RC PAR 1976-08-02 Becoming Guru
ANNOUNCER: Next is a conversation,
with His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
recorded on August 2nd, 1976, at the Paris farm.
PRABHUPĀDA: So, you have come here; very nice.
Stay here.
Where is your husband?
- Bhūgarbha is here? BHAGAVĀN: He’s in Germany.
He has gone German?
- To buy some trucks. - Huh?
To buy trucks for traveling.
Good preacher; he’s now distributing books very nicely.
You are also good distributor [of] books. Huh?
In the beginning you… she was distributing nicely.
So, preaching is our life.
The more we preach, the more we are successful.
yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s preaching.
āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra’ ei deśa yāre dekha, tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa’ [Cc. Madhya 7.128]
This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Every one of you become guru and deliver the residents of your neighborhood.
Ei deśa; wherever you are living, just deliver them.
Become their guru.
How to become guru?
It is not difficult.
yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]
What Kṛṣṇa has said instruct them.
You simply repeat it, that’s all; you become guru.
So this should be preached all over the world.
You learn from Bhagavad- gītā and repeat.
You simply say, “Kṛṣṇa said four things:
man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad- yājī māṁ namaskuru [Bg. 18.65].”
“Just always think of Me,” Kṛṣṇa said.
“And just become My devotee. Just worship Me and offer obeisances.”
Kindly do these things.
So if you can induce one person to do these four things, you become guru.
Is there any difficulty?
Then you become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa.
How? Always think of Kṛṣṇa.
Worship Kṛṣṇa and offer obeisances.
Here is our temple; please come; offer obeisances.
Offer little flower if you can secure.
Otherwise, obeisances sufficient.
And chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
You become guru.
To inform this message is difficult?
Not at all.
You may carry the message.
If [he’s] fortunate, he’ll do it.
Even he does not do it,
you are carrying the message; you become recognized by Kṛṣṇa.
na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ [Bg. 18.69]
You are doing sincerely, then you are recognized by Kṛṣṇa.
Just like a canvasser, salesman, goes to the market:
[He] tries his best to secure some business.
The master sees the report how he has worked.
Even though he has not secured a single paisa business,
but he has tried to introduce the goods, then he’s bona fide.
He’s bona fide.
Similarly, we have to simply carry the message of Kṛṣṇa.
Try to convince people.
If one is convinced, it is good, if not, doesn’t matter, I am not going to….
Then you are recognized by Kṛṣṇa.
Recognition means you become the dearest servant of Kṛṣṇa.
Then what do you want more?
If Kṛṣṇa recognizes, then “You are My most dear servant.”
Then what do you want more?
yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]
So this message was to be carried by all Indians.
That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s desire.
bhārata-bhūmite haila manuṣya-janma yāra janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra [Cc. Ādi 9.41]
This is para-upakāra.
So all Indians should take up this mission and do welfare activity.
That is India’s special function.
Subtitles by Pratyatoṣa Dāsa, Causelessmercy.com