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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" class="section" sec_index="0" parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2>
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<div id="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Preface and Introduction"><h3>BG Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<div id="BGPreface_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Preface_and_Introduction" book="BG" index="2" link="BG Preface" link_text="BG Preface">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG (1972) Preface|BG Preface]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This absolute position of Kṛṣṇa is difficult to understand for any person who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa in the system of paramparā (disciplic succession).</p>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 1 - 6"><h3>BG Chapters 1 - 6</h3>
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<div id="BG128_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_1_-_6" book="BG" index="25" link="BG 1.28" link_text="BG 1.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 1.28 (1972)|BG 1.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who has unflinching devotion for the Personality of Godhead has all the good qualities of the demigods. But one who is not a devotee of the Lord has only material qualifications that are of little value. This is because he is hovering on the mental plane and is certain to be attracted by the glaring material energy." ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]])</p>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 7 - 12"><h3>BG Chapters 7 - 12</h3>
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<div id="BG720_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="20" link="BG 7.20" link_text="BG 7.20">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Because in Vedic literature there are recommendations for worshiping different gods for different purposes (e.g., a diseased man is recommended to worship the sun), those who are not devotees of the Lord think that for certain purposes demigods are better than the Supreme Lord. But a pure devotee knows that the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa is the master of all.</p>
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<div id="BG931_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="89" link="BG 9.31" link_text="BG 9.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 9.31 (1972)|BG 9.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Seventh Chapter the Lord says that one who is engaged in mischievous activities cannot become a devotee of the Lord. One who is not a devotee of the Lord has no good qualifications whatsoever. The question remains, then, How can a person engaged in abominable activities—either by accident or by intention—be a pure devotee? This question may justly be raised.</p>
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<div id="BG1148_2" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="177" link="BG 11.48" link_text="BG 11.48">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 11.48 (1972)|BG 11.48, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are impersonalists are also imagining that they are seeing the universal form of the Lord, but from Bhagavad-gītā we understand that the impersonalists are not devotees. Therefore they are unable to see the universal form of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="BG121819_3" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_7_-_12" book="BG" index="199" link="BG 12.18-19" link_text="BG 12.18-19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 12.18-19 (1972)|BG 12.18-19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Without good qualifications, one cannot be a pure devotee. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ: one who is not a devotee has no good qualification. One who wants to be recognized as a devotee should develop the good qualifications. Of course he does not extraneously endeavor to acquire these qualifications, but engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service automatically helps him develop them.</p>
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<div id="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is" text="BG Chapters 13 - 18"><h3>BG Chapters 13 - 18</h3>
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<div id="BG1867_0" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="181" link="BG 18.67" link_text="BG 18.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.67 (1972)|BG 18.67, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually the purpose of Bhagavad-gītā is not understandable to those who are sensuous. Even if one is not sensuous but is strictly following the disciplines enjoined in the Vedic scripture, if he is not a devotee he also cannot understand Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="BG1868_1" class="quote" parent="BG_Chapters_13_-_18" book="BG" index="182" link="BG 18.68" link_text="BG 18.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:BG 18.68 (1972)|BG 18.68, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Generally it is advised that Bhagavad-gītā be discussed amongst the devotees only, for those who are not devotees will understand neither Kṛṣṇa nor Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1162630_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="643" link="SB 1.16.26-30" link_text="SB 1.16.26-30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.16.26-30|SB 1.16.26-30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord states that He wants every soul to surrender unto Him only, and He assures everyone that if one does so He will give protection from the reactions of all sins. Unsurrendered souls are not devotees of the Lord, and thus there is no particular protection for everyone in general.</p>
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<div id="SB1188_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="699" link="SB 1.18.8" link_text="SB 1.18.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.18.8|SB 1.18.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees of the Lord are careless and unintelligent. Unless one is thoroughly intelligent, one cannot be a devotee of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB1188_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="699" link="SB 1.18.8" link_text="SB 1.18.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.18.8|SB 1.18.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees of the Lord fall prey to the actions of Kali. It will not be possible to bring about a saner condition in society unless we are prepared to accept the modes of action adopted by Mahārāja Parīkṣit, i.e., propagation of the devotional service of the Lord to the common man.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_2" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 2"><h3>SB Canto 2</h3>
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<div id="SB254041_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="158" link="SB 2.5.40-41" link_text="SB 2.5.40-41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.5.40-41|SB 2.5.40-41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is not a devotee cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Only by attainment of a service attitude in the transcendental position can one enter into the kingdom of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB2936_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="314" link="SB 2.9.36" link_text="SB 2.9.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.36|SB 2.9.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Even though one may have gone to the other side of all the Vedas, and even though one is well versed in all the revealed scriptures, if one is not a devotee of the Supreme Lord, he must be considered the lowest of mankind."</p>
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<div id="SB2936_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="314" link="SB 2.9.36" link_text="SB 2.9.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.36|SB 2.9.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who has unflinching devotion unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead must have all the good qualities of the demigods, and contrarily one who is not a devotee of the Lord must be hovering in the darkness of mental speculation and thus must be engaged in material impermanence.</p>
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<div id="SB2936_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="314" link="SB 2.9.36" link_text="SB 2.9.36">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.36|SB 2.9.36, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Even though one is well versed in all the Vedas and scriptures, if one is not a devotee of the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, he is considered to be the lowest of mankind.</p>
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<div id="SB2940_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_2" book="SB" index="318" link="SB 2.9.40" link_text="SB 2.9.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.40|SB 2.9.40, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The highest life of moral principles is to become a devotee of the Lord because a pure devotee of the Lord has all the good qualities of the Lord. On the other hand, one who is not a devotee of the Lord, however qualified he may be in the mundane sense of the term, cannot be qualified with any good quality worthy of the name.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3113_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="13" link="SB 3.1.13" link_text="SB 3.1.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.1.13|SB 3.1.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the moral instructions of Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, "What is the use of a son who is neither a learned man nor a devotee of the Lord?" If a son is not a devotee of the Supreme Lord, he is just like blind eyes—a source of trouble.</p>
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<div id="SB3222_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="67" link="SB 3.2.22" link_text="SB 3.2.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.2.22|SB 3.2.22, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Kṛṣṇa's gentle behavior before His so-called superiors such as His father, grandfather and elder brother, His amiable behavior with His so-called wives, friends and contemporaries, His behavior as a child before His mother Yaśodā, and His naughty dealings with His young girl friends cannot bewilder a pure devotee like Uddhava. Others, who are not devotees, are bewildered by such behavior of the Lord, who acted just like a human being.</p>
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<div id="SB3428_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="135" link="SB 3.4.28" link_text="SB 3.4.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.4.28|SB 3.4.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">To act in accordance with the rules and customs of the material world, the Lord seems to take His birth or leave His body, but the pure devotees of the Lord know well the actual fact. It is necessary, therefore, for the serious students of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to follow the notes and comments of the great ācāryas like Jīva Gosvāmī and Viśvanātha Cakravartī. To others, who are not devotees of the Lord, the comments and explanations of such ācāryas may appear to he grammatical jugglery, but to the students who are in the line of disciplic succession, the explanations of the great ācāryas are quite fit.</p>
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<div id="SB3434_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="141" link="SB 3.4.34" link_text="SB 3.4.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.4.34|SB 3.4.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The transcendental forms and pastimes of the Lord, as described in Bhagavad-gītā, are difficult subject matters for those who are not devotees to understand.</p>
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<div id="SB3434_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="141" link="SB 3.4.34" link_text="SB 3.4.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.4.34|SB 3.4.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The transcendental bodily expansions manifested by the Lord for His pastimes in the mortal world, and the appearance and disappearance of such transcendental expansions, are difficult subject matters, and those who are not devotees are advised not to discuss the Lord's appearance and disappearance, lest they commit further offenses at the lotus feet of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="SB3942_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="350" link="SB 3.9.42" link_text="SB 3.9.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.9.42|SB 3.9.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A devotee of the sun-god, even though devoid of eyesight, can see the sun-god as he is even from this planet, whereas one who is not a devotee of the sun cannot even bear the glaring sunlight. Similarly, by devotional service, even though one is not on the level of a jñānī, one can see the Personality of Godhead within himself due to his development of pure love.</p>
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<div id="SB31631_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="661" link="SB 3.16.31" link_text="SB 3.16.31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.16.31|SB 3.16.31, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the material planets there are different grades of sinful activities, of which disrespecting a brāhmaṇa or a Vaiṣṇava is the most sinful. Here it is clearly stated that one can overcome even that grave sin simply by thinking of Viṣṇu, not even favorably but in anger. Thus even if those who are not devotees always think of Viṣṇu, they become free from all sinful activities. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the highest form of thought.</p>
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<div id="SB32524_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1027" link="SB 3.25.24" link_text="SB 3.25.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.25.24|SB 3.25.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The kitten feels comfort in the mouth of the mother, whereas when the rat is carried in the mouth of the cat, the rat feels the blows of death. Similarly, those who are sādhavaḥ, or devotees engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness in the transcendental service of the Lord, do not feel the contamination of material miseries, whereas those who are not devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness actually feel the miseries of material existence.</p>
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<div id="SB32527_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1030" link="SB 3.25.27" link_text="SB 3.25.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.25.27|SB 3.25.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Unless one has good engagements in spiritual service, it is not possible to get out of the attachment to material service. Those who are not devotees, therefore, are interested in so-called humanitarian or philanthropic work, such as opening a hospital or charitable institution.</p>
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<div id="SB32918_9" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="1206" link="SB 3.29.18" link_text="SB 3.29.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.29.18|SB 3.29.18, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Association with persons who are not spiritually advanced is forbidden. Lord Caitanya advised, asat-saṅga-tyāga: one should avoid persons who are attached to the temporary. Asat is one who is too materially attached, who is not a devotee of the Lord and who is too attached to women or enjoyable material things. Such a person, according to Vaiṣṇava philosophy, is a persona non grata.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_4" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 4"><h3>SB Canto 4</h3>
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<div id="SB4914_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="383" link="SB 4.9.14" link_text="SB 4.9.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.9.14|SB 4.9.14, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees cannot understand the different forms of Viṣṇu and their positions in regard to the creation. Sometimes the atheists argue, "How can a flower stem sprout from the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu?" They consider all the statements of the śāstras to be stories.</p>
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<div id="SB4126_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="501" link="SB 4.12.6" link_text="SB 4.12.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.12.6|SB 4.12.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For devotees the Lord is present even in the material energy. This is the inconceivable potency of the Lord. Material energy acts in the three modes of material qualities, which produce the action and reaction of material existence. Those who are not devotees become involved in such activities, whereas devotees, who are dovetailed with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are freed from such action and reaction of the material energy.</p>
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<div id="SB4131_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="547" link="SB 4.13.1" link_text="SB 4.13.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.13.1|SB 4.13.1, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Transcendental subject matter is so nice that no one becomes tired of hearing or speaking. Others, who are not devotees, may think, "How can people devote so much time simply to talks of God?" But devotees are never satisfied or satiated in hearing and speaking about the Supreme Personality of Godhead or about His devotees.</p>
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<div id="SB42966_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1289" link="SB 4.29.66" link_text="SB 4.29.66">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.29.66|SB 4.29.66, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who has unflinching devotion for the Personality of Godhead has all the good qualities of the demigods. But one who is not a devotee of the Lord has only material qualifications, that are of little value. This is because he is hovering on the mental plane and is certain to be attracted by the glaring material energy." ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]])</p>
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<div id="SB43110_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1369" link="SB 4.31.10" link_text="SB 4.31.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.31.10|SB 4.31.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The duration of one day of Brahmā is one thousand times greater than the four yugas, aggregating 4,320,000 years. Similarly, Brahmā's one night. Brahmā lives for one hundred years of such days and nights. The word vibudhāyuṣā indicates that even if one gets a long life-span, his life-span is useless if he is not a devotee. A living entity is the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord, and unless he comes to the platform of devotional service, his life-span, good birth, glorious activities and everything else are null and void.</p>
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<div id="SB43121_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_4" book="SB" index="1380" link="SB 4.31.21" link_text="SB 4.31.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 4.31.21|SB 4.31.21, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead is dependent on His pure devotees. He does not even accept the offerings of those who are not devotees.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_5" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 5"><h3>SB Canto 5</h3>
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<div id="SB59Summary_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="205" link="SB 5.9 Summary" link_text="SB 5.9 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.9 Summary|SB 5.9 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In this life he could also remember the activities of his past life, and in order to avoid the influence of society, he remained like a deaf and dumb person. He was very careful not to fall down again. He did not mix with anyone who was not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="SB593_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="207" link="SB 5.9.3" link_text="SB 5.9.3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.9.3|SB 5.9.3, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to his being especially gifted with the Lord's mercy, Bharata Mahārāja could remember the incidents of his past life. Although he received the body of a brāhmaṇa, he was still very much afraid of his relatives and friends who were not devotees. He was always very cautious of such association because he feared that he would again fall down. Consequently he manifested himself before the public eye as a madman—dull, blind and deaf—so that others would not try to talk to him. In this way he saved himself from bad association. Within he was always thinking of the lotus feet of the Lord and chanting the Lord's glories, which save one from the bondage of fruitive action. In this way he saved himself from the onslaught of nondevotee associates.</p>
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<div id="SB51810_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="435" link="SB 5.18.10" link_text="SB 5.18.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.18.10|SB 5.18.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The first business of a Vaiṣṇava is to give up the association of persons who are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa and who are too attached to material things—wife, children, bank balance and so on.</p>
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<div id="SB51924_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_5" book="SB" index="488" link="SB 5.19.24" link_text="SB 5.19.24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 5.19.24|SB 5.19.24, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">An intelligent person does not take interest in a place, even in the topmost planetary system, if the pure Ganges of topics concerning the Supreme Lord's activities does not flow there, if there are not devotees engaged in service on the banks of such a river of piety, or if there are no festivals of saṅkīrtana-yajña to satisfy the Lord (especially since saṅkīrtana-yajña is recommended in this age).</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_7" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 7"><h3>SB Canto 7</h3>
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<div id="SB719_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="9" link="SB 7.1.9" link_text="SB 7.1.9">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.1.9|SB 7.1.9, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">An asura is not a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu; instead, for his sense gratification he is a devotee of the demigods, bhūtas, pretas and so on. Thus one can judge who is a devatā, who is a Rākṣasa and who is an asura by how they conduct their activities.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7278_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="53" link="SB 7.2.7-8" link_text="SB 7.2.7-8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.2.7-8|SB 7.2.7-8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Demons always think that Viṣṇu can be killed. Therefore, being absorbed in thoughts of Viṣṇu's form to kill Him, at least they have the opportunity to think of Viṣṇu unfavorably. Although they are not devotees, their thinking of Viṣṇu is effective, and thus they generally attain sāyujya-mukti.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7430_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="161" link="SB 7.4.30" link_text="SB 7.4.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.4.30|SB 7.4.30, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one is spiritually advanced, being a staunch, liberal devotee of the Lord, all good qualities are manifest in his body. On the other hand, harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ: if one is not a devotee, even if he has some materially good qualities, they have no value. That is the verdict of the Vedas.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7910_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="368" link="SB 7.9.10" link_text="SB 7.9.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.10|SB 7.9.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">If a brāhmaṇa has all twelve of the brahminical qualifications (as they are stated in the book called Sanat-sujāta) but is not a devotee and is averse to the lotus feet of the Lord, he is certainly lower than a devotee who is a dog-eater but who has dedicated everything—mind, words, activities, wealth and life—to the Supreme Lord. Such a devotee is better than such a brāhmaṇa because the devotee can purify his whole family, whereas the so-called brāhmaṇa in a position of false prestige cannot purify even himself.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7910_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="368" link="SB 7.9.10" link_text="SB 7.9.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.10|SB 7.9.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"If one is born in a high family like that of a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya but is not a devotee of the Lord, all his good qualifications as a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya are null and void. Indeed, they are considered decorations of a dead body."</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB7946_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="404" link="SB 7.9.46" link_text="SB 7.9.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.9.46|SB 7.9.46, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who wants to say something can show himself to be a big orator, but rather than go on speaking nonsense, better to remain silent. This method of silence, therefore, is recommended for persons very attached to speaking nonsense. One who is not a devotee must speak nonsensically because he does not have the power to speak about the glories of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB71128_6" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="501" link="SB 7.11.28" link_text="SB 7.11.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.11.28|SB 7.11.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is a devotee is sinless. One who is not a devotee, however, is the most fallen and condemned.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB715Summary_7" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="616" link="SB 7.15 Summary" link_text="SB 7.15 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15 Summary|SB 7.15 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Meditation and other processes of austerity are useful only if they help in advancement toward Kṛṣṇa consciousness; otherwise, they are simply a waste of time and labor. For those who are not devotees, such meditation and austerity cause falldown.</p>
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<div id="SB71529_8" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_7" book="SB" index="645" link="SB 7.15.29" link_text="SB 7.15.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 7.15.29|SB 7.15.29, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As professional activities or business profits cannot help one in spiritual advancement but are a source of material entanglement, the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies cannot help anyone who is not a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="SB_Canto_8" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 8"><h3>SB Canto 8</h3>
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<div id="SB8822_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="256" link="SB 8.8.22" link_text="SB 8.8.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.22|SB 8.8.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Someone may have longevity but not have auspiciousness or good behavior. Someone may have both auspiciousness and good behavior, but the duration of his life is not fixed. Although such demigods as Lord Śiva have eternal life, they have inauspicious habits like living in crematoriums. And even if others are well qualified in all respects, they are not devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8825_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="259" link="SB 8.8.25" link_text="SB 8.8.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.8.25|SB 8.8.25, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The karmīs try to receive the favor and mercy of Lakṣmī, but because they are not devotees of Nārāyaṇa, their opulence is flickering. The opulence of devotees who are attached to the service of Nārāyaṇa is not like the opulence of karmīs. The opulence of devotees is as permanent as the opulence of Nārāyaṇa Himself.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8929_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="302" link="SB 8.9.29" link_text="SB 8.9.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.9.29|SB 8.9.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The entire world is active, and this includes the karmīs, the jñānīs, the yogīs and the bhaktas. However, all activities except those of the bhaktas, the devotees, end in bafflement and a waste of time and energy. Moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo mogha jñānā vicetasaḥ: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.12 (1972)|BG 9.12]]) if one is not a devotee, his hopes, his activities and his knowledge are all baffled.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB8101_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_8" book="SB" index="304" link="SB 8.10.1" link_text="SB 8.10.1">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 8.10.1|SB 8.10.1, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, the demons and Daityas all engaged with full attention and effort in churning the ocean, but because they were not devotees of Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, they were not able to drink the nectar.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Canto_9" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 9"><h3>SB Canto 9</h3>
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<div id="SB9421_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="126" link="SB 9.4.21" link_text="SB 9.4.21">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.21|SB 9.4.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"One who has unflinching devotion for the Personality of Godhead has all the good qualities of the demigods. But one who is not a devotee of the Lord has only material qualifications that are of little value. This is because he is hovering on the mental plane and is certain to be attracted by the glaring material energy." ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]])</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB9444_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="145" link="SB 9.4.44" link_text="SB 9.4.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.4.44|SB 9.4.44, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Alas, just see the behavior of this cruel man! He is not a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu. Being proud of his material opulence and his position, he considers himself God. Just see how he has transgressed the laws of religion.</p>
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<div id="SB956_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="176" link="SB 9.5.6" link_text="SB 9.5.6">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.5.6|SB 9.5.6, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one is born of a brāhmaṇa father but his symptoms are demoniac, he is regarded as a demon. The Sudarśana cakra is always concerned with annihilating the demons. Therefore he is described as adharma-śīlāsura-dhūma-ketave. Those who are not devotees are called adharma-śīla. The Sudarśana cakra is just like an inauspicious comet for all such demons.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB91844_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_9" book="SB" index="647" link="SB 9.18.44" link_text="SB 9.18.44">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 9.18.44|SB 9.18.44, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If a son is an obedient devotee of the Lord he is called putra, or a real son; otherwise, if he is not learned and is not a devotee, a son is nothing better than urine.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Canto_101_to_1013" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3>
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<div id="SB10232_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="94" link="SB 10.2.32" link_text="SB 10.2.32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.2.32|SB 10.2.32, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">(Someone may say that aside from devotees, who always seek shelter at the Lord's lotus feet, there are those who are not devotees but who have accepted different processes for attaining salvation. What happens to them? In answer to this question, Lord Brahmā and the other demigods said:) O lotus-eyed Lord, although nondevotees who accept severe austerities and penances to achieve the highest position may think themselves liberated, their intelligence is impure. They fall down from their position of imagined superiority because they have no regard for Your lotus feet.</p>
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<div id="SB10919_1" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="361" link="SB 10.9.19" link_text="SB 10.9.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.9.19|SB 10.9.19, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Yamarāja, the controller of all living entities, fears the order of Kṛṣṇa, yet Kṛṣṇa is afraid of His mother's stick. These contradictions cannot be understood by one who is not a devotee, but a devotee can understand how powerful is unalloyed devotional service to Kṛṣṇa; it is so powerful that Kṛṣṇa can be controlled by an unalloyed devotee.</p>
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<div id="SB101023_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="368" link="SB 10.10.2-3" link_text="SB 10.10.2-3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.10.2-3|SB 10.10.2-3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa have a taste for women, wine and so forth, and therefore they have been described as hṛta jñāna, bereft of sense.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101023_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="368" link="SB 10.10.2-3" link_text="SB 10.10.2-3">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.10.2-3|SB 10.10.2-3, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa and does not surrender to Kṛṣṇa must be considered narādhama, the lowest of men, and duṣkṛtī, one who always commits sinful activities. Thus there is no difficulty in finding out who is a third-class or fourth-class man, for one's position can be understood simply by this crucial test: is he or is he not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa?</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB101018_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="383" link="SB 10.10.18" link_text="SB 10.10.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.10.18|SB 10.10.18, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If we give up the association of sādhus, saintly persons engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and associate with persons seeking sense gratification and accumulating wealth for this purpose, our life is spoiled. The word asat refers to an avaiṣṇava, one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, and sat refers to a Vaiṣṇava, Kṛṣṇa's devotee. One should always seek the association of Vaiṣṇavas and not spoil one's life by mixing with avaiṣṇavas.</p>
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<div id="SB101239_5" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_10.1_to_10.13" book="SB" index="498" link="SB 10.12.39" link_text="SB 10.12.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 10.12.39|SB 10.12.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa is also described as having His lotus feet always within the hearts of His devotees (bhagavān bhakta-hṛdi sthitaḥ). In the case of Aghāsura, one may argue that he was not a devotee. The answer to this is that he thought of Kṛṣṇa for a moment with devotion.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SB_Cantos_1014_to_12_Translations_Only" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3>
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<div id="SB112930_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4280" link="SB 11.29.30" link_text="SB 11.29.30">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 11.29.30|SB 11.29.30, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">You should not share this instruction with anyone who is hypocritical, atheistic or dishonest, or with anyone who will not listen faithfully, who is not a devotee, or who is simply not humble.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAdi1013_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1268" link="CC Adi 10.13" link_text="CC Adi 10.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.13|CC Adi 10.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura used to refer to such an actor as yātrā-dale nārada, which means "farcical Nārada." Sometimes an actor in a drama plays the part of Nārada Muni, although in his private life he is not at all like Nārada Muni because he is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17257_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2192" link="CC Adi 17.257" link_text="CC Adi 17.257">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.257|CC Adi 17.257, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"If one is learned in the Vedic literature but is not a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, his work is a useless waste of labor, just like the keeping of a cow that does not give milk."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17260_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2195" link="CC Adi 17.260" link_text="CC Adi 17.260">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.260|CC Adi 17.260, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If they are without knowledge of devotional service to the Lord, then great nationalism, fruitive, political or social work, science or philosophy are all simply like costly garments decorating a dead body. The only offense of persons adhering to these principles is that they are not devotees; they are always blasphemous toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees.</p>
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<div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCMadhya286_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="372" link="CC Madhya 2.86" link_text="CC Madhya 2.86">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.86|CC Madhya 2.86, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The actual facts are understandable to real devotees. When these facts are recorded, they are very congenial to the devotees, but one who is not a devotee cannot understand. Such is the subject matter for realization. Mundane scholarship and its concomitant attachments and detachments cannot arouse spontaneous love of Godhead. Such love cannot be described by a mundane scholar.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya849_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1456" link="CC Madhya 8.49" link_text="CC Madhya 8.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.49|CC Madhya 8.49, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the invitation of the Vaiṣṇava brāhmaṇa. Even though one is a brāhmaṇa strictly following all the rules and regulations of brahminical culture, if he is not a devotee, a follower of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, one should not accept his invitation.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8138_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1543" link="CC Madhya 8.138" link_text="CC Madhya 8.138">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.138|CC Madhya 8.138, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Brahmā himself said, "Let me worship that spiritual land where Kṛṣṇa is present." This transcendental Vṛndāvana is not appreciated by those who are not devotees or self-realized souls because this Vṛndāvana-dhāma is all spiritual. The pastimes of the Lord there are also spiritual. None are material.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8246_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1649" link="CC Madhya 8.246" link_text="CC Madhya 8.246">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.246|CC Madhya 8.246, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"I do not aspire to take birth as a Brahmā if that Brahmā is not a devotee of the Lord. I shall be satisfied simply to take birth as an insect if I am given a chance to remain in the house of a devotee."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya8291_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="1694" link="CC Madhya 8.291" link_text="CC Madhya 8.291">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.291|CC Madhya 8.291, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All these conversations between Rāmānanda Rāya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appear ludicrous to a common man who is not a devotee. The entire world is filled with material conceptions, and people are unable to understand these conversations due to the conditioning of mundane philosophy.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya12195_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2703" link="CC Madhya 12.195" link_text="CC Madhya 12.195">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 12.195|CC Madhya 12.195, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One develops his consciousness according to society and association. As Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu admits, a devotee should be very careful when associating with those who are not devotees.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya1795_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3871" link="CC Madhya 17.95" link_text="CC Madhya 17.95">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.95|CC Madhya 17.95, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The impersonalists imagine some form of the impersonal Brahman, and to facilitate meditation they concentrate upon the forms of Viṣṇu, Śiva, Gaṇeśa, Sūrya and goddess Durgā. Actually these pañcopāsakas are not devotees of anyone.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2059_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="4551" link="CC Madhya 20.59" link_text="CC Madhya 20.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 20.59|CC Madhya 20.59, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"One may be born in a brāhmaṇa family and have all twelve brahminical qualities, but if he is not devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who has a navel shaped like a lotus, he is not as good as a caṇḍāla who has dedicated his mind, words, activities, wealth and life to the service of the Lord. Simply to take birth in a brāhmaṇa family or to have brahminical qualities is not sufficient. One must become a pure devotee of the Lord. If a śva-paca or caṇḍāla is a devotee, he delivers not only himself but his whole family, whereas a brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee but simply has brahminical qualifications cannot even purify himself, what to speak of his family."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2239_8" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5081" link="CC Madhya 22.39" link_text="CC Madhya 22.39">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.39|CC Madhya 22.39, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are interested in material enjoyment are known as bhukti-kāmī. One who is interested in merging into the effulgence of Brahman or perfecting the mystic yoga system is not a devotee at all. Devotees do not have such desires.</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya2287_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5126" link="CC Madhya 22.87" link_text="CC Madhya 22.87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.87|CC Madhya 22.87, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"A Vaiṣṇava should always avoid the association of ordinary people. Common people are very much materially attached, especially to women. Vaiṣṇavas should also avoid the company of those who are not devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div id="CCMadhya24252_10" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="5568" link="CC Madhya 24.252" link_text="CC Madhya 24.252">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 24.252|CC Madhya 24.252, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The so-called learned scholars and philanthropists are actually karmīs and jñānīs, and some are actually misers engaged in sinful activity. All are condemned because they are not devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3>
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<div id="CCAntya469_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="729" link="CC Antya 4.69" link_text="CC Antya 4.69">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 4.69|CC Antya 4.69, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"One may be born in a brāhmaṇa family and have all twelve brahminical qualities, but if in spite of being thus qualified he is not devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who has a navel shaped like a lotus, he is not as good as a caṇḍāla who has dedicated his mind, words, activities, wealth and life to the service of the Lord. Simply to take birth in a brāhmaṇa family or to have brahminical qualities is not sufficient. One must be a pure devotee of the Lord. Thus if a śva-paca, or caṇḍāla, is a devotee, he delivers not only himself but his entire family as well, whereas a brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee but simply has brahminical qualifications cannot even purify himself, what to speak of his family."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1626_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2614" link="CC Antya 16.26" link_text="CC Antya 16.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.26|CC Antya 16.26, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"A person may be born in a brāhmaṇa family and have all twelve brahminical qualities, but if in spite of being qualified he is not devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa, who has a navel shaped like a lotus, he is not as good as a caṇḍāla who has dedicated his mind, words, activities, wealth and life to the service of the Lord. Simply to take birth in a brāhmaṇa family or to have brahminical qualities is not sufficient. One must become a pure devotee of the Lord. If a śva-paca or caṇḍāla is a devotee, he delivers not only himself but his whole family, whereas a brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee but simply has brahminical qualifications cannot even purify himself, what to speak of his family."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya1629_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2617" link="CC Antya 16.29" link_text="CC Antya 16.29">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.29|CC Antya 16.29, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"A devotee should never be considered a śūdra. All the devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be recognized as bhāgavatas. If one is not a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, however, even if born in a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya or vaiśya family, he should be considered a śūdra."</p>
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<div id="CCAntya2028_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3074" link="CC Antya 20.28" link_text="CC Antya 20.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.28|CC Antya 20.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The prākṛta-sahajiyās sometimes criticize pure devotees by calling them philosophers, learned scholars, knowers of the truth, or minute observers, but not devotees. On the other hand, they depict themselves as the most advanced, transcendentally blissful devotees, deeply absorbed in devotional service and mad to taste transcendental mellows.</p>
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2>
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<div id="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya"><h3>Teachings of Lord Caitanya</h3>
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<div id="TLC2_0" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="8" link="TLC 2" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 2|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 2]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Vedic literatures it is also stated that the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not recognize a person who is very learned in all the divisions of the Vedas, but, rather, He likes a person who is a devotee, even though he may be born in a low family. If one offers charity to a brāhmaṇa who is not a devotee, the Lord does not accept; but if something is offered to a devotee, the Lord accepts.</p>
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<div id="TLC2_1" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="8" link="TLC 2" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 2">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 2|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 2]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu also quoted Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to the effect that if a brāhmaṇa is not a devotee of the Supreme Lord, then he is lower than the lowest of the low, even though he may be qualified with the twelve brahminical qualities and born in a high family.</p>
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<div id="TLC12_2" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="18" link="TLC 12" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 12|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 12]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Here the main point is that one should always stay aloof from unholy association. That is the sum and substance of a devotee's behavior. And what is unholy association? It is association with one who is too much attached to women and with one who is not a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa. These are unholy persons.</p>
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<div id="TLC12_3" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="18" link="TLC 12" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 12|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 12]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In this regard, Lord Caitanya also quotes a verse from Kātyāyana-saṁhitā: "One should rather tolerate the miseries of being locked in a cage filled with fire than associate with those who are not devotees of the Lord."One is also advised not to even look at the faces of persons who are irreligious or who are devoid of devotion to the Supreme Lord.</p>
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<div id="TLC16_4" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="22" link="TLC 16" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 16|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 16]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even though a person may be born in a very respectable brāhmaṇa family, he cannot become a bona fide spiritual master if he is not a devotee of the Lord. One should not mistakenly think that a bona fide spiritual master has to be born in a so-called brāhmaṇa family.</p>
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<div id="TLC32_5" class="quote" parent="Teachings_of_Lord_Caitanya" book="OB" index="38" link="TLC 32" link_text="Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:TLC 32|Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 32]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Nārāyaṇa-vyūha-stava prayers it is said that if even the great Brahmā is not a devotee of the Lord, he is most insignificant, whereas if a microbe is a devotee of the Lord, he is most famous.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Nectar of Devotion"><h3>Nectar of Devotion</h3>
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<div id="NOD7_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="30" link="NOD 7" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 7">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 7|Nectar of Devotion 7]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One may not be a devotee of demigods, but that does not mean that he should be disrespectful to them. For example, a Vaiṣṇava is not a devotee of Lord Śiva or Lord Brahmā, but he is duty-bound to offer all respects to such highly positioned demigods.</p>
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<div id="NOD24_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="185" link="NOD 24" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 24">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 24|Nectar of Devotion 24]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Persons who can give themselves to anyone are called magnanimous. No one could be more magnanimous than Kṛṣṇa, because He is always prepared to give Himself completely to His devotee. Even to one who is not a devotee, Kṛṣṇa in His form of Lord Caitanya is prepared to give Himself and to grant deliverance.</p>
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<div id="NOD31_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="258" link="NOD 31" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 31">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 31|Nectar of Devotion 31]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The brāhmaṇas thus began to condemn their own activities. They realized that in spite of being so elevated by birth, education and culture, they still were under the spell of the illusory energy. They also admitted that even great yogīs who are not devotees of the Lord are covered by the influence of material energy.</p>
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<div id="NOD34_3" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion" book="OB" index="275" link="NOD 34" link_text="Nectar of Devotion 34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:NOD 34|Nectar of Devotion 34]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees can never achieve the benefits of devotional service. For them the subject of devotional service is always very difficult to understand. Only persons who have dedicated their lives unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can relish the real nectar of devotion.</p>
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3>
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<div id="KB81_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="85" link="KB 81" link_text="Krsna Book 81">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 81|Krsna Book 81]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Understanding the mind of Sudāmā Vipra, the Lord said, “My dear friend, I am certainly not in need of anything, but if My devotee gives Me something as an offering of love, even though it may be very insignificant, I accept it with great pleasure. On the other hand, if a person is not a devotee, even though he may offer Me very valuable things, I do not like to accept them. I actually accept only things offered to Me in devotion and love; otherwise, however valuable a thing may be, I do not accept it."</p>
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<div id="KB87_1" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="91" link="KB 87" link_text="Krsna Book 87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 87|Krsna Book 87]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who follows in the footsteps of recognized devotees, such as Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, the Kumāras, Manu, Kapila, King Prahlāda, King Janaka, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, Yamarāja and their followers in disciplic succession, very easily finds the door of liberation open. On the other hand, those who are not devotees but are engaged in uncertain processes of self-realization, such as jñāna, yoga and karma, are understood to be still contaminated.</p>
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<div id="KB87_2" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="91" link="KB 87" link_text="Krsna Book 87">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 87|Krsna Book 87]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Persons who are not devotees take to the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies for materialistic reasons, and then they are bewildered.</p>
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<div id="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Renunciation Through Wisdom"><h3>Renunciation Through Wisdom</h3>
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<div id="RTW28_0" class="quote" parent="Renunciation_Through_Wisdom" book="OB" index="20" link="RTW 2.8" link_text="Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 2.8|Renunciation Through Wisdom 2.8]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although a person may call himself a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa, if he considers Kṛṣṇa a human being or thinks that He started off as a human being and then evolved into God (as is now in vogue, with so many "incarnations" mushrooming), then such a person is not a devotee but an imposter.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3>
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<div id="IntroductiontoBhagavadgitaAsItIsLosAngelesNovember231968New2003_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="3" link="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)" link_text="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 ">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)|Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 ]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He has no right to say anything about Bhagavad-gītā because he is not a devotee. Bhagavad-gītā is taught to Arjuna.</p>
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<div id="IntroductiontoBhagavadgitaAsItIsLosAngelesNovember231968New2003_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="3" link="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)" link_text="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 ">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)|Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 ]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just give this challenge to everyne: "So what do you understand about Bhagavad-gītā? You don't..., you are not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. How you can understand Bhagavad-gītā? So you are speaking of Bhagavad-gītā and cheating people."</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG115LondonJuly151973_2" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="11" link="Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.15 -- London, July 15, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even one who is not devotee, if he is getting supplies from God, how is it that the devotee will not get? Just like the government.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG120LondonJuly171973_3" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="13" link="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even big, big scholars. So they cannot understand because they are not devotee. It is meant for the devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG120LondonJuly171973_4" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="13" link="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Bhāgavata says, that anyone who is not a devotee, who never chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, he may be very great man in the estimation of rascals, but he is nothing but an animal. Śva-viḍ-varāha-uṣṭra-kharaiḥ.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG120LondonJuly171973_5" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="13" link="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.20 -- London, July 17, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We say any man who is not a devotee, he is rascal. We say generally. It is very harsh word, but we have to use it. As soon as we see that he is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then he's a rascal. How do we say? He is not my enemy, but we have to say because it is stated by Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG13739LondonJuly271973_6" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="23" link="Lecture on BG 1.37-39 -- London, July 27, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.37-39 -- London, July 27, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.37-39 -- London, July 27, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.37-39 -- London, July 27, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He is immune because he is transcendental. But so long one is not a devotee, one who is not fully surrendered to the lotus feet of Mukunda, he must have to follow all these regulative principles and duties.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG14142LondonJuly291973_7" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="25" link="Lecture on BG 1.41-42 -- London, July 29, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.41-42 -- London, July 29, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.41-42 -- London, July 29, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.41-42 -- London, July 29, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One is very expert in jāti-dharma, but if he's not a Vaiṣṇava, if he's not a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu... Vaiṣṇava means visnur yasya devatā one who has accepted... There are many demigods, devatās.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG144LondonJuly311973_8" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="27" link="Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You cannot hear. But this audience or the students, they also do not know that "Here is a rascal, he is not a devotee, he is not a Vaiṣṇava. Why shall we hear from him Bhagavad-gītā?" The first condition is bhakto 'si.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG144LondonJuly311973_9" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="27" link="Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973|Lecture on BG 1.44 -- London, July 31, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So we cannot drink poison. Don't hear Bhagavad-gītā or any talk about Kṛṣṇa from a person who is not a Vaiṣṇava, who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG21AhmedabadDecember61972_10" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="29" link="Lecture on BG 2.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 6, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 6, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 6, 1972|Lecture on BG 2.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 6, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees, they aspire to become Kṛṣṇa. Their aspiration is to merge into the existence of the Supreme, or to become one with Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG22LondonAugust31973_11" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has no good qualification. "No, he's a very big man. He has opened such big, big hospitals, big, big schools, big, big, big..." Yes, that may be good from the material estimation, but because he's not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, these are not good qualifications.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG22LondonAugust31973_12" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So how many people do understand this intelligence? And where is the teaching? Therefore one who is not devotee, he has no good qualifications. If he's still under the distresses of this material world, that is not very intelligent question.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG245LondonAugust51973_13" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="37" link="Lecture on BG 2.4-5 -- London, August 5, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.4-5 -- London, August 5, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.4-5 -- London, August 5, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.4-5 -- London, August 5, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I will also become materialist. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu has warned that "Those who are viṣayī, those who are not devotees, do not accept anything from them because it will make your mind unclean."</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG211LondonAugust171973_14" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="48" link="Lecture on BG 2.11 -- London, August 17, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.11 -- London, August 17, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.11 -- London, August 17, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.11 -- London, August 17, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even those who are not devotee, outsider, if they come they can also understand, then he becomes, one becomes very seriously anxious how to understand God, how to go back to home, back to Godhead.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG22025SeattleOctober141968_15" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="83" link="Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees, their understanding of God is blocked forever. They cannot understand. It is a fact.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG22738LosAngelesDecember111968_16" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="94" link="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone is devotee. Only the madmen, they are not devotees. Any sane man is devotee of... Sanity means become devotee. That is sanity. And one who is not devotee is insane, insanity. So how you can expect that Lord Śiva is not devotee? He's not insane.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG25558NewYorkApril151966_17" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="111" link="Lecture on BG 2.55-58 -- New York, April 15, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.55-58 -- New York, April 15, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.55-58 -- New York, April 15, 1966|Lecture on BG 2.55-58 -- New York, April 15, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"If one is situated in pure devotional service of the Lord, then, whatever he may be, all the good qualities of the Lord will develop in him, will develop, all the good qualities." And harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ: "And one who is not a devotee of the Lord, however academically he may be educated, his qualification has no value."</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG41MontrealAugust241968_18" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="131" link="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968|Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore from the very beginning it is to be understood one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he cannot understand what is Bhagavad-gītā. Those who are not devotees...</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG41MontrealAugust241968_19" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="131" link="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968|Lecture on BG 4.1 -- Montreal, August 24, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We don't care for any scholarly writing because they will commit mistakes. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. One who is not devotee, he cannot have any good qualifications. Reject it immediately.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG42BombayMarch221974_20" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="136" link="Lecture on BG 4.2 -- Bombay, March 22, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.2 -- Bombay, March 22, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.2 -- Bombay, March 22, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.2 -- Bombay, March 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee means complete spiritual. Any other one, if he's not a devotee, he is material. Karmī, jñānī, yogi, they are all material.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG436NewYorkJuly181966_21" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="138" link="Lecture on BG 4.3-6 -- New York, July 18, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.3-6 -- New York, July 18, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.3-6 -- New York, July 18, 1966|Lecture on BG 4.3-6 -- New York, July 18, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhakto 'si me sakhā ceti rahasyam... Because there is a mystery, mystery of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is impossible to be adopted by a person who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG44BombayMarch241974_22" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="139" link="Lecture on BG 4.4 -- Bombay, March 24, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.4 -- Bombay, March 24, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.4 -- Bombay, March 24, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.4 -- Bombay, March 24, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Arjuna knew it perfectly well that Kṛṣṇa, his friend, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But to clarify the matter for others.... Because those who are not devotee, they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa or Bhagavad-gītā. That we have explained in the previous verse.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG49MontrealJune191968_23" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="150" link="Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Montreal, June 19, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Montreal, June 19, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Montreal, June 19, 1968|Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Montreal, June 19, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He has created." Why? Because he's not devotee. He's not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Had he been in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he would have thought before, "Oh, I'm creating such a dangerous weapon?</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG49BombayMarch291974_24" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="151" link="Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.9 -- Bombay, March 29, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you simply exact your senses, your nice brain, "Kṛṣṇa is like this, Kṛṣṇa is like that," but if you are not a devotee, Kṛṣṇa will not reveal Himself. Nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.25 (1972)|BG 7.25]]). The rascal's mental speculation will not help him to understand Kṛṣṇa, what He is.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG412BombayApril11974_25" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="164" link="Lecture on BG 4.12 -- Bombay, April 1, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 4.12 -- Bombay, April 1, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 4.12 -- Bombay, April 1, 1974|Lecture on BG 4.12 -- Bombay, April 1, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are many devotees of the demigods. Not devotees. Devotion is only applied in connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The demigod worship, they are not devotee, but they are interested to get the reward from the demigod. Otherwise they are not interested.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG647AhmedabadDecember121972_26" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="225" link="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972|Lecture on BG 6.47 -- Ahmedabad, December 12, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He summarizes the description of asādhu in two words. One who is too much addicted to sense enjoyment and one who not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. He's asādhu.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG71LosAngelesMarch121970_27" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="230" link="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Los Angeles, March 12, 1970" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Los Angeles, March 12, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Los Angeles, March 12, 1970|Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Los Angeles, March 12, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Not from Dr. Radhakrishnan and any other nonsense, because they are not devotee. They are not representative of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG71AhmedabadDecember131972_28" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="235" link="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 13, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 13, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 13, 1972|Lecture on BG 7.1 -- Ahmedabad, December 13, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Of course, we must know that any devotee, either in the lower platform or in the second platform or on the firs platform, they are to be considered as devotees. Not that because one is in the material platform, he's not devotee. He is also devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG713AhmedabadDecember141972_29" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="252" link="Lecture on BG 7.1-3 -- Ahmedabad, December 14, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.1-3 -- Ahmedabad, December 14, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.1-3 -- Ahmedabad, December 14, 1972|Lecture on BG 7.1-3 -- Ahmedabad, December 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hari-kathā, the words about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, certainly that is amṛtam. But still, it should not be heard from a person who is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG75NairobiNovember11975_30" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="271" link="Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Nairobi, November 1, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Nairobi, November 1, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Nairobi, November 1, 1975|Lecture on BG 7.5 -- Nairobi, November 1, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">He is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa? He's a rascal. That's all. Immediately you take it without any consideration that anyone who is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, who is not prepared to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he's a rascal. That's all. This is our conclusion.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG91VrndavanaApril171975_31" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="297" link="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975|Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore you will find so many yogis; they can play jugglery, magic, but they are not devotees. They will not surrender to Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG91VrndavanaApril171975_32" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="297" link="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975|Lecture on BG 9.1 -- Vrndavana, April 17, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is stated that one who is directly devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he is not devotee. One who is devotee through His devotee, he is devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG925NewYorkNovember231966_33" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="303" link="Lecture on BG 9.2-5 -- New York, November 23, 1966" link_text="Lecture on BG 9.2-5 -- New York, November 23, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 9.2-5 -- New York, November 23, 1966|Lecture on BG 9.2-5 -- New York, November 23, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So those who are devotee... Just like the cobbler. He may be a cobbler. They believe everything. And those who are not devotee, they'll say, "Oh, these are all bluffs. It is all bluff." But they are not bluff. It is simply meant for the devotees.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG121314BombayMay121974_34" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="337" link="Lecture on BG 12.13-14 -- Bombay, May 12, 1974" link_text="Lecture on BG 12.13-14 -- Bombay, May 12, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 12.13-14 -- Bombay, May 12, 1974|Lecture on BG 12.13-14 -- Bombay, May 12, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Otherwise you are under the care of māyā, this material energy. Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 3.27 (1972)|BG 3.27]]). So long you are not devotee, you are simply...</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1312BombaySeptember241973_35" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="340" link="Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Original is Viṣṇu. So those who are devotees of the Lord, they are called Vaiṣṇava or devatā, and those who are not devotees of Viṣṇu may be devotees of other demigods, but they are called the demons or the asuras.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1312BombaySeptember241973_36" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="340" link="Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.1-2 -- Bombay, September 24, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Original is Viṣṇu. So those who are devotees of the Lord, they are called Vaiṣṇava or devatā, and those who are not devotees of Viṣṇu may be devotees of other demigods, but they are called the demons or the asuras.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG13812BombayOctober21973_37" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="358" link="Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 2, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 2, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 2, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.8-12 -- Bombay, October 2, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If one is not devotee of the Lord, he will simply concoct on the mental platform. So that will not make.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1314BombayOctober71973_38" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="362" link="Lecture on BG 13.14 -- Bombay, October 7, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.14 -- Bombay, October 7, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.14 -- Bombay, October 7, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.14 -- Bombay, October 7, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore a person who is devoid of knowledge, who is not devotee, Kṛṣṇa conscious, he has no value. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. He cannot have any good qualities. This is our test. We are not very learned, but we can test because we have got the testing tube.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1315BombayOctober91973_39" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="363" link="Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.15 -- Bombay, October 9, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore those who are not devotees, they cannot see God. It is not possible. Even God comes before him, just like when Kṛṣṇa was present before everyone. Five thousand years ago He was present. In the battlefield of Kurukṣetra, He was present.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG1320BombayOctober141973_40" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="368" link="Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973|Lecture on BG 13.20 -- Bombay, October 14, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There cannot be honesty. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Anyone who is not a devotee of the Lord, he cannot be possessing any good qualities. That is not possible. He must be dishonest if he is a not devotee of the Lord. He must be dishonest.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG165CalcuttaFebruary231972_41" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="384" link="Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972|Lecture on BG 16.5 -- Calcutta, February 23, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Because people are not devotees of God, therefore despite all education, all advancement of scientific knowledge, still they are dealing like cats and dogs. They are not peaceful.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG166SouthAfricaOctober181975_42" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="387" link="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is a devotee of the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu, they are called deva, or demigods, and persons who know Viṣṇu or may not know—on the whole, they are not devotees of Viṣṇu—even they are devotee of other demigods, they are called asura. Just like Rāvaṇa. Rāvaṇa, he was a great devotee of Lord Śiva, but he is described as asura, rākṣasa. Similarly, Hiraṇyakaśipu was a great devotee of Lord Brahmā; still, he is accepted as rākṣasa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG166SouthAfricaOctober181975_43" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="387" link="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.6 -- South Africa, October 18, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"By the process by which he is anxious to come to Me, I give intelligence, 'Yes, come this way. You come to Me.' " And those who are not devotee, they want to eat and sleep and sex life and defense in different types of bodies.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG167TokyoJanuary271975_44" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="389" link="Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">People do not know it. So we Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are simply trying to make the asuras as sura. This is our movement. Anyone who is not devotee, he is asura. It doesn't matter whether he is born in some country or some family. It doesn't matter. If he is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then he is asura.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG167TokyoJanuary271975_45" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="389" link="Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.7 -- Tokyo, January 27, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Viṣṇu means the Supreme Lord, all-pervading. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved daiva asuras tad... And those who are not devotees, Godless, without any God consciousness, they are all asuras. So this movement is to make asuras as suras.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG169HawaiiFebruary51975_46" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="397" link="Lecture on BG 16.9 -- Hawaii, February 5, 1975" link_text="Lecture on BG 16.9 -- Hawaii, February 5, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 16.9 -- Hawaii, February 5, 1975|Lecture on BG 16.9 -- Hawaii, February 5, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So those who are trying to be idle kṛṣṇa-bhakta, they are not devotees. One must be engaged with Kṛṣṇa's work.</p>
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<div id="LectureonBG186769AhmedabadDecember91972_47" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="406" link="Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972" link_text="Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972|Lecture on BG 18.67-69 -- Ahmedabad, December 9, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although it is warned that if we discriminate in that way, that here is a person, he has not undergone any austerities. He's not a devotee, he's not, I mean, prepared to hear, then where we shall find our customer? The whole world is like that.</p>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB122RomeMay261974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="20" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- Rome, May 26, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- Rome, May 26, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- Rome, May 26, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.2.2 -- Rome, May 26, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja said, "My Lord, I do not wish to go back to home, back to Godhead alone. I want to take all of them who are godless or not devotee. I want to take.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB126LondonAugust261971_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="33" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.2.6 -- London, August 26, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If anyone goes to God for asking some benefit, he's also pious man. But he's not a devotee. He may be counted in the list of pious men because he recognizes God, the Supreme; therefore he is pious.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB129NewVrindabanSeptember71972_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="53" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- New Vrindaban, September 7, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Either you work piously or impiously, there must be result. So those who are not devotees, they will enjoy the result. So they're entangled.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB129VrndavanaOctober201972_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="54" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- Vrndavana, October 20, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- Vrndavana, October 20, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- Vrndavana, October 20, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.9 -- Vrndavana, October 20, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All right. Bring a goat and sacrifice it before me, and you eat." But if you go to Viṣṇu, "Sir, I want to eat meat," He'll not allow. Therefore they are very much devotees of Goddess Kālī. Purpose is to eat meat. He's not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB12910DelhiNovember141973_4" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="57" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.9-10 -- Delhi, November 14, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.9-10 -- Delhi, November 14, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.9-10 -- Delhi, November 14, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.2.9-10 -- Delhi, November 14, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Sanātana Gosvāmī says, "If it is uttered by avaiṣṇava, who is not a devotee, he is a professional man, so-called scholar and politician, don't hear it. Don't hear it." Avaiṣṇava: "Because he is not a Vaiṣṇava."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1211TirupatiApril261974_5" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="62" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.11 -- Tirupati, April 26, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.11 -- Tirupati, April 26, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.11 -- Tirupati, April 26, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.2.11 -- Tirupati, April 26, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like Arjuna. Arjuna was a bhakta. Bhakto 'si priyo 'si sakhā ceti ([[Vanisource:BG 4.3 (1972)|BG 4.3]]). And he heard from the Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa. Therefore he understood Bhagavad-gītā. So one who has not heard Bhagavad-gītā or about Kṛṣṇa and who is not a devotee, his speaking on Bhagavad-gītā is simply useless waste of time. Yes.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1218VrndavanaOctober291972_6" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="78" link="Lecture on SB 1.2.18 -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.2.18 -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.2.18 -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.2.18 -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Now, when I see, when we see that one man is not a devotee or Kṛṣṇa, or he does not surrender to Kṛṣṇa, immediately we take him belonging to the four classes: duṣkṛtinaḥ, mūḍhāḥ, narādhamāḥ, māyayā apahṛta-jñānāḥ. Immediately we take.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB137LosAngelesSeptember131972_7" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="105" link="Lecture on SB 1.3.7 -- Los Angeles, September 13, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.3.7 -- Los Angeles, September 13, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.3.7 -- Los Angeles, September 13, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.3.7 -- Los Angeles, September 13, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The devotees, they are demigods, and asura means just the opposite number of devotee; that means nondevotees. Those who are nondevotees, those who are not devotees of the Lord, they are all demons.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB151718NewVrindabanJune211969_8" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="142" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969|Lecture on SB 1.5.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, June 21, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There is no difference. Therefore it is called paramparā. Devotee will not manufacture something, interpretation, which is against the version of Kṛṣṇa. Then he is not devotee. Just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He is playing the role of a devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1532VrndavanaAugust131974_9" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="152" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.5.32 -- Vrndavana, August 13, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even I am not devotee, with the company of the devotees, working with devotees, I become devotee. Association has got such power.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1535VrndavanaAugust161974_10" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="154" link="Lecture on SB 1.5.35 -- Vrndavana, August 16, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.5.35 -- Vrndavana, August 16, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.5.35 -- Vrndavana, August 16, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.5.35 -- Vrndavana, August 16, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So although Sanātana Gosvāmī was interested kṛṣṇotkīrtana-gāna-nartana-parau, he was not disinterested with others who were not devotees. They were also interested.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB174748VrndavanaOctober61976_11" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="194" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976|Lecture on SB 1.7.47-48 -- Vrndavana, October 6, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prahlāda Mahārāja says, "I am aggrieved for the rascals who are not devotees." Tato vimukha-cetasaḥ. Vimukha means they are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB174950VrndavanaOctober71976_12" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="195" link="Lecture on SB 1.7.49-50 -- Vrndavana, October 7, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.7.49-50 -- Vrndavana, October 7, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.7.49-50 -- Vrndavana, October 7, 1976|Lecture on SB 1.7.49-50 -- Vrndavana, October 7, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And those who are not devotees, they cannot understand that "How it is possible?" They say it is, what is called? Mythology. It is mythology. It is not mythology, it is fact.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB181819BombayApril91971_13" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="201" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971|Lecture on SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Although we say that God is there within, God is outside, but why you cannot see? Because we are not devotees. But as soon as you become a devotee, you become a lover of God or Kṛṣṇa, then you can see.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1834MayapurOctober141974_14" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="231" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.34 -- Mayapur, October 14, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.34 -- Mayapur, October 14, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.34 -- Mayapur, October 14, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.34 -- Mayapur, October 14, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The son who is not a devotee... Two things are required: the son should be a devotee or a learned. Without being learned, nobody can become devotee. If one becomes devotee, he's learned also. But sometimes materially learned, not devotee, it happens.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1835MayapuraOctober151974_15" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="232" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.35 -- Mayapura, October 15, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.35 -- Mayapura, October 15, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.35 -- Mayapura, October 15, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.35 -- Mayapura, October 15, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very difficult. But if Brahmā is bahir-mukha-bahir-mukha means not devotee of Kṛṣṇa—it is possible. Because we are in ignorance, māyā, at any time we can forget Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1839MayapuraOctober191974_16" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="239" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.39 -- Mayapura, October 19, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.39 -- Mayapura, October 19, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.39 -- Mayapura, October 19, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.39 -- Mayapura, October 19, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The quotation you have given from the śāstra, it is quite correct. But it is meant for a person who has become devotee. But I am not a devotee. So it is not applicable to me. I am the lower caste."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1106MayapuraJune211973_17" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="276" link="Lecture on SB 1.10.6 -- Mayapura, June 21, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.10.6 -- Mayapura, June 21, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.10.6 -- Mayapura, June 21, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.10.6 -- Mayapura, June 21, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If people are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, their so-called qualification has no value. Kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. There cannot be value. There cannot be any good qualification of a person who is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, who is not a devotee. This is our conclusion.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1107MayapuraJune221973_18" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="277" link="Lecture on SB 1.10.7 -- Mayapura, June 22, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.10.7 -- Mayapura, June 22, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.10.7 -- Mayapura, June 22, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.10.7 -- Mayapura, June 22, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are too much attached for material enjoyment, they are asat. And one who is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he is also asat. So we have to give up the company of these kind of people, who are too much materially attached and is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. If we can avoid these two persons, then we can be fixed up in devotional service.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1101112MayapuraJune251973_19" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="278" link="Lecture on SB 1.10.11-12 -- Mayapura, June 25, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.10.11-12 -- Mayapura, June 25, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.10.11-12 -- Mayapura, June 25, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.10.11-12 -- Mayapura, June 25, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Asat means nondevotees. Asat, generally, we understand rogues and thieves. But those who are devotees, they're less than rogues and thieves. Those who are not devotees, they're less than rogues and thieves. So he could not associate. It was struggle. At last, he had to leave.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11013MayapuraJune261973_20" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="279" link="Lecture on SB 1.10.13 -- Mayapura, June 26, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.10.13 -- Mayapura, June 26, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.10.13 -- Mayapura, June 26, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.10.13 -- Mayapura, June 26, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Too much or little—it doesn't matter. Attached to women. He's asat. And kṛṣṇa-abhakta—and who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. So these Māyāvādīs, karmī, jñānī, yogi, they are not kṛṣṇa-bhaktas. They'll say, "Kṛṣṇa is not God. I am God. I am also God. Kṛṣṇa is not God. I am God. But Kṛṣṇa is not God." This is their version.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11520LosAngelesNovember301973_21" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="288" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are not devotee to the people in general. Then why we are preaching? We are devotee. We are actually devotee, without any motive. Any so-called political leader, he has got some motive.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11520LosAngelesNovember301973_22" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="288" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.20 -- Los Angeles, November 30, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are devotee, somebody. But we are not devotee of somebody. We are... We have got some motive. Just like now it is coming to exposure. So many leaders, they got election, pretending themselves devotee of the nation. In everywhere, not only in your country. But actually, they were not devotee of the nation.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11529LosAngelesDecember71973_23" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="297" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.29 -- Los Angeles, December 7, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.29 -- Los Angeles, December 7, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.29 -- Los Angeles, December 7, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.29 -- Los Angeles, December 7, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are also prepared. If one is not devotee, if he is son, we can kill him. The same. But our is for Kṛṣṇa, and the asuras is for himself. That is the difference.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11537LosAngelesDecember151973_24" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="305" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is not a devotee, Kṛṣṇa conscious devotee of God, then he may be in a exalted post, but he is praised by some people who are exactly like śva.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11537LosAngelesDecember151973_25" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="305" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If a person who is not a devotee, he is praised or he is exalted, then the praisers, the persons who is praising him, he must be among these animals: dog, camel, pig and ass.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11537LosAngelesDecember151973_26" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="305" link="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.15.37 -- Los Angeles, December 15, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you take votes from the dog, then whom he will elect? Another big dog. Therefore, anyone who is not a devotee of God, Kṛṣṇa, he is either of these animals. And if he is praised, it is to be understood that he is being praised by the similar type of animals.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1168LosAngelesJanuary51974_27" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="325" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.8 -- Los Angeles, January 5, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.8 -- Los Angeles, January 5, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.8 -- Los Angeles, January 5, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.8 -- Los Angeles, January 5, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The criminals, those who are not devotees, those who are not Kṛṣṇa conscious, they go to the court of Yamarāja.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11617LosAngelesJanuary121974_28" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="331" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If one person who is not devotee, if he is praised as very exalted, so wherefrom these praising words are coming? Śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ. Such praising comes from the persons who are like dogs.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11617LosAngelesJanuary121974_29" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="331" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These classes of men, they praise such another big, big animal, śva-viḍ-varāha uṣṭra. Because anyone who is not a devotee of the Lord, he is not rājarṣi, devarṣi. He is not praiseworthy at all. He is a fool. He is a rascal. That is our conclusion. No, it is real conclusion.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB11617LosAngelesJanuary121974_30" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="331" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.17 -- Los Angeles, January 12, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even Yamarāja says, "Offer my respect to the Vaiṣṇava." But if we see that he is not a devotee, he is claiming himself as God, as the supreme, then immediately, according to the formula of Bhagavad-gītā, we accept-mūḍha. Because a mūḍha does not surrender.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2310LosAngelesMay281972_31" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="380" link="Lecture on SB 2.3.10 -- Los Angeles, May 28, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.3.10 -- Los Angeles, May 28, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.3.10 -- Los Angeles, May 28, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.3.10 -- Los Angeles, May 28, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Kṛṣṇa also says. Yat karoṣi. You want to do something. This is all activities. Either you are karmī, jñānī, or yogi, there are activities. The meditation, so-called meditation, that is also another activity, mental activity. So why it is recommended like that, that how...? They are not devotees.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB2910TokyoApril261972_32" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="411" link="Lecture on SB 2.9.10 -- Tokyo, April 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 2.9.10 -- Tokyo, April 26, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 2.9.10 -- Tokyo, April 26, 1972|Lecture on SB 2.9.10 -- Tokyo, April 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just see. And surāsurārcitāḥ. There, there is no more distinction between sura and asura. Here, asuras, they are not devotees. They deny. So asura, how the asura goes there? Asura does not go there as asura, but he goes there as devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB3258BombayNovember81974_33" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="429" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.8 -- Bombay, November 8, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.8 -- Bombay, November 8, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.8 -- Bombay, November 8, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.8 -- Bombay, November 8, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are devotees of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu, they are devatā. Āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ. And those who are not devotee of Viṣṇu, but other demigods, even if he's devotee of Lord Brahmā or Lord Śiva, he's to be considered as asura.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32525BombayNovember251974_34" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="447" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.25 -- Bombay, November 25, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.25 -- Bombay, November 25, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.25 -- Bombay, November 25, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.25 -- Bombay, November 25, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The culmination of sense gratification is sex life. So those who are too much attached to sex life, strī-saṅgī, and kṛṣṇa-abhakta, and not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, they are asat. So those who are actually serious to make advance in spiritual life, they should avoid the asat.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32527BombayNovember271974_35" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="449" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.27 -- Bombay, November 27, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.27 -- Bombay, November 27, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.27 -- Bombay, November 27, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.27 -- Bombay, November 27, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is the bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga means that sympathetic to persons who are not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Devotee or not devotee, by eating kṛṣṇa-prasādam, he'll gradually become devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32532BombayDecember21974_36" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="454" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.32 -- Bombay, December 2, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.32 -- Bombay, December 2, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.32 -- Bombay, December 2, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.32 -- Bombay, December 2, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So it is not possible. So long one is not a devotee, one who is not on the transcendental platform, this equal vision is not possible. It is crippled, all crippled.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB3253334BombayDecember31974_37" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="455" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.33-34 -- Bombay, December 3, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.33-34 -- Bombay, December 3, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.33-34 -- Bombay, December 3, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.33-34 -- Bombay, December 3, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And one means you cannot enter into the spiritual planets. There are so many, not devotees but spiritualists; they want to become one. That oneness means that you remain outside the spiritual planet in the brahmajyoti, in the rays.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32535BombayDecember41974_38" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="456" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.35 -- Bombay, December 4, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is meant for the devotees. Without devotees, nobody can understand. The others who are not devotee, they simply waste their time in reading Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, such literature. They simply waste their time because these subject matters are for the devotees.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32536BombayDecember51974_39" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="457" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.36 -- Bombay, December 5, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.36 -- Bombay, December 5, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.36 -- Bombay, December 5, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.36 -- Bombay, December 5, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The advanced devotee sees that he is not a devotee, but all others are devotees. This is advancement. But in the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, in the neophyte stage, they simply concentrate on the Deity. Arcāyām eva haraye yaḥ pūjāṁ śraddhayā īhate.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32537BombayDecember61974_40" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="458" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.37 -- Bombay, December 6, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.37 -- Bombay, December 6, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.37 -- Bombay, December 6, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.37 -- Bombay, December 6, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Anyone who is not devotee, who is not engaged in the service of the Lord, he is under the control of māyā. And anyone who has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa and is simply twenty-four hours engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, he is not under the control of māyā. Māyām etāṁ taranti te ([[Vanisource:BG 7.14 (1972)|BG 7.14]]). Kṛṣṇa says.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32538BombayDecember71974_41" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="459" link="Lecture on SB 3.25.38 -- Bombay, December 7, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.25.38 -- Bombay, December 7, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.25.38 -- Bombay, December 7, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.25.38 -- Bombay, December 7, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">God is feeding everyone. That's a fact. But a devotee does not want to take anything from God. He does not worship God for his daily bread. One who asks daily bread from God, they are pious, but they are not devotees.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32627BombayJanuary41975_42" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="487" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.27 -- Bombay, January 4, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.27 -- Bombay, January 4, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.27 -- Bombay, January 4, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.27 -- Bombay, January 4, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Rāvaṇa was very learned scholar, son of a brāhmaṇa, very good scholar, and economically developed, but only fault was avaiṣṇava: he did not care for Rāma. So he is designated as rākṣasa. So avaiṣṇava, who is not devotee of Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, gurur na sa syāt, he cannot become guru. That is not possible.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32628BombayJanuary51975_43" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="488" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.28 -- Bombay, January 5, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.28 -- Bombay, January 5, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.28 -- Bombay, January 5, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.28 -- Bombay, January 5, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If one is really devotee, then he will be detached to the anarthas, unwanted things. That is the test of bhakti. And "I am devotee; also I am devotee of biḍi," that is not devotee.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB32630BombayJanuary71975_44" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="490" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore Sanātana Gosvāmī says, avaiṣṇava-mukhodgīrṇaṁ pūtaṁ hari-kathāmṛtam, śravaṇaṁ na kartavyam: "Avaiṣṇava, who is not Vaiṣṇava, who is not devotee, if he speaks about Bhagavad-gītā, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, nonsense..." He will speak nonsense. So it is not good.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB5512StockholmSeptember71973_45" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="521" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973|Lecture on SB 5.5.1-2 -- Stockholm, September 7, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Actually, for even one is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, one is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has also provision. That provision is there. Why should we work so hard? Our business is to save time how to become advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. But people cannot understand this.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB553HyderabadApril151975_46" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="534" link="Lecture on SB 5.5.3 -- Hyderabad, April 15, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.5.3 -- Hyderabad, April 15, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.3 -- Hyderabad, April 15, 1975|Lecture on SB 5.5.3 -- Hyderabad, April 15, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The point is how to become a devotee, and at the end He concludes, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). This is the conclusion of, so these things cannot be understood by anyone who is not a devotee. Without being devotee, you cannot understand. Therefore there are so many, the politicians, the scholars, they are commenting Bhagavad-gītā in so many ways, but they are misled. Because they are not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. They cannot poke their nose in the Bhagavad-gītā. It is not possible.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB561VrndavanaNovember231976_47" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="567" link="Lecture on SB 5.6.1 -- Vrndavana, November 23, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 5.6.1 -- Vrndavana, November 23, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.6.1 -- Vrndavana, November 23, 1976|Lecture on SB 5.6.1 -- Vrndavana, November 23, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if you remain a minister, a president or some very big man, but if you are not a devotee, then you have to accept another body.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6111HonoluluMay121976_48" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="603" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- Honolulu, May 12, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Without regulative principle you cannot correct yourself. So that regulative principle cannot stay if you are not a devotee. This is the gradual process.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6115AucklandFebruary221973_49" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="612" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- Auckland, February 22, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- Auckland, February 22, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- Auckland, February 22, 1973|Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- Auckland, February 22, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So when you become devotee, you will understand what kind of devotee is Tulasi. So long you are not devotee, you cannot understand. Don't expect. Therefore we have to accept the authority. That is beginning.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6124ChicagoJuly81975_50" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="637" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.24 -- Chicago, July 8, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.24 -- Chicago, July 8, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.24 -- Chicago, July 8, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.24 -- Chicago, July 8, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is God's grace. This was done—Kṛṣṇa is so kind—because in his youthhood he was a devotee. Not devotee; he was trying to become a devotee. Dvija, he was initiated. We have begun his life that kānyakubje kaścid dvijaḥ.  He was initiated, but he fell down.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6125ChicagoJuly91975_51" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="639" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.25 -- Chicago, July 9, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.25 -- Chicago, July 9, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.25 -- Chicago, July 9, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.25 -- Chicago, July 9, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are too much attached in sex, they are asat, materialist, and Kṛṣṇa, those who are not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That's all. If you can find out these two persons, then you understand who is asat and who is sat.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB612734SuratDecember171970_52" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="646" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970|Lecture on SB 6.1.27-34 -- Surat, December 17, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The gopīs loved Kṛṣṇa out of seemingly lust, lusty desires, and Śiśupāla remembered Kṛṣṇa out of anger. Kāmāt krodhād bhayāt. And Kamsa remembered always Kṛṣṇa out of fear. And, of course, they were not devotees. Devotees means they should be always favorably disposed to Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB612829HonoluluMay281976_53" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="648" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.28-29 -- Honolulu, May 28, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.28-29 -- Honolulu, May 28, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.28-29 -- Honolulu, May 28, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.28-29 -- Honolulu, May 28, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Yamadūta, they come to take to the sinful, sinful person, not devotees. Just like the whole population of the city, they are not all subjected to the prison laws. Some criminals. Similarly, this Yamadūta goes to such sinful persons.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6138LosAngelesJune41976_54" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="661" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.38 -- Los Angeles, June 4, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.38 -- Los Angeles, June 4, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.38 -- Los Angeles, June 4, 1976|Lecture on SB 6.1.38 -- Los Angeles, June 4, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One test is sufficient. If one is not devotee, if one is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, he's a demon, has finished our conclusion. We simply ask whether you are Kṛṣṇa conscious, whether you know Kṛṣṇa. If he says, "No, I don't know..."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB615662SuratJanuary31971atAdubhaiPatelsHouse_55" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="693" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.56-62 -- Surat, January 3, 1971, at Adubhai Patel's House" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.56-62 -- Surat, January 3, 1971, at Adubhai Patel's House">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.56-62 -- Surat, January 3, 1971, at Adubhai Patel's House|Lecture on SB 6.1.56-62 -- Surat, January 3, 1971, at Adubhai Patel's House]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Hiraṇyakaśipu, he was a great devotee of Lord Brahmā, but he was considered asura. So anyone who is not devotee of Lord Viṣṇu, he is asura. That is the verdict. Asuras tad-viparyayaḥ. And this piṇḍa-dāna is offered oblations to the Viṣṇu.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6162VrndavanaAugust291975_56" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="695" link="Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.1.62 -- Vrndavana, August 29, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotee, they will be agitated by the māyā, by Madana, by Cupid, by so many other illusory things. But if one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, then nothing can. Because Kṛṣṇa conscious person is not in want. He is not in want.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB621VrndavanaSeptember51975_57" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="702" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.1 -- Vrndavana, September 5, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.1 -- Vrndavana, September 5, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.1 -- Vrndavana, September 5, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.1 -- Vrndavana, September 5, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Vaikuṇṭhaloka there is no a single person who is not a devotee. That is Vaikuṇṭha. Vaikuṇṭha means... Kuṇṭha means anxiety, and vigata-kuṇṭha iti vaikuṇṭha. There is no anxiety. And the material world means anxiety: "What will happen? What will happen."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6211AllahabadJanuary161971_58" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="711" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So good man is not a devotee. Try to distinguish. Good man is good for this material existence but devotee is different from good man. A devotee...</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6211AllahabadJanuary161971_59" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="711" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Allahabad, January 16, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The performance of ritualistic ceremonies according to Vedic injunction may... Just like here they are doing. They may get promotion to the heavenly planet. That much. They are not devotees. They are not eligible for entering into the kingdom of God.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6211VrndavanaSeptember131975_60" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="712" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Vrndavana, September 13, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Vrndavana, September 13, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Vrndavana, September 13, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.11 -- Vrndavana, September 13, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If one may have all the good qualities but if he is not a devotee of the Lord, his good qualities have no value. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathena āsato dhāvato bahiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). They are simply carried away by the mental concoction.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB6214VrndavanaSeptember171975_61" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="715" link="Lecture on SB 6.2.14 -- Vrndavana, September 17, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.2.14 -- Vrndavana, September 17, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.2.14 -- Vrndavana, September 17, 1975|Lecture on SB 6.2.14 -- Vrndavana, September 17, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura said that kīṭa-janma hau, jathā tuwā dās. This association. "Let me become a worm, not a devotee, even worm." Kīṭa. Kīṭa means worm, an insignificant ant, worm. Better to remain as an ant with the association of devotees than to become a Brahmā without any devotee's association.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB631215GorakhpurFebruary91971_62" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="720" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.12-15 -- Gorakhpur, February 9, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.12-15 -- Gorakhpur, February 9, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.12-15 -- Gorakhpur, February 9, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.12-15 -- Gorakhpur, February 9, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The smārtas, to pull on their business, so they have become gosvāmīs. But actually they are not devotees. So these gosvāmīs will go to a devotee, and one who is willing to accept a spiritual master.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB631617GorakhpurFebruary101971_63" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="721" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is not their subject matter. That I repeatedly say, that one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, it is, Bhagavad-gītā is not a subject matter for their study, what to speak of commenting upon it? He has no business to comment on Bhagavad-gītā because it is not their subject matter.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB631617GorakhpurFebruary101971_64" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="721" link="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971" link_text="Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971|Lecture on SB 6.3.16-17 -- Gorakhpur, February 10, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">God has got individuality and His devotees or the living entities, even though not devotees, nondevotees, everyone has got individuality.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB761718NewVrindabanJuly11976_65" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="771" link="Lecture on SB 7.6.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, July 1, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.6.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, July 1, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.6.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, July 1, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.6.17-18 -- New Vrindaban, July 1, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"To give up the company of materialistic persons." Then the next question may be "Who is materialistic?" Asat eka 'strī-saṅgī: "One who is attached to woman, he is asat." And kṛṣṇa-bhakta āra, "And one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB797MayapurFebruary141976_66" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="793" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.7 -- Mayapur, February 14, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, if we do not hear from the right person, any Vedic literature, especially Bhagavad-gītā because that is the beginning, the sarpocchiṣṭaṁ payaḥ yathā. He may be very big scholar, but because he is avaiṣṇava, not devotee, it has become poison.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB798CalcuttaMarch51972_67" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="799" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.8 -- Calcutta, March 5, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.8 -- Calcutta, March 5, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.8 -- Calcutta, March 5, 1972|Lecture on SB 7.9.8 -- Calcutta, March 5, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Somebody is going to Jagannātha temple, he is seeing a wooden carved statue, that's all. And he is surprised, "Why for this wooden carved statue so many people are coming?" Because they are not devotee, they cannot understand. But one devotee, thousands and millions of devotees are going every year.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB799MontrealJuly61968_68" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="803" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.9 -- Montreal, July 6, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.9 -- Montreal, July 6, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.9 -- Montreal, July 6, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.9 -- Montreal, July 6, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that "If a brāhmaṇa, even though he is qualified with all the twelve qualities, but if he is not a devotee, then I think a caṇḍāla who is born of a family of dog-eaters, if he is devotee, he is variṣṭham. He is glorious.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7910MontrealJuly91968_69" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="806" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even a brāhmaṇa, qualified brāhmaṇa who has all these brahminical qualifications, but he is not a devotee of the Lord... There are many good, qualified persons, but they do not on of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7910MontrealJuly91968_70" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="806" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You may take his qualification in consideration, but Prahlāda Mahārāja says he is rejected from Kṛṣṇa consciousness for that one disqualification, that he is not a devotee of God.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7910MontrealJuly91968_71" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="806" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If one is not devotee of the Lord, then he has no good qualification." Why? Because manorathenāsato dhāvato bahiḥ: "Because he is hovering on the mental plane." And because he is hovering on the mental plane—the mind's business is to change—so he will change from one platform to another, another platform to another.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7910MontrealJuly91968_72" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="806" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.10 -- Montreal, July 9, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Prahlāda Mahārāja says that a person, even if he is a brāhmaṇa with good qualification, if he is not a devotee of the Lord, then he is good for nothing. He says, "He is good for nothing."</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7914MayapurFebruary211976_73" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="821" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The father was such a great demon, and he was not addressing him as father, and the father was becoming more and more angry upon him. This indicates that a person who is a demon, not devotee, he's not worth calling a father.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7914MayapurFebruary211976_74" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="821" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.14 -- Mayapur, February 21, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">First of all the sastric injunction is that anyone who is not a devotee, he cannot become guru. He cannot become guru. Avaiṣṇava, he cannot become guru. He must be a Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7934MayapurMarch121976_75" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="841" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.34 -- Mayapur, March 12, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.34 -- Mayapur, March 12, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.34 -- Mayapur, March 12, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.34 -- Mayapur, March 12, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is devotee, he is exalted. And those who are not devotees, they are low grade," hīna chāra, "condemned." So nobody can be exalted personality without Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is not possible. This is the verdict of the Vedic knowledge. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathena āsato dhāvato bahiḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]) "Those who are not devotees of the Lord, they cannot have any good qualities." That is not possible. "</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7942MayapurMarch221976_76" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="848" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.42 -- Mayapur, March 22, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.42 -- Mayapur, March 22, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.42 -- Mayapur, March 22, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.9.42 -- Mayapur, March 22, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">These big, big men who are so much eulogized by some rascals, all these big, big leaders, what they are? Because they are not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, they cannot lead. They simply will mislead. Therefore we take them all rascals. This is the criterion.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7thCantoCalcuttaMarch71972_77" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="867" link="Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972|Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even though he is qualified, but he is not a devotee. Generally, those who are very highly qualified brāhmaṇa, they are very proud, and they do not become a devotee, generally. "Oh, devotion, this is for poor man. This is for those who are not highly educated, for them. They are chanting, dancing." They criticize like that.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7thCantoCalcuttaMarch71972_78" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="867" link="Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972|Lecture on SB 7th Canto -- Calcutta, March 7, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So here Prahlāda Mahārāja says viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād: that brāhmaṇa who is qualified with these twelve kinds of high qualities, this is guṇa-yutād. But if he is not a devotee, aravinda-nābha-vimukhāt, he does not like to accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead as worshipable, better than this kind of brāhmaṇa is a śvapaca Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Lectures" text="Nectar of Devotion Lectures"><h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaOctober171972_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="4" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 17, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 17, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 17, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 17, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The difference is that a devotee relishes a particular type of mellow, rasa, in this material world. But the, those who are not devotees, they do not feel any relish from this material world.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaOctober181972_1" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="5" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 18, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Even if one executes his occupational duties very nicely, because he's not devotee, what is the gain of his life? He does not gain anything.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaOctober241972_2" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="14" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 24, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 24, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 24, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 24, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Time is very valuable. So we should not waste time. Prajalpo niyamāgrahaḥ, jana-saṅgaś ca. And associating with ordinary persons who are not devotees. Jana-saṅgas. People in general, they have no taste for Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionBombayJanuary41973_3" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="15" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 4, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 4, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 4, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 4, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya says that "I am not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa." "Now, Sir, You are crying always for Kṛṣṇa." "That is simply to show, make a show that I am a great devotee of Kṛṣṇa." Then? "No, how we can understand that You are not...? We know You're..." "No. Because I am still living without Kṛṣṇa, that means I have no love for Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaOctober261972_4" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="18" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 26, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 26, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 26, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is not possible. You cannot serve Kṛṣṇa if you are not a devotee. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, yo me bhaktyā prayacchati. That is the real thing, bhaktyā. Not that "I have brought a nice plate and Kṛṣṇa will accept." Not like that.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionBombayJanuary101973_5" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="24" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 10, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 10, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 10, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, January 10, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not vaiṣṇava, those who are not devotees, one should not hear from them. It is useless. It is useless, waste of time. Śravaṇaṁ na kartavyaṁ sarpocchiṣṭaṁ payo yathā. Just like milk touched by the lips of a serpent is poison.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember81972_6" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, just the opposite: if one is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he cannot have any good qualities, however he may be educated academically. That is not possible.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember81972_7" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 8, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We see sometimes one man who is very educated, highly, university educated, but practical life—baser than animal. Because he, he has no Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He's not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. A devotee of Kṛṣṇa cannot be like that. Go on.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaNovember91972_8" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="37" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 9, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Similarly, impersonal Brahman effulgence and Vaikuṇṭha planets, both of them, absolute, but still Brahman effulgence and entering into the Vaikuṇṭha planets or Goloka Vṛndāvana planets are not the same. Or, in other words, those are not, those who are not devotees, but impersonalists, they can stay outside the Vaikuṇṭha planets in the Brahman effulgence, but they cannot enter into the Vaikuṇṭha planets.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionCalcuttaJanuary281973_9" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="45" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 28, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 28, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 28, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 28, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So in this age, especially in Kali-yuga, one who does not join in the kīrtana, he's not a devotee at all. He's outside, bahir aṅga, bahir-artha-māninaḥ. This śravaṇa kīrtana is the first business of devotee.</p>
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionCalcuttaJanuary301973_10" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="47" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 30, 1973" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 30, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 30, 1973|The Nectar of Devotion -- Calcutta, January 30, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So that devotees, as soon as (they) see smiling Kṛṣṇa, pleasing Kṛṣṇa, they become pleased. They become pleased by seeing Kṛṣṇa pleased. They do not want to be pleased independently. That is not devotee. Devotee's pleasure is seeing Kṛṣṇa is pleased. Kṛṣṇa is also pleased when He sees the devotees are pleased. This is competition. This is competition.</p>
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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures"><h3>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonCCAdilila11MayapurMarch251975_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="1" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.1 -- Mayapur, March 25, 1975" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.1 -- Mayapur, March 25, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.1 -- Mayapur, March 25, 1975|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.1 -- Mayapur, March 25, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">But if he does not know what is Kṛṣṇa or if he's not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he cannot become guru. Ṣaḍ-vaiṣṇavaḥ śvapaco guruḥ. But one person who is coming from the family of dog-eaters...</p>
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<div id="LectureonCCAdilila112MayapurApril51975_1" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="12" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.12 -- Mayapur, April 5, 1975" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.12 -- Mayapur, April 5, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.12 -- Mayapur, April 5, 1975|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.12 -- Mayapur, April 5, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">All this cosmic manifestation is created in that way. Those who are not devotee, they cannot see that over the chunk, total material energy, there is the vision of Mahā-Viṣṇu. That they cannot see. Just like you'll find on the ground, so many flowers and grasses are coming up.</p>
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<div id="LectureonCCAdilila71AtlantaMarch11975_2" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="20" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">There are other necessities for those who are not devotees. Those necessities are dharma artha kāma mokṣa (SB 4.8.41, Cc. Ādi 1.90). Generally, in the material world everyone has necessity of gratifying his senses. So sometimes, under the cover of religiosity, they want to satisfy senses.</p>
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<div id="LectureonCCAdilila71AtlantaMarch11975_3" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="20" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.1 -- Atlanta, March 1, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Material thing, if you cannot do it perfectly well, whatever you have done, that is all lost. But in spiritual, whatever you have done, one percent, two percent, three percent, as you have done, that is not lost. Therefore the śāstra says that those who are not devotees, what is their profit? Even they are doing their duties very nicely, what is the profit? Because he remains under the stringent laws of nature.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LectureonCCAdilila78095SanFranciscoFebruary101966_4" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="31" link="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.80-95 -- San Francisco, February 10, 1966" link_text="Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.80-95 -- San Francisco, February 10, 1966">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.80-95 -- San Francisco, February 10, 1966|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 7.80-95 -- San Francisco, February 10, 1966]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This particular word is there. Because otherwise you'll not feel quite comfortable. Abhakta. Abhakta means those who are not devotees. They cannot participate with this chanting or dancing.</p>
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</div>
<div id="LectureonCCMadhyalila8128BhuvanesvaraJanuary241977_5" class="quote" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta_Lectures" book="Lec" index="46" link="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 8.128 -- Bhuvanesvara, January 24, 1977" link_text="Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 8.128 -- Bhuvanesvara, January 24, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 8.128 -- Bhuvanesvara, January 24, 1977|Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 8.128 -- Bhuvanesvara, January 24, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that a brāhmaṇa, even though he's well-qualified, ṣaṭ-karma, brāhmaṇa's six occupation, ṣaṭ-karma-paṭhana pāṭhan yajana yājana dana pratigraha-ṣaṭ-karma-nipuṇo vipro mantra-tantra-viśāradaḥ, and he's well expert in Vedic hymns, Vedic understanding—mantra-tantra, Pañcatantra, everything is competent—but avaiṣṇava, if he's not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he cannot become guru.</p>
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</div>
<div id="Sri_Isopanisad_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Isopanisad Lectures"><h3>Sri Isopanisad Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="SriIsopanisadMantra1315LosAngelesMay181970_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Isopanisad_Lectures" book="Lec" index="21" link="Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13-15 -- Los Angeles, May 18, 1970" link_text="Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13-15 -- Los Angeles, May 18, 1970">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13-15 -- Los Angeles, May 18, 1970|Sri Isopanisad, Mantra 13-15 -- Los Angeles, May 18, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Those who are not devotees, simply jñānīs or demons... The jñānīs and demons, they are offered the same place. The jñānīs... Āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 10.2.32|SB 10.2.32]]). They practice severe austerities, penances, to enter into the Brahman effulgence. But the demons, simply by becoming enemy of Kṛṣṇa, they immediately get that place.</p>
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</div>
<div id="Sri_Brahma-samhita_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Lectures" text="Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures"><h3>Sri Brahma-samhita Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureonBrahmasamhitaLectureBombayJanuary31973_0" class="quote" parent="Sri_Brahma-samhita_Lectures" book="Lec" index="11" link="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Lecture -- Bombay, January 3, 1973" link_text="Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Lecture -- Bombay, January 3, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Lecture -- Bombay, January 3, 1973|Lecture on Brahma-samhita, Lecture -- Bombay, January 3, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nobody knows Kṛṣṇa. They may speculate by their so-called scholarship, ABCD knowledge, but Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa is not there. They cannot turn even a single man to become a Kṛṣṇa devotee. That is not possible. They can be fool. That is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: śva-viḍ-varāha-uṣṭra kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ. The, one who is not devotee, he is described as a paśuḥ, as an animal.</p>
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</div>
<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="RadhastamiSrimatiRadharanisAppearanceDayBhagavadgita185LondonSeptember51973_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="29" link="Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day -- Bhagavad-gita 18.5 -- London, September 5, 1973" link_text="Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day -- Bhagavad-gita 18.5 -- London, September 5, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day -- Bhagavad-gita 18.5 -- London, September 5, 1973|Radhastami, Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day -- Bhagavad-gita 18.5 -- London, September 5, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is Rādhārāṇī. I may be a, not devotee. I may be most fallen rascal. But if I try to reach Kṛṣṇa through Rādhārāṇī, then my business is successful. Therefore we should worship Rādhārāṇī first.</p>
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</div>
<div id="SrilaKrsnadasaKavirajaGosvamisAppearanceDayVrndavanaOctober191972_1" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="31" link="Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's Appearance Day -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972" link_text="Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's Appearance Day -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's Appearance Day -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972|Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami's Appearance Day -- Vrndavana, October 19, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A gentleman, suppose he's not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, but if we say that "You are the lowest of the mankind," he'll be certainly very angry, that "I am such a nice gentleman, and you are talking of me as the lowest of the mankind."</p>
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</div>
<div id="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Lectures" text="Arrival Addresses and Talks"><h3>Arrival Addresses and Talks</h3>
</div>
<div id="ArrivalConversationLosAngelesJune201975_0" class="quote" parent="Arrival_Addresses_and_Talks" book="Lec" index="25" link="Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975" link_text="Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975|Arrival Conversation -- Los Angeles, June 20, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is the verdict of Bhāgavata. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). Anyone who is not a devotee, his material qualification has no value. Mano-rathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ. He is hovering over the mental plane.</p>
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</div>
<div id="Initiation_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Lectures" text="Initiation Lectures"><h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
</div>
<div id="LectureInitiationSeattleOctober201968_0" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="10" link="Lecture &amp; Initiation -- Seattle, October 20, 1968" link_text="Lecture &amp; Initiation -- Seattle, October 20, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture &amp; Initiation -- Seattle, October 20, 1968|Lecture &amp; Initiation -- Seattle, October 20, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Just like Lord Jesus Christ, he is a great devotee. And even Muhammad, he's also a devotee. It is not that because we are devotee and they are not devotee. Don't think like that.</p>
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</div>
<div id="InitiationandBrahmasamhitaLectureNewYorkJuly261971_1" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="36" link="Initiation and Brahma-samhita Lecture -- New York, July 26, 1971" link_text="Initiation and Brahma-samhita Lecture -- New York, July 26, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation and Brahma-samhita Lecture -- New York, July 26, 1971|Initiation and Brahma-samhita Lecture -- New York, July 26, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Īśvara, the Supreme Lord, is situated in everyone's heart. Therefore it is said hṛdā. Sometimes we get education, instruction from hṛdā. That hṛdā, Kṛṣṇa, sitting in everyone's heart, instructs everyone. But those who are not devotee, they cannot understand what is the dictation.</p>
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</div>
<div id="InitiationLectureNewYorkJuly281971_2" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="39" link="Initiation Lecture -- New York, July 28, 1971" link_text="Initiation Lecture -- New York, July 28, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation Lecture -- New York, July 28, 1971|Initiation Lecture -- New York, July 28, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Why should not be heard from a person who is not a devotee, but he may be scholar? But Sanātana Goswami says, śravaṇaṁ na kartavyam. Never. So the reason the example here is given, sarpocchiṣṭaṁ payo yathā. Milk, everyone knows milk is very nourishing food, but as soon as it is touched by a serpent it is poison.</p>
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</div>
<div id="InitiationLectureLondonAugust221971_3" class="quote" parent="Initiation_Lectures" book="Lec" index="40" link="Initiation Lecture -- London, August 22, 1971" link_text="Initiation Lecture -- London, August 22, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiation Lecture -- London, August 22, 1971|Initiation Lecture -- London, August 22, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You must do it. So sato vṛtteḥ sādhu-saṅge, and the association of devotees. Asādhu-sange, those who are not devotees, if you mix with them, then whatever you learned, you'll forget. Their influence is so bad.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureLosAngelesJanuary151969_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="35" link="Lecture -- Los Angeles, January 15, 1969" link_text="Lecture -- Los Angeles, January 15, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- Los Angeles, January 15, 1969|Lecture -- Los Angeles, January 15, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, "I am crying just to make a show to others that I am a devotee. Actually I am not a devotee. If I would have been actually devotee, how I am living without Kṛṣṇa? I should have died."</p>
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<div id="PandalLectureBombayMarch311971_1" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="79" link="Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, March 31, 1971" link_text="Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, March 31, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, March 31, 1971|Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, March 31, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa prescribed it, how to read Bhagavad-gītā. Don't try to read Bhagavad-gītā made by some commentator who has no knowledge of Kṛṣṇa. One who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has no business to comment on the Bhagavad-gītā.</p>
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<div id="PandalLectureBombayApril71971_2" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="81" link="Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 7, 1971" link_text="Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 7, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 7, 1971|Pandal Lecture -- Bombay, April 7, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">With minimum trouble, I am minimizing the effects of my past misdeeds." They think like that. So persons who are not devotees, they do not know that only Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He can get me relieved from these material clutches.</p>
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<div id="TownHallLectureAucklandApril141972_3" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="108" link="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972" link_text="Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972|Town Hall Lecture -- Auckland, April 14, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If you are serving for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, why He will not supply you? Kṛṣṇa is supplying food to everyone, those who are not devotees, and why not to the devotees? What we have done? Those who have denied the existence of God, they are also being fed by Kṛṣṇa, or God. And we are preaching the glories of God.</p>
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<div id="SundayFeastLectureLondonJuly251976_4" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="173" link="Sunday Feast Lecture -- London, July 25, 1976" link_text="Sunday Feast Lecture -- London, July 25, 1976">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Sunday Feast Lecture -- London, July 25, 1976|Sunday Feast Lecture -- London, July 25, 1976]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu says, yei bhaje se baḍa. Yei bhaje sei baḍa, abhakta hīna chāra. And one who is not a devotee, he is the lowest and abominable.</p>
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<div id="EveningLectureBhuvanesvaraJanuary231977_5" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="180" link="Evening Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 23, 1977" link_text="Evening Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 23, 1977">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 23, 1977|Evening Lecture -- Bhuvanesvara, January 23, 1977]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">"Anyone who is a devotee, he is great, and who is not devotee, he may declare himself as great, but he is the most fallen." In the devotional service there is no such distinction as jāti and kula.</p>
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<div id="Departure_Talks" class="sub_section" sec_index="12" parent="Lectures" text="Departure Talks"><h3>Departure Talks</h3>
</div>
<div id="DepartureLectureCaracasFebruary251975_0" class="quote" parent="Departure_Talks" book="Lec" index="4" link="Departure Lecture -- Caracas, February 25, 1975" link_text="Departure Lecture -- Caracas, February 25, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Departure Lecture -- Caracas, February 25, 1975|Departure Lecture -- Caracas, February 25, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Niyamāgrahaḥ means the positive rules and regulation, simply make a show but not actually realize it. Niyamāgrahaḥ, laulyam, and to become very greedy, and jana-saṅgaś ca, and mixing with persons who are not devotee. These six things should be avoided, and the first things should be followed. Then your success in devotional service is sure.</p>
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<div id="Philosophy_Discussions" class="sub_section" sec_index="13" parent="Lectures" text="Philosophy Discussions"><h3>Philosophy Discussions</h3>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononImmanuelKant_0" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="3" link="Philosophy Discussion on Immanuel Kant" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Immanuel Kant">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Immanuel Kant|Philosophy Discussion on Immanuel Kant]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Why not virtue? If you get happiness, that is virtuous. That means he has no standard knowledge. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). If a man is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has no good qualities. He may be a great philosopher, scientist, but he is a nonsense.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJohnDewey_1" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="10" link="Philosophy Discussion on John Dewey" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on John Dewey">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on John Dewey|Philosophy Discussion on John Dewey]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Their so-called social, moral, philosophical, political, they are all rascaldom. Therefore our decision is, harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā: ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]) anyone who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he has no good qualities. In the other  direction, we will find so many defects with his so-called moral and social position.</p>
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<div id="PhilosophyDiscussiononJacquesMaritain_2" class="quote" parent="Philosophy_Discussions" book="Lec" index="15" link="Philosophy Discussion on Jacques Maritain" link_text="Philosophy Discussion on Jacques Maritain">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Philosophy Discussion on Jacques Maritain|Philosophy Discussion on Jacques Maritain]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: A Kṛṣṇa conscious person, even without moral principles, he is higher than the person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, simply sticking to the moral and ethical principles, he has no... Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). Anyone who is not a devotee of Hari, Kṛṣṇa, he has no good qualification.</p>
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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="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1968 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1968 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="QuestionsandAnswersMontrealAugust261968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968" link_text="Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968|Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Now, very, very respectable, educated girls are taking in drama and cinema in India. Formerly this was not possible. And perhaps in the theatrical performances, stage, that was introduced by Lord Caitanya, drama. But His dramatical performances were limited within the devotees. He will not allow to take part in the performance who is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="QuestionsandAnswersMontrealAugust261968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968" link_text="Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968|Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I saw from the stage a huge gathering, they're all crying. I was surprised, "Why these people are crying?" You see? It was great successful, because we were not professionals. We were not devotees at that time, but some of us were devotee by family tradition, but not exactly what is actually meant by devotee.</p>
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<div id="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1969 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1969 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithAllenGinsbergMay131969ColumbusOhio_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 13, 1969, Columbus, Ohio" link_text="Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 13, 1969, Columbus, Ohio">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 13, 1969, Columbus, Ohio|Room Conversation with Allen Ginsberg -- May 13, 1969, Columbus, Ohio]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Allen Ginsberg: She is impersonalist</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: She is not a devotee. There are many impersonalists. They take advantage of... They say, "Caitanya's patha, Śaṅkara's maṭha," that "Follow the principle of Caitanya but ultimately take the conclusion of Śaṅkara." That means...</p>
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<div id="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1972 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1972 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="TalkwithBobCohenFebruary27291972Mayapura_0" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="5" link="Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura" link_text="Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura|Talk with Bob Cohen -- February 27-29, 1972, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: One who has no devotional love, from his hand... Therefore we do not allow anyone to cook who is not a devotee. Kṛṣṇa does not accept anything from the hands of a nondevotee. Why should He accept? He's not hungry.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationVaisnavaCalendarDescriptionMarch111972Vrndavana_1" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="8" link="Room Conversation Vaisnava Calendar Description -- March 11, 1972, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation Vaisnava Calendar Description -- March 11, 1972, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation Vaisnava Calendar Description -- March 11, 1972, Vrndavana|Room Conversation Vaisnava Calendar Description -- March 11, 1972, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So Jīva Gosvāmī was so big scholar but sometimes one ordinary scholar, he approached Rūpa Gosvāmī that "I want to discuss with you about śāstra". Rūpa Gosvāmī could understand that this man is not a devotee, he will simply waste my time.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly41972NewYork_2" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="31" link="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York" link_text="Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York|Room Conversation -- July 4, 1972, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (4): Little tulasī leaf?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No.</p>
<p>Devotee (4): Eat? No, shouldn't send.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's not a devotee. He'll "Oh, what is this?" Throw away.</p>
<p>Devotee (4): Hm.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like the tulasī plant is here, somebody will think that it is decoration. We put it here, devotion, but those who are not interested to speak them about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we offense. One of the ten offenses.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithKennethKeatingUSAmbassadortoIndiaOctober141972NewDelhi_3" class="quote" parent="1972_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="42" link="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi" link_text="Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi|Room Conversation with Kenneth Keating, U.S. Ambassador to India -- October 14, 1972, New Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Ambassador: Devotee, but none of her children?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why? She has got eight children.</p>
<p>Ambassador: No, but I mean they are not devotees.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Not so much.</p>
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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 id="RoomConversationFebruary251973Jakarta_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="1" link="Room Conversation -- February 25, 1973, Jakarta" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 25, 1973, Jakarta">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 25, 1973, Jakarta|Room Conversation -- February 25, 1973, Jakarta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: So we test only whether he's a devotee of God. If he's not a devotee of God then we take either of these: he must be the rascal, or lowest of the mankind, or simply using the merit for sinful activities, or his knowledge has been taken away by māyā. Immediately, we have no difficulty to understand what class of man he is.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril251973LosAngeles_1" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="14" link="Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Religion, religion is the source of moral and ethics. Because religion means to come to the perfectional point. So as soon as there is perfection, moral and ethics are already there. So called moral ethics, that is artificial. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. If one is not a devotee of the Lord, his morality has no value. That is artificial. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Mahad-guṇāḥ, high qualities, moral, ethics, they are high qualities.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril251973LosAngeles_2" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="14" link="Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- April 25, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Svarūpa Dāmodara: There everything is very nicely explained.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. I wrote one time, standard of morality. (pause) We have got very simple formulas from the statement of śāstras. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Hari is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, abhakta, nondevotee, a person who is not a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, kuto mahad-guṇāḥ, where is his high qualities? No, no high qualities. In the Bhagavad-gītā also: na māṁ prapadyante mūḍhāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). So we see whether he has surrendered to God.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkAtCheviotHillsGolfCourseMay131973LosAngeles_3" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="27" link="Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 13, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 13, 1973, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 13, 1973, Los Angeles|Morning Walk At Cheviot Hills Golf Course -- May 13, 1973, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The police is there. Just like the police car was there. We have nothing to do with it. But if you do anything criminal, immediately you will be arrested, under police custody. The māyā may be there, but māyā captures him who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That's all. Therefore, mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te: "Anyone who surrenders unto Me, māyā does not interfere anymore."</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithReporterfromResearchersMagazineJuly241973London_4" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="51" link="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London|Room Conversation with Reporter from Researchers Magazine -- July 24, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Reporter: (laughs) Yes. And especially today in the society we are all living in, nuclear age where all the power of destruction in the hands of those who are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is hiṁsā.</p>
<p>Reporter: That is hiṁsā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Reporter: Yeah. Therefore we are trying to make how you can, I mean...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That you have understood. That is my point.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationSeptember21973London_5" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="70" link="Room Conversation -- September 2, 1973, London" link_text="Room Conversation -- September 2, 1973, London">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- September 2, 1973, London|Room Conversation -- September 2, 1973, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (1): (Bengali) Gandhiji, he was politician, he was actually not devotee, and he could not understand Bhagavad-gītā. But how the name of Rāma has come when he died? The name of Rāma, Hare Rāma, has come from his last word. How it has come. It is, it is...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Practice, practice. Raghupati rāghava rājā rāma.</p>
<p>Guest (1): So that came at the last word.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Guest (1): It is due to his pious or practice.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Practice. That will act, that will act, that will act.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithSanskritProfessorDrSunesonSeptember51973Stockholm_6" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="71" link="Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm" link_text="Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm|Room Conversation with Sanskrit Professor, Dr. Suneson -- September 5, 1973, Stockholm]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Haṁsadūta: But he's not a devotee.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: No.</p>
<p>Professor: No, but that's...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Now, I, when we were talking, I asked him one question, that "Professor Kotofsky, you are communist, I am Kṛṣṇite. So where is the difference of philosophy? Because you have to accept one authority, leader.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationSeptember191973Bombay_7" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="76" link="Room Conversation -- September 19, 1973, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- September 19, 1973, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- September 19, 1973, Bombay|Room Conversation -- September 19, 1973, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: If you want to pour water, leaf after leaf, it will be useless waste of time. But if you pour water in the center, on the root, it will go everywhere. Because he is devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he knows how to discharge his duty towards his parents, how to discharge his duty to his wife, how to discharge his duties towards his spiritual master. He knows everything. But one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he does not know. He is simply confused. Sometimes jumping here, something jumping there, something jumping there.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember51973LosAngeles_8" class="quote" parent="1973_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="90" link="Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 5, 1973, Los Angeles">
<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;">Prabhupāda: Why I left my family? Because they were not devotees. Therefore I come... Otherwise, in old age, I would have been comfortable. No. We should not live with the nondevotees, may be family men or anyone. Just like Mahārāja Vibhīṣaṇa. Because his brother was not devotee, he left him, left him. He came to Rāmacandra. Vibhīṣaṇa. You know that?</p>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary91974LosAngeles_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="5" link="Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- January 9, 1974, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Anyone who is not in the spiritual platform... Spiritual platform means to be a devotee of the Lord. The Māyāvādīs, because they are not devotees of the Lord, they are not on the spiritual platform. They are on the material platform. They are speculating, spirit—"something negation of matter." That's all. That is mental speculation. It is bad. "Good means negation of bad." They are thinking like that.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary221974Hawaii_1" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="16" link="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 22, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Nitāi: The Seventeenth Chapter, one purport where it talks about a brāhmaṇa woman who came to touch the feet of Lord Caitanya; immediately He went and jumped in the Ganges. You remember that section?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. That is... He's not a devotee. He's not a, he was not a disciple.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary231974Hawaii_2" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="17" link="Morning Walk -- January 23, 1974, Hawaii" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 23, 1974, Hawaii">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 23, 1974, Hawaii|Morning Walk -- January 23, 1974, Hawaii]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Sudāmā: Then it is a devotee's misconception if he thinks that Kṛṣṇa is outside everywhere, but He's not in the temple. Because I remember...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's not a devotee, he's a rascal.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkFebruary231974Bombay_3" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="25" link="Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- February 23, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutāt. A brāhmaṇa having twelve brahminical qualifications... Viprād dvi-ṣaḍ-guṇa-yutād aravinda-nābha-pādāravinda-vimukhāt śvapacaṁ variṣṭham. A brāhmaṇa, well-learned, well-scholar, and just brahminical principles, strictly following, but if he is not a devotee, from him, one caṇḍāla is better. Śvapacaṁ variṣṭham. Why? Now, because that caṇḍāla has-caṇḍāla who is devotee caṇḍāla, not ordinary caṇḍāla—he has dedicated his mind, his body, his activities for the service of the Lord. Therefore he not only is purified, but he purifies the whole family, whereas a qualified brāhmaṇa, if he is not a devotee, he cannot purify himself, what to speak of purifying the family.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch231974Bombay_4" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="43" link="Morning Walk -- March 23, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 23, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 23, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- March 23, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: It may be sevā, but...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Just like Kaṁsa. Kaṁsa was thinking of Kṛṣṇa always. But he's not a devotee. Avidhi-pūrvakam. No, that...</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: But he was not a bhakta. He was an enemy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. No, no. Therefore... He was thinking of Kṛṣṇa, but still, he's not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch251974Bombay_5" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="45" link="Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- March 25, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: (indistinct)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. There are many songs: "O my dear Kṛṣṇa, please come dancing with Your flute. I will see." These are not devotees' songs. Kṛṣṇa will never say, uh, devotee will never say, order. No more.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch301974Bombay_6" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="49" link="Morning Walk -- March 30, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 30, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 30, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- March 30, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He has performed the annakūṭa ceremony. Either you eat or I eat, where is the difference?</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: Great difference. (break) ...what way?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because you do not take prasādam, therefore you are not devotee.</p>
<p>Dr. Patel: You... I take this much prasādam. They need that much prasāda. That is what I mean to say otherwise.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, you cannot dictate. Prasāda, prasāda, prasāda will be distributed without discrimination.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril81974Bombay_7" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="58" link="Morning Walk -- April 8, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 8, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 8, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 8, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (chants japa) (break). They'll talk of Kṛṣṇa, so many things but they're not devotees. Just like Kaṁsa. They may talk of Kṛṣṇa or think of Kṛṣṇa, but they don't accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme. Therefore they are demons. This is the test. They'll read Bhagavad-gītā, but they'll not accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme. And that is the demonic.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril101974Bombay_8" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="59" link="Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 10, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He is not a devotee of the Lord. So anyone... That is our criterion. Anyone who is not a devotee, whatever he may be... He may be very, very big or so-called saintly, but according to the description of the śāstras, na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). We shall calculate in that way. As soon as we...</p>
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<div id="PressConferenceApril181974Hyderabad_9" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="67" link="Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad" link_text="Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad|Press Conference -- April 18, 1974, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ: If one is not a devotee of the Lord, he has no good qualification. He cannot possess any good qualification. Why? Mano-rathena. He is simply hovering on the mental plane. Therefore mind's business is to accept and reject. There cannot be any permanent thing. So one has to transcend above the plane of mind and fixed up in the spiritual platform. Then he can have all the good qualities.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril291974Hyderabad_10" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="75" link="Morning Walk -- April 29, 1974, Hyderabad" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 29, 1974, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 29, 1974, Hyderabad|Morning Walk -- April 29, 1974, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: It is not popular actually. For the common man it is dry subject. And I have heard that after reading one book, somebody comes to purchase. "What is this, Bhāgavata?" "We have got six." "All right, give me six volumes." He is not a devotee. Why he purchases all the six volumes of Bhāgavatam? In London our Bhagavad-gītā As It Is was sold in two months, thirty thousand copies. That is the report. Thirty thousand copies.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMay31974Bombay_11" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="78" link="Morning Walk -- May 3, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 3, 1974, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 3, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- May 3, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Girirāja: "When the boys saw that the brāhmaṇas would not speak to them, they became very disappointed. They then returned to Lord Kṛṣṇa..." (reading) (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...devotees of Kṛṣṇa becomes very much disappointed when one sees that the other one is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune191974Germany_12" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="122" link="Morning Walk -- June 19, 1974, Germany" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 19, 1974, Germany">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 19, 1974, Germany|Morning Walk -- June 19, 1974, Germany]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Satsvarūpa: Not thinking, "Oh, when will I go to Kṛṣṇaloka?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, it doesn't matter. You give him good advice. Just like a canvasser. He canvasses for selling some books or some... If does not sell, he is not a culprit. He has done his job. That is recognized by Kṛṣṇa. Devotee does not make any bargain with Kṛṣṇa that "Kṛṣṇa will give me this benefit; therefore I have become pure devotee." That is not devotee. Prahlāda Mahā... He is a merchant, "You give me this price. I will deliver this clothing." That is not devotion.</p>
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<div id="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1975 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1975 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationwiththreeTrappistMonksPsychologistsfromtheUniversityofGeorgiaandAtlantaLawyerMichaelGreenMarch11975Atlanta_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="15" link="Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks, Psychologists from the University of Georgia, and Atlanta Lawyer, Michael Green -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta" link_text="Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks, Psychologists from the University of Georgia, and Atlanta Lawyer, Michael Green -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks, Psychologists from the University of Georgia, and Atlanta Lawyer, Michael Green -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta|Room Conversation with three Trappist Monks, Psychologists from the University of Georgia, and Atlanta Lawyer, Michael Green -- March 1, 1975, Atlanta]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Balavanta: These are some psychologists, Śrīla Prabhupāda, from the University of Georgia. This is Michael Green(?). He's a lawyer in Atlanta helping us.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So your question was devotee and not devotee, no? You questioned?</p>
<p>Guest (4): I am a Christian, yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no. Your question...</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMay211975Melbourne_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="85" link="Morning Walk -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne|Morning Walk -- May 21, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Madhudviṣa: It also says the demons.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Demons, those who are not devotees. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved daiva āsuras tad-viparyayaḥ. Those who are opposing these Vaiṣṇavas, they are asuras.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithTwoLawyersandGuestMay221975Melbourne_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="88" link="Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne" link_text="Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne|Room Conversation with Two Lawyers and Guest -- May 22, 1975, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: What we consider as good qualities, he has got. And similarly, one who is not a devotee of God, he has no good qualities because he will hover on the mental platform. There are different platform: bodily concept of life, general, "I am this body. Therefore my business is to satisfy the senses."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune231975LosAngeles_3" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="107" link="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Only I request You that You make me an insignificant ant in the house of a devotee." Kīṭa-janma hau jaha das tuṅhara. This is Vaiṣṇava aspiration, that If become an ant under the protection of a Vaiṣṇava, that is also successful. And I don't want to become a Brahmā who is not a devotee." So this Vaiṣṇava philosophy is very accurate. Therefore this life of a Vaiṣṇava begins with surrender, not the challenge. Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ([[Vanisource:BG 18.66 (1972)|BG 18.66]]). That is Vaiṣṇava. Christ also said that "Kingdom of God is for the humble and meek."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune231975LosAngeles_4" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="107" link="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles|Morning Walk -- June 23, 1975, Los Angeles]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. Tumi, "You are." Who is that tumi? That he does not know.</p>
<p>Indian guest: Well, I respect him as a person or whatever, but he is not a devotee, and it is a rare occasion to hear a pure devotee.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But our principle is who is not a devotee, he is not respectable.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJuly41975Chicago_5" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="123" link="Morning Walk -- July 4, 1975, Chicago" link_text="Morning Walk -- July 4, 1975, Chicago">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- July 4, 1975, Chicago|Morning Walk -- July 4, 1975, Chicago]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Again foolishness. That irritates me. When they speak like that, rascal, that irritates me. (laughter) Therefore I simply call them rascal. (break) Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇaḥ. They are claiming very, very, big man, but as soon as we see that he is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, we reject, "He is a foolish." (break) There is...</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithwriterSandyNixonJuly131975Philadelphia_6" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="141" link="Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia" link_text="Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia|Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jayatīrtha: ...so many other persons who are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa and who are not friends of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore, what do they know about Bhagavad-gītā? Just like the court can only define what is actual accordance to the law and what isn't, so similarly, there has to be an authorized person.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Suppose you have written some letter to somebody, and he cannot understand. So if he consults somebody, that "What he has written?" Then that man must be your confidential person, who can understand your language.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithwriterSandyNixonJuly131975Philadelphia_7" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="141" link="Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia" link_text="Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia|Room Conversation with writer, Sandy Nixon -- July 13, 1975, Philadelphia]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Father: That's the reason for a lot of confusion.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They must create confusion because he is a foolish man. He is interpreting on the words of God. He is not a devotee. He has got other purposes as a politician or something else. So he wants to push on his views through Bhagavad-gītā. That is a cheating process. If he wants to speak something, he can write separate book.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkOctober191975Johannesburg_8" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="220" link="Morning Walk -- October 19, 1975, Johannesburg" link_text="Morning Walk -- October 19, 1975, Johannesburg">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 19, 1975, Johannesburg|Morning Walk -- October 19, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: No one has ever considered such things before.</p>
<p>Prahupada: No..., where is the man? All animals. Man will think. One with knowledge, he will think. And what the animal will think? Anyone who is not a devotee, he is animal. Śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 2.3.19|SB 2.3.19]]). The big animal is being worshiped by a small animal. That's all.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkOctober201975Johannesburg_9" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="221" link="Morning Walk -- October 20, 1975, Johannesburg" link_text="Morning Walk -- October 20, 1975, Johannesburg">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- October 20, 1975, Johannesburg|Morning Walk -- October 20, 1975, Johannesburg]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: A devotee does not seek anything except service of Kṛṣṇa. He does not seek anything separate. He simply wants to serve Kṛṣṇa. That's all. Anyābhilāṣita śūnyam (Brs. 1.1.11). Making zero all other desires, that, he is devotee. If he is going to Kṛṣṇa for some happiness, he is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkNovember21975Nairobi_10" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="231" link="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi" link_text="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi|Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Then that is a rascal. He is not a devotee. He is a rascal, when a devotee says... How you become devoted? If he does not like the temple and he thinks to be happy outside, what is he? What kind of devotee he is? He is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkNovember21975Nairobi_11" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="231" link="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi" link_text="Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi|Morning Walk -- November 2, 1975, Nairobi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man (4): So he'll go first to make...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He should always consider, "There is woman, that's all. She is my mother." That's all. Matṛvāt para-dareṣu. Then what is the...? Suppose you sit down with your mother and chant. What is the wrong? But he is not so strong; then he should go to the forest. Why he should live in the Nairobi city? On the street there are so many women. He will walk on the street closing the eyes? (laughter) This is all rascaldom. They are rascals. They are not devotees, simply rascals.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkNovember41975Bombay_12" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="233" link="Morning Walk -- November 4, 1975, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- November 4, 1975, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- November 4, 1975, Bombay|Morning Walk -- November 4, 1975, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: All these sādhus: satyam, śaucam, abhaya, śānti, and all these things...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But sādhu... They are sādhu because they are Kṛṣṇa conscious. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.30 (1972)|BG 9.30]]). Api cet sudurācaraḥ. Their case is different. But others, they are all asādha, asādhu. Kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāh. A man may be materially, academically very advanced, but Bhāgavata says, kuto mahad-guṇāh. Because he is not devotee, harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāh. "Why? They have got so many qualifications; still, they are not great personality?" No. "Why?" Mano-rathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ: "They will only act on their mental platform, speculate." No fact.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember121975Vrndavana_13" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="259" link="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana|Morning Walk -- December 12, 1975, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Rooster intelligence. This is our proposal. "I don't care for anyone. I am God." Mūrgī logic. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano rathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]), if one is not a devotee, his only business is to remain on the mental platform and concoct things. And at the end he thinks that "I am God." Concoction. Therefore it is said in the śāstra, harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). One who is not a devotee, he has no good qualification. He is simply on the, hovering on the mental platform.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember171975Bombay_14" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="263" link="Morning Walk -- December 17, 1975, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 17, 1975, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 17, 1975, Bombay|Morning Walk -- December 17, 1975, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dr. Patel: It is said that they are not only look at the female dolls, or even...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But that is moral instruction. That is moral instruction. Even if you are not a devotee, you should not think of these things. That is the moral instruction. The brahmacārī, if he thinks of woman, that is also retricted.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkDecember181975Bombay_15" class="quote" parent="1975_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="264" link="Morning Walk -- December 18, 1975, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- December 18, 1975, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- December 18, 1975, Bombay|Morning Walk -- December 18, 1975, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Then the question will be, "Who is nondevotee?" Asat-strī-saṅgī kṛṣṇa bhakta... One who is too much attached to material enjoyment. Strī-saṅgī is the basic point, and one who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he is asat-saṅga. Asat-saṅga-tyāgī..., there are two lines. And the moralist, Cānakya Paṇḍita, he also said, kalau durajana samsagyam bhaja sādhu samārgama. You give up something, you must take something. Otherwise you will not be able to stay.</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="MorningWalkJanuary21976Madras_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="1" link="Morning Walk -- January 2, 1976, Madras" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 2, 1976, Madras">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 2, 1976, Madras|Morning Walk -- January 2, 1976, Madras]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Eh? Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathenāsato dhāvato bahiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). One who is Kṛṣṇa conscious, he has got all the good qualities. Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcana sarvair guṇaiḥ: "All good qualities can be manifest." And harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ: "And one who is not devotee, he has no good qualities." "Why? He is so educated."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary191976Mayapur_1" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="18" link="Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: He was indebted to his guru.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Certainly he must be. Certainly he must be. Because by the mercy, guru takes the compassion that "These are suffering in this material world," he goes door to door and tries to save him. And if one forgets guru and jumps over to serve Kṛṣṇa, he is not a devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJanuary191976Mayapur_2" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="18" link="Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur" link_text="Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- January 19, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Guru-druha.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He is not a devotee. Mad-bhaktya... There is a verse. Kṛṣṇa says that "Worship of My devotee is greater worship than to Me."</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkFebruary41976Mayapura_3" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="24" link="Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 4, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: One should take to preaching work gradually. When the preaching... Preachers, they have got discrimination, "Here is abhakta; here is bhakta." But in the paramahaṁsa stage, uttama-adhikārī, he sees "Everyone is devotee. I am not devotee." That is uttama-adhikārī. Just like Kavirāja Gosvāmī said, purīṣera kīṭa haite muñi se laghiṣṭha ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.205|CC Adi 5.205]]).</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkFebruary61976Mayapura_4" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="26" link="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura" link_text="Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura|Morning Walk -- February 6, 1976, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dayānanda: But what about the persons who may be a little bit devoted but who have not achieved that unalloyed devotion?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kaniṣṭha-adhikārī. They are not devotees, but they are called bhaktābhāsa. There is some signs of bhakti. Actually they are not bhakta. Bhaktābhāsa. Ābhāsa. Ābhāsa means a simple, a little light.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch111976Mayapur_5" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="49" link="Morning Walk -- March 11, 1976, Mayapur" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 11, 1976, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 11, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- March 11, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They do not know how to worship in devotion. Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]). They are thinking, "It is stone, and God is remaining here, stone. He will never speak," because they are not devotee. If you become devotee.... Just like Sākṣī Gopāla. For devotee He went to give witness, "Yes, I'll walk." That is God. And if you are not devotee, how you can expect the stone statue is walking? You have read that Sākṣī Gopāla?</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch141976Mayapur_6" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="52" link="Morning Walk -- March 14, 1976, Mayapur" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 14, 1976, Mayapur">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 14, 1976, Mayapur|Morning Walk -- March 14, 1976, Mayapur]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pañca-draviḍa: "But why do you blame us for not surrendering when we see that even Kṛṣṇa's devotees can't surrender to Him? They come to us and ask us for money for these books. Why don't they give them away?"</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But Kṛṣṇa's devotee.... When he surrenders, he is devotee. When he does not, he is not devotee; he is trying to become devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMarch251976Delhi_7" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="62" link="Morning Walk -- March 25, 1976, Delhi" link_text="Morning Walk -- March 25, 1976, Delhi">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- March 25, 1976, Delhi|Morning Walk -- March 25, 1976, Delhi]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, eiṭa eka kalira chelā, nāke tilaka, galaya mālā:(?) "Here is another follower of Kali. He has got tilaka and mālā." Sahaja bhajana kacen māmu, saṅga laiyā pārera wala (?): "He is worshiping, bhajana, taking another's wife." Sahaja bhajana kacen māmu, saṅga laiyā pārera wala, ei ṭa eka kalira chelā: "Here is a servant of Kali. Simply he has changed his dress with tilaka and mālā." Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says. If you take tilaka and mālā and do all nonsense things, then you are not a devotee. You are Kali-chelā. To become a devotee is not so easy thing.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkApril241976Melbourne_8" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="86" link="Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne|Morning Walk -- April 24, 1976, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee (3): Often the devotee thinks that he's more unhappy than the karmīs because he knows he's unhappy.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then that means he is not a devotee.</p>
<p>Devotee (3): He's not a devotee.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. He's not devotee. Devotee means the first sign will be happy, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā ([[Vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). If he's not prasannātmā, he's a rascal. He has not entered even devotional life. He's outside. That is the test. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkMay31976Fiji_9" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="93" link="Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji" link_text="Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji|Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He doesn't want even promotion. That is also mentioned now: dīyamānaṁ na gṛhṇanti. Dīyamānam, even Kṛṣṇa says, "Come immediately to Vaikuṇṭha," "Sir, that is for..." Just like Prahlāda Mahārāja. Prahlāda Mahārāja was offered, "Whatever you like, you take." "Sir, do not make me a bāniyā (indistinct)." (break) But if anyone wants in exchange of service, then he's not a devotee, he's a bāniyā (merchant).</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune141976Detroit_10" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="135" link="Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit|Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Makhanlāl: In the Sixth Canto of the Bhāgavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally. Is it possible for a devotee...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Why you take advantage of chants one only? Why not sixteen? Opportunist. (laughter) Not devotee.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune141976Detroit_11" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="135" link="Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit|Morning Walk -- June 14, 1976, Detroit]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This material calculation is not made by a devotee. When one is devotee, he'll chant more and more. He'll aspire, "If I could get millions of tongues and trillions of ear, then I could finish. That is devotee. And one is thinking how to finish it by chanting once, he's not devotee. That is neophyte stage. Therefore the regulation is you must chant sixteen rounds at least.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJune171976Toronto_12" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="146" link="Room Conversation -- June 17, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Room Conversation -- June 17, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- June 17, 1976, Toronto|Room Conversation -- June 17, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagadīśa: They don't even know..., they don't even know that the Deity is nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Similar proposal was there in Montreal. Then it will become a business. They are not devotees. They have no good place to perform the marriage, they come here.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkConversationJune201976Toronto_13" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="151" link="Morning Walk Conversation -- June 20, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Morning Walk Conversation -- June 20, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk Conversation -- June 20, 1976, Toronto|Morning Walk Conversation -- June 20, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Because they are not devotee. Paśyanti jñāna-cakṣuṣā. Mām ebhyaḥ param, mūḍhā nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ parama-avyayam. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ. Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ. They have no knowledge.</p>
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<div id="ConversationinAirportandCarJune211976Toronto_14" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="152" link="Conversation in Airport and Car -- June 21, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Conversation in Airport and Car -- June 21, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation in Airport and Car -- June 21, 1976, Toronto|Conversation in Airport and Car -- June 21, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. Prabhupāda?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sounded like it.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Sounded like it. I don't think it could have been though. Not a devotee.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Child is...</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune211976Toronto_15" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="153" link="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto|Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That's all right, he's on the line of goodness. But those who are not chanting, they're all bad. Do you understand it or not? Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. One who is not a devotee of God, he has no good qualification.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune211976Toronto_16" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="153" link="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto|Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: But those who are not devotees, there is no truthfulness at all. Here he has begun truthfulness. But one who is not a devotee, he has no question of truthfulness. He's simply concocting in the mind. Manorathena. And because he's on the mental platform, he'll do all bad things.</p>
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<div id="MorningWalkJune211976Toronto_17" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="153" link="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto" link_text="Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto|Morning Walk -- June 21, 1976, Toronto]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: He is not devotee. He's pretending to be devotee. One who is devotee never falls down. There are so many false devotees. He falls down.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationJune271976NewVrindaban_18" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="166" link="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban|Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">That is Vaiṣṇava. Do not mix with all rascals, asat. Now how shall I know who is rascal and who is not a (rascal)? Asat eka 'strī-saṅgī—-eka asādhu, kṛṣṇa-bhakta āra. One who is too much attached with woman, he is rascal. Another rascal, who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That's all. So we have got everything test tube. Put the test tube and you understand. If one is strī-saṅgī... Strī-saṅgī means not only the man, the man or woman, one who are very much sexually attached, he is a rascal. One should give up his company. And another rascal who is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That's all, finished.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationJune271976NewVrindaban_19" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="166" link="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban|Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dhrstadyumna: One can free himself from envy by serving. You serve the devotees and follow the instruction of the spiritual master. In this way the mind becomes your best friend.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: A devotee is never envious of another devotee. He is not a devotee. Tad-adhīneṣu maitrī. One who is devotee, we have to make friendship with them.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationJune271976NewVrindaban_20" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="166" link="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban" link_text="Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban|Garden Conversation -- June 27, 1976, New Vrindaban]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is the test. Mūḍha. Immediately take: a mūḍha. Let the mūḍhas speak all nonsense. Why should we waste our time? This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. As soon as we find somebody not Kṛṣṇa conscious, not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, we take, reject, he's a rascal, that's all. And he is rascal. Not only blindly we are rejecting, but with reason.</p>
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<div id="AnswerstoaQuestionnairefromBhavansJournalJune281976Vrndavana_21" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="169" link="Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana|Answers to a Questionnaire from Bhavan's Journal -- June 28, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: If one has got unflinching faith and devotion to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ. All good qualities will develop automatically. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad guṇā. If he's not a devotee, he will hover over the mental concoction. Manorathenāsati dhāvato bahiḥ ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5.18.12]]). Then he'll remain in the material platform. Never mind he's a Sanskrit scholar or this or that.</p>
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<div id="ConversationwithProfSaligramandDrSuklaJuly51976WashingtonDC_22" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="186" link="Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Conversation with Prof. Saligram and Dr. Sukla -- July 5, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, that asat-saṅga tyāga vaiṣṇava ācāra. The Vaiṣṇava's behavior is to give up bad company. Who is bad? Next question will be that "I have to give up the bad company. Who is bad?" Then He says, next line: asat stri saṅgī 'kṛṣṇabhakta' āra. Two words. Those who are too much attached to woman and those who are not devotees of Kṛṣṇa, they are bad. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu says give up the company of these two bad men, that's all. That is Vaiṣṇava.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJuly61976WashingtonDC_23" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="189" link="Room Conversation -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C." link_text="Room Conversation -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.|Room Conversation -- July 6, 1976, Washington, D.C.]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: They cannot. As soon as anything goes to state especially in India, goes to the government track(?), it is spoiled. Government means all thieves and rogues. How they'll manage? They'll simply swallow whatever they get. Government means... They cannot manage, they are not devotees. It should be in the hands of the devotees. So (indistinct), the paid man, they want some money, that's all. How they can manage temple? It is impossible.</p>
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<div id="ConversationAfterInterviewwithReligiousEditorAssociatedPressJuly161976NewYork_24" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="215" link="Conversation After Interview with Religious Editor, Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York" link_text="Conversation After Interview with Religious Editor, Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation After Interview with Religious Editor, Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York|Conversation After Interview with Religious Editor, Associated Press -- July 16, 1976, New York]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: One is sufficient. Varam eka. Varaṁ guṇī-putra, he must be qualified. And who is guṇī, who is a devotee and learned scholar. Ko'ta putreṇa jātena, yo na vidyā na bhaktimān(?). What is the use of such rascal child if he's not a devotee, neither learned? Khanena cakṣuṣā kiṁ cakṣuḥ pīḍaiva kevalam.(?) What is the use of blind eyes? It is simply troublesome.</p>
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<div id="EveningDarsanAugust101976Tehran_25" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="253" link="Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran" link_text="Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran|Evening Darsan -- August 10, 1976, Tehran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Atreya Ṛṣi: Yes, but he was cheating himself. He was sincere, but he was completely misguided, Śrīla Prabhupāda, it seems from that article.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Harāv abhakta. Our formula is harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad guṇāḥ. If one is not devotee, he has no good qualities.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust111976Tehran_26" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="255" link="Room Conversation -- August 11, 1976, Tehran" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 11, 1976, Tehran">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 11, 1976, Tehran|Room Conversation -- August 11, 1976, Tehran]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: The Viṣṇu-bhaktaḥ bhaved daivaḥ.(?) Those who are devotees of the Lord, they are daiva. And asura (Sanskrit). And those who are not devotees, they are just the opposite number, they are asura. So asura class will always (coughs) say like that. And there is always fight between the two, even in higher planetary systems.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust161976Bombay_27" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="269" link="Room Conversation -- August 16, 1976, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 16, 1976, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 16, 1976, Bombay|Room Conversation -- August 16, 1976, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: There are some devotees who always want...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: They are not devotees. Rascals. Don't say "some devotees."</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationAugust251976Hyderabad_28" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="285" link="Room Conversation -- August 25, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Room Conversation -- August 25, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- August 25, 1976, Hyderabad|Room Conversation -- August 25, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Indian man: That is body. How long you are going to do that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So long you are not a devotee.</p>
<p>Indian man: I mean even if I am a devotee, I go on doing some sins...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You become devotee, then immediately transfer to the nitya-yuktā upāsate.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationSeptember51976Vrndavana_29" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="296" link="Room Conversation -- September 5, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation -- September 5, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- September 5, 1976, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- September 5, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That is a fact, but provided he is devotee. If he's not a devotee then he will go away, here and there, here and there. That is the habit. And a devotee is satisfied anywhere. A devotee is not that "I'll go to Vṛndāvana, then I'll be satisfied." Nārāyaṇa-parāḥ sarve na kutaścana bibhyati ([[Vanisource:SB 6.17.28|SB 6.17.28]]). I did not go to your country taking Vṛndāvana with me.</p>
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<div id="GardenConversationSeptember61976Vrndavana_30" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="298" link="Garden Conversation -- September 6, 1976, Vrndavana" link_text="Garden Conversation -- September 6, 1976, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Garden Conversation -- September 6, 1976, Vrndavana|Garden Conversation -- September 6, 1976, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: No. Not prasādam. I never said. No, those who want to eat... Fasting... One who has not developed Kṛṣṇa consciousness, for him fasting. And one who takes pleasure, "Oh, it is Kṛṣṇa's pleasure, or Kṛṣṇa's food. I'll take." This is the idea. So we are not devotees, therefore we should first fast. And those who are devotees, they'll take as much as they like. I was telling fasting because I am not a devotee. (laughs) For me fasting is good.</p>
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<div id="PressConferenceDecember161976Hyderabad_31" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="347" link="Press Conference -- December 16, 1976, Hyderabad" link_text="Press Conference -- December 16, 1976, Hyderabad">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Press Conference -- December 16, 1976, Hyderabad|Press Conference -- December 16, 1976, Hyderabad]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (5): But he's not sending funds, the god, planning commissioner.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Because he is not devotee. How He'll send? You feed your son, not the outsider.</p>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary71977Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="14" link="Room Conversation -- January 7, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 7, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 7, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation -- January 7, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). Bas, finished analysis. As soon as we see that he is not a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he must be a rogue. That's all. Duṣkṛtina, sinful. That's all.</p>
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<div id="EveningConversationJanuary251977Puri_1" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="54" link="Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri" link_text="Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri|Evening Conversation -- January 25, 1977, Puri]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Gargamuni: Even in India they do. They say, "Rāma, He was better."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But what do you know about Rāma and Kṛṣṇa? You do not know anything. You are not a devotee. You have to learn the science. Manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣu kaścid yatati ([[Vanisource:BG 7.3 (1972)|BG 7.3]]). You are ordinary man. You cannot understand.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary281977Bhuvanesvara_2" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="61" link="Room Conversation -- January 28, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 28, 1977, Bhuvanesvara">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 28, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 28, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">One who has more than one strī, he's sat." They have interpreted like that. Asat eka strī-saṅgī. Kṛṣṇa mean... Number one asat is strī-saṅgī, and number two asat is who is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa. That is the meaning. But they have taken, eka strī-saṅgī: "One who keeps only one woman, he's asat. One who keeps more than one woman, he is sat. So we are keeping more than one woman." This is going on.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary311977Bhuvanesvara_3" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="70" link="Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Satsvarūpa: Well, I think it's to consult with you on the principle that they're not devotees...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I know that they made some books already. Why they are being rejected? Then again you make, and again rejecting. That is unnecessary.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationJanuary311977Bhuvanesvara_4" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="70" link="Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (Hindi) ...asat-saṅga-tyāga ei vaiṣṇava-ācāra ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.87|CC Madhya 22.87]]). You must give up the association of bad elements. And who is bad element? Asat eka strī-saṅgī kṛṣṇa abhakta āra: One bad element is one who is too much attached to women, and the other bad element is who is not devotee of God. Give up their association.</p>
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<div id="ConversationonRoofFebruary141977Mayapura_5" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="86" link="Conversation on Roof -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Conversation on Roof -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation on Roof -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura|Conversation on Roof -- February 14, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They're trying to find so many things out from our past. They are trying to find any devotees who have left the movement, and they're trying to ask them so many questions to try and find out something that is wrong. Now, one devotee came to us... He's not a devotee anymore, Manasvī.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So this Manasvī came one day to see Ādi-keśa and myself. You may recall in New York he had asked for a letter exonerating him. So you had told me to investigate. So I sent out a letter to three persons. Gurukṛpā Mahārāja and Śrutakīrti and Śukadeva. But none of them could find anything wrong with the accounts.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary161977Mayapura_7" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="88" link="Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Satsvarūpa: Kon vidyā vidyā-madhye sāra, rāya kahe-kṛṣṇa-bhakti vinā vidyā nāhi āra.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Āra. So these things will be accepted by kṛṣṇa-bhakta, etaj jñānam. So whatever Kṛṣṇa has said, that is knowledge, vidyā. Everything nonsense. Therefore so boldly we say, "All rascaldom." Never mind. That's a fact. That is a fact. Anyone... Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. Anyone who is not devotee of Kṛṣṇa, bhagavad-bhakta-useless. Jaḍa-bidyā jato māyāra vaibhava, jībake karaye gādhā. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has said.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary161977Mayapura_8" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="88" link="Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 16, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Utilize your anger for them. Krodha bhakta-dveṣi-jane. That anger is service. Kṛṣṇa-sebā kāmārpaṇe. For Kṛṣṇa's service one should be mad. Kāma-krodha should be given up, but a bhakta does not give up. Utilize it. A bhakta should be very much for kamut(?) serving Kṛṣṇa. And he must utilize his anger for the bhakta-dveṣi, those who are not devotee. Kṛṣṇa-sebā kāmārpaṇe krodha bhakta-dveṣi-jane.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary211977Mayapura_9" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="101" link="Room Conversation -- February 21, 1977, Mayapura" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 21, 1977, Mayapura">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 21, 1977, Mayapura|Room Conversation -- February 21, 1977, Mayapura]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: And asura means tad-viparyaya, just the opposite. So anyone... (break) ...Kṛṣṇa, he's a demon. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved daivaḥ. Daiva means devatā. So there are two classes-daiva asura eva ca: one devatā and one asura. One who is devotee, he is devatā. One who is not devotee, he's asura. That's all, in different names.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationwithRatanSinghRajdaMPNationalismandCheatingApril151977Bombay_10" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="138" link="Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. 'Nationalism and Cheating' -- April 15, 1977, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. 'Nationalism and Cheating' -- April 15, 1977, Bombay">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. 'Nationalism and Cheating' -- April 15, 1977, Bombay|Room Conversation with Ratan Singh Rajda M.P. 'Nationalism and Cheating' -- April 15, 1977, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: If you, if one becomes devotee of the Lord, all good qualities will be there. And harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad... If he's not a devotee... Now so many things, condemnation, is going on, big, big leaders. Today's paper I have seen. "This man, that man, is rejected even." Why? Harāv abhaktasya kuto. What is the benefit of becoming a big leader if he's not a devotee? (Hindi) You are very intelligent, young, and therefore I am trying to give you some idea, and if you can give some shape to these ideas...</p>
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<div id="ConversationHowtoSecureBrahmacarisJune241977Vrndavana_11" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="195" link="Conversation: 'How to Secure Brahmacaris' -- June 24, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Conversation: 'How to Secure Brahmacaris' -- June 24, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Conversation: 'How to Secure Brahmacaris' -- June 24, 1977, Vrndavana|Conversation: 'How to Secure Brahmacaris' -- June 24, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: "Don't waste time by seeing these rascals," I told him. Still thinking of so many poli... I said, "No, don't see. There is no use." If a man is not of character, what... And especially if he's not a devotee... Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇāḥ. There cannot be any good qualities. Immediately he is rejected. Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.15 (1972)|BG 7.15]]). As soon as one is not devotee, we tell him, narādhama. Bas. That's all, finished.</p>
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<div id="TalkAboutVarnasramaSB2115June281977Vrndavana_12" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="199" link="Talk About Varnasrama, S.B. 2.1.1-5 -- June 28, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Talk About Varnasrama, S.B. 2.1.1-5 -- June 28, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Talk About Varnasrama, S.B. 2.1.1-5 -- June 28, 1977, Vrndavana|Talk About Varnasrama, S.B. 2.1.1-5 -- June 28, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: That's it. And if nice children are there in the society, they will become responsible men. Then there will be no disturbance in the society. Everything will go on smoothly. Brāhmaṇa is acting as brāhmaṇa; kṣatriya is acting as... They are both... No quarrel. No animosity. Everyone is cooperating with one another. The whole society becomes peaceful. Family becomes peaceful. The man personally becomes peaceful. Then he will be able to make progress. Kutaḥ śānti ayuktasya. If you are not peaceful, how you can attain? Or if you are not a devotee, you cannot be peaceful.</p>
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<div id="RoomConversationWithSonVrindavanDeJuly51977Vrndavana_13" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="215" link="Room Conversation With Son (Vrindavan De) -- July 5, 1977, Vrndavana" link_text="Room Conversation With Son (Vrindavan De) -- July 5, 1977, Vrndavana">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation With Son (Vrindavan De) -- July 5, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation With Son (Vrindavan De) -- July 5, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: I have now explained how Kṛṣṇa became subordinate to devotee. (turns on dictaphone, plays back from tape:) "Yamarāja, controller of all living entities, is afraid of the order of Kṛṣṇa. Still, Kṛṣṇa is afraid of mother's stick. This contradictory thing cannot be understood by one who is not devotee. Devotee can understand how much powerful is unalloyed devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, so much so He can be controlled by such devotee.</p>
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2>
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<div id="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSardarPatelCalcutta28February1949_0" class="quote" parent="1947_to_1965_Correspondence" book="Let" index="4" link="Letter to Sardar Patel -- Calcutta 28 February, 1949" link_text="Letter to Sardar Patel -- Calcutta 28 February, 1949">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sardar Patel -- Calcutta 28 February, 1949|Letter to Sardar Patel -- Calcutta 28 February, 1949]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the opinion of Srimad-Bhagavatam, one who is imbibed with the devotion of Godhead is also endowed with all the good qualities of the gods. But one who is not a devotee of Godhead, has not any value for his good qualities because he utilizes his so called good qualities for ulterior purposes.</p>
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<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSatsvarupaLosAngeles18November1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="430" link="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968" link_text="Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968|Letter to Satsvarupa -- Los Angeles 18 November, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In short the question is, is it true that the yogi who is travelling to planets and performing siddhis—has never seen Narayana?" The example of Dhruva Maharaja, he was a devotee. The yogis are not devotees. They are more or less after some material perfection. But generally one who sees Narayana, he becomes a devotee.</p>
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<div id="1969_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Correspondence" text="1969 Correspondence"><h3>1969 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoGopalaKrsnaHawaii30March1969_0" class="quote" parent="1969_Correspondence" book="Let" index="217" link="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Hawaii 30 March, 1969" link_text="Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Hawaii 30 March, 1969">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Hawaii 30 March, 1969|Letter to Gopala Krsna -- Hawaii 30 March, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This means they are not being educated; rather they are being degraded. According to the verdict of Srimad-Bhagavatam, if one is not devotee, then he has no good qualifications, and if one is simply devotee, it is to be supposed that he has got all the good qualities.</p>
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<div id="1971_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Correspondence" text="1971 Correspondence"><h3>1971 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoEkayaniLondon31August1971_0" class="quote" parent="1971_Correspondence" book="Let" index="432" link="Letter to Ekayani -- London 31 August, 1971" link_text="Letter to Ekayani -- London 31 August, 1971">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Ekayani -- London 31 August, 1971|Letter to Ekayani -- London 31 August, 1971]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Krishna can expand, so his devotee can also expand; Vallabhacaryas teachings are bona fide. This difference of opinion is there always. Just like you differ with your husband, but that doesn't mean that you and your husband are not devotees;  In the spiritual sky there is no birth, so where is the question of baby? Krishna is there eternally as Kisora, a 16 year old youth. His childhood pastimes exhibited in the material universes.</p>
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<div id="1973_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Correspondence" text="1973 Correspondence"><h3>1973 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoSukadevaCalcutta174March1973_0" class="quote" parent="1973_Correspondence" book="Let" index="86" link="Letter to Sukadeva -- Calcutta 17 4 March, 1973" link_text="Letter to Sukadeva -- Calcutta 17 4 March, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Sukadeva -- Calcutta 17 4 March, 1973|Letter to Sukadeva -- Calcutta 17 4 March, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A pure devotee always thinks himself as not-devotee.  That is a good attitude.  If one thinks he is big devotee that is not good, thinking that he is first degree.  We should not be puffed up, a devotee avoids it, remaining always in the second degree.  A dog is a faithful servant.</p>
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<div id="1974_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Correspondence" text="1974 Correspondence"><h3>1974 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoFredericoLourencoMayapur14October1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="483" link="Letter to Frederico Lourenco -- Mayapur 14 October, 1974" link_text="Letter to Frederico Lourenco -- Mayapur 14 October, 1974">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Frederico Lourenco -- Mayapur 14 October, 1974|Letter to Frederico Lourenco -- Mayapur 14 October, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Please accept my best wishes. I am in due receipt of your letter dated nil with enclosed drawings, and I thank you very much. Regarding prasadam, Krishna does not accept any foodstuff offered by a person who is not a devotee. In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated: patram puspam phalam toyam/yo me bhaktya prayacchati ([[Vanisource:BG 9.26 (1972)|BG 9.26]]). So the importance is stressed on the bhakti, the devotion.</p>
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<div id="1975_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Correspondence" text="1975 Correspondence"><h3>1975 Correspondence</h3>
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<div id="LettertoMrdapriyaPhiladelphia12July1975_0" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="402" link="Letter to Mrdapriya -- Philadelphia 12 July, 1975" link_text="Letter to Mrdapriya -- Philadelphia 12 July, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mrdapriya -- Philadelphia 12 July, 1975|Letter to Mrdapriya -- Philadelphia 12 July, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You should not feel that it is impossible for you to surrender to Krsna or that you are not a devotee. You are already a devotee, that is clear from your statements. Of course an advanced devotee feels sometimes hopelessness, just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu prayed: "O my Lord out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You by Your Holy Names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them."</p>
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<div id="LettertoGirirajaPhiladelphia14July1975_1" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="409" link="Letter to Giriraja -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975" link_text="Letter to Giriraja -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Giriraja -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975|Letter to Giriraja -- Philadelphia 14 July, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Take sanction and make plans for these buildings. If the tenants become devotees and follow our principles, arising early like the others, then we can forgo their rent, but no nonsense concessions of sitting room. This is all rubbish things. So make plans for all vacant lands for buildings. We actually do not want anyone to live there who is not a devotee. Note this policy and do the needful.</p>
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<div id="LettertoMadhudvisaDetroit4August1975_2" class="quote" parent="1975_Correspondence" book="Let" index="448" link="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Detroit 4 August, 1975" link_text="Letter to Madhudvisa -- Detroit 4 August, 1975">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Madhudvisa -- Detroit 4 August, 1975|Letter to Madhudvisa -- Detroit 4 August, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I have written Mr. Punja to lease the land to us in the name of ISKCON for 99 years. Yes, it is all right for you to observe Caturmasya if you can manage in the mornings. The Deities should be offered the regular prasada. The Deities are not devotees. They are Lords. But, it is a fact that Lord Caitanya observed, as we find in Caitanya Caritamrta, but it is not necessary for Them to follow there in your temple.</p>
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