Krpanan. Krpanan means misers. All these persons who are in this material world, they are hankering after material enjoyment, and they have no interest to understand spiritual life. Such persons are called krpana. Krpana. Trpyanti neha krpana bahu-duhkha-bhajah [SB 7.9.45]. I have several times discussed this verse, that this material life, especially, material life means sex life. So everyone is suffering for indulging in sex life, but in spite of suffering, they are not satiated. Therefore they are called krpana. Krpana means miser. Brahmana means liberal, and krpana means miser. Every one of us, we have got this valuable body, human form of body. If we utilize it, then..., utilize it by brahma-jnana, then we become brahmana. And if we do not utilize it, then we are krpana. So here it is said krpanan. Krpanan means "These people, these conditioned souls, they are not endeavoring for liberation from this material world." They are so callous, foolish, just like cats and dogs, eating, sleeping, and mating. That is their happiness. So they are reluctant. Nobody is interested in Krsna consciousness. Therefore you have to... By the grace of Krsna you have to adopt such means that they may be interested a little about Krsna consciousness. Otherwise they are so dull and miserly, they do not understand that Krsna consciousness movement is very, very important for them. They have no sense even to understand. But the preacher who is Krsna conscious, he knows that without Krsna consciousness these people are condemned. They cannot be happy. They cannot be liberated. They will simply remain within this material world, accepting one body after another. And whichever material body we accept, it is meant for suffering. It is not meant for any happiness. Tri-tapa-yatana. The three kinds of material miseries-adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivikahe has to undergo.

So only the devotee, Krsna conscious devotee, he can deliver them. He goes from town to town, village to village, house to house, to bring this message of Krsna and deliver him. Prahlada Maharaja is promising, naitan vihaya krpanan vimumuksa eko: "I do not wish to go alone. Give me some strength so that I can deliver some of them. It is not possible to deliver all of them." But that is a very important engagement for Vaisnava. Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written in his Caitanya-siksamrta, we can understand a Vaisnava very nicely when we see that he has converted so many conditioned soul into Vaisnava life. That is the estimation of a Vaisnava. If I simply try for myselfI may be very advanced devoteethat is not very much appreciated by Krsna. Prayena deva munayah sva-vimukti-kama. Everyone is interested. There are gosthy-anandi and bhajananandi. Bhajananandi is interested for his own welfare, or they think it that he is not competent enough to preach; therefore he does not go for preaching work. Sva-vimukti-kama: "Let me look after my own affairs." "Oil your own machine."

So this is another stage, and other stage is a devotee taking all risk, preaching for the benefit of the whole human society. He is called gosthy-anandi, increasing the number of devotees. That is preferred by Krsna. It is said in the Bhagavad-gita, ya imam paramam guhyam mad-bhaktesv abhidhasyati: "Anyone who is engaged in preaching this confidential science of Bhagavad-gita," na ca tasmad manusyesu kascid me priya-krttamah, "nobody is dearer to Me than he is." So if you want very quickly recognition by Krsna, go on preaching Krsna consciousness. Even if it imperfectly done, but because you are sincere in your capa..., whatever capacity you have got, if you preach, then Krsna will be very much pleased. I have seen practically. In my Guru Maharaja's day there was a paper, Dainika Nadiya Prakash. It was being published daily, a piece of paper, just like I was publishing Back to Godhead. And if a small brahmacari would go to Navadvipa and would sell a few copies, one paisa a copy, that would be taken as a great preaching by Guru Maharaja: "Oh, you have sold five copies? Very good." Because people are so reluctantthey are not at all interested in Krsna consciousnesstherefore we become very much engladdened when we see that some of our books and literatures are sold. They will read and be benefited.

So this is the mission of high-class Vaisnava, how to preach Krsna consciousness among the suffering humanity, and this is the purport of this verse said by Prahlada Maharaja, and we are following the footprints of Prahlada Maharaja. Never mind even it is imperfectly done, we must execute the orders of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, yare dekha tare kaha krsna-upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. I may not be so very expert in delivering the message of Krsna, but my duty is to try to my best capacity how to distribute this knowledge to the suffering humanity.

Thank you very much. (end)