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SB 1-02-06 CAL 1972-02-23 The Spirit of Giving to --etc
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ANNOUNCER: The following is a
class on the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
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1st canto, 2nd chapter,
text number 6,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 23rd of
February 1972, in Calcutta, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: In this material
world, we come here to enjoy.
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Not to enjoy, but to
satisfy our senses.
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This is material life.
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But that is not the right process, to
develop the sense enjoyment process.
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The modern civilization, they are
increasing the sense enjoyment process,
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making life more and
more complicated,
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because the real motive of human life is
to develop devotional service to the Lord.
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Or in other words,
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instead of gratifying our senses we
should gratify the senses of the Lord.
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That is required.
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We cannot independently
gratify our senses.
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The Īśopaniṣad therefore says,
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tena tyaktena bhuñjīthā
[Īśo mantra 1]
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Directly we cannot.
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The best example is you give
me nice foodstuff, rasagullā.
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The fingers catches it, but
it cannot enjoy directly.
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That is not possible.
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It must give to the stomach, and
when it is given to the stomach,
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the energy produced by eating
that foodstuff is distributed
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not only in this finger but other
fingers and other parts of the body.
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This is Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement.
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We are making center Kṛṣṇa.
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Kṛṣṇa said,
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yat karoṣi yaj juhoṣi
yad aśnāsi tapasyasi yat
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tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam
[Bg. 9.27]
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“You work.
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Whatever you like, you work, but
ultimately you give Me the result of it.”
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That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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We do not want to stop anything.
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People may not misunderstand
that we want to stop business,
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we have to stop industries,
our, our general modes of life.
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You be engaged in your
occupational duties,
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but resultant action of that
duty you offer to Kṛṣṇa.
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Don’t take it.
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karmaṇy evādhi-kāras te
mā phaleṣu kadācana
[Bg. 2.47]
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Don’t take the result.
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Then it will be [indistinct].
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The same example, just like this
hand picks up a very nice rasagullā,
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but it does not take; it
gives to the stomach.
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Then it enjoys.
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That is the process.
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This spirit of giving to
Kṛṣṇa is now forgotten.
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Therefore people are suffering, because
they are not trying to enjoy in the process,
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that this is the process.
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You take a rasagullā,
give it to the stomach.
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This is the process.
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Similarly, whatever you possess, you
give it to Kṛṣṇa and take prasādam.
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Then you will be happy.
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Otherwise it will not bring happiness,
because that is not the process.
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But people are following a
wrong process, to enjoy directly.
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That is implication.
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In the Bhagavad-gītā also it is said,
yajñate karma: you work, but yajñate.
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Yajña means Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu.
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You work for Kṛṣṇa, yajñate karma.
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anyatra karma-bandhanaḥ
[Bg. 3.9]
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Otherwise you’ll be entangled.
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Either the result will be good or
bad, so you have to accept it.
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Generally we like that—
there are good, bad.
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The sastric process is that whatever
you’re destined to get, you’ll get it.
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Prahlāda Mahārāja said,
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sukhum aindriyakaṁ daityā
deha-yogena dehinām
[SB 07.06.03]
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You, you are destined to a certain
standard of sukha, happiness,
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according to your body.
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Just like a man is born in a
millionaire’s family, family.
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He has got a type of body so the
enjoyment is there, and it is…,
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and at the same time a man
is born in a cobbler’s family,
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he cannot expect the enjoyment
of the millionaire’s family.
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That is not possible,
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because he has got a
different type of body,
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and he has got a
different type of body.
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So śāstra says, as
you have got body,
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so your happiness, let us
take the happiness portion.
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Distress also is there.
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There cannot be any
unalloyed happiness.
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There must be distress.
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But you take only the good
portion, happiness portion.
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The śāstra says that your happiness
is destined according to your body.
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That is already made up, set up.
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You cannot change it.
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So śāstra says that don’t try to
increase your so-called happiness
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by laboring so hard.
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Whatever body you have got, a certain
of, certain type of happiness you will get.
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Just like a hog.
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A hog has got a certain type of body;
he feels pleasure by eating stool.
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He cannot improve it, because
he has got the body like that.
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So according to our body,
we get our happiness.
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So our time should be saved for
improving Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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That is the law of nature.
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Don’t try to improve
your material condition.
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The material happiness, whatever
is destined according to your body,
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which is already given to you, and
you’ll have it, without any endeavor.
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yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ
[SB 7.6.3]
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Just like you have to
enjoy or suffer also,
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that is also according
to the body, ayatnataḥ.
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You don’t endeavor for
the distress, but you get it.
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Similarly, you don’t endeavor
for happiness—you’ll get it.
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So this is the philosophy
of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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We should save our time to
develop our Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhokṣaje
[SB 1.2.6]
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We should simply endeavor for
developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Then,
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yayātmā samprasīdati
[SB 1.2.6]
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then you’ll be happy.
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Otherwise you’ll never be happy.
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This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness
philosophy, sum and substance.
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Now you can ask me question,
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if you have got any doubt. [break]
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ahaṅkāra vimūdhātmā
kartāham iti manyate
[Bg. 3.27]
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The whole summary is that this human
form of life is very, very important,
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and it is meant for developing
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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If you neglect this business and
simply engage for sense gratification,
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that is spoiling time.
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śrama eva hi kevalam
[SB 1.2.8]
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GUEST (1): Another
point also, this Jainism…
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The body’s already in trouble.
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It’s not useless.
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Huh?
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This body is not useless.
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Yes.
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Why do you [indistinct]?
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No, I don’t require.
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Of course, there is a process
which is called tapasya.
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That is another thing.
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Tapasya, according to our, this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness, we also undergo tapasya.
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Just like we say that
“Don’t have illicit sex life.”
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If you follow yama, niyama, then…
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Huh?
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If you follow yama
and niyama then…
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This is yama -niyama, that
you don’t have illicit sex life,
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don’t eat meat, don’t take intoxication,
don’t engage yourself in gambling,
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and observe ekādaśī fasting,
janmaṣṭamī, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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So our method is very simple.
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Everyone can follow.
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DEVOTEE: Material prosperity
is not dependent upon duty.
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What is that duty?
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- dharma.
- Your duty is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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This duty, artificial.
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A man doing his duty,
suppose a businessman,
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he starts business with a small
amount, he becomes very rich.
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Another man starts business with
big amount, he loses everything.
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- GUEST (2): That is karma?
- Huh?
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GUEST (2): That is karma.
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“That is karma” means,
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that whatever happiness he has to
enjoy, that will come automatically.
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Otherwise, he is destined to
have something—that will come.
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yathā duḥkham ayatnataḥ
[SB 7.6.3]
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So our only point is that
human life is very valuable.
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We should not
waste it for nothing.
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Modern…, modern
method of civilization is,
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to develop economic development,
to live very comfortably.
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That’s all right.
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Do it.
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Everyone do his own business.
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But you don’t forget Kṛṣṇa.
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That is not good.
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The point is, our real business
is to understand Kṛṣṇa.
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But people do not try to understand Kṛṣṇa;
they simply try for economic development.
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Their first business should
be to understand Kṛṣṇa.
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Other business
should be secondary.
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So at the present moment,
it is very difficult task.
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- Śrīla Prabhupāda?
- Hmm.
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Wasn’t it true when…, when they
developed Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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that they, at that time even had
better economic development,
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higher economic development,
when they were Kṛṣṇa conscious?
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- But we don’t take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness
for developing higher economic position.
- No.
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- No.
- I mean it goes to show that
even though no matter how much
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- we try to develop…
- But that is, that is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
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yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham
[Bg. 09.22]
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teṣāṁ satata-yuktānām
[Bg. 10.10]
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Those who are engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s
service, they are never put into distress.
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kaunteya pratijānīhi
na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati
[Bg. 09.31]
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Kṛṣṇa’s devotee is
never vanquished.
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Even they are artificially
put into distresses…
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Just like Pāṇḍavas, they were
put into distresses, artificially.
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Prahlāda Mahārāja was put into
distresses by his father even,
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but ultimately he
came out victorious.
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So one…, we should
not be disturbed,
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even superficially we see
that a devotee is in distress.
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Devotee, real devotee, he does
not take anything as distress.
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He takes everything
as Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
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tat te ’nukampāṁ su-samīkṣamāṇo
[SB 10.14.08]
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Otherwise that is
not pure devotion.
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Actually devotee’s
never in distress.
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People may see that
he is in distress.
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Just like there is a
very good example.
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You are going to
Māyāpur, you’ll find.
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His name was Śrīdhara,
Kolaveca Śrīdhara.
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His income was very poor.
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At night he would chant Hare
Kṛṣṇa mantra very loudly:
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“Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa…”
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His neighboring friends would say,
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“This man has no income,
and because he is hungry,
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now he is chanting
‘Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa.’
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He’s hungry.”
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So one day Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
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Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to
take away his possession, flowers.
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He was selling, making business,
making some donā, donā.
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What is called donā?
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- Huh? Huh?
- DEVOTEES: Cups.
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Cup, yes, that was his business.
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So Caitanya Mahāprabhu take away
some of his fruits and donā, as a friend.
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So one day Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that
“Śrīdhara, you take benediction from Me.”
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So he said, “What
benediction, Sir?”
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“Well, you are so poor that your
house is not even properly repaired.
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There are so many
holes in the roof.”
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He, “Still, I have got a nice house
because it is better than the bird’s nest.
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They have no roof.
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They have no roof, and
they live on the tree.
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I have got a shelter.
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What is the difficulty?
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There is no difficulty.”
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In this way Caitanya Mahāprabhu
wanted to offer him so many thing,
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and he said that “No, I
have no trouble for this.
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If You want to benedict me, please give
me pure devotion on Your lotus feet.”
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Bhakti.
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So that is pure devotion.
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That we should hanker after, how to fix up
our mind always in the service of the Lord.
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That we are trying
to teach, that’s all…
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