Real good
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Prabhupāda: Everything which is not God, that is bad. That is real goodness.
Śyāmasundara: He says it's how we use the word good, not what the word good means.
Prabhupāda: Good means, I already explained, which satisfies my senses. That is good. But God is good. He satisfies my senses and all others' senses. The relative good is it may satisfy my senses but it may not satisfy your senses. Therefore it is not good. Therefore what is good to me is not good to you. One man's food is another man's poison. Therefore this is relative good.
Śyāmasundara: Something which satisfies God's senses, that is real good.
Prabhupāda: That is absolute.
Śyāmasundara: So even words, if they are used to satisfy God...
Prabhupāda: That is good. Anything that satisfies God, that is good. Just like Arjuna was thinking fighting is bad, but when he understood that this fighting will be utilized for Kṛṣṇa's satisfaction, therefore it is good. So how the same bad thing becomes good? Because it satisfies Kṛṣṇa. So anything which satisfies Kṛṣṇa, that is good. Anything which does not satisfy Kṛṣṇa, that is bad.Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Dr. Patel: If nothing but God exists, then bad thing is also God and good thing is also God. That that...
Prabhupāda: Therefore God realization is real good thing.
Dr. Patel: Real good thing.
Prabhupāda: Not this, "This is good, this is bad." That is relative world. You'll find everywhere something good.
Dr. Patel: Good and bad are the bhukti-yoga citta (?).
Prabhupāda: Yes.Yogeśvara: In other words, he's saying that religion has to be defined according to the way the mass of people accept it.
Prabhupāda: That is not religion. That is sentiment. (French)
Devotee: (To Prabhupāda, as Frenchman speaks in French:) They're on the phone speaking with Brahmānanda Mahārāja.
Jyotirmayī: So he says that those who have been just religious and working for the independence, they didn't do any real good.
Prabhupāda: Now, first of all, our proposition is what does he mean by religion? (French)
Jyotirmayī: He said that there cannot be an abstract definition of religion, but only the experience of religion.
Prabhupāda: No, we have got definition of religion. Let him learn from us. (French)
Jyotirmayī: So he says that "I know what is religion, but what brings religion in the concrete life, in day to day life? What good brings religion in the life?"
Yogeśvara: He said, "Even, even if I were to learn your definition of religion, the important thing is how it is practiced. Not just words," he says, "the important thing is how it is lived, how people live their..."
Prabhupāda: Yes. The practice. It is practiced... Those who are real religionists, they practice it. (French)
Jyotirmayī: So he said this is a real problem, how to practice religion, not only on the individual platform, but also on the social platform.
Prabhupāda: No, we are teaching, our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are teaching how to practice religion. (French)
Jyotirmayī: He said that even though he himself is materialist and atheist, he propagates this in his articles, in his newspaper, you know, he propagates certain aspects of religion.
Prabhupāda: No. First of all, we must know what is religion, and what is atheist or what is theist. First of all, if we know what is religion, then we can define who is following, who is not following.1975 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Your preaching is all right, so, provided you preach something good. But when everything is good, then where is the, your preaching required? You preach something. Just like we are preaching. We are preaching. This is actually good for, that he must know what he is and what is the ultimate goal of life. This is required. Material preaching has no value. That is stated in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta. Ei bhāla ei manda, saba manodharma: " 'This is good; this is bad,' this is all mental concoction." Actually. But real good is: "He has forgotten God. Revive his consciousness." That is real good. Then he'll saved from the so-called good and bad and everything. That is wanted. Materially, everything is one man's food, another man's poison. Therefore there is no distinction—"This is good; this is bad." The stool is very bad, bad smell for you, but it is food for the pig. This is proof—"One man's food, another's poison." So this is only mental concoction, "This is good; this is bad."
Everything is good; everything is bad—materially. The real good for him, that he has forgotten his spiritual identification; revive him to that consciousness. That is real good. Somebody brings just now bucketfuls of water, and if he proposes "I shall drench you," "No, no, no, don't you drench me." But you will find—we are going—the ducks, as soon as they..., immediately jump on the water. So whether water is good or bad? It is all relative. So don't bother about this good and bad. It is simply mental concoction.1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Wherefrom you are coming?
Viśāla: From Rome and Paris.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Viśāla: Bhagavān took real good care of us.
Prabhupāda: Where is your wife?
Viśāla: She is here, Your Divine Grace.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He's going to Vṛndāvana.
Prabhupāda: That's nice. He is very good boy. [break] ...that these people are coming for Indian culture, and government is restricting, "Don't come here. Don't come here." We are so degraded.
Dr. Patel: They are frightened of the American CID's.
Prabhupāda: They may frighten. A rascal may be frightened.
Dr. Patel: The Americans are all rascals, they say.
Prabhupāda: That is not the cause.
Indian: What is the cause?
Dr. Patel: Then what is the cause? No, what is the cause?
Indian: (Hindi)
Prabhupāda: Government (Hindi) They have admitted in the Parliament.
Indian: They are frightened in the beginning.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Dr. Patel: I think they are very slow to act.
Prabhupāda: No, the real is that all rogues are in the government.
Dr. Patel: Yes, that is the right thing. Not only rogues...
Prabhupāda: So why don't you, if you are actually serious, why don't you make propaganda in the country that "Please do not give vote to the rogues." Don't mention any party. "If you want to be happy, then don't give vote to the rogues." And who is a rogue? The illicit sex hunters, the intoxicants, and the meat-eaters, and the gamblers. These are rogues.
Dr. Patel: They are all there in Delhi.
Prabhupāda: No, no, you don't mention any. (aside:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. Thank you very much.
Hare Kṛṣṇa. Hare Kṛṣṇa. So it is impartial. And actually, if they test that "Whether this man I am voting, he is free from all these sinful activities?" Then, you see, the whole face of the Indian government will change.Jackie Vaughn: Every one of our presidential candidates is continuing to talk in the same vein, promising and promising all of a temporary nature of solution to our problems.
Prabhupāda: No. Solution is here, Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. You take this movement after studying it scrutinizingly. You'll find: "Yes, this is the only movement for solution of all problems."1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: I am also going there for that. Otherwise...
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think it's a real good challenge. I mean, I feel it's a nice challenge.
Prabhupāda: Now the... We can see practically how the system of civilization is bad, that this Indira Gandhi, rākṣasī, she became exalted in the topmost rank, and she thought... A person who is equally good or more than her, he was imprisoned. Then how the system is bad, that a rogue comes to the topmost post and a good man is put into the prison? Is not the system defective? Imperfect? Some way or other, you can become very important, and the actually important man you can cut down.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Envious system.
Prabhupāda: Animal.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Animals are envious also.
Prabhupāda: Envious is everywhere. So the whole civilization is so defective. Somehow or other, you come to the power, and you do whatever you like, and the people in general will have to depend on such leaders for their welfare. How they can be happy? If the whole system is defective, how they can be happy? The same man, in one day he's very important, in the next day he's the most degraded. And the most degraded man, previously he was praised by millions of people and next day he's condemned. That means who elevated her to the post, they're all rascals.Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember one thing you were taking to loosen the phlegm in Māyāpura when you had a cough. You were taking a little hot lemon juice in the mornings.
Prabhupāda: You can give me.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I remember that. It seemed to have good effects. It also helped for digestion.
Prabhupāda: So any other?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No. Actually I'm right in the middle of doing these accounts, so I probably should...
Prabhupāda: (coughing) So this bank manager came. It means they are little serious.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Oh, this is a real good sign. The last request of the head office is a very good sign. The head office is requesting, "Now please take the letter for him to sign..." It means that they're planning how to get the branch open. And I told this man that "If you get this opened, then surely we will open your branch in our Māyāpura center as well in all other centers."
Prabhupāda: That's nice.Correspondence
1947 to 1965 Correspondence
1974 Correspondence
Page Title: | Real good |
Compiler: | Rati, Madhavananda |
Created: | 20 of Nov, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=2, Con=7, Let=2 |
No. of Quotes: | 11 |