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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">Everyone is working hard for material benefit. So why someone? Everyone. Who is not working for material necessities? Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca saman... If the cats, dogs, human being, everybody is working very hard.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji|Morning Walk -- May 3, 1976, Fiji]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Buddha's name is also considered hari-nāma?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Buddha's name is also considered hari-nāma?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What is that?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Holy name? If one chants...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Ah, yes. He is mentioned in the Bhāgavata.</p>
<p>Guru-kṛpā: Śrīla Prabhupāda, what does the word "buddha" mean?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Buddha means "one who knows, in perfect awareness." That is buddha. Buddha. In Bhagavad-gītā this word is there, buddha. From buddha, budh-dhātu. (break) ...see the Sanskrit word, bodhave. Budha-bhāva-samanvitāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8|BG 10.8]]).</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you mentioned two different types of servitors. One is seeking to steal the property of the master as soon as the master is gone, and the other is sitting waiting...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's thief; he's not servant. He's a thief. He has taken service as a matter of means that "If I remain as a servant, I'll get the opportunity of stealing." So he's not a servant, he's a thief. Stena eva sa ucyate ([[Vanisource:BG 3.12|BG 3.12]]). (break) ...becoming a thief, if you have got some desire, you ask, "Kṛṣṇa, I am very poor. Please give me some money." That you can do. That is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā. Ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha. Ārtaḥ, one who is distressed, he's praying. That is beginning. But when he's advanced.... Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. He'll say, svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varam..., "Now I'm satisfied. I don't want anything." That is perfect stage. But even one goes to God and prays for something, he's called pious. Because he has approached God. And because he has approached God and he's asking God, there is some transaction in this way, by association of God, he'll be purified. One day he will say, svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi varaṁ na yāce ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 22.42|CC Madhya 22.42]]), "Now, I am fully satisfied. I don't want anything. I don't trouble You. Let me serve You." (break) Why the devotee will ask from God? Kṛṣṇa says, yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham, teṣāṁ nityābhiyuktānām ([[Vanisource:BG 9.22|BG 9.22]]). He says the responsibility, "I shall supply everything, whatever you want." So why the devotee will ask? If the child knows, "My father is there, my mother is...," why he shall ask? The father will take care whatever he wants. It is unfaithful that "God cannot supply my necessities. I'll have to ask Him." He knows everything. Why shall I ask Him? That is pure knowledge. (break)</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: ...circumstance there for someone who's endeavoring very hard for material necessities?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Someone who is endeavoring very hard for material necessities, is his position the same—faithless?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not follow.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: One who is going to...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Everyone is working hard for material benefit. So why someone? Everyone. Who is not working for material necessities? Āhāra-nidrā-bhaya-maithunaṁ ca saman... If the cats, dogs, human being, everybody is working very hard.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Say, for example, one who is engaged simply in preaching.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Huh?</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: One who is engaged simply in preaching.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: He's serving Kṛṣṇa. He's not material necessities.</p>
<p>Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: So Kṛṣṇa is supplying all facility at least to maintain body and soul together.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, yes. I went to your country without any money. Now Kṛṣṇa has given. I went with forty rupees; now I have forty crores. Who has done this business? So if you serve Kṛṣṇa, so Kṛṣṇa will supply everything, whatever you need, require. He doesn't require to ask for it.</p>
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