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RC NV 1976-06-24 You Enjoy and Forget Goal
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ANNOUNCER: Next
is a conversation,
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with His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on June 24th, 1976,
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at the New Vrindaban farm
community in West Virginia.
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PRABHUPĀDA: In this life he
is living very comfortably.
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Next life if I’m going to be a
dog, then this is the charge.
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Now how this class
of men will answer it?
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Can he deny that he’s
not going to be [a] dog?
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KĪRTANĀNANDA: He says he doesn’t believe it.
- Huh?
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- He says he doesn’t…
- You believe or not believe.
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Just like this child, this boy,
he does not know anything.
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But I know, his mother knows,
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his father knows that he’s
going to be [a] young man.
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If he says, “No, I am not going to
be [a] young man,” that is childish.
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That is childish.
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But, the father, mother,
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or friends know that this boy is
going to grow [to be] young man,
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so he should be educated, and
he should be properly situated.
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That is the guardian’s business.
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He doesn’t know.
He doesn’t know.
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So that he doesn’t know,
that does not mean it is fact.
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So similarly, if rascals say, “I
don’t believe it,” that’s not a fact.
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He is a rascal, mad, he may
say so, but that is not the fact.
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kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo 'sya
[Bg. 13.22]
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The real fact is that he’ll
have to accept a body
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according to the
quality of development.
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But what if they say that,
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“Actually this life of growing
the castor seed is very difficult,
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farming is very difficult.
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It is easier to go to the
factory for eight hours,
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and then I come home with
my money and I enjoy.”
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No, you enjoy, but by enjoying,
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if you forget your real
business, is that intelligent?
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Your real business is that you have
got this human form of body to,
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improve your next life.
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You are going to have a next life.
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Suppose you are
going to be a dog.
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Is that success?
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So you must know the science
that instead of becoming dog,
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how shall you become God.
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That is intelligence.
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But why is it any better to grow
castor seed than to dig a well?
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Huh?
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- Why is it any better to grow castor seed than to…
- No, you require lamp.
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So you finish that lamping
business as simply as possible.
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In the balance time you save you
improve your self-realization.
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That is the life.
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Just like this child,
he wants to play.
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He does not go to school,
does not take an education,
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and he improves type of toys, toys,
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he’s engaged in improved
type of football playing, and…
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That… Is that very
good intelligence?
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But nobody works longer
hours than the farmer.
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Huh?
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No one works harder
than the farmer.
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The farmer has to work very hard.
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No, our point is that…
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If you think that electricity
improvement is better than farming,
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we have no objection.
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But if you forget your real
business, is that intelligent?
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- No, of course not.
- That is our proposal.
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Our real business is how to
become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
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So simply for improving
the condition of life,
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the necessities of life, if I
forget my real business,
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is that intelligence?
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Therefore it is said duṣkṛtinaḥ.
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Kṛti means merit.
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But merit is being utilized
for sinful activities.
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Take for example the meat-eaters.
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When man was… The
uncivilized man is still there.
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In the uncivilized way they
are living in the jungle.
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They require to eat something.
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So, they stone over an animal going,
and the animal dies, and then they eat.
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Now, instead of killing
the animal by stoning,
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if you have discovered scientific machine
in the slaughterhouse to kill the animal,
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is that improvement?
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If you think this is advancement, “Now we
have discovered very technical machine.
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Instead of stoning one animal
killing, it takes so much time,
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hundreds and thousands of
animals you can kill in one hour.”
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Do you think that is improvement?
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That is going on.
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