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Arr LA 1975-06-20 Kindly Help Me
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ANNOUNCER: The following
is an arrival address,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on June 20th,
1975, in Los Angeles.
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PRABHUPĀDA:
harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam
[Adi 17.21]
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DEVOTEES: Hari Hari! Jaya!
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We have no new discovery.
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We don’t manufacture.
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This is our process.
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We simply follow the
predecessor’s instruction; that’s all.
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Our movement is very easy because we
haven’t got to manufacture something.
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We simply repeat the words and the
instruction given by the predecessor.
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Kṛṣṇa instructed Brahmā.
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Brahmā instructed Nārada.
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Nārada instructed Vyāsadeva.
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Vyāsadeva instructed Madhvācārya.
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And, in this way…
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Then Mādhavendra Purī; Īśvara
Purī; Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Then the Six Gosvāmīs.
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Then the Śrīnivāsa Ācārya; Kavirāja
Gosvāmī; Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura;
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Viśvanātha Cakravartī; Jagannātha
dāsa Bābājī; Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura;
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Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī;
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī.
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And then we are
doing the same thing.
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There is no difference.
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That is the specific procedure of the
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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You are singing daily, guru-mukha-
padma-vākya, cittete koriyā aikya,
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ār nā koriho mane āśā [Śrī Guru-
vandanā from Prema-bhakti-candrikā].
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Very simple thing.
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We are receiving the
transcendental knowledge
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through guru-
paramparā succession.
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So we have to simply take
instruction from guru,
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and if we execute that to our
heart and soul, that is success.
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That is practical.
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I have no personal qualification, but I
simply tried to satisfy my guru; that’s all.
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My Guru Mahārāja asked me that “If
you get some money: To print books.”
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So, there was a private
meeting, talking,
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some of my important Godbrothers
also there; it was in Rādhā-kuṇḍa.
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So, Guru Mahārāja was speaking
to me that “Since we have got this
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Bagh Bazaar—marble temple, there
has been so many dissensions.
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And everyone thinking who will
occupy this room or that room… that…
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I wish, therefore, to sell this temple
and the marble and print some book.”
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Yes.
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So I took up this from his mouth,
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that he is very fond of books,
and he told me personally
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that “If you get some
money, print books.”
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Therefore I am
stressing on this point:
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“Where is book? Where
is book? Where is book?”
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So kindly help me.
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This is my request.
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Print as many books in as many languages
and distribute throughout the whole world.
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Then Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement
will automatically increase.
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Now the educated,
learned scholars:
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They are appreciating our movement by
reading books—by taking practical result.
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Dr. Stillson Ju… Judah: He has written
one book; perhaps you know:
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Kṛṣṇa Con… Hare Kṛṣṇa
and Counterculture:
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A very nice book about our movement,
and he is giving importance.
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He has admitted that “Swamijī,
you have done wonderful thing
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because you have turned
the drug-addicted hippies
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into devotees of Kṛṣṇa, and they are
prepared for the service of humanity.”
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So, this movement is so important.
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We are giving the best
service to the humanity.
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They are plunged into ignorance.
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All… They are rascals: mūḍha.
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It is not our manufactured
word; Kṛṣṇa says,
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na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ
prapadyante narādhamāḥ
[Bg. 7.15]
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So we have this tested.
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If you see one has no information
of Kṛṣṇa, then he is mūḍha.
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We haven’t got to study more:
whether he is Kṛṣṇa conscious,
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whether he has got any portion of his
heart attracted… I mean attached to Kṛṣṇa.
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Kṛṣṇa means attraction.
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So whether he has been
attracted by Kṛṣṇa.
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That is our natural position:
To become attracted by Kṛṣṇa.
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Kṛṣṇa means all-attractive.
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Just like the magnetic
stone attracts the iron.
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It is natural.
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And if the iron is covered with dirt,
then it does not become attracted.
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So this is the test: To make people
prepared for being attracted by Kṛṣṇa.
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This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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They are by nature… Huh?
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Nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti [Hari-
bhakti-vilāsa]; it is not unnatural.
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Otherwise how you European, American,
you are so much attracted to Kṛṣṇa?
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Huh? If Kṛṣṇa is artificial and Kṛṣṇa
consciousness is artificial something,
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so how you should be attracted?
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That they are surprised.
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They are attracted because
that attraction is there already.
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We are trying simply to
awaken that attraction.
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śravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya
[SB 3.25.25]
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The matter is already there.
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Just like the young man
and young woman:
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The attraction is already there—
nitya-siddha; it is natural.
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And when they come near—
talk little confidentially—
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that attraction increases; not
that an artificial attraction.
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Similarly, our attraction
for Kṛṣṇa is already there.
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Therefore… That is the
Vṛndāvana picture.
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Vṛndāvana: Everything
is attracted [to] Kṛṣṇa.
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That is Vṛndāvana.
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The animals, the trees, the flowers,
the land, and the cowherd boys—
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the elderly cowherds men—
Nanda Mahārāja and others:
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All are attracted to Kṛṣṇa.
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This is Vṛndāvana.
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The Yamunā water: Everything.
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Fruits, flowers and everything.
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That is Vṛndāvana.
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So Kṛṣṇa is the center of attraction.
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You might have read that when Brahmā
[stole] all [of] Kṛṣṇa’s associates:
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He created Himself
again all of them,
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and everyone is feeling
more attracted by Kṛṣṇa.
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So this is natural;
this is not unnatural.
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Our position is… natural position
is to be attracted by Kṛṣṇa.
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If we do not become attracted
[to] Kṛṣṇa, that is unnatural.
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And to become attracted [to] Kṛṣṇa,
that is not unnatural; that is natural.
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So we want to revive our natural
position: Uncovered position.
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Now we are covered by dust,
by dirt, by corroding materials.
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So we have to cleanse this.
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Therefore the bhakti process is, sarvopādhi-
vinirmuktam [Cc. Madhya 19.170].
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I am thinking I am Indian.
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You are thinking you are American.
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This is a dirty thing,
covering the spirit soul.
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So we have to cleanse this.
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hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-
sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ
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tat-paratvena nirmalam
[Cc. Madhya 19.170]
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Nirmalam means cleansed.
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When you become cleansed of all dirty
things of material modes of nature,
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then we are prepared
to serve Kṛṣṇa.
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That is wanted.
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That… We do not
become zero: Śūnyavādi.
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No, we become cleansed.
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And as soon as we
become cleansed…
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With cleansed senses, when you
serve Kṛṣṇa, that is perfection.
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hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ bhaktir ucyate
[Cc. Madhya 19.170]
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So, this process: The śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam:
This is the process of cleansing.
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So [the] more you chant,
[the] more you hear,
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the more you become cleansed, [the]
more you become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
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Just prolong this
process and be happy.
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Thank you very much.
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