So our this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement is that one should understand that we have to render service to someone—either to the society, to the family, or to the community, or to the nation, or to the total human society. So (indistinct) keep a dog. So we have to render service. If nobody is there, you shall render service to something else. That is our nature, our constitutional position. But the difficulty is that here in this material world you go on rendering service to somebody or some institution, neither the servant is satisfied nor the master is served. (indistinct) This is the defect of material civilization. Therefore, when you become intelligent, then, when you understand that our constitutional position is to render service to the Supreme Lord, when you come to that understanding... That is not very easy. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate (BG 7.19). After many, many births of rendering service here and there, one comes to the conclusion, by knowledge, that "My real position is to render service to the Lord." Then we become perfectly in knowledge. Bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is an educational propaganda. Don't take it as a sectarian faith or religion. No. It's... Religion is there, but don't misunderstand that just like somebody takes... Religion means a kind of faith, in the dictionary meaning. So faith, some faith one may accept; one may not accept. But you cannot deny from your constitutional position. Your position is to render service. You have to render service. If you don't render service to Kṛṣṇa, God, then you have to render service to māyā or to the cats and dogs. You have to. So this is an educational propaganda that people may come to his original constitutional position and give service to the Supreme Lord. There is no restriction. Māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ. Here the system, in human society, there is restriction: "No, (indistinct)." That is going on perpetually. But so far the service of Kṛṣṇa is concerned, there is no such restriction.
- māṁ hi pārtha vyapāśritya
- ye 'pi syuḥ pāpa-yonayaḥ
- striyo vaiśyās tathāśūdrās
- te 'pi yānti parāṁ gatim
- (BG 9.32)
Without any restriction, without any hindrance, everyone may join this movement, make his life perfect and go back to home, back to Godhead.