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[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Responding to Comments... 1976]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Morning Walks, 1966 - 1977]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - Morning Walks, 1976]]
[[Category:Prabhupada Speaks - in Australasia, Melbourne]]
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<h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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Then that means he is not a devotee. Devotee means the first sign will be happy, brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā (BG 18.54). If he's not prasannātmā, he's a rascal. He has not entered even devotional life. He's outside. That is the test. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. When he saw Viṣṇu: "Everything is all right. I don't want anything." Svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi (CC Madhya 22.42). That is Vaiṣṇava. And if he is still in want or unhappiness, that means he has no spiritual life at all. He is simply making a show.
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Devotee (3): Often the devotee thinks that he's more unhappy than the ''karmīs'' because he knows he's unhappy.

Prabhupāda: Then that means he is not a devotee.

Devotee (3): He's not a devotee.

Prabhupāda: Yes. He's not devotee. Devotee means the first sign will be happy, ''brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.54 (1972)|BG 18.54]]). If he's not ''prasannātmā'', he's a rascal. He has not entered even devotional life. He's outside. That is the test. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. When he saw Viṣṇu: "Everything is all right. I don't want anything." ''Svāmin kṛtārtho 'smi'' ([[vanisource:CC Madhya 22.42|CC Madhya 22.42]]). That is Vaiṣṇava. And if he is still in want or unhappiness, that means he has no spiritual life at all. He is simply making a show.

Gurukṛpā: Our unhappiness is our lamentation for our past sinful activity, and because we're not committing any more . . .

Prabhupāda: That is another. That is another. That is to remember the terrible condition of ''karmīs''. (break) 

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Prabhupāda:  . . .devotee who thinks unhappy because he is thinking, "I am not getting tea. I am not getting cigarette. There is restriction of illicit life, no meat-eating . . ." In this way he is unhappy.

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: He cannot gratify his desire.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Real devotee will think, "Oh, so many botheration I have now given up." ''Anarthopaśamaṁ sākṣād bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje'' ([[vanisource:SB 1.7.6|SB 1.7.6]]). ''Bhakti-yoga'' means ''upaśamam'': "No more this, all this nonsense." That is ''bhakti-yoga, anartha-upaśamam'', completely given up. ''Bhakti-yogam adhokṣaje, lokasya ajānato vidvāṁś cakre sātvata-saṁhitām''. But they do not know it. They are increasing ''anartha''. They have to give up cigarette? No, they are manufacturing new brand of cigarette and advertising, "Please come. This cigarette is better than the other." This is going on. This is ''karmī'' life. ''Punaḥ punaś carvita-carvaṇānām'' ([[vanisource:SB 7.5.30|SB 7.5.30]]). He has no sense that "I have smoked this cigarette and why, after another cigarette, the same thing?" But no. "I have enjoyed sex here. Why another sex?" He has no sense.
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