RC HYD 1975-04-12 Sannyasa Mentality
ANNOUNCER: The following is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on the 12th of April, 1975, in Hyderabad, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: …any language, you should submit,
and you should feel that, that “I am worthless.
My Guru Mahārāja has given this chance to serve Kṛṣṇa.
I am worthless; I have no capacity to serve You.
Please do not take any offense.
Accept whatever I can do; that’s… that is my request; that’s it.”
That mantra is sufficient.
Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā:
yo me bhaktyā prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]
Kṛṣṇa never said that “One who offers Me with Sanskrit mantra.”
yo me bhaktyā prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]
Real thing is bhakti, feeling: “How to serve Kṛṣṇa?
How to please Him?”
That is wanted.
Not to see that you are a very good scholar in speaking in Sanskrit or English or…
That is not… Always feel that “I am worthless,
but I have been, by the grace of my Guru Mahārāja, I have been given the chance.
So kindly accept whatever little service I can give.
I am offensive.
So kindly excuse me.”
In this way be humble, meek, and offer your feeling, and Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied.
Not that you have to show how you can speak in Sanskrit language.
GUEST (1) : Another śloka: tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api… - Yes.
GUEST (1): …sahiṣṇunā amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ [Cc. Ādi 17.31].
anāśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karma karoti yaḥ
sa sannyāsī… [Bg. 6.1]
Anāśritaḥ kar… Everyone is expecting some good result for his sense gratification.
That is āśritaḥ karma-phalaṁ.
He has taken the shelter of good result.
But one who does not take shelter of the result of activities… It is my duty.
Karyam.
Karyam means “It is my duty.
Doesn’t matter what is the result.
I must do it sincerely to my best capacity.
Then I don’t care for the result.
Result is in Kṛṣṇa’s hand.”
Karyam: “It is my duty.
My Guru Mahārāja said it, so it is my duty.
It doesn’t matter whether it is successful or not successful.
That depends on Kṛṣṇa.”
In this way, anyone, if he works, then he is a sannyāsī.
Not the dress, but the attitude of working.
That is sannyāsa.
Karyam: “It is my duty.”
sa sannyāsī ca yogī ca [Bg. 6.1]
He is yogi, first-class yogi.
Just like Arjuna.
Arjuna officially, he did not take sannyāsa.
He was a gṛhastha, soldier.
But when he took it very seriously— karyam: “Kṛṣṇa wants this fight.
Never mind I have to kill my relatives.
I must do it;” that is sannyāsa.
First of all he argued with Kṛṣṇa that “This kind of fighting is not good:
family killing,” and so on, so on, so on; he argued.
But after hearing Bhagavad-gītā, when he understood that “It is my duty.
Kṛṣṇa wants me to do it.”
Karyam.
So in spite of his becoming a householder, a soldier, he’s a sannyāsī.
He took it—karyam.
Karyam means “It is my duty.”
That is real sannyāsa.
“Kṛṣṇa wants that this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must be spread.
So this is my karyam.
This is my duty.
And the direction is my spiritual master.
So I must do it.”
This is sannyāsa.
Sannyāsa mentality.
But there is formality.
That should… That may be accepted.
GUEST (3) : That has got some psychological effect. - Ah.
In India especially, people like.
Sannyāsī must preach.
Otherwise, the formula of sannyāsa is given—karyam: “But this is my only duty.
That’s all.
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should be pushed.
This is my only duty.” He’s sannyāsī.
Because Kṛṣṇa personally comes, He demands:
sarva-dharmān parityaja mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ… [Bg. 18.66]
And Caitanya Mahāprabhu— Kṛṣṇa: He says:
yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei ‘guru’ [Cc. Madhya 8.128]
“Anyone who knows the science of Kṛṣṇa; he’s guru.”
And what is the guru’s business?
yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]
“Whomever you meet,
you just try to impress upon him about the instruction of Kṛṣṇa.”
sarva-dharmān parityaja… [Bg. 18.66]
So in this way, if we take it up, very seriously—
“This is my duty”—then you are a [indistinct].
Sa sannyāsī; Kṛṣṇa certifies: sa sannyāsī.
People are not taking seriously about Kṛṣṇa’s teaching.
That is India’s misfortune.
They’re bringing in so many competition of Kṛṣṇa.
Is Kṛṣṇa… And “Kṛṣṇa… Rāmakrishna is as good as Kṛṣṇa.”
This rascaldom has killed.
They have done the greatest disservice.
Instead of Kṛṣṇa, they have brought one rascal: Ramakrishna.
BHĀGAVATA: They have big maṭha in Bhubhanesvara. - Huh?
In Bhubhanesvara, they have big Ramakrishna maṭha.
Vivekananda School, library, so much land, everything, very organized.
So we can do that.
You have to convince people.
There is no question of making competition with them.
But you… You can preach your own philosophy anywhere.
GUEST (3): With that happening with the people in Orissa…
Hm?
…try to convince them: No, that is false and this is the way [indistinct].
No, their Ramakrishna Mission allurement is that daridra-nārāyaṇa-seva and hospital.
That is their only allurement.
They have no program.
Nobody is attracted by their philosophy.
And what philosophy they have got?
Never mind; we are not concerned with them.
Jaya.
Ahh.
This Caitanya Mahāprabhu?
Bring it here.
Very good.
Kṛṣṇa is…
- Get some rope. - OK; OK.
Hmm.
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