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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1973 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1973 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No. It is, it is... We should push Kṛṣṇa consciousness as disinfecting agent. They're all infected, the whole world. So by chanting you disinfect.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Umāpati: So how... Is it a waste of time then to present Kṛṣṇa consciousness philosophy to someone who believes in doing your own thing? Do you think that that is a...?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. It is, it is... We should push Kṛṣṇa consciousness as disinfecting agent. They're all infected, the whole world. So by chanting you disinfect.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Just by our presence chanting then?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore chanting is so important. Philosophy later on. First of all, ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]), cleansing the heart.</p>
<p>Devotees: Jaya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cleansing the heart. So by hearing this chanting their heart will be cleansed gradually. Then they will understand the real position.</p>
<p>Umāpati: Oh. Jaya.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: Oh, Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So we have to do this chanting, not sit down in a solitary place, chanting himself. No, not like that. You are to vibrate the sound for the benefit of others.</p>
<p>Umāpati: That is the mystical process of this movement.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. So that their heart may be cleansed and they can understand. And if I sit down in a solitary place, for my benefit, that may be his benefit, but it is not very high class engagement. He must sacrifice for others. Pararthe prag utsri, utsri(?). That is the Cāṇakya Paṇḍita's moral instruction, that "Everyone should sacrifice for the Supreme." Caitanya Mahāprabhu is God Himself. He comes down to preach, to become sannyāsī, and to take so much trouble all over India and everywhere, and giving instruction and sending men, "Go, go, go, go." What? Why you...? He's perfect. Why He's coming? He doesn't require. No. For the benefit of others, we must follow the footsteps of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. (aside:) That's all right. Why water is here?</p>
<p>Karandhara: I don't know, Prabhupāda. It's a low spot.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: A Vaiṣṇava's first qualification that he's unhappy by seeing others unhappy. Vaiṣṇava cannot be unhappy. That Prahlāda Mahārāja says, that "I have no problem. I am unhappy seeing these people who are simply engaged in false activities and they do not care for Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore I am unhappy." This is Vaiṣṇava's qualification. Not that "I am saved. That's all right." That is materialism. "Let others go to hell. I am saved." That is materialism. A Vaiṣṇava should think always, "Oh, so many people are suffering. What I am doing for them?" That is Vaiṣṇava. Para-duḥkha-duḥkhī.</p>
<p>Svarūpa Dāmodara: That is also said by scientists. They also say that "People are suffering. So we are trying to make them happy."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That's all right, but if you do not know, how you'll make them happy? You'll create havoc.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi ([[Vanisource:BG 13.9|BG 13.9]]).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, you do not know how to make them happy. First of all learn how to make them happy. You cannot manufacture your program to make them happy. That everyone is doing. But the more they are acting, the world becoming in chaotic condition. You know what is the standard of happiness, how to make them happy; then you can work. If a medical man, he has never seen a medical college and if he wants to treat patient, what is this?</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: A criminal.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Quack. He must know how to make them happy. That is first business.</p>
<p>Yaśomatīnandana: Jaya, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Karandhara: Thank you, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Jaya.</p>
<p>Hṛdayānanda: Jaya. All glories to Prabhupāda. (Prabhupāda gets in the car)</p>
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