RC MAY 1977-02-16 The Secret of Safety
ANNOUNCER: Next is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on February 16, 1977 in Māyāpura, India.
PRABHUPĀDA: Kāma- Kṛṣṇa-kāmārpaṇe.
For Kṛṣṇa’s service one should be mad.
Kāma-krodha should be given up, but a bhakta does not give up.
Utilize it.
A bhakta should be very much kamut [?] for serving Kṛṣṇa.
And he must utilize his anger for the bhakta-dveṣi, those who are not devotee.
Kāma-Kṛṣṇa-kāmārpaṇe krodha bhakta-dveṣi-jane. [Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura’s Prema-bhakti-candrikā].
We have nothing to give up like Māyāvādī.
Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mātsarya.
Mātsarya may… That has to be… A bhakta cannot be envious.
If [indistinct] is angry upon them, that is not envious.
That is for good.
A bhakta should not be envious.
Otherwise how he can preach?
He’s merciful.
Even if he’s angry, he’s mercyful.
Therefore this mātsarya has no use for bhakta.
Other things, they have use, kāma, krodha, lobha, moha; not mātsarya.
Mātsarya is very, very bad.
- SATSVARŪPA: Envy? - Huh? Envy, yes.
- So Panihati is hopeful, is not? - JAYAPATĀKĀ: Yes.
If this MLA actually pushes it through, then in one month…
- Is that MLA that gentleman is very intelligent? - Yes.
Young man.
- He’s ambitious. - Huh?
Ambitious.
Ambitious for Kṛṣṇa, everyone should be ambitious:
“How I shall become a great devotee?”
Ah, that is very good. Yes.
Again finger problem.
Our electric is not working?
Just see; in the evening, we… people want light.
It works the whole day; only in the evening it goes off.
Whole night also.
Only evening, when you require it…
India’s material advancement is artificial.
They are not fit for it.
In America, so long, no electricity every day?
People would become mad.
There would [be] revolution.
- Huh? Is it not? - Yes.
HARI-ŚAURI: They had a blackout in New York once for an hour or so.
- Yes, I know that. I was that time. - Oh, you were there.
- Not hour. It was four hours. - Oh. Four hours.
Unfortunately I was not out on the street.
I was in my place.
That accident took place just after few days of my arrival, 1965.
One gentleman, he, I know, he brought me some candle.
I had no candle even.
Simply I was sitting in darkness.
What can be done?
And Kṛṣṇa sent him with some candle.
Nine months after that incident they had a record number of births in New York.
What can they do in darkness?
That is the only engagement in darkness.
They could have chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa.
No… Even the Hare Kṛṣṇa people.
Nāviviktāsano bhavet, mātrā svasrā duhitrā vā. [SB 9.19.17]
It is strictly forbidden:
“You should not sit alone even with your mother,
sister or daughter, what to speak of wife.”
balavān indriya-grāmo vidvāṁsam api karṣati [SB 9.19.17]
“The senses are so strong, even learned persons,
advanced, they also become victimized.”
balavän indriya-grämo [SB 9.19.17]
Balavān means very strong.
When the… [indistinct] forbidden even with mother, sister or… and daughter.
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