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Why I should be bothered about that? Let me do my duty as human being. That is required

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"Why I should be bothered about that" |"Let me do my duty as human being" |"That is required"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

It requires intelligence that, "They are coming and going. Why I should be bothered about that? Let me do my duty as human being." That is required.

Prabhupāda: Human life begins when he understands what is dharma. That is human life, beginning or Hindu religion hai, Muslim religion hai, Christian religion hai, Buddhist religion hai, Jewish religion hai (Hindi: If you give up dharma itself, then it is animal life. Any civilized human society will have religion. There is Hindu religion, Muslim religion, Christian religion, Buddhist religion, Jewish religion). The religion must be there. But when we give up this religious process, then there is no more human life; it is animal life. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Girirāja: (pointing out something) So by that . . . there's a emblem of the Theosophical Colony.

Prabhupāda: I see. Oh, yes, yes. (break) One old lady . . . you know, in the villages there is fair, or market. So in the morning she saw that so many hundreds of men have assembled. So one lady of that village, she thought that, "They have become my guest." So she began to cry and was asking his son, her son, "Oh, how I can accommodate so many people? How can I receive them as guests?" So the son said: "My dear mother, don't be agitated. In the evening you come." So in the evening when she come, there was nobody. There was nobody, because a marketplace. So this botheration is just like the old lady. After seeing so many men, she is agitated. And in the evening there is none.

So it requires intelligence that, "They are coming and going. Why I should be bothered about that? Let me do my duty as human being." That is required. Ek sat me dekhila (saw them together) (break) . . . unlimited number of living entities. Ananta. Ananta means you cannot count. Within your body, within your stool there are millions of living entities. They are provided, maintained, by your stool, by your urine. So why do you bother? If your stool and urine can provide so many living entities, why you bother yourself? (Hindi: This has to be understood.) You do your duty as human being. Dharmeṇa hīna paśubhiḥ sa . . . don't become animal. That is required.

(Hindi: Here we are sending so many animals to the slaughterhouse daily and then we worry over feeding animals. Just see.) (break) . . . the essence of knowledge. People are diverted in so many ways. Human duty is . . . (Hindi: You have read Bhagavad Gita.) (break) That is human duty. Be surrendered to God. That is your duty. Then everything will come automatically. Everything will come. And without knowledge, how you can take care? That is not possible.

Satsvarūpa: Prabhupāda, we're late for our meeting. (break)

Prabhupāda: . . . be strong. Now nobody cares for it.

Mr. Sar: All these movements, at one time, sometime Ārya-samāja movement was very strong, sometimes another's. They come and go.

Prabhupāda: But this Kṛṣṇa movement is always strong. There are millions of Kṛṣṇa temple in India, and the Ārya-samājīs tried to check people going to the temple. But they, they have gone away, and the temple is existing, and millions of people still going to see the temple. In Jagannātha temple, in Vṛndāvana, thousands and thousands of men, still coming. All the South Indian temple.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Tirupati.

Prabhupāda: Tirupati.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 25,000 people a day.

Guest (1): 25,000 years old?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, people are coming every day.

Guest (1): Oh.

Prabhupāda: But their income is more than one lakh of rupees daily.

Guest (1): Yes, yes.

Prabhupāda: (aside) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Kyā nām āpkā? (Hindi: What is your name?)

Guest (3): (Hindi: My name is . . . (indistinct) . . . I live in . . . (indistinct) . . .) (break)

Prabhupāda: Ācchā. (break) . . . that is our slogan. Satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi (SB 1.1.1). Janmādyasya yataḥ. We explain this truth. The truth is that from whom everything comes. Janmādyasya yataḥ. So He's person or imperson? No, abhijñaḥ svarāṭ. Tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ.

Devotee: Kṛṣṇa says: "There's no truth superior to Me."

Prabhupāda: Yes, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7). The truth is there. They do not know. Half-educated. This is very good, "Truth is the . . ." We also say, but they do not know what is that truth.

Satsvarūpa: They leave the question hanging that, "No man may actually know what it is."

Page Title:Why I should be bothered about that? Let me do my duty as human being. That is required
Compiler:SharmisthaK
Created:2022-09-04, 03:47:16
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1