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MW MAY 1976-03-12 One Should Give to Temple
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a
morning walk conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on March 12th,
1976, in Māyāpur, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: …are also
engaged in serving Kṛṣṇa.
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They give flower, and they’re
offering: “Take this flower.
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Offer to Kṛṣṇa.”
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This is service.
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Dedicating.
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- Śrīla Prabhupāda, then how…
- This is explained…
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This is explained by Balarā…
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Kṛṣṇa to Balarāma while going
through the Vṛndāvana forest,
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the ha… “Just see how the trees are
welcoming You, how the birds…”
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You have…
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- You have got that picture?
HṚDAYĀNANDA: Yes.
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Kṛṣṇa is seeing that:
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How everyone is ready to serve.
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Similarly, Kṛṣṇa-bhakta also sees how
everyone is eager to serve Kṛṣṇa. [break]
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…[en]gage them rightly:
That is leadership.
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- Hah.
- Yes.
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Otherwise andhā yathāndhair
upanīyamānāḥ [SB 7.5.31].
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And as a blind leader is leading other blind
men: The whole world is going on like that.
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They do not know how to
properly lead the people.
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Misleaders. [break]
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…grains, cows,
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all they should be very properly taken
care of and the products offered to Kṛṣṇa.
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Everyone should be
engaged for Kṛṣṇa’s service.
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That is Vṛndāvana.
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In Vṛndāvana everyone is
engaged: How to please Kṛṣṇa.
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That is Vṛndāvana. [break]
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…business to study Vedānta.
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In Vṛndāvana life we see they were not
interested to know what is Brahmā.
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They were interested
how to please Kṛṣṇa.
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How to see Kṛṣṇa smiling.
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- That is Vṛndāvana.
- Jaya.
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Huh? Is it not?
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From Vṛndāvana picture you see they are
simply busy to see how Kṛṣṇa is smiling.
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They didn’t care for studying;
what they will study?
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They were all village girls
born in the ordinary class,
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and they did not know. [break]
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That is the… Ārādhito yadi haris
tapasā tataḥ kim [Nārada Pañcarātra].
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“If Kṛṣṇa is served, then where
is the necessity of tapasya?”
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- No more tapasya.
- Jaya Prabhupāda!
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Tapasya is meant for the third-grade men
to come to the stage of serving Kṛṣṇa.
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And one who is—with heart and soul is
serving Kṛṣṇa: He has finished all Tapasya.
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tepus tapas te
juhuvuḥ sasnur ārya
[SB 3.33.7]
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They have already
finished all this tapasya.
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Therefore they have
come to this stage.
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…kṛta-punya-punjaḥ
[SB 10.12.11]
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What is called?
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- Piling.
REVATĪNANDANA: Heaps of…
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- Ah, heaps of, yes.
- pious activities. [break]
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Mahāprabhu: He immediately
gives how to love and serve Kṛṣṇa,
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because this Kali-yuga,
they will not be able to
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follow the regulative principles
and become elevated.
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So, He is therefore
mahā-vadānyāya.
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He is giving a
process—immediately,
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if followed, he becomes a lover of
Kṛṣṇa and His service, immediately.
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namo mahā-vadānyāya
kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te
[Cc. Madhya 19.53] [break]
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…circumambulating you,
Prabhupāda, paying respects.
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Of course, their vision,
mahā-bhāgavata…
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- Hare Kṛṣṇa.
- Jaya.
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- Hare Kṛṣṇa.
- Jaya.
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I…
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That is very beautiful.
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- You mean the music?
- No, no; that black.
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- Yes, very nice.
- Black is… [splice]
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- Hmm?
PAÑCADRAVIḌA: The gopīs: They didn’t like
very much being instructed by Uddhava?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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That was dry for them.
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They asked Uddhava, “Bring Kṛṣṇa;
we don’t want you any more.” [break]
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What is his name?
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Tapomartavor [?].
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Huh? He never sees
whether it is watered.
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He is in charge of
agricultural department?
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Where is Jayapatāka?
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He never sees. [splice]
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“By showing the Deity to earn
livelihood is condemned.
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Better become a sweeper—
municipal sweeper,
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and sweep the road
and earn money.”
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He said like that.
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That is better: Honorable.
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He is working and getting money,
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instead of making a good
show of Deity and earn money.
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This is not required.
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If you want to earn money,
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go—work according to your
capacity and earn money.
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Don’t cheat people.
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That is Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī.
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There was a big fight or difference
of opinion, wasn’t there?
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Huh?
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There was a… a trouble in
Nabadwip, wasn’t there,
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when he advised the pilgrims not to
pay money to go into the temples.
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Yes.
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He was fight against it.
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All: Nabadwip—Vṛndāvana.
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Vṛndāvana is not so… But
still, they have got rate.
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One thing is: Is a question of heart:
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That a… a… a man should come and visit
the… the temple: He must give something.
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Why he is to be asked?
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Voluntarily he should give.
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YAŚODĀNANDANA:
Do everything they…
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In Nectar of Devotion this morning,
Your Divine Grace is writing
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that it is customary in India that whenever
one visits the Deity or a saintly person
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- Yes.
- to offer something, even one grain of rice.
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Yes.
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That is system.
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LOKANĀTHA: But encouraging
is not recommended?
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Huh? What is that encouraging?
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- Requesting should not be done.
- No.
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It is voluntary.
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Encouraging means your behavior should
be so nice, that he’ll voluntarily give.
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That is encouraging, not that
begging and “Put something here.
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My belly is empty.”
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Yes, that is nice,
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then “Here is an institution; you
kindly become a member; help us.”
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That is another thing.
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But why should you earn
by showing the Deity?
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You work so nicely: They will become
voluntarily member, contributing.
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That is nice.
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But not that “Now
we have got Deity.
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He’s starving.
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Please give me something;” no.
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That is not good.
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You showed the example
when you came to New York.
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You were cooking
chapatis and everything.
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Yes.
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Otherwise who would
cook? That… [break]
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…apartment.
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So I was cooking,
and… Ah, he liked.
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He thought that “Without any
payment, I have got a cook.”
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Dharmādhyakṣa…
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Dharmādhyakṣa dāsa used
to be one of his disciples
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before he joined your…
Became your disciple.
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And he said that he was
talking to Dr. Miśra,
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and Dr. Miśra still talks
about your cooking.
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He said, “Oh, Swamijī…
He saved my life.”
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- He said, “He taught me how to eat properly.”
- Yeah.
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[He] still talks about you. [break]
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…improved his health.
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- He says it still?
- Yes.
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- Ahh.
- Yes.
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Ahh.
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Dharma was telling me. [break]
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…to rise early in the morning
and… and do whatever is needed.
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Then, at nine—half-past nine—I’ll go
to the apartment and begin cooking.
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Then, after finishing, I’ll take my
bathing, and then we shall eat together.
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And then, after eating, I
will go to the Fifth Avenue
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- To go where?
- for loitering.
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PUṢṬA KṚṢṆA: Fifth Avenue.
- Yes.
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So I was cooking
once only, that’s all.
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Your loitering was
very fruitful even.
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I [was] studying Americans: How they are
walking, how they are talking: Like that.
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SATSVARŪPA: One time you said you were
happier then, maintaining yourself, than
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having thousands of disciples.
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Yes, there was no
chance of finding fault.
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Now I have to find fault.
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