SPD04-11 Morning Walks Melbourne, 1974

SPD04-11
Morning Walks
Melbourne, 1974
SPD04-11
[16:46 minutes]
[00:00] [Prabhupada:] Therefore it is the vidhi-marga. Vidhi-marga means to work under the direction of the spiritual master.
[00:10] Just like apprentice in a factory. One is working as apprentice, he does not know how to...
[00:19] But gradually, when he becomes practiced, then he gets a good job, good salary. Is it not?
[00:29] Similarly, this is apprenticeship.
[00:32] To rise early in the morning, offer mahgala-arati and bhoga, this, that, so many rules and regulation,
[00:38] then naturally there will be a spontaneous love. In the beginning there is no spontaneous love.
[00:46] One has to work under the direction of the spiritual master and sastra, scripture. [break]
[00:57] [Hari-sauri:] Yes. They were saying that this was then a form of idol worship,
[01:01] because there was no realization in the service...
[01:03] [Prabhupada:] No, no. Even if there is no realization, it is not idol. It is idol worship for the rascals, not for the devotee.
[01:17] A devotee, under the direction of his spiritual master, is engaged in the service of the Deity.
[01:27] The idea is that you cannot approach the Supreme Lord in your present
[01:35] condition; therefore He has agreed to take your service just like a stone.
[01:43] You can handle stone. You can handle. But you cannot handle this, virat-rūpa, the gigantic form.
[01:52] So it is His mercy. Just like I have give this example many times: Just like a small letterbox, it is a post office.
[02:06] But for your facility, it is a box. It is post office. Actually it is post office.
[02:14] You put the letter, and it will go 10,000 miles away. How it goes? Huh? How it goes?
[02:26] [Madhudvisa:] It goes to the GPO, and then it is dispatched.
[02:28] [Prabhupada:] That's all right. Because it is authorized, therefore the work is being done.
[02:35] You don't think, "I have put it into a small box."
[02:38] It has gone to the post office, and work is going on.
[02:41] Similarly, for your facility, Krsna has appeared before you as stone, as wood, but He is...
[02:45] Stone is also Krsna. That requires a little brain. He can take service in any form.
[02:55] That is Absolute. Because the stone is not different from Krsna.
[03:00] It is Krsna's energy. So He is able to take service from you in any way.
[03:10] Therefore you have to approach Him authorizedly.
[03:13] Just like if you imitate a small box in your..., write simply the same letterbox, red,
[03:20] that will not go. That will stay there for millions of years.
[03:27] But the box which is authorized, that will go. Is it clear?
[03:34] Tell these rascals, "It is not idol worship." [break]
[03:49] He knows, he has heard law or scripture book, "This is sinful, and the man is going to be punished."
[03:57] But still he will do it. Still he will commit the same criminal acts.
[04:06] That means want of knowledge. He is embarrassed.
[04:11] He is so much with ignorance that he cannot restrain him.
[04:17] So therefore, if he doesn't do it, then he remains always pure. Always pure.
[04:24] Initiation means he is purified. But if he does not contaminate again, then he remains purified.
[04:34] But if he purposefully contaminates again, that is his fault.
[04:40] Otherwise, during the time of initiation he is completely freed from all sinful reaction.
[04:47] Completely. The spiritual master takes all the reaction of his sinful life.
[04:56] Just like Krsna says, aham tvam... [break]
[05:03] This is the relationship stated in the... We have discussed in Caitanya-caritamrta.
[05:12] It is not a joke, accepting a disciple, accepting... It is not a joke. It is a very important task.
[05:25] It is not that joke, that "You pay me $35 and I give you deliverance immediately,
[05:32] and I push your eyes and you will see the light, and..." No. This is not.
[05:42] These are, the both of them, going to hell.
[05:49] Andha yathandair upaniyamana te 'pisa-tantryam uru-damni baddhaḥ .
[05:57] Caitanya Mahaprabhu has therefore warned that "Don't make many disciples."
[06:01] There is risk. But for preaching work a devotee takes the risk:
[06:06] "All right, let me go to hell; others may go to Krsna."
[06:11] That is just like Prahlada Maharaja says. [break]
[06:16] Christian philosophy? Is it not? Just see. Their love is so, that "You go to hell; let me enjoy." Just see. [break]
[06:36] [Madhudvisa:] Shall we turn back, Prabhupada?
[06:38] [Prabhupada:] Yes.
[06:55] [sound of clapperboard] What is this sound means?
[06:58] [Madhudvisa:] That means "Begin to roll." "Action!" It means action.
[07:03] When they snap that, that's the beginning of the shooting.
[07:12] The boy who was following the cart, in the red, he is making one documentary film all about
[07:18] your stay here in Australia. Then it will be distributed to the government. Actually, this is
[07:25] an independent film. It can be put it into a library, and people can get it for their schools, colleges. [break]
[08:03] [Madhudvisa:] Some people would say that Krsna consciousness is too austere. Too austere. It should be taken in stages.
[08:12] [Prabhupada:] What is there austerity? Eh? You are starving? We say "Don't eat meat." Is that a very great austerity?
[08:25] [Madhudvisa:] No. That is the easiest to give up.
[08:28] [Prabhupada:] Then, no illicit sex. We don't say no sex. Illicit sex. So where is the austerity?
[08:41] [Madhudvisa:] Well, devotees, they must rise early in the morning, take cold bath.
[08:46] [Prabhupada:] That is healthy. Because "Early to rise... Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy and wise."
[08:56] That's a fact. What to speak of early rise, practically I don't sleep at night.
[09:09] Only two hours, that's all. Still, I go up in the early in the morning. What is the wrong there? No, I don't sleep in. [break]
[09:22] It is only practice.
[09:35] On account of illicit sex there are so many troubles. So many troubles, this illicit sex.
%%FOLIO_PARAGRAPH_STYLE_bWFyZ2luLXRvcDowLjA3OTg2MTFpbjttYXJnaW4tYm90dG9tOjAuMDc5ODYxMWluOw==%%[09:56] What is the answer? Huh?
%%FOLIO_PARAGRAPH_STYLE_bWFyZ2luLXRvcDowLjA3OTg2MTFpbjttYXJnaW4tYm90dG9tOjAuMDc5ODYxMWluOw==%%[10:04] The easiest method for solving problems and becoming happiness is there. There is no loss. There is no expenditure.
[10:15] But still they'll not do it. Then?
 

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