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Story 10 Dinabandhu dada
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PRABHUPĀDA: So Kṛṣṇa
is never diminished.
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There is a little story,
very interesting.
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So, one poor boy, he
was student in a school,
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and the teacher’s annual ceremony
of father’s death would be held.
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So he requested all his student, “What
you will give me, contribution?”
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Formerly the teacher was
not taking any salary.
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But whatever he wanted,
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the students will bring either from
parents’ house or by begging.
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That was the system.
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The teacher would
not charge anything.
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A brāhmaṇa cannot
be… charge anything.
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Generally, the brāhmaṇas
were teachers.
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That is one of the
profession of the brāhmaṇa.
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Everyone must have livelihood.
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So brāhmaṇa livelihood
is paṭhana pāṭhana.
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He must become a learned scholar, and
he will make others also learned scholar.
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That is brāhmaṇa’s business.
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paṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana
dāna pratigrahaḥ [?]
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Ṣaṭ-karma.
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Six kinds of profession
for the brāhmaṇas.
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And Kṣatriya’s profession
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is to give protection to the
citizen and levy some tax,
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twenty-five percent,
not more than that.
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Whatever is income your, give twenty-
five percent to the kṣatriya king.
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That’s all.
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That includes sales tax, this tax,
that tax, so many tax, income tax.
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All finished.
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You give twenty-five percent.
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And if you have no income, no tax.
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Not like that even you have no income,
“No, last year you gave so much tax.
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You must give it.
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Otherwise your
property will be sold.”
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Not like that.
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So that is kṣatriya’s income.
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Similarly, vaiśya’s income, Kṛṣi-
go-rakṣya-vāṇijyam [Bg. 18.44],
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agriculture, cow protection,
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and if there is excess foodstuff,
then he can sell, make trade.
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And śūdras, they will simply help.
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So this teacher, the original story,
the teacher asked the student for…
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Somebody said, “I will
contribute this cloth,”
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somebody said, “I’ll
[contribute some] rice,”
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somebody said something,
something, something.
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No, there was one poor
student, he had no means.
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He was very poor.
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So when he was asked,
so he replied that,
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“I cannot say anything
without asking my mother.”
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“All right, you ask your mother
and tell me tomorrow.”
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So he asked,
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“My dear mother,
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all my class friend has promised the
teacher to contribute this, that, this, that.
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So my turn is there;
what can I promise?”
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The mother said, “My dear son, we
are so poor, we cannot give anything.
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But if Kṛṣṇa gives, He is dīna-
bandhu, the friend of the poor.
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So if He gives something
to you, you can promise.”
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“Oh, where is Kṛṣṇa,
and what is His name?”
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“Now, His name is Dīnabandhu,
friend of the poor.”
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“Where He is?”
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“I understand that
He is in the forest.”
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So, he went to the
forest and called,
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“Dīnabandhu brother, Dīnabandhu
brother, where are You?”
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He began to cry.
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So Kṛṣṇa came.
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When a devotee is very much
eager to see Him, Kṛṣṇa comes.
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He [is very] kind.
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So “Why you are asking?”
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“My mother… You
are Dīnabandhu?
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So this is my condition,
sir; what can I promise?”
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So, He said that “You promise
that you will supply yogurt, dahi.
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You will supply dahi.”
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So, he was very much satisfied.
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And he came to the teacher that,
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“My Dīnabandhu brother, dādā,
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He’ll supply dahi, or yogurt,
for whatever you require.”
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“Oh, that’s nice; very good.”
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So on the day of ceremony, say…
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He went to the forest again
and called Dīnabandhu dādā,
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and He gave him a small pot
of dahi, yogurt, a small pot.
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Oh, he was a child;
he did not know.
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And he brought it to the teacher,
“Now, this is my contribution.
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My Dīnabandhu brother has given.
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So you take.”
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“The hundreds and thousands
of people will be given foodstuff
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and this much dahi?”
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He became very angry.
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He became angry; he did not care,
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and the pot fell down, and
the yogurt also fell down.
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But after some time,
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when he came, he saw that although the
yogurt has fallen down, the pot is full.
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Then he again dropped
it; again it is full.
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He dropped it; again it is full.
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Then he could
understand it is spiritual.
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pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya
pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate
[Īśo Invocation]
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You take the whole thing;
still, the whole thing is there.
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That is Kṛṣṇa.
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Not that because you have taken
something, one minus one equal to zero.
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No.
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In the spiritual world, one
minus one equal to one.
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And one plus one equal to one.
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That is called advaya-jñāna.
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There is no duality.
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Plus and minus,
they are two things.
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But in the spiritual world,
either plus or minus, the same.
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That is to be understood.
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That is called Absolute, advaya.
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