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Nobody drinks poison knowingly, but these people, we are all drinking poison knowingly. They're refusing to take Krsna consciousness

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"Nobody drinks poison knowingly, but these people, we are all drinking poison knowingly. They're refusing to take Kṛṣṇa consciousness"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

This Narottama dāsa's song, a very practical and very easily applica . . . Jāniyā śuniyā . . . Nobody drinks poison knowingly, but these people, we are all drinking poison knowingly. They're refusing to take Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So little difficult, but very responsible task.

hari hari biphale janama goṅāinu,
manuṣya-janama pāiyā, rādhā-kṛṣṇa nā bhajiyā,
jāniyā śuniyā biṣa khāinu

This is going on. Knowingly they are drinking poison, and we are trying to save them. Very difficult task. Jāniyā śuni . . . This Narottama dāsa's song, a very practical and very easily applica . . . Jāniyā śuniyā . . . Nobody drinks poison knowingly, but these people, we are all drinking poison knowingly. They're refusing to take Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So little difficult, but very responsible task.

So at least bring five hundred students. Then it will be very nice, gradually. Respectable gentleman, big, big man, at least these big, big merchants, their student doesn't . . . Just like Birla family, other big, big . . . If they require some technologists, they can hire. There are so many tech . . . Technologist means śūdra. And actually they are doing that. They do not train their own sons to become technologist. They pay for that, the śūdras, as servants are . . . The Englishmen used to say these men, craft and technology, "educated laborer." They are laborer and little educated. There are uneducated laborer, just like carpenter. He doesn't require any education. If he knows how to rub on . . . What is called, that? That instrument? He doesn't require to become M.A. Ph.D. All these laborers are working so nicely. So why they should spend . . . waste their time in going to school and college? From the very be . . . As soon as he's ten years old only, let him learn practically how to weave cloth, how to become carpenter, how become other craftsman.

Page Title:Nobody drinks poison knowingly, but these people, we are all drinking poison knowingly. They're refusing to take Krsna consciousness
Compiler:Anurag
Created:2022-10-03, 06:13:11
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