Room Conversation – June 15, 1975, Honolulu

750615R2-HONOLULU [60:53 Minutes]

Please take to this. Free yourself

Prabhupada: …kaler dosa-nidhe rajann…

After describing all the faults of Kali-yuga, Sukadeva Gosvami is saying, "My dear King, rajan, this Kali-yuga is full of faults just like the ocean." Kaler dosa-nidhe. Dosa-nidhe means this ocean of faults. Dosa-nidhe.

This is very nice verse. What is that?

Simply by chanting Hare Krsna one can become free from all his contamination and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the special advantage of Kali-yuga. This advantage is not... So if one has taken to this Krsna consciousness movement, chanting, then he is saved. Not only saved; he goes back to home, back to Godhead. Not only saved, but he is dispatched in another place, where there is no danger. Padam padam yad vipadam na tesam [SB 10.14.58].

One is transferred to the spiritual world, for them, this nonsense material world, where danger is there in every step, it is not for them. They cannot come. Just like here is epidemic, so a family is transferred to another place. So by this chanting of Hare Krsna, Krsna will transfer to the safety place, go back to home, back to Godhead. It is so nice. Otherwise, you become victimized. You see?

So it is not a fashion; it is compulsory. If one does not take to this Krsna consciousness movement, then he is doomed. Now let him consider whether to take to it or not. That is his business. Krsna is still giving the opportunity, and He has come personally, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, to distribute. That, Rūpa Gosvami understood.

"Oh, You are so munificent! To save us You have personally come to distribute krsna-prema, love of Krsna. So I offer You my respectful obeisances." Krsna came personally, and He advised,

People did not care. Then Krsna came as devotee, Caitanya Mahaprabhu: "You do like this. You take it." So even if we, after hearing so many things [indistinct],

[indistinct] So anyone who does not take to this Krsna consciousness movement, he is most unfortunate. Atma-ha: he is killing himself. Just see. If one kills himself, who can save him? You keep your knife within the pocket, and as soon as there is nobody, you kill yourself, then who can save you? So anyone who is not taking to this Krsna consciousness movement is killing himself, that's all. And we are canvassing, "Please take to this. Free yourself." That is our duty as servant of Krsna. He may take or not take; it doesn't matter. It is our duty as Krsna's servant to speak. [pause] [end]