Participants:
PrabhupādaHari-śauriIndian manYaśomatīnandana
Prabhupāda: How degraded they have become. There is no food, and they are busy for growing tobacco.
Hari-śauri: You say that's what they call a cash crop.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Hari-śauri: The other day.
Prabhupāda: Now eat cash. So cash is also paper. So what is the use of laboring so hard? You eat paper. Paper is available.
Yaśomatīnandana: It is prohibited to buy gold at that temple.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Yaśomatīnandana: You cannot buy gold. Government has prohibited.
Prabhupāda: Because you are rascal, your government is rascal. Democracy. What is the government? Government means your replica. So why do you blame the government? You are fools, rascals; you send other fools and rascals and suffer consequence. Tea, growing tobacco, growing jute, and no grains. And grain for the animal, so that animal, as soon as it becomes fatty, send it to the slaughterhouse, and then finish business. Smoke, eat meat, drink and be happy. So much land, but it is producing tobacco, which we are prohibiting, "No smoking." [break] Vegetable is utilized. [Hindi conversation] These crops. [Hindi] [break] ...nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām. [KU 2.2.13]
Indian man: Prabhā means effulgence.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Indian man: [Hindi] effulgence.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Prabhā. Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs. 5.40].
Indian man: What is meant, "halo" and "effulgence"? That word meaning, "halo"? Prabhā?
Prabhupāda: Halo is kṣatta[?]. Practically the same meaning. [break] Just like field is green and this field is not green. If you take care, every field will be green.
[break] ...prasādam to the audience.
Yaśomatīnandana: Sumptuous.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Yaśomatīnandana: Full plate.
Prabhupāda: Then accept program. [break] ...distribution of prasāda, then we can go everywhere, whole day program. Kīrtana and distribution. So that is going on. And simply dry philosophy, what people will understand?
Yaśomatīnandana: [Hindi]
Prabhupāda: [Hindi] ḍāl, roṭī, chal?, sabjī [Hindi]. [end]
Prabhupāda: Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, the holy name with me will give you peace.
Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare
Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare
[Śrīla Prabhupāda asks everyone to clap their hands.]
I shall speak in Hindi. Translate it.
I thank you all because you chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahamantra along with me. This Hare, the Lord and his potency, just like Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Sītā-Rāma, Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa. The Lord and his potencies. It is there in the Vedas,
na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate
na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate
svā-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca
na tat-samaś cābhyadhikaś ca dṛśyate
parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate
svā-bhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca
The Lord does not need to engage in any work. Just like we see that a rich man or a big man or a minister, they do not do any work themselves. But they have many servants and helpers. Similarly the Lord does not have to do any work with His own hands.
na tasya kāryaṁ karaṇaṁ ca vidyate
And na tat-samaś, the Lord samaś, we are just like the Lord--this is demoniac mentality. There is no one equal to the Lord and there is no one above Him also. na tat-samaś adhikaś. Everyone is below the Lord. So this Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, this is a prayer to the Lord, "Oh Hara! The potency of the Lord, You and Oh Kṛṣṇa, Oh, my Lord! Both of you together, please engage me in your devotional service." Because the living entity’s constitutional position is to serve the Lord. Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: jīvera 'svarūpa haya-kṛṣṇera 'nitya-dāsa [Madhya 20.108]. Every living entity is by constitutional position an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. But having forgotten his constitutional position, he wants to lord it over in the material world. That is why he is suffering. parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate [Śvet. 6.8].
So we in this material world are called conditioned souls, who have forgotten our eternal servitorship to the Lord. Our time is lost in serving māyā, the illusory energy. So by chanting this Hare Kṛṣṇa, we can get rid of this illusory energy.
ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam.
I think we will continue Hare Kṛṣṇa, otherwise they will go away. Therefore I begin Hare Kṛṣṇa. Let them sit down and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.
Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and get them to join in. Take this. [end]