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<div class="heading">Ask your spiritual master. He will answer you. Why you in māyā while your spiritual master is physically present? You can ask, if there is any question, you can ask.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.13-14 -- Montreal, August 22, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.13-14 -- Montreal, August 22, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Thank you very much. Any question?</p>
<p>Young man: (break) ...defending for us?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's always defending, but you should not be idle. It does not mean "Because God is defending, therefore we shall stop our work." No. Yudhyasva mām anusmara ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7|BG 8.7]]). Kṛṣṇa advises Arjuna that "You have to fight, but at the same time think of Me, Kṛṣṇa conscious." You have to fight. Just other people are fighting with all circumstances, we have to fight also, but we must have faith that Kṛṣṇa will save. Not that "We depend on Kṛṣṇa. Because we are Kṛṣṇa conscious, Kṛṣṇa will do the act. Let me sleep." No. Karmāṇy evādhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana. You have to act according to the rules, and so far the result is concerned, leave it to Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Nanda Kiśora: If the spiritual master gives you any instruction, should we look upon that as the same as life?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Nanda Kiśora: It wouldn't be... How would we know if it's māyā or not?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ask your spiritual master. He will answer you. Why you in māyā while your spiritual master is physically present? You can ask, if there is any question, you can ask. (break) ...yourself in doubt. Everything should be cleared.</p>
<p>Gargamuni: You said we're not supposed to tolerate any blaspheming of the Lord, not of His name or in any way. How are we supposed to not tolerate that? It happens where I work people are sometimes blaspheming His name as a matter of course. How do you not tolerate? How do you...?</p>
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