We get very much happy when our Guru Maharaja chastises us

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"We get very much happy when our Guru Maharaja chastises us"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Dr. Sharma: Śāsana means punishment, to check.
Prabhupāda: Yes. We get very much happy when our Guru Mahārāja chastises us. So you are already reading our books. So let us cooperate, and I think if you will preach systematically, the Russian people, they are intelligent, they will appreciate it.

Conversation A -- April 17, 1977, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Oh, Caitanya . . .

Dr. Sharma: So I've been reading the commentary after commentary. I enjoyed them. It was full of honey and nectar and knowledge to people who are insignificant and idiots like me. (Prabhupāda laughs) I enjoyed it.

Prabhupāda: Guru more mūrkha dekhi' karila śāsana (CC Adi 7.71). Caitanya Mahāprabhu also presented Himself as idiot number one. (laughs) He said to Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī. Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī asked Him that "You are a sannyāsī. You do not read Vedānta and You chant and dance. What is this?" So He answered, guru more mūrkha dekhi' karila śāsana. "My guru found Me a fool number one, so he has chastised Me, 'You rascal, You are fool. You cannot read Vedānta. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.' " (laughter) So it is good that we remain as fools and idiot. Then we can make progress. And if we think, "Oh, I know everything," then finished. It is a good attitude. Guru more mūrkha dekhi' karila śāsana.

Dr. Sharma: Śāsana means punishment, to check.

Prabhupāda: Yes. We get very much happy when our Guru Mahārāja chastises us. So you are already reading our books. So let us cooperate, and I think if you will preach systematically, the Russian people, they are intelligent, they will appreciate it.

Dr. Sharma: They have an interest, an innate interest, to know about these things.

Prabhupāda: Yes. They want to get something from India. So why not give this?

Dr. Sharma: For many years they have been living like frogs in a well, kūpa-stha-maṇḍūka. Of late they are realizing they have got to come out of this. When I was . . . many people used to come to me. I used to tell them about Hindu religion and yoga, etcetera. They have an innate interest for this.

Prabhupāda: Yes. People are everywhere good. Simply some politicians, they make them bad.

Dr. Sharma: The top politicians, they come in the way. They stop these things. They had a yoga class institute set up in the Moscow University, and when it came to bhakti-yoga, they realized that spiritualism's involved. So at the earliest they want to get rid of this.

Prabhupāda: One book is published, what is that, "Religion"?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Anthology.

Prabhupāda: Anthology. So in that book they have given quotation from my books.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yeah. It's just come out.

Prabhupāda: It is very nice.