The Best Service to Humanity
- We don't manufacture -- that is our process
- We simply take instructions from Guru
- I wish to sell this temple and the marble and print some books
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- Educated men are appreciating the books
- We are giving the best service to humanity
- Our natural position is to become attracted by Krishna
- In Vrndavana everything is attracted to Krishna, that is Vrndavana
- We have to become cleansed of all dirty things
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- We don't manufacture -- that is our process
We don't manufacture -- that is our process. We simply follow the predecessors instructions, that's all. Our movement is very easy because we don't have to manufacture something, we simply repeat the words and instructions given by the predecessor. Krishna instructed Brahma, Brahma instructed Narada, Narada instructed Vyasa, Vyasa instructed Madhvacarya, and in this way then Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, then the six Gosvamis, then Srinivasa Acarya, Kaviraja Gosvami, Narottama dasa Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Bhaktivinode Thakura, Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, and then we are doing the same thing, there is no difference. That is the specific procedure of the Krishna consciousness movement.
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- We simply take instructions from Guru
We are singing daily: guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya-aikya, ar na koriho mane asa. It is a very simple thing, we are receiving the transcendental knowledge through the disciplic succession, so we have to simply take instruction from Guru and if we execute that with all our heart and soul, that is success. This is practically demonstrated in my case, I have no personal qualification, but I simply tried to satisfy my Guru, that's all. My Guru Maharaja asked me that, "If you get some money -- you print books."
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- I wish to sell this temple and the marble and print some books
I was present at a private meeting with my Guru Maharaja and some of my important godbrothers at Radha Kunda. Guru Maharaja said to me, "Since we have got this big marble temple there have been so many arguments among my disciples. Everyone is thinking, 'I will occupy this room, that room, that room…' I wish therefore to sell this temple and the marble and print some books." Yes. I understood from this that he is very fond of books, and he told me personally, "If you get some money -- print books."
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- Where are the books? Where are the books? Where are the books?
Therefore I am stressing on this point. Where are the books? Where are the books? Where are the books? So kindly help me, this is my request. Print as many books in as many languages and distribute them throughout the whole world and the Krishna consciousness movement will automatically increase.
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- Educated men are appreciating the books
Now the educated learned scholars are appreciating our movement by reading our books and seeing the practical results in our temples. Dr. Stilson Juda has written a book, perhaps you know, Hare Krishna and Counter Culture, a very nice book about our movement, and he is giving importance to the books. He has commented that, "Swamiji has done a wonderful thing because he has turned the drug-addicted hippies into devotees of Krishna and they are prepared for the service of humanity."
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- We are giving the best service to humanity
This movement is so important. We are giving the best service to humanity. They are deep in ignorance so they are all rascals, mudhah. I have not manufactured this word, Krishna says: na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah (Bhagavad-gita 7.15) We have this test, if we see one has no information of Krishna then he is mudhah, we don't have to study any more. The only test is whether he is Krishna conscious. Is any portion of his heat attached to Krishna? Krishna means attraction. So has he been attracted by Krishna?
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- Our natural position is to become attracted by Krishna
That is our natural position, to become attracted by Krishna. Krishna means all-attractive. Just like a magnet attracts iron, it is natural, but if the iron is covered by dirt then it does not become attracted. So this is the test. Our Krishna consciousness movement is to prepare people to become attracted to Krishna. They are by nature attracted, nitya-siddha krsna-bhakti, it is not unnatural, otherwise how is it that you Europeans and Americans have become so much attracted to Krishna. If Krishna is artificial and Krishna consciousness is artificial how could you have become attracted? For this reason people are surprised. You have become attracted because that attraction is already there, we are simply trying to awaken that attraction, sravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya, the attraction is already there. Just like a young man and young woman, the attraction is already there, nitya-siddha, it is natural. When they meet and talk that attraction increases -- not that it is an artificial attraction. Similarly our attraction for Krishna is already there, that is the picture of Vrndavana.
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- In Vrndavana everything is attracted to Krishna, that is Vrndavana
In Vrndavana everything is attracted to Krishna, that is Vrndavana. The animals, the trees, the Yamuna River, the flowers, the land, the cowherd boys, the elderly cowherd men, Nanda Maharaja and others, they are all attracted to Krishna, this is Vrndavana. Krishna is the centre of attraction. You might have read that when Lord Brahma stole all of Krishna's friends and cows Krishna immediately recreated all of the cows, calves and cowherd boys as His own expansions, then everyone was feeling more attracted by Krishna. So this is natural, this is not unnatural. Our natural position is to be attracted by Krishna, it is unnatural if we do not become attracted by Krishna. So we want to revive our natural position, we want to uncover our original position. Now we are covered by dust and dirt so we have to clean this therefore the bhakti process is sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam.
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- We have to become cleansed of all dirty things
I am thinking I am Indian, you are thinking you are American, this is a dirty thing, it is covering the spirit soul, so we have to cleanse this. When we become cleansed of all dirty things then we are prepared to serve Krishna. That is wanted. We do not become zero. No. We become cleansed. As soon as we become cleansed, and with clean senses serve Krishna, that is perfection.
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- The cleansing process is hearing and chanting
So this process of hearing and chanting is the cleansing process. The more you chant, the more you hear, the more you become cleansed, the more you become Krishna conscious. Just prolong this process and be happy. Thank you very much. (An arrival address given by Srila Prabhupada in Los Angeles)
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