We have become guru, spiritual master, not with a false position that, "I have become God." No. We are servant, simply servant, ordinary servant. Just like post peon. Not very high salaried servant. Ordinary, third-class servant. What is our business? To deliver the letter. That's all. "Here is your letter, sir." So to become spiritual master is not very difficult. Any ordinary man can become, provided he becomes a pure servant, delivering the letter: "Here is Kṛṣṇa's message, sir. You surrender to Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa says: "Surrender unto Me." We, spiritual master, we say, "Surrender to Kṛṣṇa." Where is my difficulty?
I haven't got to manufacture things by high meditation and tapasya. This is tapasya, simply to become a faithful servant of Kṛṣṇa. That's all. So where is the difficulty? This is tapasya, that "I shall not speak anything beyond what Kṛṣṇa has spoken." This is tapasya. But if I want to adulterate, "Oh, I am bigger than Kṛṣṇa. I am greater than Kṛṣṇa. I am Kṛṣṇa," then you spoil the whole thing. That's all. Therefore it is warned, idaṁ te na atapaskāya nābhaktāya kadācana: "Never speak to rascals." Na ca aśuśrūṣave. One who's not . . . here is another opportunity, one is eager to hear.
So we are speaking to persons who are at least eager to hear. Śuśrūṣave. Vācyaṁ na ca māṁ yaḥ abhyasūyati. Abhyasūyati: one who is envious. So this is right warning. But still, our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to create the situation so that people may kindly hear about Kṛṣṇa. That is our business.
Although it is warned that if we discriminate in that way that, "Here is a person, he has not undergone any austerities. He's not a devotee. He's not, I mean, prepared to hear," then where we shall find our customer? The whole world is like that. (Hindi) If, if, if a gentleman tried to find out who is the thief in this village, and after scrutinizing, he saw everyone is thief, so what to discriminate?
So world is so situated now—no tapasya. Just like we are simply asking people, requesting people, "Kindly give up these four principles." What is that? Illicit sex and meat-eating and intoxication and gambling. Oh, it is very difficult. People find it very difficult. Even a person like Lord Zetland. He was proposed that . . . he, he inquired . . .
One of my Godbrother went to London, and he was talking with Lord Zetland, Marquis of Zetland. So Marquis of Zetland inquired, "Well, Swāmījī, can you make me a brāhmin?" "Yes, we can make you brāhmin." "How?" "Now, you just give up illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling." "Ohhh, it is impossible. This is our life. This is our life, to have boyfriend and girlfriend and drinking and meat-eating and gambling. If we give up all this, then where is our life?"
Therefore we require tapasya. This is tapasya. Here is only four simple things. And if you ask anybody, "Give up drinking tea," oh, you will find a thunderbolt. Thunderbolt. "Oh, what you are speaking? I shall give up tea-drinking?" "At least, you are a sannyāsī." "No, I have to drink tea in the morning, at least, so big cup. (laughter) And then smoking gāñjā. And I become God." This is going on. This is going on.
Therefore it is warned, "Don't talk this, the philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā, to the rascals who has no austerities, who has no devotion, who is not prepared to hear." But the servant of Kṛṣṇa, they take all risk for Kṛṣṇa's sake. Just like Rāmānujācārya. Śrī Rāmānujācārya, his spiritual master said, "My dear son, the mantra which I am giving, you shall silently chant and you'll be delivered.
It is so powerful. Don't chant this mantra loudly so that other can hear." So Rāmānujācārya thought, "If the, this mantra is so powerful that if others hear they'll also be delivered, so why not?" He immediately went to the market and began to chant the mantra. So his spiritual master became very angry, that "I told you not to chant loudly so that others may not hear." So he said, "My Lordship, I have done offense unto you. That's all right. For this, I can . . . I am prepared to go to hell. But if this mantra is so powerful, I must speak to everyone."
So that is our proposal. Although we are warned not to speak to the rascals, but still, we are flattering, "My dear sir, please hear, please hear, please hear. Please give up this habit. Please do it." So to turn one man to Kṛṣṇa consciousness we have to shed hundred tons of blood. So therefore it is warned. We are not easy-going that not to preach. We have taken the risk to preach. And it has, it is becoming successful. People will take it.