with my philosophy, but one thing we both have agreed that you are you, and I am I, and both can have respect and love for each other. And there has to be a place where everybody should be given that opportunity.

Prabhupāda: That is going on. When I meet you I say: "Yes, sir." You say, "Yes, sir." That is all right. That is social etiquette. But real unity is on the platform of spirit soul. ''Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 5.18 (1972)|BG 5.18]]). ''Paṇḍita'', he is ''sama-darśina''. So ''paṇḍitāḥ ''means:

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"A very learned ''brāhmaṇa'' and a dog and an elephant, a cow, a ''caṇḍāla''—all of them, to a ''paṇḍita'', really learned person, ''sama-darśinaḥ''." You see? So now how a learned scholar ''brāhmaṇa'' and a dog can be seen on equal level? But it can be seen. ''Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ''. It is on the spiritual platform, that every one of us is spirit soul. We are, by different ''karma'', we are covered with different material dress. A dog is also a soul, and a learned ''Brāhmiṇ'' is also a soul. But he is covered with different body, and he is covered with different body. So one who does not see the body, he can see on the same level. But one who sees the body, he cannot see. This is the basic principle of equality. I am seeing you are Sikh, you are seeing I am Hindu, he is seeing he is Christian, he is Muhammadan, and so on, so on. And nobody is seeing that nobody is ''Brāhmiṇ''. Nobody is seeing nobody is Hindu, nobody is Christian—he is pure soul. So that vision, unless one attains, how there can be equality? There is no possibility.

Yogi Bhajan: Yeah, that's agreed. But . . .

Prabhupāda: So that requires education. ''Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kā . . . samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). When one is Brahman realized, then he can see equally. But that requires education, how to become ''brahma-bhūtaḥ''. But everyone is ''śarīra-bhūtaḥ''. Everyone is thinking, "I am this body." So how it can be possible? So we may attempt, but it is not possible.

Yogi Bhajan: There are a lot of misunderstanding and misconceptions given against each other.

Prabhupāda: No, no. Misconception . . . just like you have got a body; I have got a body. If I say, "No, I don't like you", if I say: "I don't like you" . . . naturally, when we see superficially, then this tendency will go on. When you see inside, introspectively, then there will be equality. That requires education. So. . .

Yogi Bhajan: All right, come and educate.

Prabhupāda: (chuckling) But that education is there, the beginning, in the ''Bhagavad-gītā''.
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His (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) only business is to describe Krsna. But His complexion is not krsna; akrsna. Akrsna. Akrsna means white. Because Krsna had many colors. One of the colors was pita, golden, golden avatara

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He (Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu) is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Eleventh Canto, kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇam (SB 11.5.32). Kṛṣṇa-varṇam: He belongs to the same category, Kṛṣṇa. Or He is describing Kṛṣṇa always. His only business is to describe Kṛṣṇa. But His complexion is not kṛṣṇa; akṛṣṇa. Akṛṣṇa. Akṛṣṇa means white. Because Kṛṣṇa had many colors. One of the colors was pīta, golden, golden avatāra. So, tviṣākṛṣṇaṁ sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam. This sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam is described here, that gurūn, īśam, īśa-bhaktān, īśāvatārakān tat-prakāśāṁś ca tat-chaktiḥ. This is sāṅgopāṅga.
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So this ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'' means we are talking of the living force, not of the dead matter. We should always remember. So the ''guru'' belongs to that living force. And ''īśa, īśa'' means controller. So everyone, that living force. ''Gurūn, īśa, īśa-bhaktān, īśa-bhaktān'' and ''īśam''. So they are all living force. The Lord, His devotee, His representative, everyone, they belong to the spiritual platform, living force. ''Caitanya-saṁjñakam. Caitanya'' means living. That personification of all living forces is Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. People mistake Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu because by misfortune they understand Kṛṣṇa Caitanya as a devotee or just like so-called ''sādhu'' or ''yogī'', like that. That is mistake. Kṛṣṇa Caitanya means the original living force, Kṛṣṇa.

So Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, he understood Him. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, he understood Him. Similarly, the followers of Rūpa Gosvāmī—Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, and all the Gosvāmīs—they will understand Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. And one who understands or follows the path enunciated by Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for them Kṛṣṇa is very easily obtained. This is called ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta''. If you follow Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu . . . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission is described by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, ''śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-śarīra-dhārī. Purāṇa-puruṣaḥ''. I just now forget the verse.

Devotee: ''Vairāgya-vidyā''.

Prabhupāda: Yes:

:''vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga''-
:''śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ''
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:''kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye''
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So Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is the same Kṛṣṇa, ''purāṇa-puruṣaḥ. Ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaḥ. Purāṇa-puruṣa'' means Kṛṣṇa, the original Personality of Godhead, very old. ''Purāṇa'' means very old. So, ''vairāgya-vidyā-śikṣārtham''. Because we are suffering here on account of so many designations, so Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu came to purify us from all these nonsense designations. That is called ''vairāgya-vidyā. Rāga'' means attachment. So . . . And ''virāga''. This false attachment we have to give up. That is practically being manifested by practical life, how to love Kṛṣṇa, how to approach Him. That is the characteristic of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. And therefore He is described in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'', Eleventh Canto, ''kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]]). ''Kṛṣṇa-varṇam'': He belongs to the same category, Kṛṣṇa. Or He is describing Kṛṣṇa always. His only business is to describe Kṛṣṇa. But His complexion is not ''kṛṣṇa; akṛṣṇa. Akṛṣṇa. Akṛṣṇa'' means white. Because Kṛṣṇa had many colors. One of the colors was ''pīta'', golden, golden ''avatāra''.
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He wants to know why Lord Caitanya is not mentioned in the Bhagavatam with the other incarnations

2021-07-26T14:46:28Z

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Hṛdayānanda: (translating) He wants to know why Lord Caitanya is not mentioned in the ''Bhāgavatam'' with the other incarnations.

Prabhupāda: He has not mentioned, but ''Bhāgavata'' has mentioned. No, you don't bring any other question. You talk about this, which we have lectured. In this way, if you bring other question, that is not . . . We are discussing one verse. You can put question on this, not irrelevant question. Of course, that is not irrelevant, but not in connection with this verse. So question means in connection with this verse.</div>
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He thought that he is very good gentleman. (indistinct) property is for isvara? No, he says that "We are one. Your property is my property and my property is my property."

2021-07-26T14:31:56Z

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Prabhupāda: ". . . bring my property. My property." (laughter) (laughing) "We are one." He thought that he is very good gentleman. (indistinct) property is for īśvara? No, he says that "We are one. Your property is my property and my property is my property." (laughter) Dīkṣita's argument is like that: "We are one." So your room is my room; my room is my room. (laughter).
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Prabhupāda: ". . . bring my property. My property." (laughter) (laughing) "We are one." He thought that he is very good gentleman . . . (indistinct) . . . property is for ''īśvara''? No, he says that "We are one. Your property is my property and my property is my property." (laughter) Dīkṣita's argument is like that: "We are one." So your room is my room; my room is my room.
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He (Hitler) ruined the Englishmen, but he also became ruined, finished, Germany finished. But Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to

2021-07-26T14:28:29Z

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Prabhupāda: They were obliged to do that. In the country there is no food, no shelter, nothing. Therefore Hitler's determination was, "I shall make this shopkeeper nation again fishers." What is called? Fishermen. "I shall ruin their empire." So he did it. But he also became ruined. He did it. He ruined the Englishmen, but he also became ruined, finished, Germany finished. But Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Why is that, Prabhupāda?
Prabhupāda: They committed so many sinful activities, yes, for maintaining their empire. To sell their Manchester-made cloth they ruined the cloth industry of India and cut this finger.
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Prabhupāda: "Only for Englishmen," "Only for Englishmen." Still that policy is going on here. That is not good. When one takes shelter of you, you must give him proper protection. That liberality is not there.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: They would make the people dependent upon them and then exploit them, yes?

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is their fault. Exploitation was their policy. Whole European—the France, Holland—go some other country and exploit. They were doing the same thing in America also. Therefore America rebelled. Washington was Englishman. Still, he rebelled. He separated. Independent. A small country, and bring money from the whole world—this is their bad policy.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It's actually amazing how they colonized.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: It was actually amazing to think how they colonized almost . . .

Prabhupāda: They were obliged to do that. In the country there is no food, no shelter, nothing. Therefore Hitler's determination was, "I shall make this shopkeeper nation again fishers." What is called? Fishermen. "I shall ruin their empire." So he did it. But he also became ruined. He did it. He ruined the Englishmen, but he also became ruined, finished, Germany finished. But Germany will be able to rise again. Englishmen will not be able to.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Why is that, Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: They committed so many sinful activities, yes, for maintaining their empire. To sell their Manchester-made cloth they ruined the cloth industry of India and cut this finger.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Cut the thumb off.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Thumbs of the weavers, so that they cannot manufacture anymore.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Very bad.

Prabhupāda: There are so many other things.

Harikeśa: They cut the thumbs of the weavers?

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. They were making finer cloth by hand than the British were making by machines. So in order to discourage, they would cut off the thumb so they couldn't weave.

Prabhupāda: So many things. And to make a show, the Lord Hasting was impeached in the Parliament.
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He (Bhaktivinoda Thakura) wanted to combine the whole civilized nations under this Caitanya Mahaprabhu's cult, Hare Krsna movement

2021-07-26T14:18:23Z

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Ātreya Ṛṣi: Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura's . . .

Ambassador George: I see.

Prabhupāda: He sent his first book . . .

Ambassador George: Yes.

Prabhupāda: . . . in 1896. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was the first origin of this movement. But he simply thought of it. And he was expecting some others' appearance would take up the work. Well, somebody says that I am the same man. And I was born in 1896. So he wanted to combine the whole civilized nations under this Caitanya Mahāprabhu's cult, Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. I think I have given this hint in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya.

Nitāi: Teachings of Lord Caitanya. Yes.

Ambassador George: Yes. Well, I am very happy to have had this chance to be with you. How long will you be here?

Prabhupāda: Two days.

Ambassador George: That's all. And then?

Prabhupāda: I am going to India. We have to hold the Lord Caitanya's birthday anniversary and open our Vṛndāvana temple. In Bombay we have got very nice land purchased, and the government will not give us sanction for the temple. The . . . I approached the Maharashtra governor through another friend governor. The governor of United . . . Uttar Pradesh, he is my friend. So I explained to him, "This this is the position. You request the governor to give me sanction." So he has very ardently requested, explaining the whole thing about my position, my . . . he is member of this movement, and still, he is neglecting. He has said no. Yet . . . but no answer.
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Guru Maharaja be satisfied, "Oh, my disciples are praising me." That is good, respectful. That is the qualification. But you have to fight. Then your Guru Maharaja will be glorified

2021-07-26T14:03:24Z

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That you have to prove. You can eulogize your Guru Mahārāja, but you have to learn it and face the public and be strong to defend yourself. That is success. Not by praising your Guru Mahārāja. You'll praise your Guru Mahārāja. That is not very difficult. But be victorious to the opposing elements. Then you will praise your Guru Mahārāja nicely. At home, you can praise your Guru Mahārāja, and Guru Mahārāja be satisfied, "Oh, my disciples are praising me." That is good, respectful. That is the qualification. But you have to fight. Then your Guru Mahārāja will be glorified.
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Prabhupāda: Yes. Who can give proposition unless one is human being? The dog cannot give proposition. The animal cannot give proposition. So who is giving this proposition throughout the Western world, that within this body there is the real person? Who understands this? Therefore they're all animals. What is the value of their so-called philosophy? Hmm? What do you think? ''Yasyātmā buddhiḥ kunāpe tri-dhātuke ''([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]). If he's in the bodily concept of life, then he remains animal. What is the value of his thesis? Now here is the thesis. Now antithesis is also there. Actually we are trying to adjust. Only Society. The thesis is the soul, the antithesis is the body, and synthesis is how to adjust the body and soul so that the soul be benefited from this entanglement.

Harikeśa: That's the ''varṇāśrama ''system?

Prabhupāda: That is different thing only.

Harikeśa: Okay.

Prabhupāda: Lat . . . first of all, this is the problem.

Harikeśa: First to find out the problem . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Harikeśa: . . . and discuss the problem.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is dialectic. So you can write "dialectic spiritualism."

Harikeśa: Dialectic spiritualism. I think they should print this also in ''Back to Godhead''.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes.

Haṁsadūta: It'd make a good article.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Haṁsadūta: It would make a good article, what you've just spoken.

Prabhupāda: So write.

Harikeśa: You so completely destroy the opposition, it's very hard to say anything more.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That you have to prove. You can eulogize your Guru Mahārāja, but you have to learn it and face the public and be strong to defend yourself. That is success. Not by praising your Guru Mahārāja. You'll praise your Guru Mahārāja. That is not very difficult. But be victorious to the opposing elements. Then you will praise your Guru Mahārāja nicely. At home, you can praise your Guru Mahārāja, and Guru Mahārāja be satisfied, "Oh, my disciples are praising me." That is not very . . . that is good, respectful. That is the qualification. But you have to fight. Then your Guru Mahārāja will be glorified.

Harikeśa: The problem nowadays though is that I met some of these Socialists on the train, and I would ask them, "What is your philosophy?" and they would just smile and . . .

Prabhupāda: There is no philosophy. They're cats and dogs. What philosophy they have?

Harikeśa: They don't know their philosophy. So how can you defeat them?

Prabhupāda: The philosophy classes are being closed now in the universities.

Harikeśa: It is useless.

Prabhupāda: Yes. They're thinking it is useless, simply mental speculation. And ''Bhagavad-gītā ''says, ''tattva jñānārthaṁ darśanam''. Philosophy means to find out the ultimate truth. That is philosophy.
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Gopal Banh said: "You can pass stool, but you cannot pass urine. If you pass urine, then I shall kill you." Passing stool without passing urine, how it is possible? "So you have come to pass stool. That you can do here, but don't pass urine"

2021-07-26T13:45:50Z

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<div class="heading">He opened the new lavatory and brought a big stick. So he said: "Why you have brought the stick?" So he said: "Yes, you can pass, you can pass stool, but if you urine one drop, I'll kill you." So "How it is possible?" "If it is not possible, I cannot allow."
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Prabhupāda: His name was Gopal Ban. Gopal Ban. And there was a king, Kṛṣṇacandra. So the kings would relax by joking words by the jokers. That was system formerly. So Gopal Ban was constructing a house. So the king advised another friend that, "If you go to his new house and evacuate"—because the house is not yet opened, not yet established—"then I'll give you one thousand rupees."

So this man said: "Yes, I'll go and do it." So he was . . . he came to Gopal Ban's house and began to say: "Gopal Ban! Oh! I am called by nature. Kindly show me where is your privy. I have to pass." So he could understand that, "Why this man has come here to evacuate?" So he, "Yes, yes. Come in, come in, come in." So he opened the new lavatory and brought a big stick. So he said, "Why you have brought the stick?" "Yes, you can pass, you can pass stool, but if you urine one drop, I'll kill you." (laughter)

So "How it is possible?" "If it is not possible, I cannot allow." So these, these foolish scientific men, "You can speak, but if you use microphone, then I'll kill you." (laughter) Yes. The Gopal Ban's policy. They would not say: "Not allow," but in a different way.
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<div class="heading">He said, "The door must be open. You pass stool there, but I'll see that you are passing stool and door must be open." "Now, how it is possible?" "No, it is possible. You can pass stool, but you cannot pass urine. If you pass urine, then I shall kill you." Passing stool without passing urine, how it is possible? "So you have come to pass stool. That you can do here, but don't pass urine." (laughs) So that is my position. "You may have hundreds of places, but you cannot live anywhere." That is Kṛṣṇa's order.
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. . . has given me hundreds of such places, but His order is, "You cannot stay." (laughter) I'll tell you one humorous story in this connection. It is a little long; I don't wish to divert your attention. Very interesting story. That is also mentioned in the ''Bhagavad . . . aniketa.'' One may have many nice places to live; still, he should think that "I have no place to live." That is one of the spiritual item.

Haṁsadūta: What is that story, Prabhupāda?

Prabhupāda: Eh? (laughter) Story is that there was a joker—his name was Gopal Ban—of a king, Rāja Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇanagar, you know? Near Māyāpur? Yes, the king of that place. So they used to keep joker to please them by words. So the joker was constructing a new building. So it is almost finished, but there was no opening ceremony. So Rāja advised his . . . one of his another friends, that "If you can go and pass urine in that new house of Gopal—the joker's name—before the opening ceremony, then I'll give you so much prize. Go and pass urine there." (chuckles) So, "Yes, I'll do it." So . . . no, "Pass stool." Yes. "Go and pass stool there. Then I'll give you so much advance." So one day he made this plan. He was passing, and all of a sudden entered: "Gopal, I am very much called by nature. Kindly show me where I shall pass stool. Where I shall pass?" So Gopal was intelligent, that it is . . . there is some plan. "Yes, yes, here is lavatory. Come here." So he is . . . Everything was false. So then he said: "The door must be open. You pass stool there, but I'll see that you are passing stool, and door must be open." "Now, how it is possible?" "No, it is possible. You can pass stool, but you cannot pass urine. If you pass urine, then I shall kill you." Passing stool without passing urine, how it is possible? "So you have come to pass stool. That you can do here, but don't pass urine." (laughs) So that is my position. "You may have hundreds of places, but you cannot live anywhere." That is Kṛṣṇa's order. (break) . . . place not to become attached. Yes.

Paramahaṁsa: Just like Nārada Muni got that curse from Lord Brahmā.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Not Lord Brahmā; by Dakṣarāja, that "You cannot stay anywhere more than three minutes."

Paramahaṁsa: He is still doing that? Nārada Muni?

Prabhupāda: Yes. His business is preaching. So we have to become, every one of us, disciple of Nārada Muni.
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Government's duty is that whether he is acting as Christian. This is government's duty. Not that you are acting like a something else, and you are calling yourself Christian

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Government does not say or prefer that "You are Christian. It is not good. You become Hindu." No, that is not government's... You remain your Christian, but government's duty is that whether he is acting as Christian. This is government's duty. Not that you are acting like a something else, and you are calling yourself Christian.
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Prabhupāda: . . . that everyone is doing his own duty. Never mind if you are Christian or if you are a Muslim or a Hindu, that what is your duty, what is said in your scripture, you must be doing it. Not that "Because it is secular, I can do whatever I like."

Governor: Secular means I respect you, not only I am Hindu or do what I do . . . scripture teaches.

Prabhupāda: Secular means impartial.

Governor: But also not coming the way of a Muslim we . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: No, there is no need. Secular means government's duty is that "You call yourself a Hindu. Whether you are acting as Hindu? You call yourself as Muslim. Whether you are acting as Muslim?" This is government's duty. Government does not say or prefer that "You are Christian. It is not good. You become Hindu." No, that is not government's . . . You remain your Christian, but government's duty is that whether he is acting as Christian. This is government's duty. Not that you are acting like a something else, and you are calling yourself Christian; you are acting like a śūdra, and you are advertising yourself as a brāhmaṇa. So just like a, what is called, quack. If he writes, "Dr. Something," that is punishable. But you are quack. That's all right. You can take a certificate that you have got some experience. The registered medical practitioner, I think that is . . . But what is this, that you are proclaiming yourself as a. . . (chuckles) So character means a class of men there must be, maybe very few, but they are actually men of character. Just like I am teaching them no illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. This is basic principle. Otherwise, where is his character? You are doing all nonsense, and still, you are proclaiming yourself as brāhmaṇa. This should be stopped. And a training college should be there how to make a real brāhmaṇa. I have given the example . . .

Governor: Vānaprastha college.

Prabhupāda: Vānaprastha college, yes. That is the very essential thing at the present moment, that a class of men . . . Just like the same example: If one wants to become an engineer, he must be properly trained up. If he wants to become a medical man, he must be properly trained up. Similarly, if one wants to become a brāhmaṇa, then he must be properly trained up, or even if one does not want, the state should maintain a college where a real brāhmaṇa is trained up. Just like Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, when he opened some higher studies of academic qualification, so there was one or two students, and there were three professors drawing at least twelve hundred rupees per month. So twelve hundred rupees per month, that means thirty-six hundred, expenditure, and the . . . Ācchā. Betiye . . . .income is thirty-six rupees. It is not the question of money, but it is the question of culture. So even though at the present moment people are not inclined to become a brāhmaṇa, I tried it. I tried it before starting this movement. I tried to some friends that "You have got four sons. Give me one son. I shall train him how to become a perfect brāhmaṇa." Nobody agreed. They said, "Swāmījī, (Hindi)." But if there is not a ideal class of brāhmaṇa, then how you can say that "You become moralist"? If there is no example of moralist, how you can ask people, "Become moralist"?
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God is also present. He spreads heat and light, and therefore we find so many varieties of manifestation

2021-07-26T10:59:49Z

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Prabhupāda: It is said in the ''Viṣṇu Purāṇa'', just like fire remaining in one place spreads the heat and light, similarly, the soul also, being present in some part of our body—it is said in the heart—it spreads his heat and light, the consciousness. Similarly, God is also present. He spreads heat and light, and therefore we find so many varieties of manifestation. Just like . . . This example is very perfect: just like the light is here, it is localized, but it is spreading its illumination all over this room. The light is situated in one place. Similarly, God is situated in His kingdom or in His place; still, He is present everywhere. He is present within your heart. He is present even within the atom. ''Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi '' (Bs. 5.35). He is present in His abode, and He is present everywhere. He is present within the atom. He is present within your heart. This is called ''pariṇāma-vāda'', or the presence of the energy of God.

Every one of us, we are also energy of God. There are three kinds of energies. He has got multi-energies—''parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.65|CC Madhya 13.65, purport]]) - but they have been summarized into three. The one energy is called spiritual energy, the other is called material energy, and the third is called marginal energy. The spiritual and material we can understand. At least we can feel when the . . . a living man and a dead man. A living man means spirit and matter combined. And a dead man means the matter is there; spirit is gone. So you can distinguish what is spirit and what is matter. So similarly, there is, as this is material world, there is another, spiritual world. We living entities, we, by nature, we are spiritual, but because we have got the potency either to live in this material world or in the spiritual world, therefore we are called marginal.
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Formerly he was simply Raghunatha, and when he joined Caitanya Mahaprabhu, then he became Raghunatha dasa Gosvami

2021-07-26T10:47:28Z

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The Vṛndāvana-dhāma, ordinary man cannot see. Therefore Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says,

:''rūpa-raghunātha-pade haibe ākuti''
:''kabe hāma bujhabo śrī yugala-pīriti''
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Vṛndāvana, if you come from anywhere by the train and aeroplane and see Vṛndāvana, that is not seeing Vṛndāvana. Vṛndāvana-seeing means,

:''viṣaya chādiyā kabe śuddha ha'be mana''
:''kabe hāma herabo śrī-vṛndāvana''

When we shall be free from ''viṣaya . . . Viṣaya'' means ''āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam'' (''Hitopadeśa'' 25). So who can give up ''viṣaya'' unless it is a great devotee? Others cannot. Viṣaya, it is very difficult. But if one is advanced devotee—''paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate'' ([[Vanisource:BG 2.59 (1972)|BG 2.59]])—they can give up. So if you come to Vṛndāvana and arrange for a ''viṣaya-bhoga—āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunam''—then Vṛndāvana is far away. ''Viṣaya chādiyā''. The whole Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is on the basis of ''viṣaya chādiyā''. And Śrī Locana dāsa Ṭhākura also sings, ''viṣaya chādiyā se rase majiyā, mukhe bolo hari hari. Viṣaya chādiyā''. If . . . Of course, in the beginning it is not possible, but the ultimate goal of life is to give up ''viṣaya''—no more ''āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithuna''. That is called ''viṣaya chādiyā''.

Just like Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī did. He came here, lived in Vṛndāvana. He was a very, very rich man's son. Five hundred years ago his father's income was twelve ''lakhs'' of rupees. Now it may be crores of rupees. Five hundred years . . . He was such a rich man's son. And very beautiful wife. Because Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī was restless, he was always trying to go with Caitanya Mahāprabhu, so his father and uncle—he was the only son of these two brothers—so they thought that "This boy is very restless. He wants to go away with Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Let him have a very nice, beautiful wife and he'll be attracted." But he was not attracted. He was not even going inside the house. He was lying down outside the house, young man. He had no taste for ''viṣaya''. ''Viṣaya chādiyā''. Therefore later on he became Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. Formerly he was simply Raghunātha, and when he joined Caitanya Mahāprabhu, then he became Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī.
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Faith is required, but to the right person. Then it will be all right

2021-07-25T14:47:04Z

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If you have got faith in the person who has got eyes to lead you, then he will help you to cross the road. And if you put your faith to another blind man like you, then it will cause disaster. Faith is required, but to the right person. Then it will be all right.
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Prabhupāda: Knowledge means received from the superior. Like the child gets knowledge from the father. That kind of faith is required. If the child does not believe the statement of father and mother, he cannot make any progress. If the child does not believe the statement of mother, he does not know who is his father. So there must be faith, faith in the right person. Then it is all right. If you have got faith in the person who has got eyes to lead you, then he will help you to cross the road. And if you put your faith to another blind man like you, then it will cause disaster. Faith is required, but to the right person. Then it will be all right.

If you know that one barber is honest, then you can make your neck like this and he is with a sharpened razor. But you have faith that "He will not cut my throat; he will shave me." This is faith. And if you do not know him, and if you put your neck like this and if he is a rogue, he will cut your throat. That's all. The same faith, if you put it to the right person, you become cleansed, shaved, and the same faith put in the wrong person—your throat is cut off. So you must know where to put the faith. So our Vedic injunction is: "Put your faith to the brahma-niṣṭam, one who is God-realized." ''Tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum evābhigacchet samit-paniḥ śrotriyaṁ brahma-niṣṭam'' (MU 1.2.12): "One who has full knowledge in the Vedas and firmly fixed up in Brahman, God, you put your faith there." Otherwise there will be disaster. Right faith. (break) . . . you call Prabhākāra?

Tejiyas: I called him on the phone.

Prabhupāda: He is here?

Tejiyas: Yes. I don't know why he didn't come.

Harikeśa: So actually the one thing that makes Kṛṣṇa consciousness different from other religious processes is the practical application of knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Full knowledge, perfect knowledge. And other religious systems, they have no knowledge. They say of God something, but they do not know what is God. We know what is God and who is God. That is the difference.

Devotee (3): But they have no pure devotee in which to put their faith.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Devotee (3): They have no one in which to put their faith.

Prabhupāda: Whatever they may be, but because they do not know God, therefore it is cheating. Just see, India's capital, and so dirty thing.
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Everything is spoken by Krsna. I am simply putting them for modern man's understanding. That's all

2021-07-25T14:26:52Z

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Prabhupāda: Everything mismanaged, cheating.

Harikeśa: So until the top man is Kṛṣṇa conscious, this cheating will basically continue.

Prabhupāda: Who is the top man? Everyone is top man. Instead of one king, now you have got one hundred kings—the minister, the secretaries, the under-secretaries, the deputy minister, and so on, so on, so on. So there was only one unfortunate king. Now you have got three dozen kings, and you have to maintain them like kings. This is going on.

Harikeśa: They can pay them with their phony money.

Prabhupāda: And they are seeking this post because they know that without doing anything, money will come. That's all. And as soon as you approach some minister, he will ask you, "All right, give me an application." And after six months' reminding, he will say, "No, it is not possible."

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Because so many people have to apply for any one post. That's a fact. Then he will put his son there.

Prabhupāda: All rogues and thieves.

Harikeśa: So actually it is not possible to change the . . .

Prabhupāda: Change—if they become Kṛṣṇa conscious.

Harikeśa: But the system itself is defective. How can . . .

Prabhupāda: No, the defective will be correct when you become Kṛṣṇa conscious. Just like in your past life you had so many defects. Now it is corrected. That is practical.

Harikeśa: Let's say somebody is a minister . . .

Prabhupāda: Anybody.

Harikeśa: . . . but his occupation is cheating.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. Let him become Kṛṣṇa conscious. He will stop this cheating business.

Harikeśa: But he has to stop.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Yes. Rājarṣi.

Prabhupāda: Yes. He has to stop. It will be stopped as soon as he becomes a devotee.

Harikeśa: So then gradually it will become the ''varṇāśrama'', with the one central head.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Harikeśa: So we don't try to make a revolutionary system . . .

Prabhupāda: This is revolution.

Harikeśa: . . . we try to just make them Kṛṣṇa conscious, then it's automatic revolution.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Peaceful revolution. Other revolution will not stand. (break)

(in car)

Prabhupāda: . . . perfect philosophy.

Harikeśa: Your method is also the perfect method—the books in the colleges and libraries, educated people and . . . Wonderful. Actually, you have set everything up to do this.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Everything is spoken by Kṛṣṇa. I am simply putting them for modern man's understanding. That's all.

Harikeśa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: Because they cannot understand, they think, "Dogmatic." It is not dogmatic. Most scientific.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: But they're all dull-brained. Satisfied with a few scraps and work like dogs.
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Everyone should take to Krsna consciousness. Remember, behind you there is the Yamaraja, death

2021-07-25T14:09:24Z

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Prabhupāda: Three hours. I was there. Up to eleven o'clock at night there is sun, and then perhaps twelve or half past eleven, there is night. That is also not full dark. And at three o'clock, again sun. So how many hours? Eleven to three. (break) . . . above Sweden there is no night tonight.

Brahmānanda: Yes. (break)

Prabhupāda: There is no day?

Brahmānanda: Yes. (break) . . . sociological problems there. Because when it's all night, people become very depressed and there's a high suicide rate. So they have been trying to have these artificially lights to light up the cities and make it appear as if it was daytime.

Jayatīrtha: Why not just make one big sun, big scientists?

Prabhupāda: (laughs) Still they do not accept God. (break) . . . ''ājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakro'' (Bs. 5.52). Everything is. (break) . . . cribing the whole universal situation, Śukadeva Gosvāmī concluded, "As God has made it." He never mentioned any other demigod. "As God has made it." ''Yathā bhagavān kriyetām''. (break) . . . not to accept the authority of Kṛṣṇa, misfortune. ''Narādhama''.

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(''japa'') . . . ''kara bhai, ara saba mithyā, palaya patha nara yo mache piche''(?): "Everyone should take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Remember, behind you there is the Yamarāja, death." (break) . . . to avoid this horrible conception that there is death, and they avoid this, that "There is death, but there is no life again." That's all. (break) . . . this dog race, and what is the rat race? There is a word, rat race?

Jayatīrtha: Yes, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: What is it?

Jayatīrtha: That describes the modern culture. Everyone runs around like rats in a maze, looking for food. It's a psychological test. They put rats in a maze, and at one end of the maze they put some food. So the rats run all through the maze trying to find the food.
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Everyone is looking, that is another thing. But food is there. He has no arrangement for making industry. (aside:) Hare Krsna. He has no arrangement for making industry

2021-07-25T11:03:48Z

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Prabhupāda: There are many varieties of life. That is the fault of the modern rascals: they want to compare with himself, everything. They do not know that in the God's kingdom there are varieties of life. Otherwise why the 8,400,000? There are varieties. What these rascals know about these varieties? ''Ātmavat manyate jagat''. They think, "Everyone should be like me." (sound of crows in background) Now these birds, within a second, goes hundred feet high. You cannot do. This is variety.

Harikeśa: But the bird is always looking for food.

Prabhupāda: Everyone is looking, that is another thing. But food is there. He has no arrangement for making industry. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. He has no arrangement for making industry.

Harikeśa: Yes, that's why he always has to . . .

Prabhupāda: Their food is there; he is simply searching out, that's all.

Harikeśa: So if we economically develop, we don't even have to search out . . .

Prabhupāda: No, no, you are opening factories. They are not opening factories. Nature's food is already there. And "Be satisfied, take this." That's all. That much endeavor is required. That is material world.

Harikeśa: So in other words he has to look for food, but man has to make a factory in order to look for food.

Prabhupāda: No, he hasn't got to make factory. He has got also food, but he . . . if, because he is claiming to be more civilized, he has complicated his activities by opening factories. That's all. He has got also food. Let everyone remain in nature's. . . You take fruit from the trees and drink milk, you are also sufficient. You don't require to cook even. There are fruits. Formerly all the sages, they were taking fruits from the trees and milk from the cows. That's all. They did not even produce food, like agriculture. No. Whatever nature is supplying, that's all. But you are killing the cows, eating the meat, and producing no food and making things complicated. This is your civilization.
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Enjoy, but where is your enjoyment? Come to the practical point. Where is your enjoyment? You are simply suffering. That is their rascaldom

2021-07-24T10:52:34Z

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Enjoy, but where is your enjoyment? Come to the practical point. Where is your enjoyment? You are simply suffering. That is their rascaldom. They are suffering; still they say, "I am enjoying." This is called illusion, māyā. Enjoy.
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Prabhupāda: Comfort . . . where is your comfort? Why you have so many medical men if you are comfortable? Why there are so many drugs, medicine, if you are comfortable? This is ''māyā''. He is not in comfort; still, he will say that, "I am in comfort." This is called ''māyā'', illusion.

Brahmānanda: So these drugs, even though one may be feeling pain, he can take the drugs and he won't feel pain.

Prabhupāda: Yes. He will take injection—it is comfort. Daily he will take injection, and it is comfort. Hmm? (laughter) Just see the fools and rascals. ''Mūḍha''. (break) . . . met so many medical men, doctors and quack. "Die comfortably." What is the use of this medical man, medicine? What is the use? If your comfort, and death is comfortable, then why spend so much money? Die comfortably. Because you cannot check death, then why you are trying to check death? "Let me live some years more. Let me take this medicine." Why? Why this struggle? Die comfortably. Suffer disease comfortably.

Cyavana: They've made so much propaganda that life is meant to enjoy. Everywhere . . .

Prabhupāda: Enjoy, but where is your enjoyment? Come to the practical point. Where is your enjoyment? You are simply suffering. That is their rascaldom. They are suffering; still they say, "I am enjoying." This is called illusion, ''māyā''. Enjoy. That we also say, that we are trying to take you to a certain place, kingdom of God or back. . . Where you will enjoy. Enjoy . . . ''Ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt'' (''Vedānta''-''sūtra'' 1.1.12). That enjoy is our aim. But where is your enjoyment here? That is your rascaldom. There is no enjoyment; still you say, "We shall enjoy."

Cyavana: Their propaganda leads people to think that they can enjoy, that it's possible here.

Prabhupāda: They're misleading. That is misleading. We have to check that. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness . . . that . . . they are not enjoying, and these rascals misleading them that they are enjoying. (break) Enjoyment is our aim also—but real enjoyment. ''Ramante yogino 'nante satyānande'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.29|CC Madhya 9.29]]). ''Satyānanda''. Not this ''ānanda'', temporary ''ānanda''.

Cyavana: Eternal.

Prabhupāda: ''Satyānanda-cid-ātmani. Yogī, bhakti-yogī'', they also want ''ānanda'', but not this false ''ānanda, satyānanda-cid-ātmāni, iti'' . . . therefore they call ''rāma''. ''Rāma'' means ''ramaṇa'', enjoyment. ''Iti rāma-padenāsau paraṁ brahmābhidhiyate'' ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 9.29|CC Madhya 9.29]]). They do not know what is ''satyānanda''. They do not understand the . . . as soon as we accept this material body it is misery, simply misery. The body is constructed within the womb of the mother in a miserable condition. These rascals, they do not understand. In a packed-up way, head down, leg up. And it is enjoyment. The body is created in this troublesome, miserable condition; still, they say "enjoyment." This is foolishness. This is called illusion.

Brahmānanda: Sigmund Freud, his philosophy is that that position in the womb was one of great security, and we all want to go back to that position.

Prabhupāda: Where is security? The mother is killing them, abortion. Where is security? The mother, under whose abdomen I have taken shelter, she is killing. Where is security?
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Each one of us, we are part and parcel of God. So we have got some duty. Just like the part and parcel of my body has got some duty. The eyes, his duty is to see. The ear, his duty is to hear

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Prabhupāda: Unfortunately, being misguided, instead of serving Kṛṣṇa, we are serving so many other things. Somebody is serving his family. Somebody is serving his country. Somebody is serving his dog. In this way, service is there—but the service is misplaced. Therefore we are not satisfied. Why in the material world people are not satisfied? Because his position is to serve Kṛṣṇa. He is serving ''māyā''; therefore he is not happy. Plain thing. Kṛṣṇa says, ''mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ'' ([[BG 15.7 (1972)|BG 15.7]]): "''Jīva'', the living entity, they are My part and parcel." So each one of us, we are part and parcel of God. So we have got some duty. Just like the part and parcel of my body has got some duty. The eyes, his duty is to see. The ear, his duty is to hear. So every part of duty, even within, without. So we, being servant, eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa, our only duty is to serve Kṛṣṇa. And because we are not doing that, therefore we are unhappy.

So that duty is called ''dharma''. It is not a kind of faith; it is the constitutional position. You must have to serve. If you don't serve Kṛṣṇa, then you will have to serve ''māyā''. There are two things: God or Satan. So similarly, God is Kṛṣṇa, and Satan is ''māyā''. So if don't . . . if you refuse to serve God, then you have to serve Satan. That's all. You cannot become master. This is called ''dharma. Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam'' ([[Vanisource:SB 6.3.19|SB 6.3.19]]). And, as it is said here, ''vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt. Vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt. Veda'', the knowledge, the law or the order, that order is from God. Therefore there is no difference between the ''Vedas'' and Nārāyaṇa. Because Nārāyaṇa, or God, is absolute, He personally and His word, it is the same thing. And in the material experience also we see that the government and the government law is the same thing. You cannot say that the government law is different from government. This is material example. And spiritual is still more perfect. ''Vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt''. In other words, that you cannot make any law. The government can make law. Similarly, you cannot manufacture any religion. ''Nārāyaṇa sākṣāt''. Nārāyaṇa, God, He can make. You cannot make at your home, "I have manufactured a type of religion." No. That you cannot do.

Nowadays this is going on. ''Yata mata tata patha'': "You can manufacture your own religion." This is going on. "You are okay; I am okay." "I manufacture my religion. You manufacture your religion. Don't fight. Let us become brother." This is going on. So how you can be brother? The dog remains a dog. How they can become brother? It is not possible. Therefore so many religious systems, they are all rascaldom. One religion. That is the order of God. That is religion. If you want one religion, then you must know who is God and you must abide by the order of God. That is religion, very simple thing. You cannot manufacture, concoction. That is not religion. Therefore ''Bhāgavata'', it is said, ''dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavaḥ'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.2|SB 1.1.2]]): "All these cheating type of religion is rejected, kicked out from ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam''." What is that religion there? ''Paraṁ satyaṁ dhīmahi'' ([[Vanisource:SB 1.1.1|SB 1.1.1]]): "The Supreme Truth, the Absolute Truth, we are accepting." This is religion.
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