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Arr LA 1974-07-08 Education, Culture, Happiness, Satisfaction
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ANNOUNCER: The following
is an arrival address,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on July 8th,
1974, in Los Angeles.
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PRABHUPĀDA: Thank you very
much for your kind reception.
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It is necessary.
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sākṣād-dharitvena samasta-śāstrair
uktas tathā bhāvyata eva sadbhiḥ
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kintu prabhor yaḥ priya eva tasya
vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam
[Śrīla Visvanātha Cakravāti Ṭhakūr]
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This is the process, Vedic process,
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to receive the transcendental knowledge
through the paramparā system,
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and the reception or honor given to
the spiritual master: it goes to Kṛṣṇa.
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Spiritual master is
the official collect[or].
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Just like in government
there is collector.
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He receives the money,
taxes, from the citizens,
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not for his personal use
but for the government.
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Similarly, this is the Vedic system,
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to receive knowledge through
the transparent medium, guru,
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and to receive…
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Guru means the
honor goes to Kṛṣṇa.
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So, this is necessary.
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This is not an artificial thing,
but spiritually it is necessary.
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Therefore we hold Vyāsa-pūjā day.
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So, I am very glad to see
that you are maintaining
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the temple standard as
good as I saw when I left.
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That is my satisfaction.
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And keep this, I mean to say,
situation, atmosphere, always,
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and follow the regulative
principles; chant sixteen rounds.
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You’ll remain always happy, because
although we are in Los Angeles,
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we have nothing to do with the
material atmosphere of Los Angeles.
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Therefore a devotee who lives with
Kṛṣṇa or in Kṛṣṇa consciousness:
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he does not live in
the material world.
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He always live[s] in
the spiritual world.
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That is confirmed in
the Bhagavad-gītā.
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māṁ cāvyabhicāriṇi-
bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate
[Bg. 14.26]
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“Anyone who [is] engaged
in bhakti-yoga with Kṛṣṇa.”
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sa guṇān samatītyaitān
brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
[Bg. 14.26]
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“Such [a] person is always above
these material modes of nature.”
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Our difficulty or miserable
condition of life is due to be…
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being under the
material laws of nature.
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So, it is very simple method.
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And you are all intelligent boys
and girls in the Western country.
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And I am very, happy that
you have taken it seriously.
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And continue this.
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You’ll never be unhappy.
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And not only here but
also, as Kṛṣṇa said,
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man-manā bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
[Bg. 18.65]
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If you simply practice
these four principle[s]:
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always think of Kṛṣṇa, man-manā,
or become Kṛṣṇa’s devotees,
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and offer Kṛṣṇa obeisances
and worship Kṛṣṇa; these four.
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We are teaching these four
principle in the temple:
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how to worship Kṛṣṇa,
how to serve Kṛṣṇa,
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how to become Kṛṣṇa’s devotee,
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and how to think of
Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours.
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And if we do this,
there is guarantee.
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Kṛṣṇa says, mām eva
eṣyasi asaṁśaya [?].
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“Without any doubt,
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you’ll come to Me;” you’ll go
back to home, back to Godhead.
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So do not be slackened.
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And it is not difficult.
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su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
[Bg. 9.2]
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This devotional service is so nice.
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It is… To execute the devotional
[service] is also very pleasing.
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su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
[Bg. 9.2]
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And whatever you do, that
is your permanent asset.
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It will never be lost.
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In the material world, suppose
you have got some money.
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So that is not permanent.
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But anything, material possession,
that is not permanent.
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Especially after death, everything
is finished: another new chapter.
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That we do not know.
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But devotional service:
it is guaranteed.
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It is permanent asset, even
you cannot finish in this life.
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But that does not mean
you should be neglectful.
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Try to finish the completely to
become Kṛṣṇa conscious in this life.
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Do not keep in abeyance.
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That is not intelligent.
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But even if it is not finished, then the
next life a human life is guaranteed.
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And you begin again
where it ended.
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These are the sastric…
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So, execute this devotional
service very sincerely, seriously.
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Even there is [a] little
inconvenience, tolerate it.
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There is no inconvenience.
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But if you think it is inconvenience…
That is our mental concoction…
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Still, you should not be neglectful in
the discharging your duties as devo…
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in devotional service.
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So those who are
engaged in Deity worship,
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those who are engaged
in [the] saṅkīrtana party,
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those who are engaged
in distributing books,
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those who are engaged in the
office for keeping [the] accounts…
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And all of them in
devotional service.
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Not a single moment waste[d].
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kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
[Cc. Ādi 17.31]
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And whenever you have
got time, read books.
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Now we have got
volumes of books.
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Again we have got another
five volumes of books.
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All are now
immediately published.
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So you have got enough to study.
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And those who are gṛhasthas, children,
we have got our Dallas [school].
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As soon as the children is fit, three
to four years, can send to Dallas.
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They are taking very much care.
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And if your children are educated
[in] Sanskrit and English,
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and reads all our books, he is
more than any university MA/PhD.
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More than.
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The MA/PhD of the ordinary university
will not be able to be compared with that.
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So rest assured that education,
culture, happiness, satisfaction,
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and next, go to home, back
to home, back to Godhead.
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- Thank you very much.
DEVOTEES: Haribol! Jaya!
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