sreyas / preyas, immediate benefit or future benefit

Krsna says that "I am the friend of everyone." But we are taking the place of Krsna, leadership. I am declaring to my countrymen, to my follower, that "I am your friend." So actually, I cannot be friend because I do not know what is the goal of life. I cannot lead them properly. Some immediate convenience we can offer, and people, being less intelligent, they are after immediate profit. It is called preya. Just like if you say to a small child, "Don't go to school. Please come and play with me," he would like to play with his friend. That is immediate profit. But if you ask him to go to the school, that is remote profit. That is called sreya. And preya, preya means immediate profit. Two young men, if one friend says to the other friend, "Oh, let us go to the cinema," that is very palatable. And if he says, "Let us go to this meeting in Hare Krsna Land," that is not very palatable. This is the distinction between sreya and preya. Nihsreyasaya. Nihsreyasaya means ultimate goal of life, ultimate profit of life.    (More...)