MW DET 1975-08-06 Krishna and Christ-Father & Son
ANNOUNCER: Next is a morning walk conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on August 6th, 1975 in Detroit, Michigan.
MĀDHAVĀNANDA: It’s our duty in society to show everyone how to work for Kṛṣṇa
and become happy in life.
PRABHUPĀDA: That is yajña.
To work for Kṛṣṇa means yajña. Yajñarthe karma:
For yajña, performing yajña, one has to work.
To work for Kṛṣṇa means yajña.
That is performance of yajña.
[break] …Communistic idea is borrowing this idea from…
But because they are imperfect, they have made [the] center [the] state.
Because it is imperfect, it is not successful.
They have made [the] center the state.
[break] [Tamo]-guṇa means laziness and sleep.
The śūdras, they are in laziness and sleep.
So if they have got something to eat, they will not work.
Laziness.
Or eat more and sleep.
This is tamo-guṇa.
And rajo-guṇa means they are working for sense gratification.
That is also useless.
Tamo-guṇa is laziness and sleeping,
and rajo-guṇa means working foolishly or for sense gratification.
And sattva-guṇa means they know how to work.
And therefore above this sattva-guṇa they become devotee, work for Kṛṣṇa.
So without working for Kṛṣṇa,
everyone is under the spell of these modes of material nature.
And there is no training how to work for Kṛṣṇa.
That is the defect of modern civilization.
ĀDI-KEŚAVA: Sometimes people criticize us,
saying we are teaching everyone how to do nothing,
that we are teaching them about God,
but how are we going to teach anyone to practically survive in the world?
Sometimes they say like that,
that we don’t have any practical instruction as well.
- Practical? - Yes.
What is not practical?
We are not eating? We are not sleeping?
They are saying,
“Oh, when will you learn to do a trade, or when will you learn to perform business,
or when will you learn to become a doctor,
if you are always studying [indistinct].”
But you are doctor already; why shall I become doctor? You serve me.
We serve you by giving you Kṛṣṇa consciousness; you serve me as a doctor.
What is the wrong there?
Parasparārtham.
I am for you; you are for me.
Division of labor; That is accepted universally.
So ask them, “Do you think that everyone should become doctor?
Then where is the patient?”
Eh?
Everything is required.
Similarly, you require our help also.
It is cooperation.
You know medical science; we know spiritual science.
So, let us exchange and be happy.
Why you are envious of us?
Why there is division in the body—head, arms, legs, belly?
Why not everything head or everything leg?
Why [is there division]?
That is nature; it is required.
Why this road is neglected?
Mismanagement.
Even they are saying that, that we don’t know how to…
- We’re not teaching anything practical. - Huh?
Even sometimes they are saying we’re not teaching anything practical.
What does he mean by practical?
Practical?
They’re thinking
- we don’t know how to operate in the material world. - Huh?
They’re thinking we don’t know how to manage things.
We are not managing things?
Hmm? Brahmānanda?
- You are not managing? BRAHMĀNANDA: We manage all day long.
Even my father is a big businessman.
He said to me, “Who is this person that taught you to manage like this?”
He said, “I wish I could get him to teach all my men.”
So why don’t you [ask your] father to join for management? Eh?
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