Prabhupāda: I remember those days immediately when I see the sea.
Haṁsadūta: You were getting seasick?
Prabhupāda: No, I liked it. Although I was sick, still, I liked it. Day and night, for thirty-five days.
Haṁsadūta: I came to America in the same way, but I was always sick. I didn't like it.
Prabhupāda: The sea journey is very good provided there is no sea-sickness. Otherwise very bad. Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare Hare Rāma... (break) ...all of our books in different languages. At least all the European languages. America is one language.
Guru-kṛpa: South America.
Prabhupāda: South America, different languages. Spanish.
Guru-kṛpa: Spanish, Portuguese.
Prabhupāda: Hare Rāma Hare... What about that Japanese translation? Something is done or not?
Guru-kṛpa: Just a magazine.
Prabhupāda: No. His wife was translating Japanese?
Bali Mardana: It has to be checked over.
Guru-kṛpa: There is a girl in Tokyo who is very expert.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Bali Mardana: She's doing?
Guru-kṛpa: She's been doing the magazine. She can do more. (break)
Jayatīrtha: Yesterday Nitāi found a quote from the Purāṇas that says, "There are many gurus who will take away your money, but rare is the one who will take away your miseries."
Prabhupāda: Guravo bahavaḥ santi vittāpahārakaḥ.
Nitāi: Yes, right.
Prabhupāda:
- guravo bahavaḥ
- santi vittāpahārakaḥ
- taṁ tu guruṁ na paśyāmi
- śiṣya-santā-pahārakāḥ
"There are many gurus. They are very expert in plundering disciples' money, but it is very difficult to find out a guru who can take out all the anxieties of the disciple." Śiṣya santa-pahārakāḥ. Guru is meant for taking away the santāpa. Saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka-trāṇāya kārunya-ghanāghanatvam **. "The śiṣya will be peaceful"—objective of life—that is the business of guru, not to take away his money.
Haṁsadūta: In one lecture you were explaining those prayers, saṁsāra, and you said the first business of the guru is to take away the anxiety of the disciple.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Now, our people, they have got some hope that they're going back to home, back to Godhead. And all other rascals-zero. Who is endeavoring for zero? What is this endeavor?
Haṁsadūta: There's nothing to do for that.
Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. In Bhāgavata also—gurur na sa syāt. He should not be guru unless he is able to protect his disciple from the imminent danger of death. Na mocayed yaḥ samupeta-mṛtyum. This cycle of birth and death is going on. Guru's business is how to stop this cycle of birth and death. And it is not very difficult. Teach him to understand Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa is assuring, "If anyone understands Me nicely, then after giving up this body he comes to Me." Where is the difficulty? Give him Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he is saved from birth and death. There is nothing wonderful. There is no jugglery. Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti (BG 4.9). (break) ...only institution for mitigating the sufferings of humanity. But they don't know what is the real suffering of humanity. Dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti. That is the real suffering, cycle of birth and death. Na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum (SB 7.5.31). These rascals, they do not know what is the goal of life, svārtha, self-interest. Unless he comes to Viṣṇu, there is no question of svārtha-gati. (break) ...reclaim this portion, eh... (break) ...strong and stout. Not all. (break) Yesterday it was a very nice city, and today it is finished. This is called māyā. (break) And there is no God. Just see how intelligent they are. To pour water whole night thousands of miles, can the scientists arrange? So who is arranging for that? His father? His father, of course, arranges, but he does not agree to offer respect to the father. (break)
Siddha-svarūpananda: Another boy in a different place, householder, his business is making surfboards for a living. He builds the surfboards, and he puts big pictures of Kṛṣṇa, Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, on the surfboard so that when the boys are sitting on the board, like you saw that boy sitting on the surfboard, all day long they are looking at the picture.
Prabhupāda: Very good. (break)
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Tulasī grows profusely in Hawaii.
Prabhupāda: That's a good sign.
Siddha-svarūpānanda: Yes. Many people, hundreds of people, are worshiping tulasī. Even people we don't know, they, somehow or other, they have gotten tulasī, and they are worshiping.
Prabhupāda: Very good. They will become devotee. Without any fail, they will become devotees. If they chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and worship tulasī leaf, they'll be liberated without any fail, and they will become devotee. (break) ...gradually appreciate. (break)
Kīrtanānanda: But the little boy, the three year old boy, he appreciates very much. He loves your books.
Prabhupāda: Oh.
Yaśodānandana: Śrīla Prabhupāda, yesterday on saṅkīrtana I was distributing a book to someone, and when he saw your picture he said, "Ah, yes, in 1966 I chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa."
Prabhupāda: Ācchā?