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<h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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Any knowledge will not help your wife or children. Any knowledge, any amount of knowledge, will not help his real problem. What is his real problem we do not know. The real problem is . . . that we do not know. The real problem is janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi (BG 13.9).
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[[Vanisource:660803 - Lecture BG 04.19 - New York|660803 - Lecture BG 04.19 - New York]]
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We are just trying to be philanthropic, altruistic. And we are trying to become friend of my countrymen, of my society, of my family. But that is a wrong conception. Real friend is Kṛṣṇa. I can work on His behalf. How I can work? You try. If you actually want to do something good to your family, then you try to make all the members of your family Kṛṣṇa conscious.

Then your life will be successful. If you want to make them otherwise, without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you will be serving . . . not serving; you will be rendering them disservice. Because any knowledge will not help your wife or children. Any knowledge, any amount of knowledge, will not help his real problem.

What is his real problem we do not know. The real problem is . . . that we do not know. The real problem is janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.8-12 (1972)|BG 13.9]]).

The Bhāgavata says, pitā na sa syāj jananī na sā syāt ([[Vanisource:SB 5.5.18|SB 5.5.18]]); "One should not try to become father. One should not try to become mother." Why? Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum: "One who is unable to save his children from the grip of material nature." That should be Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you are a responsible father, then, if you are completely in knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then your duty will be that, "These creatures, these innocent creatures now who are playing in my . . . at my home as my children, as my boy, now this life should be the last installment of his transmigration from one body to another. I shall train these boys in such a way that after this body he will have no more to go into the cycle of birth and death." That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

That means you have to make yourself expert. Then you can help your children also. Then you can help your nation also. Then you can help your society also. If you are yourself ignorant, then; andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās, te 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.31|SB 7.5.31]]).
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