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It is not expected that everyone become sadhu. To become sadhu is not so easy thing, especially this nature of sadhu, pure

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"It is not expected that everyone become sādhu. To become sādhu is not so easy thing, especially this nature of sādhu, pure"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1970 Conversations and Morning Walks

So this is a rascal question, "If everyone surrenders, then what will happen to the world?" But that will never happen. It is very difficult to surrender. That he does not know . . . (Hindi: have you understood? Well when they don't listen to God then why will they listen to me.) It is not expected that everyone become sādhu. To become sādhu is not so easy thing, especially this nature of sādhu, pure. How many are there? We have given the prescription that "Give up this, give up this." How many have given up this? So that is not possible, but still, these nonsense questions are raised.

Prabhupāda: They are not doing anything. Actually they are not doing anything. They are preaching only.

Guest (1) (Indian man:) No, but he says that legions of such sādhus, such white men, persons from West, become sādhus, then who will do this job of earning a living?

Prabhupāda: Why he is crying? If he is hungry, let him come here. We shall provide him. Why he is crying for that? What business he has got to cry, "What will they do?" What they will, that they know. Why he is crying? What is his business for crying for this future? If he is hungry, let him come and we shall provide him. This is not . . . that is a childish conception. "If everybody becomes sādhu, then what will be the nature of the society?" That is . . . never becomes. That never becomes.

To become sādhu and to become a Vaiṣṇava is not so easy thing. These idle questions, why they publish? I do not know. This is idle question. It never becomes. Lord Kṛṣṇa personally says that, "You simply surrender unto Me." How many have surrendered till now? Lord Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā that "You give up everything and surrender unto Me." (BG 18.66) So how many have done that?

So this is a rascal question, "If everyone surrenders, then what will happen to the world?" But that will never happen. It is very difficult to surrender. That he does not know . . . (Hindi: have you understood? Well when they don't listen to God then why will they listen to me.) It is not expected that everyone become sādhu. To become sādhu is not so easy thing, especially this nature of sādhu, pure. How many are there? We have given the prescription that "Give up this, give up this." How many have given up this? So that is not possible, but still, these nonsense questions are raised.

Page Title:It is not expected that everyone become sadhu. To become sadhu is not so easy thing, especially this nature of sadhu, pure
Compiler:Nabakumar
Created:2022-10-17, 14:44:49
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1