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RC MAY 1975-03-23 Bhaktivinode Predicted Someone
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ANNOUNCER: The
following is a conversation
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on the 23rd of
March, 1975, in Māyāpur, India.
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PRABHUPĀDA: …offering
his blessings upon you.
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You are fulfilling his mission.
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He wanted the European,
American should come here.
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It is all Bhaktivinoda
Ṭhākura’s blessing.
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Hare Kṛṣṇa.
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So there is no scarcity of space
for keeping all the devotees?
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BHAVĀNANDA: Everyone is…
Everyone is situated in rooms.
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JAYAPATĀKĀ: Without these
dwelling…, wall dwellings,
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there would have been no hope.
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Therefore I said, [laughter]
“You must complete,
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and whatever amount
required, I shall pay.”
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That I could analyze. [break]
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…you Śrīla Prabhupāda.
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Only by your mercy you have brought
us to this Kṛṣṇa conscious movement.
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Yes.
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I am simply messenger.
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Mercy is of Bhaktivinoda
Ṭhākura and Śrīla Prabhupāda.
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Before your coming they predicted,
that “Somebody will bring.”
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Maybe that somebody
I am. [chuckles]
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Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura predicted. So
anyway, Kṛṣṇa has given us nice place.
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Stay here.
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So you producing food grains?
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Oh, yes. Sufficient?
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What about the fruit garden?
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Fruit garden, there is a…
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Many banana trees are producing
their bananas, some pomegranate…
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You are getting banana,
both unripe and ripe.
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Now they are all unripe.
But they’ll be ripe, pakka.
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No, there is a class…
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Right, the kacha kola we
have…, getting very small.
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We have mostly the ripe
bananas. [splice] [break]
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One who is sincerely engaged
in the service of the Lord,
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He gives him intelligence,
“Now do this, do this.”
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Simply we have to become sincere servant;
then all dictation will come from within.
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Kṛṣṇa is there is everyone’s heart.
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So work sincerely and
everything will make progress.
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Who has painted this picture?
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ACYUTĀNANDA: Puṣkara.
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Ohh.
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Very nice. [splice]
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Now make sublime
management. [laughter]
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That is required now.
We are now extended.
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We must manage very nicely.
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Of course, management
means sincere service.
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Then everything will be all right.
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Still, we have to deal
with the material world.
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We have to become
little proper. [splice]
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Everything you plan is perfect.
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No. I imagine. Kṛṣṇa
makes it perfect.
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I think, “It would have been nice
if it would have been like this,”
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but Kṛṣṇa… Ye prasāde pūre
sarva āśā [Śrī Guru-vandanā].
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Long, long ago, when I was publishing
Back to Godhead, one sheet,
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I was thinking that
“What is this sheet?
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If it would have been like Illustrated
Weekly, then it would have been nice.”
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Now they are coming like that.
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Now Illustrated Weekly is nothing
compared to Back to Godhead. No. [laughs]
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Better than Illustrated Weekly.
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I thought of getting
some help from artist.
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For painting picture, I will dictate,
and they will paint picture.
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Now Kṛṣṇa has got lots of artists.
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So depend on Kṛṣṇa.
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He can do everything. [splice]
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Because he is Arjuna, devotee,
he simply understood, “Yes.
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Whatever You say, correct.
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The demons or even the gods,
they cannot understand.”
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Why Arjuna understood?
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That he has explained in
the eighteenth chapter.
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Naṣṭo mohaḥ smṛtiṁ labdhā
tvat-prasādād madhusūdana [?].
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TRIVIKRAMA: Is he never envious?
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Huh? [pause] [break]
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PARAMAHAṀSA: “Arjuna
said, My dear Kṛṣṇa,
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O infallible one, my
illusion is now gone.
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I have regained my
memory by Your mercy,
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and I am now firm
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and free from doubt and prepared to act
according to Your instructions.” That’s it.
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He understood that
“Kṛṣṇa is divine.
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So whatever He says, that is my duty to
do, not to judge Him on my platform.”
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That is Kṛṣṇa’s mercy.
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One who does not take Kṛṣṇa
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in the same platform as one is
but accepts Kṛṣṇa’s personality,
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then he can understand.
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Otherwise how one can accept it
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that a person has expanded many
millions of universes like this?
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Immediately they will they
will take as mythology.
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Because he’s thinking on terms
of his capacity, not as Kṛṣṇa says.
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Therefore nobody could
understand Kṛṣṇa.
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We took the simple method: accept
Kṛṣṇa as He says. That’s all. Finished.
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That is the main business.
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Our philosophy is simple because we
take it, Kṛṣṇa’s word, as it is, that’s all.
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And we believe it firmly:
“Yes, this is the truth.”
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To understand
Kṛṣṇa is not difficult.
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What Kṛṣṇa says, you accept it.
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Sarvam etam ṛtaṁ manye
yad vadasi keśava [Bg. 10.14].
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“Whatever You say, I accept it.
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Not only I accept it blindly,
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but this very thing was accepted by
such great personality as Vyāsadeva.”
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[aside:] Anyone who
wants to come…
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Simple thing. Big, big ācāryas,
they accepted Kṛṣṇa as He is.
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And why shall I not accept?
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This is paramparā system.
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If others have accepted
Kṛṣṇa as He tells,
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and they have become big, big ācāryas, so
what objection can be there from my part?
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What I am?
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They have some completely
illogical argument.
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Just like those
people… Unfortunate.
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Illogical argument
means unfortunate.
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Rascals.
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Therefore we say plainly,
“You are all rascals.”
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That’s all.
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You have no discrimination.
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Anyone who does not believe
as He is, he’s a rascal. That’s all.
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He may be happy or
sorry. You don’t mind.
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You don’t make compromise.
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At least I do not do.
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If you have not full faith in Kṛṣṇa,
then you are a rascal, that’s all,
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whatever you may be.
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The Dr. Patel does not like this,
but he does not protest to me.
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As others say, he protests like that.
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It is a fact.
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We have no difficulty to understand
Kṛṣṇa and thus make our life successful.
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But we unnecessarily bring arguments,
impediments to understand Kṛṣṇa.
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Therefore we are unfortunate.
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Envious of Kṛṣṇa. Envious. Yes.
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They say that…
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They become very agitated when we
stress so much, in Bhagavad-gītā,
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that Kṛṣṇa is God. That
means envious, envious.
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Yes, envious. They say, “Why is
it so…? Why do you stress…?”
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tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ krūrān Find out.
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Tān ahaṁ dviṣataḥ
krūrān [Bg. 16.19]. [splice]
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“Those who are envious
and mischievous,
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who are the lowest among men, are cast
by Me into the ocean of material existence,
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into various demoniac
species of life.”
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All of them are going to
Russia to take birth. Yes.
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Not Russian people are
bad. That is a mistake.
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Some of them.
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But some people are good.
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That I have experienced. Otherwise
how… [aside:] Don’t do that.
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Otherwise how that Anatole
came to become my…?
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And there are many like
that, mostly like him.
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It is by artificial suppression
that it has been advertised,
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“The Russian people are all Communist.”
That’s not fact. That’s not fact.
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Simply some rogues and thieves
and demons, by threats…
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It is a country of, what
is called? Terrorism.
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A terror.
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People have decided to leave this
country, but they cannot leave.
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Mostly Russians, they
want to leave that country,
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and some of them
already done so.
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Many Russians have fled away.
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Many Chinese men
have fled away.
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They don’t like this philosophy.
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Also the East Europe
countries. Eastern…
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Many countries. It is unnatural
to deny God. It is unnatural.
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This is also Kṛṣṇa’s another magic.
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All such people who had
any doubt about Kṛṣṇa,
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they have been kept
over there in Russia.
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Just like the other day there
was a train crash accident.
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So all these rascals they are brought
together in that way in a train or two train,
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and they smashed.
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That is… Just like Kṛṣṇa
did in Battle of Kurukṣetra.
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All the rascals were brought
into the battlefield and finished.
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