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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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So in this way the inmates of the temple, they can live without going outside. But people have lost such habit. They come empty-handed—"darśana"—that, "I'll not give you anything, but you are a saintly person. Give me darśana, and give me your āśirvāda, and then I enjoy my senses. That's all. Nothing to give you, but you give me your āśirvāda. You give me the dust of your feet. I become benefited. You starve." But (chuckling) that is not the process. So the hunter, he was following the instruction of his Guru Mahārāja, Nārada Muni, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and sitting very peacefully. So people would come, and they were surprised. So, so many people came—heaps of āṭā, heaps of rice, heaps of vegetables. So he became little agitated, "What shall I do with so many, so much quantity? Why he's sending so much? We are simply two, husband and wife. So why he's sending this?".
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[[Vanisource:741020 - Lecture SB 01.08.40 - Mayapur|741020 - Lecture SB 01.08.40 - Mayapur]]
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So it is the custom of gṛhasthas that when a gṛhastha goes to see a saintly person, he should bring some gift. Never mind however insignificant is—at least one palmful of rice or ḍāl or āṭā put there. Give something. If one comes to the temple . . . here are many temples in India still, people come there with . . . one who hasn't got many things, but he brings one palmful of āṭā or rice or ḍāl. This is useful. And in the temple there are three pots: they put ḍāl in the ḍāl, āṭā in the āṭā and rice in the rice. So in this way the inmates of the temple, they can live without going outside. But people have lost such habit. They come empty-handed—"darśana"—that, "I'll not give you anything, but you are a saintly person. Give me darśana, and give me your āśirvāda, and then I enjoy my senses. That's all. Nothing to give you, but you give me your āśirvāda. You give me the dust of your feet. I become benefited. You starve." But (chuckling) that is not the process. So the hunter, he was following the instruction of his Guru Mahārāja, Nārada Muni, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and sitting very peacefully. So people would come, and they were surprised. So, so many people came—heaps of āṭā, heaps of rice, heaps of vegetables. So he became little agitated, "What shall I do with so many, so much quantity? Why he's sending so much? We are simply two, husband and wife. So why he's sending this?"

So actually, for Vaiṣṇava, who is dependent on Kṛṣṇa, there is no want. There cannot be. Yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham, teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.22 (1972)|BG 9.22]]). If one is actually dependent on Kṛṣṇa, there is no question of scarcity. That is the Śukadeva Gosvāmī's instruction, kasmād bhajanti kavayo dhana-durmadāndhān ([[Vanisource:SB 2.2.5|SB 2.2.5]]). He says to the saintly persons to become independent.
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