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Go on fighting and chant Hare Krsna. Everything will be right. There is no cause of disappointment

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"Go on fighting and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Everything will be right. There is no cause of disappointment"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

So to become devotee means to do the best service to the family. If there is one devotee in the family, all the forefathers, they are delivered. So anyway, don't be disappointed. Go on fighting and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Everything will be right. There is no cause of disappointment.

Rāmeśvara: Actually, one argument that they use . . . they have found an old Back to Godhead article that I think you wrote, Śrīla Prabhupāda. It was about Arjuna's position during the battle of Kurukṣetra, where he had to fight against his relatives. You were commenting that, "So sometimes you may have to even kill your family members for Kṛṣṇa." So they take this magazine article, and they say that, "Hare Kṛṣṇa leaders are teaching all the devotees to kill their parents." So this is an example of how they will distort everything.

Prabhupāda: That . . . you can distort anything. If there is expert distortion, it is . . .

Trivikrama: We can kill our parents even, like Prahlāda.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is actually required. Prahlāda did not protest. It is a great sin, if your father is being killed before you, if you do not protest even: "Why you are killing?" not to give protection. But even if you do not, then you are not worthy son. So in that way Prahlāda Mahārāja was accused that in his presence his father was being killed. He did not protest, neither he . . . rather, he was ready with the garland: (laughs) (laughter) "As soon as my father is killed, immediately garland the Lord." So that is not the fact. And he is . . . later on, he requested that, "My father was a great offender. So kindly give him protection." So he's not . . . that son. He knows . . . he knew that, "This my father is being killed by the nails of my Lord. It is his great fortune." Why shall he protest? He's seeing that "My father is being released from this material existence." Why shall he protest? And still to confirm it, he requested the Lord that, "This my rascal father made so many offenses . . ." But for him he did not ask anything, but he's such a good son that for demon father he requested. So how much faithful son he was, this is the proof. Not that he was unfaithful. He knew it, that "Let my father's body be separated from his soul by the Lord. That is good for him." And still to confirm it he personally requested that, "My father may be excused." "Why your father? Your father's father, his father, everyone, up to fourteen generations."

Jagadīśa: Paropakāra.

Prabhupāda: So to become devotee means to do the best service to the family. If there is one devotee in the family, all the forefathers, they are delivered. So anyway, don't be disappointed. Go on fighting and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Everything will be right. There is no cause of disappointment.

Rāmeśvara: Actually, the field now for preaching in America is better than ever. More people are becoming interested to hear what we are and what our message is than ever before because of all this controversy. Whenever something is making newspapers that is confusing or controversial, they immediately want to hear about it, because they have a tendency to look for faults.

Prabhupāda: That is everywhere.

Rāmeśvara: So they're very eager to have us come to the colleges and high schools . . .

Prabhupāda: Envious.

Rāmeśvara: . . . to speak. It's much easier now to get lecturing engagements than ever before. They are after us to give our lectures.

Page Title:Go on fighting and chant Hare Krsna. Everything will be right. There is no cause of disappointment
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-12-08, 10:37:41
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