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Smiling means

Conversations and Morning Walks

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Smiling means he is satisfied in every respect.
Morning Walk -- October 17, 1975, Johannesburg:

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa (in car): People have to be great fools not to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Prabhupāda: Grateful?

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Fool.

Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Yes, mūḍha. Therefore we say, mūḍha. That is the state, symptom. Na māṁ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ (BG 7.15). As soon as you see that one is not Kṛṣṇa conscious, then he is mūḍha. Judgment is already there. (break) ...this lump, (laughter) lump of matter. It is our mental concoction that "This lump is bad; this lump is good." The whole thing is lump. There is no such discrimination, "this lump" or "that lump." (break) ...being a lover of God, nobody can smile, that's a fact.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Without being a lover of God.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Brahma-bhūtāḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). That is stated in Bhagavad-gītā. Who can become a... Smiling means he is satisfied in every respect.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa is always smiling, isn't He?

Prabhupāda: Yes. Smeran bhangi-traya-paricitam. Kṛṣṇa is always smiling and standing in curved position. That is jubilant.

Page Title:Smiling means
Compiler:Rishab
Created:11 of Mar, 2012
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1