Thinking of Kṛṣṇa Always

0:00Prabhupāda: That's all.

0:01Devotee: Thank you.

Fixing the mind on Krishna

0:03Prabhupāda: So mind, his business is to think something. But ordinarily the thinking is we accept something and reject something. Or accept the same thing and again reject the same thing. This business is going on.

0:20But if you think of question, there is no question of rejecting. Simply accepting. Then it is fixed up. Other things you accept and reject.

0:36Something we accept as "Oh, it is very good." Again, "No, no, it is not good." Accepting. Childish. Child is playing, one type of playing, "No, no, another one." That is material.

0:52And when you fix up—no rejection, simply accept it—that is Kṛṣṇa... So if you think of Kṛṣṇa... Just like here is temple.

1:06If you come and, as other devotees are doing, if you do, if you attend maṅgala-ārati, if you attend bhoga-ārati, always see, then offer obeisances, then naturally you will think of Kṛṣṇa always.

1:40Then as you think of Kṛṣṇa, you become purified. Just like if you touch with fire you remain always warm.

1:49Similarly, man-manā, if you always think of Kṛṣṇa, you gradually become fully Kṛṣṇa-ized, Kṛṣṇa's devotee, Kṛṣṇa's servant. That is perfection. There is no difficulty. People will not do that. That is the difficulty.

2:05"Why shall I think of Kṛṣṇa?

Surrender as the remedy for illusion

2:14I shall think of this, I shall think of that." This is the difficulty. Otherwise not difficulty. You have to think something; think of Kṛṣṇa. That's all. Finished. [Hindi with guest] Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ BG 7.15

3:06Duṣkṛtinaḥ. [Hindi] Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī mama māyā duratyayā BG 7.14[Hindi] Beating with shoes by māyā, that's all. [Hindi] [someone enters] Oh, when you have come?

4:08Woman: This morning.

4:14Prabhupāda: I was thinking of you.

4:20Woman: Oh, yes?

4:20Prabhupāda: So did you go to Bangkok?

4:22Woman: No, I'm going very soon. [converses in Hindi]

4:23Prabhupāda: Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ BG 7.15[Hindi conversation] Indian Māyāvādīs are more dangerous. [Hindi] Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa CC Madhya 6.169

Dangers of false spiritual claims

6:25Anyone who is influenced by Māyāvādī, he's doomed.

6:28Indian man: He's doomed.

6:29Prabhupāda: He's finished. No more spiritual knowledge. He's doomed.

6:31Indian man: How far the study of the scriptures helps us in being Kṛṣṇa conscious?

6:51Prabhupāda: You read Bhagavad-gītā. That is the essence of all scriptures. And follow it. It is, from the very beginning to the end, it is simply helping you. You haven't got to read many literatures.

7:20Just like these American, European boys, they are with me for the last, utmost seven, eight years. Otherwise, three years, four years. So how are they becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious? It is not at all difficult.

7:38They are accepting Bhagavad-gītā as it is, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and becoming perfect. But in India = "Why shall I worship Kṛṣṇa?

8:10I have got this, I have got that." He'll bring thousands of Kṛṣṇa competitors, and he'll himself, he has become Kṛṣṇa = "I am God." You see? He's so shameless that he says that "I am God." God is so cheap. He's shameless.

8:25He has no shame even, how he says that he is God? Māyayāpahṛta-jñāna. So-called jñānī means māyayāpahṛta-jñāna.

8:57Indian man: Māyāvādī?

9:00Prabhupāda: Māyayā apahṛta-jñāna. Māyā. [Hindi conversation] Who is very, very much under the influence of māyā, he is Māyāvādī. Unless he is too much under the influence of māyā, how he can say that "I am God"?

9:27Which is impossible. [Hindi] So many things which makes one rāja, and if you simply imagine, "I am rāja," so how much rascal he is, just see. Mūḍha. Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ BG 7.15[Hindi]

10:17Māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa CC Madhya 6.169If one follow the Māyāvādīs and thinks that "I am God," then he is finished. His future is finished. [long conversation in Hindi]

Sanity through service and protection

14:01That is very nice, that "I have got a protector." [conversation in Hindi]

14:34Indian man: He can be fearless, free.

14:36Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. He's fearless. Natural. I have seen in my practical life. Long ago I was going in a tram car. So my son, he was two years old. The conductor = "Paisa, amsa." Bolte.[?] [Hindi] "Hah!

15:21Mana pitājī he!" [Hindi] He's confident, "My father is there. How he can get me down?" This is natural. Sanātha-jīvitam. Kadāham aikāntika-nitya-kiṅkaraḥ praharṣayiṣyāmi. That is ānanda, that "I have no fear.

15:38I have got my father here. I have got my protector." Sanātha-jīvitam. That is... [Hindi conversation]

Peace and fearlessness through surrender

18:54CC Madhya 19.149কৃষ্ণভক্ত — নিষ্কাম, অতএব ‘শান্ত’ ।ভুক্তি-মুক্তি-সিদ্ধি — কামী সকলি ‘অশান্ত’ ॥ ১৪৯ ॥kṛṣṇa-bhakta — niṣkāma, ataeva 'śānta'bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kāmī — sakali 'aśānta'“Because a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa is desireless, he is peaceful. Fruitive workers desire material enjoyment, jñānīs desire liberation, and yogīs desire material opulence; therefore they are all lusty and cannot be peaceful.[Hindi conversation]

19:24Jaya. [end]