 We
have no new discovery. We don't manufacture. This is our
process. We simply follow the predecessor's instruction. That's
all. Our movement is very easy because we haven't got to
manufacture something. We simply repeat the words and the
instruction given by the predecessor. Krsna instructed Brahma,
Brahma instructed Narada, Narada instructed Vyasadeva, Vyasadeva
instructed Madhvacarya, and, in this way, then Madhavendra Puri,
Isvara Puri, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, then the Six Gosvamis,
then the Srinivasa Acarya, Kaviraja Gosvami, Narottama dasa
Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Jagannatha dasa Babaji,
Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, Bhaktisiddhanta
Sarasvati, and then we are doing the same thing. There is no
difference. That is the specific procedure of the Krsna
consciousness movement. You are singing daily, guru-mukha-padma-vakya,
cittete koriya aikya, ar na koriho mane asa. Very simple
thing. We are receiving the transcendental knowledge through
guru-parampara succession. So we have to simply take
instruction from guru, and if we execute that to our heart and
soul, that is success. That is practical.
I have no personal qualification, but I simply tried to
satisfy my guru. That's all. My Guru Maharaja asked me that "If
you get some money, you print books." So there was a private
meeting, talking, some of my important Godbrothers also there.
It was in Radha-kunda. So Guru Maharaja was speaking to me that
"Since we have got this Bagh Bazaar marble temple, there has
been so many dissensions, and everyone thinking who will occupy
this room or that room, that room. I wish, therefore, to sell
this temple and the marble and print some book." Yes. So I took
up this from his mouth, that he is very fond of books. And he
told me personally that "If you get some money, print books."
Therefore I am stressing on this point: "Where is book? Where is
book? Where is book?" So kindly help me. This is my request.
Print as many books in as many languages and distribute
throughout the whole world. Then Krsna consciousness movement
will automatically increase. Now the educated learned scholars,
they are appreciating our movement by reading books, by taking
practical result. Dr. Stillson Judah, he has written one book,
perhaps you know, Hare Krsna and Counterculture, a very
nice book about our movement, and he is giving importance. He
has admitted that "Swamiji, you have done wonderful thing
because you have turned the drug-addicted hippies into devotees
of Krsna, and they are prepared for the service of humanity."
So this movement is so important. We are giving the best
service to the humanity. They are plunged into ignorance. All,
they are rascals, mudha. It is not our manufactured word.
Krsna says, na mam duskrtino mudhah prapadyante naradhamah.
So we have this test tube. If you see one has no information of
Krsna, then he is mudha. We haven't got to study more:
whether he is Krsna conscious, whether he has got any portion of
his heart attracted, attached to Krsna. Krsna means attraction.
So whether he has been attracted by Krsna. That is our natural
position--to become attracted by Krsna. Krsna means
all-attractive. Just like the magnetic stone attracts the iron.
It is natural. And if the iron is covered with dirt, then it
does not become attracted. So this is the test, to make people
prepared for being attracted by Krsna. This is Krsna
consciousness movement. They are by nature... Nitya-siddha
krsna-bhakti. It is not unnatural. Otherwise how you
European, American, you are so much attracted to Krsna? If Krsna
is artificial and Krsna consciousness is artificial something,
so how you should be attracted? That they are surprised. They
are attracted because that attraction is there already. We are
trying simply to awaken that attraction.
Sravanadi-suddha-citte karaye udaya. The matter is already
there. Just like the young man and young woman, the attraction
is already there, nitya-siddha. It is natural. And when
they come near, talk little confidentially, then attraction
increases, not that an artificial attraction. Similarly, our
attraction for Krsna is already there. Therefore... That is the
Vrndavana picture. Vrndavana, everything is attracted with
Krsna. That is Vrndavana. The animals, the trees, the flowers,
the land, and the cowherd boys, the elderly cowherds men, Nanda
Maharaja and others--all are attracted to Krsna. This is
Vrndavana. The Yamuna water, everything. Fruits, flowers and
everything. That is Vrndavana. So Krsna is the center of
attraction. You might have read that when Brahma stolen all
Krsna's associates, so He created Himself again all of them, and
everyone was feeling more attracted by Krsna. So this is
natural. This is not unnatural. Our position is, natural
position is, to be attracted by Krsna. If we do not become
attracted by Krsna, that is unnatural. And to become attracted
by Krsna, that is not unnatural. That is natural.
So we want to revive our natural position, uncovered
position. Now we are covered by dust, by dirt, by corroding
materials. So we have to cleanse this. Therefore the bhakti
process is sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam. I am thinking I am
Indian. You are thinking you are American. This is a dirty
thing, covering the spirit soul. So we have to cleanse this.
Hrsikena hrsikesa. Sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena
nirmalam. Nirmalam means cleansed. When we become cleansed
of all dirty things of material modes of nature, then we are
prepared to serve Krsna. That is wanted. That... We do not
become zero, sunyavadi. No. We become cleansed, and as
soon as we become cleansed, with clean senses when you serve
Krsna, that is perfection. Hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir
ucyate. So this process, the sravanam kirtanam, this
is the process of cleansing. So more you chant, more you hear,
the more you become cleansed, more you become Krsna conscious.
Just prolong this process and be happy.
Thank you very much. (end)
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