Room Conversation
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
December 13, 1970, Indore

Prabhupada: …your devata finished. But your relationship with Krsna will never finish—nityo nityanam—because you are nitya, Krsna is nitya. That relationship, we have to reestablish that relation. That is the function of the human body. If you are simply busy with this temporary nature, then you are losing time. The temporary relationship will… Just like I came here; now, tomorrow I am going. So, say, for fortnight the relation was there. Now you’ll have another relation. Similarly, after this body I do not know what relation, what father, mother, I will get and what relation will be established. What community will be established I do not know. And then I will forget. Now those who are Indian, but suppose in his last birth he was Chinaman. He has forgotten. Now he’s fighting for India’s cause. If the Chinaman is fighting for China’s cause. This is disease. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches, jivera svarupa haya nitya krsna dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. We are ready to serve all the dayitas(?), but eternal servitude is Krsna. That we have to establish. Then tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. Then, after leaving this body, he has no more to accept this material body and create another society, another family, another relationship, another atmosphere. So because we are not Krsna conscious, in Krsna society, therefore we are dividing. Suppose one animal is born in India or in America. We don’t take him as “my brother. He is also born in the same national.” No. He kills it. He gives protection only to the animal with hands and legs, not to the animals who are four- legged. Because he is not Krsna conscious, therefore his knowledge is imperfect. Panditah sama-darsinah [Bg. 5.18]. We are fighting between the different religions because there is no Krsna religion, no eternal religion, temporary religion. “I am Christian,” “I am Hindu ,” “I am Muslim.” Therefore, to solve all the problems the Krsna consciousness: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam [Bg. 18.66]. Take to Krsna; everything will be solved. So they are reading Bhagavad-gita but they do not know this. Therefore we have to preach. For thirteen years they are attending this Bhagavad-gita class or Gita Bhavan, but nobody knows that this is the Gita, this is the fact. Why? (Hindi) You tell me. So Bhagavad-gita As It Is we are presenting, as it is. Then it will be nice. If you understand Bhagavad-gita as it is, then you’ll be profited. If you make your irrelevant commentaries, that “Krsna means this, and Pandava means this, and the Kuruksetra means another thing, another thing,” volumes of books and years together lecturing, what is benefit? You do not know the principles. Simply waste of time. Srama eva hi kevalam.

dharmah svanusthitah pumsam visvaksena-kathasu yah notpadayed ratim yadi srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]

If anyone is serving the cause of his religion very perfectly, very nicely, so-called nicely, but after serving or observing the rules and regulation, one’s religious principles, if he does not understand what is God and relationship with Him and does not become attracted to Krsna, or God, then all, whatever he has done, it is simply waste of time. So Krsna consciousness is so nice and so important. Aiye Aiye. You can make some place here. Make. Oh, you have to go. Now available. Available. (?) Yes, we are ready. Come. By who? He did not know? Then where…? (end)