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SB 7-09-44 MAY 1976-03-26 How to Get Krishna's Attention
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ANNOUNCER: Next is a class on
the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 7th canto,
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9th chapter, text number 44,
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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,
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recorded on March 26th,
1976, in New Delhi, India.
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PUṢṬA KṚṢṆA: Translation:
“My dear Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva,
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I see there are many
saintly persons indeed,
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but they are simply interested for
their own deliverance, and thus,
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without caring for big,
big cities and towns,
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they go to the Himalayan forest for
meditating, taking mauna-vrata,
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the vow of silence.
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They are not interested
to deliver others.
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So far I am concerned,
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I do not wish to be liberated alone and
leave aside all these poor fools and rascals.
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I know that without Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
without taking shelter of Your lotus feet,
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nobody can be happy, and therefore
I wish to bring them to You,
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to the shelter of Your lotus feet.”
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PRABHUPĀDA:
prāyeṇa deva munayaḥ sva-vimukti-kāmā
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maunaṁ caranti vijane na parārtha-niṣṭhāḥ
naitān vihāya kṛpaṇān vimumukṣa eko
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nānyaṁ tvad asya śaraṇaṁ bhramato ’nupaśye
[SB. 7.9.44]
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This is the conviction of
a perfectly convinced
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in Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.
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The preacher who are
preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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they must be convinced that without
accepting Kṛṣṇa consciousness,
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nobody has any means of escaping
these stringent laws of material nature.
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It is everywhere stated.
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In the Bhagavad-
gītā also it is stated,
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mām eva ye prapadyante
māyām etāṁ taranti te
[B.G. 7.14]
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Unfortunately, the
conditioned souls,
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although they are very, very much afflicted
with the pressure of material nature,
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they have become callous.
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Every moment, every second,
they are being controlled,
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and still they are thinking they can do
anything and everything independently.
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So in this way they are suffering.
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But a learned, saintly person…
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Prahlāda Mahārāja, he thinks that
“Without delivering these fallen souls,
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alone I am not prepared to go
back to home, back to God.”
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naitān vihāya kṛpaṇān
[SB. 7.9.44]
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Kṛpaṇān.
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Kṛpaṇān means misers.
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All these persons who
are in this material world,
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they are hankering after
material enjoyment,
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and they have no interest
to understand spiritual life.
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Such persons are called kṛpaṇa.
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Kṛpaṇa.
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tṛpyanti neha kṛpaṇā bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ
[SB. 7.9.45]
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I have several times
discussed this verse,
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that this material life, especially,
material life means sex life.
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So everyone is suffering for indulging
in sex life, but in spite of suffering,
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they are not satiated.
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Therefore they are called kṛpaṇa.
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Kṛpaṇa means miser.
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Brāhmaṇa means liberal,
and kṛpaṇa means miser.
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Every one of us, we have got this
valuable body, human form of body.
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If we utilize it, then utilize it by brahma-
jñāna, then we become brāhmaṇa.
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And if we do not utilize
it, then we are kṛpaṇa.
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So, here it is said kṛpaṇān.
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Kṛpaṇān means “These people,
these conditioned souls,
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they are not endeavoring for
liberation from this material world.”
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They are so callous, foolish, just like cats
and dogs, eating, sleeping, and mating.
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That is their happiness.
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So they are reluctant.
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Nobody is interested
in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Therefore you have to…
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By the grace of Kṛṣṇa you have to adopt
such means that they may be interested
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a little about Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Otherwise they are
so dull and miserly,
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they do not understand that
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement
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is very, very important for them.
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They have no sense
even to understand.
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But the preacher who is Kṛṣṇa conscious,
he knows that without Kṛṣṇa consciousness
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these people are condemned.
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They cannot be happy.
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They cannot be liberated.
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They will simply remain within this material
world, accepting one body after another.
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And whichever material body we
accept, it is meant for suffering.
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It is not meant for any happiness.
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Tri-tāpa-yātana.
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The three kinds of material miseries—
adhyātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika
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he has to undergo.
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So only the devotee, Kṛṣṇa conscious
devotee, he can deliver them.
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He goes from town to
town, village to village,
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house to house, to bring this
message of Kṛṣṇa and deliver him.
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Prahlāda Mahārāja is promising,
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naitān vihāya kṛpaṇān vimumuksa eko
[SB 7.9.44]
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“I do not wish to go alone.
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Give me some strength so that
I can deliver some of them.
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It is not possible to
deliver all of them.”
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But, but that is a very important
engagement for Vaiṣṇava.
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Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has
written in his Caitanya-śikṣāmṛta,
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we can understand a Vaiṣṇava very nicely
when we see that he has converted
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so many conditioned
soul into Vaiṣṇava life.
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That is the estimation
of a Vaiṣṇava.
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If I simply try for myself—I may
be very advanced devotee—
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that is not very much
appreciated by Kṛṣṇa.
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prāyeṇa deva munayaḥ sva-vimukti-kāmā
[SB 7.9.44]
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Everyone is interested.
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There are goṣṭhy-ānandī
and bhajanānandī.
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Bhajanānandī is interested
for his own welfare,
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or they think it that he is not
competent enough to preach.
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Therefore he does not
go for preaching work.
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Sva-vimukti-kāmā: “Let me
look after my own affairs.”
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“Oil your own machine.”
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So this is another stage, and other
stage is a devotee taking all risk,
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preaching for the benefit of
the whole human society.
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He is called goṣṭhy-ānandī,
increasing the number of devotees.
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That is preferred by Kṛṣṇa.
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It is said in the Bhagavad-gītā:
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ya imaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ
mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati
[BG. 18.68]
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“Anyone who is engaged in
preaching this confidential science
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of Bhagavad-gītā,
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na ca tasmād manuṣyeṣu
kaścid me priya-kṛttamaḥ
[Bg. 18.69]
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nobody is dearer
to Me than he is.”
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So if you want very quickly
recognition by Kṛṣṇa,
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go on preaching
Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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Even it is imperfectly done,
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but because you are sincere in
your capa…, whatever capacity
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you have got, if you preach, then
Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased.
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I have seen practically.
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In my Guru Mahārāja’s day there was
a paper, Dainika Nadiyā Prakāsh.
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It was being published
daily, a piece of paper,
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just like I was publishing
Back to Godhead.
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And if a small brahmacārī would go to
Navadvīpa and would sell a few copies,
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one paisa a copy, that would be taken
as a great preaching by Guru Mahārāja:
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“Oh, you have sold five copies?
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Very good.”
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Because people are so reluctant—
they are not at all interested
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in Kṛṣṇa consciousness—
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therefore we become very much
engladdened when we see
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that some of our books
and literatures are sold.
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They will read and be benefited.
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So this is the mission
of high-class Vaiṣṇava,
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how to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness
among the suffering humanity,
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and this is the purport of this
verse said by Prahlāda Mahārāja,
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and we are following the
footprints of Prahlāda Mahārāja.
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Never mind even it
is imperfectly done,
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we must execute the orders
of Caitanya Mahāprabhu,
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yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa
[Cc. Madhya 7.128]
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I may not be so very expert in
delivering the message of Kṛṣṇa,
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but my duty is to try
to my best capacity
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how to distribute this knowledge
to the suffering humanity.
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Thank you very much.
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