Preaching is our most important business. People are suffering for want of this Krsna consciousness, so as representative of Krsna, it is our duty to enlighten them, and we should accept all kinds of . . . but there is no difficulty

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"preaching is our most important business. People are suffering for want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so as representative of Kṛṣṇa, it is our duty to enlighten them, and we should accept all kinds of . . . but there is no difficulty"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1971 Conversations and Morning Walks

Preaching is our most important business. People are suffering for want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so as representative of Kṛṣṇa, it is our duty to enlighten them, and we should accept all kinds of . . . but there is no difficulty. Where is the difficulty? I think we are living better than anyone in the world. (laughter) Where is the difficulty? Simply we have to be very sincere devotee of Kṛṣṇa, that's all. Everything Kṛṣṇa will supply. Everything.

710628 - Conversation - San Francisco

We shall not eat more, we shall not sleep more, we shall not mate more. Exc . . . those who are gṛhasthas, they can have sex life only for producing children, that's all. No more. And those who are sannyāsī, brahmacārī, they have no sex life, there is no question of sex life. Sex life is prohibited. But it is a concession for them who cannot live without sex life. That is married life.

Otherwise, sex life is not very important thing. Just like there are brahmacārīs, sannyāsīs, they have no sex life. Therefore this sannyāsa, to go out of home by force, that means they avoid sex life, sannyāsa. You see? I think those who have got children, they should take sannyāsa now and preach. That is my idea. Not . . . (indistinct) . . . idea. Because all the great sages, they waited if they are married.

Just like Kapila Muni . . . Kardama, Kardama Muni. Kardama Muni, he was a great yogī. So he was thinking of marrying, so Kṛṣṇa sent him good wife, Devahūti, a king's daughter. So he thought, "I was thinking of marrying, so Kṛṣṇa has sent. All right, let me marry." But he made a condition to her father that "I can accept your daughter as my wife so long she has no children. As soon as she has children, I shall go away." So the father agreed, "Whatever you like, you can do. I'm just placing my wife in your custody." So the sannyāsī . . . when there is a child of the wife, I think one can accept sannyāsa. Yes.

But preaching is our most important business. People are suffering for want of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, so as representative of Kṛṣṇa, it is our duty to enlighten them, and we should accept all kinds of . . . but there is no difficulty. Where is the difficulty? I think we are living better than anyone in the world. (laughter) Where is the difficulty? Simply we have to be very sincere devotee of Kṛṣṇa, that's all. Everything Kṛṣṇa will supply. Everything.

So in that position, go on preaching. Don't be, I mean to say, tottering. You have taken a great responsibility; go on executing it. Don't fight amongst yourselves for petty things. Go on, advance. Hare Kṛṣṇa.