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RC HYD 1975-04-12 Sannyasa Mentality
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ANNOUNCER: The
following is a conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 12th of April,
1975, in Hyderabad, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: …any
language, you should submit,
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and you should feel that,
that “I am worthless.
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My Guru Mahārāja has given
this chance to serve Kṛṣṇa.
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I am worthless; I have
no capacity to serve You.
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Please do not take any offense.
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Accept whatever I can do; that’s…
that is my request; that’s it.”
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That mantra is sufficient.
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Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā:
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yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
[Bg. 9.26]
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Kṛṣṇa never said that “One who
offers Me with Sanskrit mantra.”
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yo me bhaktyā prayacchati
[Bg. 9.26]
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Real thing is bhakti, feeling:
“How to serve Kṛṣṇa?
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How to please Him?”
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That is wanted.
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Not to see that you are a very good scholar
in speaking in Sanskrit or English or…
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That is not… Always feel
that “I am worthless,
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but I have been, by the grace of my Guru
Mahārāja, I have been given the chance.
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So kindly accept whatever
little service I can give.
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I am offensive.
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So kindly excuse me.”
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In this way be humble, meek, and offer
your feeling, and Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied.
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Not that you have to show how
you can speak in Sanskrit language.
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GUEST (1) : Another śloka: tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api…
- Yes.
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GUEST (1): …sahiṣṇunā amāninā mānadena
kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc. Ādi 17.31].
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anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ
kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ
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sa sannyāsī…
[Bg. 6.1]
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Anāśritaḥ kar… Everyone is expecting some
good result for his sense gratification.
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That is āśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ.
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He has taken the
shelter of good result.
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But one who does not take shelter of
the result of activities… It is my duty.
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Karyam.
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Karyam means “It is my duty.
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Doesn’t matter what is the result.
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I must do it sincerely
to my best capacity.
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Then I don’t care for the result.
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Result is in Kṛṣṇa’s hand.”
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Karyam: “It is my duty.
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My Guru Mahārāja
said it, so it is my duty.
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It doesn’t matter whether it is
successful or not successful.
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That depends on Kṛṣṇa.”
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In this way, anyone, if he
works, then he is a sannyāsī.
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Not the dress, but the
attitude of working.
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That is sannyāsa.
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Karyam: “It is my duty.”
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sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca
[Bg. 6.1]
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He is yogi, first-class yogi.
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Just like Arjuna.
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Arjuna officially, he
did not take sannyāsa.
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He was a gṛhastha, soldier.
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But when he took it very seriously—
karyam: “Kṛṣṇa wants this fight.
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Never mind I have
to kill my relatives.
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I must do it;” that is sannyāsa.
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First of all he argued with Kṛṣṇa that
“This kind of fighting is not good:
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family killing,” and so on,
so on, so on; he argued.
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But after hearing Bhagavad-gītā, when
he understood that “It is my duty.
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Kṛṣṇa wants me to do it.”
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Karyam.
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So in spite of his becoming a
householder, a soldier, he’s a sannyāsī.
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He took it—karyam.
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Karyam means “It is my duty.”
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That is real sannyāsa.
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“Kṛṣṇa wants that this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement must be spread.
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So this is my karyam.
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This is my duty.
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And the direction is
my spiritual master.
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So I must do it.”
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This is sannyāsa.
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This is sannyāsa.
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Sannyāsa mentality.
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But there is formality.
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That should… That
may be accepted.
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GUEST (3) : That has got some psychological effect.
- Ah.
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In India especially, people like.
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Sannyāsī must preach.
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Otherwise, the formula of sannyāsa is
given—karyam: “But this is my only duty.
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That’s all.
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Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement should be pushed.
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This is my only
duty.” He’s sannyāsī.
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Because Kṛṣṇa personally
comes, He demands:
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sarva-dharmān parityaja
mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ…
[Bg. 18.66]
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And Caitanya Mahāprabhu—
Kṛṣṇa: He says:
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yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei ‘guru’
[Cc. Madhya 8.128]
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“Anyone who knows the
science of Kṛṣṇa; he’s guru.”
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And what is the guru’s business?
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yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
[Cc. Madhya 7.128]
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“Whomever you meet,
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you just try to impress upon him
about the instruction of Kṛṣṇa.”
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sarva-dharmān parityaja…
[Bg. 18.66]
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So in this way, if we take
it up, very seriously—
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“This is my duty”—then
you are a [indistinct].
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Sa sannyāsī; Kṛṣṇa
certifies: sa sannyāsī.
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People are not taking seriously
about Kṛṣṇa’s teaching.
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That is India’s misfortune.
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They’re bringing in so
many competition of Kṛṣṇa.
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Is Kṛṣṇa… And “Kṛṣṇa…
Rāmakrishna is as good as Kṛṣṇa.”
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This rascaldom has killed.
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They have done the
greatest disservice.
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Instead of Kṛṣṇa, they have
brought one rascal: Ramakrishna.
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BHĀGAVATA: They have big maṭha in Bhubhanesvara.
- Huh?
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In Bhubhanesvara, they have
big Ramakrishna maṭha.
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Vivekananda School, library, so much
land, everything, very organized.
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So we can do that.
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You have to convince people.
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There is no question of making
competition with them.
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But you… You can preach your
own philosophy anywhere.
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GUEST (3): With that happening
with the people in Orissa…
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Hm?
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…try to convince them: No, that is
false and this is the way [indistinct].
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No, their Ramakrishna Mission allurement
is that daridra-nārāyaṇa-seva and hospital.
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That is their only allurement.
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They have no program.
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Nobody is attracted
by their philosophy.
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And what philosophy
they have got?
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Never mind; we are not
concerned with them.
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Jaya.
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Ahh.
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This Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
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Bring it here.
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Very good.
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Kṛṣṇa is…
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- Get some rope.
- OK; OK.
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Hmm.
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