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Preaching is our only business, preaching. Whatever we do, it is aimed at preaching

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"Preaching is our only business. Preaching. Whatever we do, it is aimed at preaching"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Preaching is our only business, preaching. Whatever we do, it is aimed at preaching.


Room Conversation -- September 18, 1973, Bombay:

Acyutānanda: Well, like sometimes the devotees are preaching, but they get feelings of getting entangled, so they want to . . .

Prabhupāda: That means it is not yet perfect preacher. He requires perfection.

Acyutānanda: So they argue with me or some other . . .

Prabhupāda: It is not the question of arguing.

Acyutānanda: No, they say: "Well, I want to fix myself up," and we want them to preach.

Prabhupāda: Preaching is our only business. Preaching. Whatever we do, it is aimed at preaching.

(aside) Namaskāra. (break)

That is our business. Whatever we are doing, it is for preaching. (break) In, in the practice or in the engagement of preaching, their position is better than those who are worshiping the Lord in a secluded place, bhajanānandī.

Acyutānanda: What about those who are preaching, but imperfectly, and those who are . . .?

Prabhupāda: Even it is imperfect . . .

Acyutānanda: It's better than just sitting.

Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) If he's sincere, it cannot be imperfect. Because . . . we are always imperfect, but Kṛṣṇa will help us. Teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam, buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi tam (BG 10.10). How he can be imperfect? Kṛṣṇa will give him intelligence. Imperfect means whose intelligence is not perfect. But when Kṛṣṇa is giving intelligence, how he can be imperfect? He may be imperfect, but he's being helped by Kṛṣṇa. Therefore he's not imperfect.

Page Title:Preaching is our only business, preaching. Whatever we do, it is aimed at preaching
Compiler:Labangalatika
Created:03 of Dec, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1