RC MAY 1975-03-23 Bhaktivinode Predicted Someone
ANNOUNCER: The following is a conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 23rd of March, 1975, in Māyāpur, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: …offering his blessings upon you.
You are fulfilling his mission.
He wanted the European, American should come here.
It is all Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s blessing.
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
So there is no scarcity of space for keeping all the devotees?
BHAVĀNANDA: Everyone is… Everyone is situated in rooms.
JAYAPATĀKĀ: Without these dwelling…, wall dwellings,
there would have been no hope.
Therefore I said, [laughter] “You must complete,
and whatever amount required, I shall pay.”
That I could analyze. [break]
…you Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Only by your mercy you have brought us to this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement.
Yes.
I am simply messenger.
Mercy is of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Before your coming they predicted, that “Somebody will bring.”
Maybe that somebody I am. [chuckles]
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura predicted. So anyway, Kṛṣṇa has given us nice place.
Stay here.
So you producing food grains?
Oh, yes. Sufficient?
What about the fruit garden?
Fruit garden, there is a…
Many banana trees are producing their bananas, some pomegranate…
You are getting banana, both unripe and ripe.
Now they are all unripe. But they’ll be ripe, pakka.
No, there is a class…
Right, the kacha kola we have…, getting very small.
We have mostly the ripe bananas. [splice] [break]
One who is sincerely engaged in the service of the Lord,
He gives him intelligence, “Now do this, do this.”
Simply we have to become sincere servant; then all dictation will come from within.
Kṛṣṇa is there is everyone’s heart.
So work sincerely and everything will make progress.
Who has painted this picture?
ACYUTĀNANDA: Puṣkara.
Ohh.
Very nice. [splice]
Now make sublime management. [laughter]
That is required now. We are now extended.
We must manage very nicely.
Of course, management means sincere service.
Then everything will be all right.
Still, we have to deal with the material world.
We have to become little proper. [splice]
Everything you plan is perfect.
No. I imagine. Kṛṣṇa makes it perfect.
I think, “It would have been nice if it would have been like this,”
but Kṛṣṇa… Ye prasāde pūre sarva āśā [Śrī Guru-vandanā].
Long, long ago, when I was publishing Back to Godhead, one sheet,
I was thinking that “What is this sheet?
If it would have been like Illustrated Weekly, then it would have been nice.”
Now they are coming like that.
Now Illustrated Weekly is nothing compared to Back to Godhead. No. [laughs]
Better than Illustrated Weekly.
I thought of getting some help from artist.
For painting picture, I will dictate, and they will paint picture.
Now Kṛṣṇa has got lots of artists.
So depend on Kṛṣṇa.
He can do everything. [splice]
Because he is Arjuna, devotee, he simply understood, “Yes.
Whatever You say, correct.
The demons or even the gods, they cannot understand.”
Why Arjuna understood?
That he has explained in the eighteenth chapter.
Naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtiṁ labdhā tvat-prasādād madhusūdana [?].
TRIVIKRAMA: Is he never envious?
Huh? [pause] [break]
PARAMAHAṀSA: “Arjuna said, My dear Kṛṣṇa,
O infallible one, my illusion is now gone.
I have regained my memory by Your mercy,
and I am now firm
and free from doubt and prepared to act according to Your instructions.” That’s it.
He understood that “Kṛṣṇa is divine.
So whatever He says, that is my duty to do, not to judge Him on my platform.”
That is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
One who does not take Kṛṣṇa
in the same platform as one is but accepts Kṛṣṇa’s personality,
then he can understand.
Otherwise how one can accept it
that a person has expanded many millions of universes like this?
Immediately they will they will take as mythology.
Because he’s thinking on terms of his capacity, not as Kṛṣṇa says.
Therefore nobody could understand Kṛṣṇa.
We took the simple method: accept Kṛṣṇa as He says. That’s all. Finished.
That is the main business.
Our philosophy is simple because we take it, Kṛṣṇa’s word, as it is, that’s all.
And we believe it firmly: “Yes, this is the truth.”
To understand Kṛṣṇa is not difficult.
What Kṛṣṇa says, you accept it.
Sarvam etam ṛtaṁ manye yad vadasi keśava [Bg. 10.14].
“Whatever You say, I accept it.
Not only I accept it blindly,
but this very thing was accepted by such great personality as Vyāsadeva.”
[aside:] Anyone who wants to come…
Simple thing. Big, big ācāryas, they accepted Kṛṣṇa as He is.
And why shall I not accept?
This is paramparā system.
If others have accepted Kṛṣṇa as He tells,
and they have become big, big ācāryas, so what objection can be there from my part?
What I am?
They have some completely illogical argument.
Just like those people… Unfortunate.
Illogical argument means unfortunate.
Rascals.
Therefore we say plainly, “You are all rascals.”
That’s all.
You have no discrimination.
Anyone who does not believe as He is, he’s a rascal. That’s all.
He may be happy or sorry. You don’t mind.
You don’t make compromise.
At least I do not do.
If you have not full faith in Kṛṣṇa, then you are a rascal, that’s all,
whatever you may be.
The Dr. Patel does not like this, but he does not protest to me.
As others say, he protests like that.
It is a fact.
We have no difficulty to understand Kṛṣṇa and thus make our life successful.
But we unnecessarily bring arguments, impediments to understand Kṛṣṇa.
Therefore we are unfortunate.
Envious of Kṛṣṇa. Envious. Yes.
They say that…
They become very agitated when we stress so much, in Bhagavad-gītā,
that Kṛṣṇa is God. That means envious, envious.
Yes, envious. They say, “Why is it so…? Why do you stress…?”
tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān Find out.
Tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān [Bg. 16.19]. [splice]
“Those who are envious and mischievous,
who are the lowest among men, are cast by Me into the ocean of material existence,
into various demoniac species of life.”
All of them are going to Russia to take birth. Yes.
Not Russian people are bad. That is a mistake.
Some of them.
But some people are good.
That I have experienced. Otherwise how… [aside:] Don’t do that.
Otherwise how that Anatole came to become my…?
And there are many like that, mostly like him.
It is by artificial suppression that it has been advertised,
“The Russian people are all Communist.” That’s not fact. That’s not fact.
Simply some rogues and thieves and demons, by threats…
It is a country of, what is called? Terrorism.
A terror.
People have decided to leave this country, but they cannot leave.
Mostly Russians, they want to leave that country,
and some of them already done so.
Many Russians have fled away.
Many Chinese men have fled away.
They don’t like this philosophy.
Also the East Europe countries. Eastern…
Many countries. It is unnatural to deny God. It is unnatural.
This is also Kṛṣṇa’s another magic.
All such people who had any doubt about Kṛṣṇa,
they have been kept over there in Russia.
Just like the other day there was a train crash accident.
So all these rascals they are brought together in that way in a train or two train,
and they smashed.
That is… Just like Kṛṣṇa did in Battle of Kurukṣetra.
All the rascals were brought into the battlefield and finished.
Subtitles by Gaurāṅga Sundara Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com