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Acarya means he must show by example. Apani acari prabhu jiveri sikhaimu

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"Ācārya means he must show by example. Āpani ācari prabhu jiveri śikhāimu"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Prabhupāda: Yes. Ācārya means he must show by example. Āpani ācari prabhu jiveri śikhāimu.

Umāpati: There's some austerity, Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Yes. What is that?

Umāpati: They're sleeping on the beach.

Prabhupāda: So what is the benefit of their sleeping? (laughter)

Umāpati: They save their rent money.

Prabhupāda: Eh? That is his misfortune. That is a young man's fashion in your country.

Umāpati: Yes.

Prabhupāda: That is not austerity. That is licentiousness.

Umāpati: Yes. It comes from a time when we admire swashbuckling and being free, so-called, in the material sense.

Prabhupāda: That is reaction. The rich man is trying to become a poor man, "Let me see what is the advantage of the poor man." That's right. Your country (laughs) does not require to lie down like that. You have got enough arrangement. But it is a fashion. That's all.

So fashion is not austerity. That is sense gratification. It appears like austerity, but it is sense gratification. Real austerity is not to make any sense gratification; simply to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is real austerity.

Umāpati: So if Kṛṣṇa required us to sleep on the beach, then . . .

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Umāpati: . . . that would not be . . . if Kṛṣṇa required us to sleep on the beach, that would not be sense gratification.

Prabhupāda: No. And why Kṛṣṇa will require like that? Do you mean to say Kṛṣṇa is a madman?

Umāpati: No.

Yaśomatīnandana: Yes, I was thinking that too. Why would Kṛṣṇa require any of his devotees to sleep on the beach?

Prabhupāda: He wants to see His devotees are comfortably situated. Why He'll unnecessarily ask that, "Go to the beach and lie down?"

Umāpati: You say that Kṛṣṇa stands there smiling very sweetly, playing the flute.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Umāpati: So why should He require us to go through austerities like that? (break)

Prabhupāda: Yes. Ācārya means he must show by example. Āpani ācari prabhu jiveri śikhāimu.

Page Title:Acarya means he must show by example. Apani acari prabhu jiveri sikhaimu
Compiler:BhavesvariRadhika
Created:2023-02-07, 09:31:14
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