19820508 Evening Darśana

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The following is an Evening Darśana lecture given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on May 8, 1982 – in New Orleans, USA.

Different Kṛṣṇa Conscious teachings. So when the mind gets restless like that, then we can see that, well, this is just a restless nature of the mind. Then once you learn to control the mind like that, then as you develop a taste for devotional service, then it’s very easy. Could you understand?

Yeah.

So you’re determined to cross over all these hurdles.

You’re going to try.

Very good. But also if there’s any specific difficulties, then you can always. It’s good to talk with some senior devotee about any individual difficulty specific if it repeatedly bothers. That way it’s like getting ammunition to be able to fight with that particular Māyā and letting some of the pressure off kind of builds up sometimes in anxiety.

Excuse me, Grace. The fluorescence only takes six books like all these different stores that I caught so far. And it’s going to get too late to do any more then the other choices. The only thing they have with kerosene is the hurricane dime, which you couldn’t carry around too long. Right. It wouldn’t be worth of glass. And then they have. Oh, propane. You can’t get propane in here.

Not raising it.

No. Well, I don’t know what to say.

Propane is pressurized.

Pardon?

Propane is pressurized.

No, I think it comes in a little flash thing.

You know, they don’t sell little flasks.

You know, they don’t sell those little things. And comes in this little metal thing. Right.

Okay.

It comes with a little metal tube.

Kind of thing they don’t have.

But it’s pressurized. Yeah, it’s pressurized. In it. In it too. I think. You don’t have that many. Well, I don’t know what to do.

Just get the cauldron. Just get the jug.

Okay.

Maybe get a little flashlight that fit in the briefcase.

Just a little one for a little small little flashlight. Yeah.

We will leave the other one. We will just have to wait.

Pin wipe type thing.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay.

Where’s my. The neighbor? If we do a big care tell you the neighbors are gonna get upset.

I don’t know the only person. Person below us and I am not sure if she’s home and it’s her day. So I don’t think it was too much trouble. But I don’t see this Billy shop. So I said I am not in this Billy Joe summit today.

Small ones.

There was any specific question that came up?

No.

You get a chance to read a little bit every day?

Yeah, I read at least an hour a day. I read the small BHAGAVAD P. I read the. The one with all the proports in it because I didn’t have one. But if I get a hold of one of those that I will read it over.

You read some of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam also?

No, I haven’t. I have got the first pen. I going to start that. I am reading a small book.

Small book’s apparently good.

Perfection of something like that. Path to Perfection. Path. The Path to Perfection. That’s a nice book.

Those are lectures by Śrīla Prabhupāda. So you basically read the Bhagavad Gītā and Path to Perfection.

I just started the Path to Perfection.

And Baba Gītā you read once.

Yeah, the small version. Not with all the purports.

And when you read questions come up, you take a note to ask questions.

I have been told to do that, but I really. The whole thing is too much to absorb it because you don’t have particular questions. Just trying to understand it all.

Like sometimes if you read just like Faraday was reading a certain passage and they couldn’t understand what a basic paragraph meant. So they came and asked what does this paragraph mean? Like that sometimes if you read a purport and then a little bit hazy on what it means. Sometimes it’s nice to ask someone to explain and hear what they say. No one brought them. A drunkard in my hand.

I just got my flag.

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Assemble devotees.

She might.

Say Hoag.

Sunday to Africa.

Program Bor Pilot Guyana Se Dosh Ishai Hare Kṛṣṇa. Where are the little wonders?

I can’t bring that one.

I have to go and cook.

I have to set my tape back up.

I have to go back and cook.

All right.

Might as well turn this one.

Turn it on too.

Turn it off. What’s this tape for?

For us.

Nobody’s watching any of the tapes. Shijuke even set this one up. They just taped the kīrtana and a few other things. Jata, I brought some. Did I show? I brought some ship plans with me from Thailand that they just arrived.

These are going.

This one also they made for me, I think.

What? Right?

Yes.

Sure.

Pagoda boats. Pagoda boat. They want to have a pagoda boat towed. Death for Thailand. You saw in the recent time the big celebration they had in Newsweek. They have in Bangkok. It’s the 200th anniversary. They installed one Vishnu temple there. Also one Vishnu shrine.

Because Vishnu, they say.

They claim that somehow by Vishnu’s blessing they could start Bangkok.

I don’t know the whole details.

And they have these royal barges which are in the shape of swan or something. And gold gilded. So this.

This one devotee had a dream where.

Prabhupāda came and told that you should do boat preaching all over Thailand. And that there should be one temple boat, one lecture boat, one devotee boat like that. So then he just made some rough sketches of how very simple, just simple. His idea was to have a simple boat pulled by some tugboat. And use that existing kind of country boat that are there and remodel that. There’s a whole different concept that they will just keep it from place to place and let the people go aboard and have a darshan of the different deities.

So he had already built these boats.

In the future, I was thinking that was system. I thought in Calcutta I am making a pagoda boat. Because I thought india people would be very attracted by a pagoda. Something they’d never seen so much.

Of course, the lower part of the boat actually is not visible anyway. It’s only the top over the deck. How you decorate. You can make any appearance the main, the carrying part.

But there’s a danger if it’s too high or something. It might be out of balance.

No, you can balance it, you know, so that, you know, you have to maintain the balance. The balance or what they call it, a stability of the boat. Like keeping the meta center lower. So that, you know, anything you build up is more high, but it’s not heavy. But everything is below. Like your engine and, you know, machinery and everything else. All your stores, you know. So up above is just a shore. It’s very light and not much weight actually. The wind might, you know, definitely.

Or you have to make it wider.

These cantib boats are. Anyway, just barge is kind of very wide and not very. That wouldn’t be good for long distance. That’s just for like taking a little bit and then parking it and letting people come on. For Māyāpur, we want to take out a boat that can actually cover at a quick pace and go from Calcutta to Māyāpur. So that’s a different kind. This is where you just have like some simple boat decorated very nicely. And then you tow that from one place and leave it there in a little distance. Little distance.

Houseboats like that maybe.

I don’t know much about house one.

Just simple crash itself.

But you know, they have a whole household.

It’s probably much bigger. They’re six. They’re 70ft long.

70, 80ft long.

I think houseboat probably is only 20ft long.

Yeah, 20 to 36ft.

Did I show you the pictures of the festival this year?

No, sir.

They sent me from South America. They took some very nice photos.

People from here. They didn’t bring any pictures then.

Here’s a picture of the long building and you can see the gardens here. That now that actually we should have taken. They had a picture of the gardens, but I. I didn’t. They didn’t send that for some reason. You pass it to the others.

When I was there last summer, they were still building those.

Here’s one of the main buildings on tents.

Have you seen?

Is that the original building?

This is the original building, yeah.

So this is like the.

Yes. Well, what H. What? That’s where all the devotees stay when they go for their gora pūrṇimā. It’s packed on the fire and the women stay and they have one whole wing and then the men stay and this side. But this year about 1000 devotees came from all over the world. So there’s 250 rooms and that works out to about 8 a room plus sleeping on the veranda. So they sleep on the veranda on the roof, anywhere and then keep their things in room. And you can comfortably sleep maybe four, five, six in a room. Some of the rooms are big. I mean some of them maximum this size. And most of them are a little smaller than this.

Who stays in the room where the temple is not.

That’s directly guest during the festival. That’s only for the gurus and the GBCs.

Then the fountain is working now.

The.

The big pumpkin.

Oh yes. They took. I have hands the pictures around in. Then they take the perikram out from the temple. Here are all the devotees in perikram. It’s an unlimited stream.

Oh yeah. Clear sky.

Beautiful. All the devotees like that. It’s really.

Where are they headed?

That’s heading towards the birthplace of Lorchitan. Then on the way, we’re halfway there. And this is a Prabhupāda disciple. But he lives the Grihasthe lives in a little village there. So he came out and his whole family, they’re offering some Prashanam to the Nitāi Goy deities. And other villagers also came out and made the offerings.

So you take the deities with the.

Oh yes. The deities are always on the bird. Lord Nithyananda, he would do the prayer Quran. Then this is at the birthplace of Lord Chaitanya. You can’t see here that here the devotees here myself and maybe Ramesh or Bhagavān.

What about that construction going on there?

This is just as For a pandal, for making a tent, they put up these bamboos. Here’s the birthplace of the Lord Caitanya here. Prabhupāda said, we want that we should build here one kīrtana hall for them. But they don’t allow us to do it.

Who owns that hall?

It’s supposed to be public property, but it’s run by one of the Gauḍīya Maks. Here all the devotees are listening to the class.

So when we hear Gaudium Ma, that doesn’t mean one organized body, but it actually several.

No, it used to be. Now it’s like 30, 40 branches.

They didn’t. They didn’t stick together.

They were supposed to make a governing body and work cooperatively, but they didn’t do it.

Are they completely separate or is it like completely. Not like the United States. You have the United States and you have all completely different.

That’s sad. Therefore, they don’t have any unity on northwest.

These are much start by Siddhānta Swami Prabhupāda, the Gauḍīya month. Or is it different?

Yeah, he originally started the Gauḍīya mission and now there’s so many Gauḍīya Saraswat Mission, Gauḍīya Math, Gauḍīya this, Gauḍīya that. They all have a different little name again.

In Jagannath Purī, they had.

They had branches there. So many branches.

Yeah, they had a big temple. They had.

Here’S at the Jagannath Mandir, but we can’t see Jagannath. But this is also ISKCON’s place. All the devotees are now doing a Prabhupāda pūjā. During the Purikarma, we would go out and have prasadam picnics on the way here we’re going. We are just waiting at the site of the Ganges. There, as you can see, Harikeswami and Jagjivan Maharaj, they’re waiting just across the Ganges. Actually, they didn’t have a nice photo of the crossing of the Ganges. They’re all waiting by the side of the Ganges. This all happens, you know, india. You wait for the fair.

You should go with the same ferry the guy pulls with the bull.

Yeah, but we took about 50 of those. And there’s so many people.

The river must be real low that time of the year.

Not so low anymore because of the Faraka Barrage. Then when we crossed the river, then the devotees, they were chanting and dancing. And you can see this little boy here. He’s completely off the ground. He’s up in the air. Everyone’s dancing. All the local people, boys also came out. All the local village boys. And they’re chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.

What is that island across Jalangi like? If you’re going from Jalangi to Navadir?

Yes, that’s.

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The local Karmī name, but the spiritual name is that’s called Gojumdvi. So that again, the outskirts, I mean, the outer petals of the lotus. One of them, like Māyāpur, the birthplace of our Caitanya, is considered to be the center of the lotus. And eight petals going around. So where are Goshala? Up to the Jalangi river, over to the Chankhazi Samadhi. And the birthplace like that, kind of in an oval shape, that’s considered to be Antadvi. And part of our land is on the Rudra Dweep, which means that’s the island for friendship with the Lord. And the Jagannath Mandir is in Śrī Manthatvi. That’s the island of hearing. Godram Deep is chanting. Then behind the Godram Deep, there’s Madhuatvi. That’s for remembering. And then in Navadri town is considered Koladvi. That’s Slavana, Kīrtana, Smara, Bandana, offering obeisances like that. Ritu Duit. So here they’re crossing.

That’s in Ritu Duit. That’s in Janudwi. Actually, I skipped ahead. That’s in Janudwi. I wanted to go around, kind of take you around. That’s actually in Janudwi. So if you go from one island to another, you have to cross water, or you can. Now there’s only three rivers, but before, the Ganges was in so many little tributaries that each island was separated. Are there still the old river? Some, yeah, you can see some of them. No, you can see a lot of the old, but not to that extent. I mean, the Gantt is changes. Even within 10 years, it’s changed a few hundred yards, so to speak, of 500 yards. Sometimes it abruptly changes, you know, even a few miles at one point. If it goes through one of the old courses, then suddenly it just shifts. You mentioned the other ones.

You were here before. Now it’s predicted that the Ganges, you know, covered all the islands for 100 years. 200 years. 200 years. And then it went back down. When it went back down, was not divided up in nine. Is that when it did matter? Yeah. So here’s in Godrum Dui. That’s the second. And Godrum DV is where Lord Nishinghadev came after he killed Hirani Kashipu. He came there. And then there’s these different hills and there’s this pond. He used to bathe in the pond, and there’s hills there. And he was just lived there for a short time. And all the demigods used to worship him. And so there’s a temple there, ancient deity of Lord Nashingida that was recovered from this lake. And all the devotees, so they came and took a bath in the lake. This is the island on the side, Gaudrum.

That whole land is in the area of Gaudrum. This is the Jalangi River. No, that’s a plan that’s called. Then from there went across the river through Navadvip and went to the place of Gorge. It’s a special temple made by one of the associates of Vidadhar. And it was made just during the time when Gaddafar and Lord Caitanya were present in the very end of their pastime. So I don’t have a picture of the deity here are the devotees listening to the glories of that place. We had tents put up wherever went. Then went from there to the place where Lord Caitanya heard the. Where he used to go for his classes when he was just a small boy. That’s in Vidyanagar. It’s the birthplace also of Sarabharma Bhattacharya.

There we had all the American women and I had the Bengali women show them how to oodle. Oodle. There were so many women there, Bengali women that were the villagers. So I said, we’re going to go Nitaigo Haribol. So during this time, all the American women and all the Bengalis, you should show them. I told the Bengali women in Bengali, you should show them how to do this. They don’t know how to do it. will you show? Oh, yes, they’re very happy to do it. And so then they all went in their little huddle and then they were going, however they do it. But I think the American women were completely the Western. They were completely, you know, afraid, you know, although were doing not only to see, but they will usually hide their faces when they do that. Yeah, they hide it.

Yeah, they do it at the time of marriage and things like that. It’s called Suba. It’s like going a corn shower some here when they’re going around the fire. Especially in marriages, you know, then at that time, every time they make one round, they make this here’s at that same place, Vidya Nagar. His divine grace Panchalaveda Maharaj and Trivikram Swami Hari K Swami. They’re also there actually at charade. He came for a total of 15 minutes on Trikram. He did, he walked. It was amazing. He walked over the field and he was coming and then I spotted him. And then immediately, as soon as he came, I had him sit down and handed him a microphone. I asked the photographer, why didn’t you get his? He said, they came so fast and went that I didn’t even realize.

And that was at the place of Sitaram Rai Gupta’s temple. And we had like a transcendental traffic jam there. There were three perikram parties in three different temples of different, you know, Gauḍīya temples. All came there, came right there. And so it was like a traffic jam. How did other Gauḍīya do they also have a lot of celebrations at this time? Oh, yes, yes. Is that the temple across the street from Pogil Ashram temple? No, this is all Māyāpur Sitarang temple. Here’s the temple of Vasudev Dutta. These deities are there. And Suramgatakar Suramga Ṭhākura was the devotee who Lord Caitanya told him to take a disciple. But he was always delaying. So one day he was feeling so bad that I never took a disciple, that he decided, the first person I meet, I will initiate.

So in the morning he went up and he went to the Ganges. And when he took a bath in the Ganges, he felt the body touch him. And so then he thought, oh, here’s the first person. And he pulled the person over and then chanted in his ear. But it was a corpse that was floating in the Ganges, that someone drowned in the Ganges. And they were just floating. But his mantra was so powerful that when he chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa in his ear, he came alive. And he said, well, how you brought me. I was at a marriage party. I went for the, you know, bathing before the wedding. And then I was swept away by the current and I was dead. And my, you know, I’d already gone away. And now you channel this mom turn. I come back.

So he said, now I owe my life to you. He said, well. And so then after that, he was initiated, and he was initiated already. And then he’s Moraris. He just stayed in his ashram. And he was a very famous Ashari also. So that’s the temple that we had discussions of all those things there. This is where I live. This is my room. And you can see over the fields. And this is. We’re giving a seminar, a Namhad and congregational folk program. Vukunda Goswami and other devotees around there. Be a little bit hot up on the roof now. Yes, on the top. Very nice. It’s very hot even then. Nice in the winter. Yeah. In July it was very hot. And there are a lot of plants on the roof. Yeah, It’s a big roof garden. Yeah. Prabhupāda has to start a roof garden.

India is very, you know, common. Most people have. And here’s that Vrindavan. They’re all bathing at the Casey Ghat. I think I have one or two other Vrindavan chat. Where’s Pir? He’s in Washington in one of the. He’s the chaplain from Maryland. Here’s a Māyāpur Gurukul Kīrtana group, the chaplain for the study for the University of Maryland. So these are the ones we hear on the tape? Yes, well, there’s some. Those are the ones here in some of the things I am missing a picture of the devotees jumping off the Kusum Kunjan Vrindavan. I wonder where that picture went. I handed out these pictures in Detroit. It seems one or two. Better keep my eye on these. Such a nice picture of Śrīla Harrakesh, my son. He’s ready. He’s a GBC in the charity of Sweden, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and the eastern black Soviet Union.

Soviet Union. We did one story that sometime. He’s the one that did all the preaching in depression. He just can’t go there now. Sometimes he gives initiation to the Russian devotees by telephone. We were. Sometimes we have to jump off the windows. The KGB would come. Yeah. Sometimes the KGB walked in and they would say that, well, we’re just singing folk songs. This is Bengali folk songs. And then everyone would start chanting, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Hare. And KGB would be furious. But that was in the beginning they weren’t so heavy. But then later on they figured out what Hare Kṛṣṇa was. So then there was the whole initiation ceremony, and they walked right in on it. So then after that they had the ceremony and he gave him the mantras by his telephone. Quite a few devotees in Rashi.

So they’re all underground, more or less, in a sense. Oh, yes. I heard that there’s one country ashram, and then you go in the country ashram and behind a big bower of cr, the paper is on the wall. You lift it up and beneath it says, you know, iskcon or Hare Kṛṣṇa temple or something. But otherwise you can’t see it. They sent one of our preachers to Siberia working the salt mine. A Russian boy. Russian, yeah. Salt. Salt mine, whatever. Is that what they work? Salt mine? Very big wrist. He saw that. This here was very nice. Nice pictures. Beautiful. Yeah. They didn’t Have a good picture of the gardener. Hi. When I went this they were putting those lamp post all along there. Now it’s all finished. All finished. Good. Nice. You want this here nickname? Whatever a short disciples call him.

I think they call him Chidandipat. Yeah, the guy said they said that at the festival. But then everyone laughed and so he didn’t know if they were simply making some sentencing joke or if that was going to be his accept initiating name. A good man. Yeah, but he said when they said it, everyone kind of laughed when heard it. They didn’t understand what that meant. If it was for real or they just. I think they laughed out of joy. Oh yeah. I was warrior whose baby back. I have a friend I haven’t seen in a long time. He like one of these people, you know. I don’t know how to. How to actually look at, you know, position of those devotees, you know, Meaning just completely left field or it’s hard to. For years, you know, the lack of faith in Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Śrīla Prabhupāda said that we shouldn’t associate particularly with them and that in terms of how to propagate Kṛṣṇa consciousness they have some idea which feels is not Rlabhaki Siddhānta Saraswat’s exact idea. Therefore we shouldn’t intimately associate with them. Not me. Now they can associate at all. Dad, you can read some of the things. Rickendar has a bunch of things. You can see he read one morning TBC statement had been drawn up. You know, everyone else saw you came late. Oh my father. Here we have bhagwaguita text at chapter 18 text 5. Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance Are not to be given up but should be performed indeed. Sacrifice, charity and penance Purify even the great Soul. Purport by R.L.A. Prabhupāda Translation mathematician Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance Are not to be given up.

Are not to be given up but should be performed. But should be performed indeed. Sacrifice, charity and penance. Indeed. Sacrifice, charity and penance Purify even the great soul. Purify even the great soul. Report the yogis should perform acts for the advancement of human society. There are many purificatory processes for advancing a human being to spiritual life. The marriage ceremony, for example, is considered to be one of these sacrifices. It is called Vivaha Jagya. Should a Sannyāsī who is in the renounced order of life and who has given up his family relations Encourage the marriage ceremony. The Lord says here that any sacrifice which is meant for human welfare should never be given up. Vivah yagya, the marriage ceremony is meant to regulate the human mind to become peaceful for spiritual advancement.

For most men, this vivaha jagya should be encouraged even by persons in the renounced order of life. Sannyāsī should never associate with women. But that does not mean that one who is in the lower stages of life, a young man, should not accept a wife in the marriage ceremony. All prescribed sacrifices are meant for achieving the supreme Lord. Therefore, in the lower stages, they should not be given up. Similarly, charity is for the purification of the heart. If charity is given to suitable persons as described previously, it leads one to advanced spiritual life. So the different acts of charity, sacrifice, penance, they should not be given up. When therefore advancement of Kṛṣṇa consciousness actually by the very strict Vedic people, not strict in the sense they’re very overly strict, but known as smart Brahmanas.

That means that they’re simply attached to rules and regulations without actually knowing the real purpose of the scripture. They would sometimes criticized Rla Prabhupāda as a sannyāsī. He would organize marriage of his disciples. But actually the point is that whatever is good for the spiritual advancement of someone, that should be organized, that should be given. So if someone is going to be spiritually helped by having a Kṛṣṇa conscious householder life, then the spiritual master organizes that. And that is authorized by the Bhagavad Gītā. Here, whatever is necessary, a sannyāsī himself is not allowed to again marry. But that does not mean that if he cannot advise others who do not have not taken those vows to accept that responsibility or that sacrifice, it is a sacrifice. Look at today in the modern world, people don’t want to marry at all.

They just want to have what they call free love. And as a result, their spiritual life suffers incredibly. And they just become very body conscious. And it creates a great disturbance in society. So the acceptance of a married life is actually a sacrifice as seen sometimes. One Frenchman, he came all the way to India to marry an Indian girl from an orphanage. And the newspapers asked why he came so far. He said why? In France, women don’t want to get married anymore. I didn’t think they would take it seriously, so I came to India. Sometimes in the west, people are becoming more and more un austere. As a result, their mind becomes more powerful and becomes dissatisfied in so many ways. So we should accept various types of sacrifices.

That may be the sacrifice of performing Sankirtan, sacrifice of serving Kṛṣṇa an association devoting sacrifice of accepting Vivaha Jagya or the sacrifice of Marriage Ceremony Text 6 Etanyapi Tukalamani Sangam Chapter all these activities should be performed without any expectation of reception. They should be performed as a matter of duty. O son of Pritha. That is my final opinion. The Kṛṣṇa is saying translation repetition. All these activities should be performed without any expectation of result. They should be performed as a matter of duty. They should be performed as a matter of duty. That is my final opinion. That is my final opinion. Therefore, although all sacrifices are purifying, one should not expect any result by such performances. In other words, all sacrifices which are meant for material advancement in life should be given us.

But sacrifices that purify one’s existence and elevate one to the spiritual plane should not be stopped. Everything that leads to Kṛṣṇa consciousness must be encouraged. And the Rmad Bhāgavatam also has said that any activity which leads to devotional service to the Lord should be accepted. That is the highest criterion of religion. A devotee of the Lord should accept any kind of work, sacrifice or charity which will help him in the discharge of devotional service to the Lord. Sometimes people, they will accept some act of sacrifice, but they will be thinking that I have to get this material benefit out of it. And just like if people get married just for the purpose of sense gratification, thinking that well, we will just be able to live together and be happy materially without any higher spiritual purpose, then that sacrifice is actually the mode of passion.

As a result, they’re often breaking up or sometimes by illusion someone does a sacrifice that’s in the mode of ignorance, actually just bewildered. Someone said so many nice things and one becomes attractive and they think, oh, I will get married. And those also ultimately cause pain. Any activity, any other type of sacrifice. Sometimes you find india people are doing these satyagrahi, they’re fasting and relay fast hunger strikes for the purpose of some political demonstration. But this is all for some mode of passion or some ignorant purpose. It’s not actually for ultimately benefiting the spiritual life of anyone. So here it says that actually all these type of activities sacrifice during penance. They should be performed without any expectation of results. In other words, if you get a material result, alright. If you don’t get a material result, alright, you’re not depending on the material result.

You’re performing it because it will be helpful to your Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I know in South America there are some disciples that. Not my disciples particularly, but there were some Devotees there that left the temple. And they were saying that, well, we have been living in the temple for five years. We don’t have our own car, we don’t have our color television set. You’re only given, you know, two bedrooms, you know, two rooms to stay, and we want to have our own this or that. So many different things. And then they left, saying that how by Kṛṣṇa Consciousness they didn’t get the fulfillment of all their desires. But the point was, of course, they became very materially motivated. Maybe they lost vision of what was the real thing they were supposed to be getting from Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone can get a television set.

What do you need a television set for in Kṛṣṇa Consciousness? Unless you got itv. So one has to. If one goes into some sacrifice for some material desire, then of course that will always have a limited result. But when one performs Kṛṣṇa Consciousness, one doesn’t limit it by having any material desire as a condition. If Kṛṣṇa gives something, that’s his mercy. If he doesn’t give, that’s his mercy. But one is focusing upon the unlimited result of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. So whatever is helpful for our devotional service to Kṛṣṇa, we accept. And whatever is not helpful, we reject. Text number 7 Niya tatsyatu sannyāsa prescribed duties should never be renounced. If by illusion one gives up his prescribed duty. Such renunciation is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Prescribed duties should never be renounced. Translation Repetition Prescribed duties should never be renounced.

If by illusion one gives up his prescribed duties. If by illusion one gives up his prescribed duties, Such renunciation is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Such renunciation is said to be in the mode of ignorance. Report work for material satisfaction must be given up. But activities which promote one to spiritual activity like cooking for the Supreme Being Lord and offering the food to the Lord and then accepting the food, I recommend it. It is said that a person in the renowned sort of life should not cook for himself. Cooking for oneself is prohibited, but cooking for the Supreme Lord is not prohibited. Similarly, a sannyāsī may perform a marriage ceremony to help a disciple in the advancement of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness. If one renounces such activities, it is to be understood that he is acting in the mode of ignorance.

Actually, sometimes cook during special festival day. Teach us. He taught how to cook in the beginning. Where else would they learn from? He used to teach how to cook. He would teach everything that the devotees know. How to wear a dhoti. Even in the very beginning, he had to show someone, tell them how anyway how to even wear a Saree because there was no one to teach anyone anything. So he had to teach. Even would sometimes come in and he would teach them how to wash the pots and pans. In the very beginning you can find from the vilamrita also.

So if one has to do something for the purpose of preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the one time I understood that Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasota he was approached by his disciples that the laborers have refused to work and we have a whole field of dal that has to be picked and what are we to do? And so then Bhakti said, show me the field. And he went out and they showed him the field. And he said, how do you pick it? He said, well, you just take it with the hands and pull. So then he went down on his knees and he started pulling. But then everyone was forced to. There were so many devotees, but they were dependent upon the labor. So then all the devotees just got down and started to pick. And what could they do when the guru was showing?

So sometimes when they have to do anything. So if we renounce something that actually is necessary for spiritual life, because we think, well, this is a material activity, I can’t drive a car india. Some sadista, they walk all over India barefoot. They think that it’s Māyā to go into a car. But now that’s gradually falling away. But they actually have no philosophical basis. This is the real basis. If it’s helpful for Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you can do it. Text 8 Dukam ijeva yatkarma kaya klesha bhayat ya j Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome or out of fear is said to be in the mode of passion. Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation. Translation with repetition please.

Anyone who gives up prescribed duties Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome or out of fear, or out of fear is said to be in the mode of passion. Is said to be in the mode of passion. Such action never leads Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation. To the elevation of renunciation Purport One who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should not give up earning money out of fear that he is performing pruitive activities. If by working one can engage his money in Kṛṣṇa consciousness or if by rising early in the morning one can advance his transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One should not desist out of fear or because such activities are considered troublesome. Such renunciation is in the mode of passion. The result of passionate work is always miserable.

Even if a person renounces work in that spirit, he never gets the result of renunciation.