Prabhupāda: So Kṛṣṇa consciousness means swanlike. They should be like swans. Their behavior should be like swans. They should live in cleansed place, at refreshing place. So as soon as somebody will come to the temple, he will be . . .
(aside) You have some papers I shall show?
Śyāmasundara: I just wanted to check and see if there's somebody here. It's Nanda-kumāra.
Prabhupāda: So keep this principle in view, that you have to become swan, not crows. They say that everyone, every religion is all the same. This is all nonsense. Not same. In Bhagavad-gītā there are different types of religion, sāttvika, rājasika, tāmasika. And our this . . . if you take it as religion, this is transcendental. Sa vai puṁsām paro dharmo (SB 1.2.6).
Paraḥ means transcendental. It is not ordinary, aparaḥ. In aparaḥ dharma, the materialistic dharma, there are ritualistic ceremonies how to make one perfect for accepting transcendental religion. But this Kṛṣṇa consciousness is directly putting oneself in the transcendental.
That is the special . . . (indistinct) . . . Caitanya Mahāprabhu . . .
(aside) Why don't you close it?
Caitanya-caritāmṛta say, kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya (CC Madhya 22.62). If you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then it is to be supposed that you have finished all other types of religion. My Guru Maharaja used to cite one example that one's friend was sitting on the high-court judge's bench.
So he was speaking to another, "Oh, that Panchu was playing with us naked. He is sitting on the high-court judge's bench. Oh, how he was playing with us naked? How he is seated in the high-court bench?" "Yes, I have seen. You have seen actually he is sitting." "Oh, then he must not be getting salary. He must not be getting salary." You see? So this is the argument. Familiarity breeds contempt. So he cannot believe that he has become a high-court judge. He thinks that "I am a rascal, fool, and my friend, how he can become high-court judge? He must not be getting salary."
But is that very good argument, such a high-court judge is seated there without any salary? This argument is . . . that is enviousness. Nirmatsaratā. That is the habit of the conditioned soul. So if one . . . (break)
Prabhupāda: There is another example, just one sees the moon "oh,"everyone says it is very beautiful, I spite upon it (makes spitting sound) so what is that spite?
Devotees: (laugh)
Prabhupāda: He falls on his face.
Devotees: (laugh)
Prabhupāda: The moon is far away, the moon is far away from him but he spites and it falls upon him.
Devotees: (laugh)
Prabhupāda: So when a person becomes envious of a great person then he spites and the spite falls upon him . . . and he is far away. And the High Court judge one may accept him that he's not getting salary but he will get his salary, that's all. So parama . . . this bhāgavata-dharma is for the parama-nirmatsarāṇām those who are not envious.
These people are envious they have no personal capacity but they are very much expert to become envious of a person who is capable.
These are crows like, vulture like, tad-vāg-visargo janatāgha-viplavo. So our this movement is not liked by these men, those who are habituated to spite upon the moon. They do not like us because it is hampering . . . it is revolutionary . . . it is hampering their business, that you will have to face but you have to go steady, you can do it . . . just like Gauracand Gosvāmī, you see? What he is?
But he is sitting there as sevite-gosvāmī. The same things are going on like that everywhere. He has no education, he has no spiritual life, habituated to all bad habits, all cliques, all cheating everything but he is the head sevite, this is going on. They have no respect for Vaiṣṇavas, so everywhere you find such things.
Devotee: And everybody knows it but nobody actually wants to do anything. So many people that know it in Vṛndāvana, we talk to them but they don’t want to do anything.