Hyderabad, April 23, 1974
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Prabhupada: Yes. Engage them. maya...
It is not actually maya's fault, this maya's business that all living entities
who are within this material world, they have come to enjoy. Enjoy means sense
gratification. So maya is kind enough to give them all facilities. That is
maya's business. maya has a machine, these three qualities, and as I want to
enjoy, so there are departmental arrangements, "Give him facilities like this."
Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27].Satsvarupa: But the
facility turns out to be slaps.
Prabhupada: Slaps... We will go on the street?
Mahamsa: It's not very... It's all right.
Prabhupada: Let us see. [break] Just like children, they are given some facilities. They must work according to that plan. Otherwise sometimes there is slap, "Huh, why you are doing like that?" like that. [break] ...your country. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatra-bhaumya idya-dhih [SB 10.84.13]. Bhaumya means bhumi. Bhumi, the land, idya-dhih: "This is my duty: to serve my country, to serve my land." This is maya. The rascal, he is engaged to "Do your duty to your country," and what is the country? Suppose if I do my duty and I may be driven away from my country next life, because there is no guarantee that I will have to take my birth... Just like one astrologer has explained that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Scandinavia. (laughs) There is chance. Tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg. 2.13]. You will have to change your body. Now, where it will be changed, how it will be changed, what kind of body you will get -- that is not in your hands. That is not in your hands. You cannot say, "Oh, I am Prime Minister. I must get such and such body." That is not going to be accepted. But these foolish rascal people, they do not understand it. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]. I am acting under certain infection. So I am infecting, say, some venereal disease. So I must suffer for it.
Mahamsa: Mahatma Gandhi worked so hard for his country and his own countrymen shot him.
Prabhupada: Yes. Still, these fools, they do not know what is service, what is country, what is... They do not know this is maya. [break] By nature's mercy, they got this nice human form of body, civilized. There is sufficient food, supplied by nature. You eat and be Krsna conscious. Take advantage of the sastras, lessons left by Krsna and His devotees. Live peacefully, happily, and go back wherefrom you have come. But whole thing is spoiled by these misleaders. "Do your duty to your country." (laughs) What is that duty? I am working under the influence of material nature, and what is my duty? My only duty is to come to Krsna consciousness. That is my duty. [break] ...because we are prescribing so many duties, and there is no God. That's all. [break]
Aksayananda: You said that everyone could become a brahmana, in your lecture, last night. But at the same time there must always be the legs of society.
Prabhupada: Legs are already there. Everyone is now legs. So they can be promoted to become heads. What is the difficulty? Everyone is in the eighth class. Does it mean that he cannot pass MA examination? If he is trained up, he can pass M.A. exam...
Aksayananda: But as long as there is material world, there will always be sudras.
Prabhupada: They are all sudras. Not will be. All, everyone is sudras. This movement is to promote the sudras to the highest class, Vaisnava, more than brahmana. This is Krsna consciousness movement. Everyone is rascal, sudra. [break] ...sudras should be elevated, elevated, but when even a sudra is engaged in the service of the Lord, he becomes transcendental, above brahmana. [break]
Aksayananda: It said that eight people were shot in Aurangabad with student riots, and the police got their guns and they started to shoot all the people. The same thing is happening in Gaya. The students are protesting against this and that. It said that they were protesting against degradation.
Prabhupada: Degradation?
Aksayananda: Yes. That is supposed to be the reason for their rebellion. They are protesting against corruption and degradation.
Prabhupada: But the rascals, why they themselves do not, be not reformed? Protesting against degradation. Why you are degraded? What is that protest? You are degraded. You reform yourself. That they will not do. Protest against degradation. Are you not degraded? Are you pure? So what is the use of protesting? You reform yourself. They can protest in this way that our guardians, our government, they have degraded ourselves. But that's all right. But guardian is a fool, your father is a fool. But why you are remaining as a fool? That they will not an... If we say, "Now you come to us. We shall raise you from degradation," that they will not do. That they will not agree. Now go to them, all these students, that "You are thinking that you are degraded. So why you should be, mean dog...? Come on, we shall reform you. We shall give you the highest post, brahminical post. Give up these four principles." That they will not do. Will they do?
Aksayananda: No. One may come out of a thousand.
Prabhupada: Yes. They want to remain in degradation, and they will protest again. Therefore to save the degradation, this catur-varnyam must be established. That I... The ideal class. People will follow, "Oh, here is the ideal class." So we are trying to make an ideal class of Krsna conscious people. And if you treat yourself as degraded, then who will care for you? You should remain an ideal class. People will follow gradually.
Mahamsa: If a brahmana class is created, then automatically the ksatriyas and vaisyas and sudras will be changed.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. The ideal, if you be ideal class, gradually they will take your advice, what to do. Then immediately the whole degradation will be finished.
Satsvarupa: Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to the virtues?
Prabhupada: Yes, naturally. Just like people come to see me. Similarly, everyone comes.
Aksayananda: Everyone is attracted to you, Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Yes. So you should be such qualified that people will come to consult you, to take your advice, and... That is the way. [break] ...one after another. Just like if you are a qualified lawyer, when one has difficulty, he comes, consults you, what to do. If you are a qualified physician, then people will come to consult you. So you become qualified, ideal; people will come. Otherwise who will care for you? [break] ...principles. No illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and chanting. These five things only, if you strictly remain on these principles, see how you are respectable. Immediately you'll be respected. Is it not?
Aksayananda: Everyone knows that it should be done.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Aksayananda: Everyone knows in their heart that these things are right. Before I came to the movement, when I read the Back to Godhead magazine, they are doing these things, I was not doing them all.
Prabhupada: No, we are making propaganda in USA. They are attracting attention of the people. Yes. They are saying nice.
Aksayananda: Whenever we see those four rules...
Prabhupada: These rascals, they cannot give up even smoking, ordinary thing. And they become leader.
Mahamsa: It is not very difficult to give up. If one is engaged in Krsna consciousness, it is not difficult to give up these four things.
Prabhupada: Not at all. Very easily, in one second. If you have taken shelter of Krsna, Krsna says, aham tvam sarva-papebhyo... [Bg. 18.66]. These are sinful activities. Immediately Krsna will help you, "All right." Immediately. Krsna said. Is He bluffing? If you sincerely take to Krsna's lotus feet, immediately the effect will be you give up all this nonsense. They don't believe in Krsna, they don't believe in Krsna's word; neither they will surrender; neither they will give up. So where is the reformation? They want to remain in degradation and protesting... This is maya. This is the called, praksepatmika sakti, to keep him in degradation, that "You rascal, you have come to enjoy material happiness. So I will keep you in this degradation and you suffer. I shall kick on your face." This is maya. So what is the result of this protest against degradation?
Aksayananda: They get shot. The police come and shoot them.
Prabhupada: That's all. And tax you and get fat salary. That's all. This is government. They will degrade you and take your money and enjoy themselves. That's all. [break] ...revolution in India. Yes. Because people are hungry. There is no food. A very great revolution. So long they were under Vedic culture, they were suffering. Suffering in this way-tolerating. Now that culture is gone. Now they will be violent. Just like in other countries. If you pinch somebody on and on, there will be a violent protest. In the beginning you may tolerate. But if you go on pinching, pinching, pinching, how long you will tolerate? This is India's condition. Britishers, when they were ruling, had some responsibility. Although they were exploiting, but they were arranging for sufficient food and other things. But these people are irresponsib..., simply personal. "Whatever money I can get, that's all." This is going on. All these so-called ministers, they come to the post for taking money, as much as possible. [break] It must have been belonging to some Nawab, Nizam. It is aristocratic building, not ordinary building. [break]
Mahamsa: ...it could be favorable for our movement? Because we can, people will be very much frustrated at that time?
Prabhupada: Well, people are now shameless, you see? They are being kicked in so many ways. We are giving the prescription, "Here is the remedy," but they are not taking to it. But they will take it. Some of them will take it, provided you remain also ideal. If you become also degraded, then who will take it? Ideal character, ideal behavior, ideal preaching. People will appreciate. [break] ...pure character or position, people will take, in any condition. There may be revolution or no revolution. They will take it. [break] ...that our movement is actually good. They will take in any condition. That standard we must maintain. Somebody... Yes, Balavanta, when he was speaking against smoking, one candidate -- he was important man -- he was smoking. Immediately he wanted to hide. (laughter) So immediate effect was there. He understood that "Yes, this is bad habit." So people will take it, any condition, provided you are ideal. Apani acari prabhu jiveri siksaya. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement. He teaches others by behaving Himself. "Example is better than precept." If you cannot rise early in the morning, then how can you ask others to rise early in the morning? What is the effect? There is no effect. We have got business early in the morning, to attend mangala arati. And if you sleep yourself and teach others, so who will take it? [ ...we have introduced. Very, very simple thing. But still, if he cannot... [break] ...(indistinct) Maharaja. He is, he admitted him, smarta pandita, but he cannot rise early in the morning. Never. And he is imitating the smarta panditas. You know that? Smarta, and one pot, and this and that and asana (laughing). And "I had some..., consult with some smarta pandita," and the real business, to rise early in the morning, he will never do. He will never do. Brahmana. Brahmana means he must rise early in the morning. What kind of brahmana? Oh, he is coming. (laughs) Early in the morning at half past seven. If he walks early in the morning, all his disease will be cured. That he will not do. After all, everyone can do after performing mangala arati, take a morning walk. Bathing. [break] How did you know we were here?
Pradyumna: I asked (indistinct)
Prabhupada: Yes. If you rise early and take a walk, all your ailments will be cured. [break] If a gentleman wants to walk early in the morning, he must have his dog friend.
Mahamsa: They have a saying that dog is man's best friend now. Instead of God being man's best friend, they have made it dog is man's best friend.
Prabhupada: Just like he is a dog. [break] ...strike. Simply strike, protest. Where is happiness? [break] ...unnecessary spending. Unnecessary spending, then why you have allowed opening cinema? One side advertisement, "Unnecessary spending," and the other side so many rascal things, so people will spend for that.
Aksayananda: But they will say, "You must have some time to relax."
Prabhupada: That is unnecessary. Everyone will say, "What I am spending unnecessarily that is my relax." [break] ...government officer will have a big bungalow and now there is act that "Others, if he has got a big bungalow like this bungalow, this is unnecessary." Now it is prepared to act(?). And for minister, it is relax, and for common man it is unnecessary. This is then... "Smoking for me, it is relax, and for you it is unnecessary." These rascals are preaching like that. If smoking is unnecessary, it is unnecessary for me and for you also. "No. For me it is relax." [break] Is that their advertisement? Save money?
Mahamsa: Yes.
Prabhupada: And as soon as you save, they will take income tax.
Mahamsa: They have a wealth tax. So if you save that means you have more wealth, and then they tax.
Prabhupada: And they will "relax" by drinking, "relax" minister. "You save money for our relaxation. That is our necessary. You don't spend money." And people are... Because they see that "If I save, it will be taken away. Let me spend lavishly." Yes. Just like we stayed there at Mr. Patel's house. There are three men only in the family: Mr. Patel, his son and his daughter-in-law. They have got eight cars, big, big cars, Rolls Royce. And about twenty servants. They know that "They will take it away. Better spend." Everyone is doing that. Because they know, "If I save, one day the government will take 98 per cent of my savings. Then why save? Better spend." They cannot give in religious institution. If they say they want to give something, no, that will not allowed. Yes. The whole idea is that "You save, and one day I shall take the whole money and we shall distribute amongst the ministers, Indira Gandhi and company. And we relax. We are working so hard, how to impose taxes upon you. So we must have relax." This is going on. Vicious society. [break] ...open. Let us open. (end)
Prabhupada: Slaps... We will go on the street?
Mahamsa: It's not very... It's all right.
Prabhupada: Let us see. [break] Just like children, they are given some facilities. They must work according to that plan. Otherwise sometimes there is slap, "Huh, why you are doing like that?" like that. [break] ...your country. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke sva-dhih kalatra-bhaumya idya-dhih [SB 10.84.13]. Bhaumya means bhumi. Bhumi, the land, idya-dhih: "This is my duty: to serve my country, to serve my land." This is maya. The rascal, he is engaged to "Do your duty to your country," and what is the country? Suppose if I do my duty and I may be driven away from my country next life, because there is no guarantee that I will have to take my birth... Just like one astrologer has explained that Jawaharlal Nehru has become a dog in Scandinavia. (laughs) There is chance. Tatha dehantara-praptih [Bg. 2.13]. You will have to change your body. Now, where it will be changed, how it will be changed, what kind of body you will get -- that is not in your hands. That is not in your hands. You cannot say, "Oh, I am Prime Minister. I must get such and such body." That is not going to be accepted. But these foolish rascal people, they do not understand it. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]. I am acting under certain infection. So I am infecting, say, some venereal disease. So I must suffer for it.
Mahamsa: Mahatma Gandhi worked so hard for his country and his own countrymen shot him.
Prabhupada: Yes. Still, these fools, they do not know what is service, what is country, what is... They do not know this is maya. [break] By nature's mercy, they got this nice human form of body, civilized. There is sufficient food, supplied by nature. You eat and be Krsna conscious. Take advantage of the sastras, lessons left by Krsna and His devotees. Live peacefully, happily, and go back wherefrom you have come. But whole thing is spoiled by these misleaders. "Do your duty to your country." (laughs) What is that duty? I am working under the influence of material nature, and what is my duty? My only duty is to come to Krsna consciousness. That is my duty. [break] ...because we are prescribing so many duties, and there is no God. That's all. [break]
Aksayananda: You said that everyone could become a brahmana, in your lecture, last night. But at the same time there must always be the legs of society.
Prabhupada: Legs are already there. Everyone is now legs. So they can be promoted to become heads. What is the difficulty? Everyone is in the eighth class. Does it mean that he cannot pass MA examination? If he is trained up, he can pass M.A. exam...
Aksayananda: But as long as there is material world, there will always be sudras.
Prabhupada: They are all sudras. Not will be. All, everyone is sudras. This movement is to promote the sudras to the highest class, Vaisnava, more than brahmana. This is Krsna consciousness movement. Everyone is rascal, sudra. [break] ...sudras should be elevated, elevated, but when even a sudra is engaged in the service of the Lord, he becomes transcendental, above brahmana. [break]
Aksayananda: It said that eight people were shot in Aurangabad with student riots, and the police got their guns and they started to shoot all the people. The same thing is happening in Gaya. The students are protesting against this and that. It said that they were protesting against degradation.
Prabhupada: Degradation?
Aksayananda: Yes. That is supposed to be the reason for their rebellion. They are protesting against corruption and degradation.
Prabhupada: But the rascals, why they themselves do not, be not reformed? Protesting against degradation. Why you are degraded? What is that protest? You are degraded. You reform yourself. That they will not do. Protest against degradation. Are you not degraded? Are you pure? So what is the use of protesting? You reform yourself. They can protest in this way that our guardians, our government, they have degraded ourselves. But that's all right. But guardian is a fool, your father is a fool. But why you are remaining as a fool? That they will not an... If we say, "Now you come to us. We shall raise you from degradation," that they will not do. That they will not agree. Now go to them, all these students, that "You are thinking that you are degraded. So why you should be, mean dog...? Come on, we shall reform you. We shall give you the highest post, brahminical post. Give up these four principles." That they will not do. Will they do?
Aksayananda: No. One may come out of a thousand.
Prabhupada: Yes. They want to remain in degradation, and they will protest again. Therefore to save the degradation, this catur-varnyam must be established. That I... The ideal class. People will follow, "Oh, here is the ideal class." So we are trying to make an ideal class of Krsna conscious people. And if you treat yourself as degraded, then who will care for you? You should remain an ideal class. People will follow gradually.
Mahamsa: If a brahmana class is created, then automatically the ksatriyas and vaisyas and sudras will be changed.
Prabhupada: Yes. Yes. The ideal, if you be ideal class, gradually they will take your advice, what to do. Then immediately the whole degradation will be finished.
Satsvarupa: Why will they take advice? Will they actually be attracted to the virtues?
Prabhupada: Yes, naturally. Just like people come to see me. Similarly, everyone comes.
Aksayananda: Everyone is attracted to you, Prabhupada.
Prabhupada: Yes. So you should be such qualified that people will come to consult you, to take your advice, and... That is the way. [break] ...one after another. Just like if you are a qualified lawyer, when one has difficulty, he comes, consults you, what to do. If you are a qualified physician, then people will come to consult you. So you become qualified, ideal; people will come. Otherwise who will care for you? [break] ...principles. No illicit sex, no gambling, no meat-eating and chanting. These five things only, if you strictly remain on these principles, see how you are respectable. Immediately you'll be respected. Is it not?
Aksayananda: Everyone knows that it should be done.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Aksayananda: Everyone knows in their heart that these things are right. Before I came to the movement, when I read the Back to Godhead magazine, they are doing these things, I was not doing them all.
Prabhupada: No, we are making propaganda in USA. They are attracting attention of the people. Yes. They are saying nice.
Aksayananda: Whenever we see those four rules...
Prabhupada: These rascals, they cannot give up even smoking, ordinary thing. And they become leader.
Mahamsa: It is not very difficult to give up. If one is engaged in Krsna consciousness, it is not difficult to give up these four things.
Prabhupada: Not at all. Very easily, in one second. If you have taken shelter of Krsna, Krsna says, aham tvam sarva-papebhyo... [Bg. 18.66]. These are sinful activities. Immediately Krsna will help you, "All right." Immediately. Krsna said. Is He bluffing? If you sincerely take to Krsna's lotus feet, immediately the effect will be you give up all this nonsense. They don't believe in Krsna, they don't believe in Krsna's word; neither they will surrender; neither they will give up. So where is the reformation? They want to remain in degradation and protesting... This is maya. This is the called, praksepatmika sakti, to keep him in degradation, that "You rascal, you have come to enjoy material happiness. So I will keep you in this degradation and you suffer. I shall kick on your face." This is maya. So what is the result of this protest against degradation?
Aksayananda: They get shot. The police come and shoot them.
Prabhupada: That's all. And tax you and get fat salary. That's all. This is government. They will degrade you and take your money and enjoy themselves. That's all. [break] ...revolution in India. Yes. Because people are hungry. There is no food. A very great revolution. So long they were under Vedic culture, they were suffering. Suffering in this way-tolerating. Now that culture is gone. Now they will be violent. Just like in other countries. If you pinch somebody on and on, there will be a violent protest. In the beginning you may tolerate. But if you go on pinching, pinching, pinching, how long you will tolerate? This is India's condition. Britishers, when they were ruling, had some responsibility. Although they were exploiting, but they were arranging for sufficient food and other things. But these people are irresponsib..., simply personal. "Whatever money I can get, that's all." This is going on. All these so-called ministers, they come to the post for taking money, as much as possible. [break] It must have been belonging to some Nawab, Nizam. It is aristocratic building, not ordinary building. [break]
Mahamsa: ...it could be favorable for our movement? Because we can, people will be very much frustrated at that time?
Prabhupada: Well, people are now shameless, you see? They are being kicked in so many ways. We are giving the prescription, "Here is the remedy," but they are not taking to it. But they will take it. Some of them will take it, provided you remain also ideal. If you become also degraded, then who will take it? Ideal character, ideal behavior, ideal preaching. People will appreciate. [break] ...pure character or position, people will take, in any condition. There may be revolution or no revolution. They will take it. [break] ...that our movement is actually good. They will take in any condition. That standard we must maintain. Somebody... Yes, Balavanta, when he was speaking against smoking, one candidate -- he was important man -- he was smoking. Immediately he wanted to hide. (laughter) So immediate effect was there. He understood that "Yes, this is bad habit." So people will take it, any condition, provided you are ideal. Apani acari prabhu jiveri siksaya. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's movement. He teaches others by behaving Himself. "Example is better than precept." If you cannot rise early in the morning, then how can you ask others to rise early in the morning? What is the effect? There is no effect. We have got business early in the morning, to attend mangala arati. And if you sleep yourself and teach others, so who will take it? [ ...we have introduced. Very, very simple thing. But still, if he cannot... [break] ...(indistinct) Maharaja. He is, he admitted him, smarta pandita, but he cannot rise early in the morning. Never. And he is imitating the smarta panditas. You know that? Smarta, and one pot, and this and that and asana (laughing). And "I had some..., consult with some smarta pandita," and the real business, to rise early in the morning, he will never do. He will never do. Brahmana. Brahmana means he must rise early in the morning. What kind of brahmana? Oh, he is coming. (laughs) Early in the morning at half past seven. If he walks early in the morning, all his disease will be cured. That he will not do. After all, everyone can do after performing mangala arati, take a morning walk. Bathing. [break] How did you know we were here?
Pradyumna: I asked (indistinct)
Prabhupada: Yes. If you rise early and take a walk, all your ailments will be cured. [break] If a gentleman wants to walk early in the morning, he must have his dog friend.
Mahamsa: They have a saying that dog is man's best friend now. Instead of God being man's best friend, they have made it dog is man's best friend.
Prabhupada: Just like he is a dog. [break] ...strike. Simply strike, protest. Where is happiness? [break] ...unnecessary spending. Unnecessary spending, then why you have allowed opening cinema? One side advertisement, "Unnecessary spending," and the other side so many rascal things, so people will spend for that.
Aksayananda: But they will say, "You must have some time to relax."
Prabhupada: That is unnecessary. Everyone will say, "What I am spending unnecessarily that is my relax." [break] ...government officer will have a big bungalow and now there is act that "Others, if he has got a big bungalow like this bungalow, this is unnecessary." Now it is prepared to act(?). And for minister, it is relax, and for common man it is unnecessary. This is then... "Smoking for me, it is relax, and for you it is unnecessary." These rascals are preaching like that. If smoking is unnecessary, it is unnecessary for me and for you also. "No. For me it is relax." [break] Is that their advertisement? Save money?
Mahamsa: Yes.
Prabhupada: And as soon as you save, they will take income tax.
Mahamsa: They have a wealth tax. So if you save that means you have more wealth, and then they tax.
Prabhupada: And they will "relax" by drinking, "relax" minister. "You save money for our relaxation. That is our necessary. You don't spend money." And people are... Because they see that "If I save, it will be taken away. Let me spend lavishly." Yes. Just like we stayed there at Mr. Patel's house. There are three men only in the family: Mr. Patel, his son and his daughter-in-law. They have got eight cars, big, big cars, Rolls Royce. And about twenty servants. They know that "They will take it away. Better spend." Everyone is doing that. Because they know, "If I save, one day the government will take 98 per cent of my savings. Then why save? Better spend." They cannot give in religious institution. If they say they want to give something, no, that will not allowed. Yes. The whole idea is that "You save, and one day I shall take the whole money and we shall distribute amongst the ministers, Indira Gandhi and company. And we relax. We are working so hard, how to impose taxes upon you. So we must have relax." This is going on. Vicious society. [break] ...open. Let us open. (end)
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