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Our real pleasure should be in bhajanānandena. Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena. In this way we have taken very serious job. In this life we want to finish this material existence for good. That should be the responsibility, that "We are going to finish this material existence for good. No more coming." Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti BG 4.9 . If you take responsibility in that way, then everything will be adjusted. Serious. My Guru Mahārāja used to say like that, that "Finish this business in this life. Don't delay for the next life." He was telling also that "Don't give me trouble again to come here to deliver you.".
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[[Vanisource:710211 - Lecture SB 06.03.18 - Gorakhpur|710211 - Lecture SB 06.03.18 - Gorakhpur]]:
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Prabhupāda: No. I have taken that—two hours for taking bath and eating, and eight hours for sleeping—ten hours. And two hours for chanting—twelve hours. And still we have got twelve hours for Kṛṣṇa's service. Is there any mistake? Just calculate. Why there should be, "Oh, I work so hard. I have no . . . therefore I am sleeping more," to find out an excuse. "I was dysentery."

Why you dysentery? Why there should be dysentery unless you eat more? This way, personally we have to adjust things, not that by dictation or by rules and regulation. Personal affairs cannot be adjusted by rules and regulation. It can be adjusted by oneself. And then everything will be all right.

:''saṅkhyā-pūrvaka-nāma-gāna-natibhiḥ kālāvasānī-kṛtau''
:''nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau cātyanta-dīnau ca yau''
:''rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau''

They save time in this way, and ''rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena mattālikau'', be jolly in the service of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, ''bhajanānanda''. That should be the basis of jolly, jollyness. And this should be adjusted or minimized according to . . . our real pleasure should be in ''bhajanānandena''. ''Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-padāravinda-bhajanānandena''.

In this way we have taken very serious job. In this life we want to finish this material existence for good. That should be the responsibility that, "We are going to finish this material existence for good. No more coming." ''Tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]]). If you take responsibility in that way, then everything will be adjusted. Serious.

My Guru Mahārāja, he used to say like that, that "Finish this business in this life. Don't delay for the next life." He was telling also that: "Don't give me trouble again to come here to deliver you." That is the responsibility of spiritual master. Spiritual master responsibility is to take the disciple to Kṛṣṇa, until he is able to do—to help him, to help him, to help him. That is the verdict of the ''śāstras''. Just like Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura. His spiritual master delivered him, taking the shape of a prostitute.

So these, I mean to say, stories are there. We have to take responsibility. The first thing is that we have taken very, very responsible task, to finish this so-called lording over this material nature. The material life means everyone is trying to lord over the material nature, ''bhoga''. And we cannot do that. That is not possible. Therefore we are in trouble. This very mentality, that "I shall lord it over . . ."

Everyone in the material world . . . and so long this, "I shall serve Kṛṣṇa, not lord it over . . ." Just the opposite. This is material mentality: "I shall lord it over." The whole world is struggling. Everyone is thinking, "I will lord it over. I shall be over everyone. My votes shall be the largest number. I shall become . . ." And our business is not to lord it over but to serve Kṛṣṇa.

So the Viṣṇudūta . . . we have to become Viṣṇudūta. Our preachers are Viṣṇudūta. They have to give protection to any person who is slightly inclined to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is ''pañcarātra-vidhi''. We shall give all help, all assistance, to such persons.

That is our business. It is not sleeping business, it is not lazying business. We should be always active. We shall always make plan, think how to protect this miserable condition of the material . . . they cannot understand. They are fools. They are rascals. So you have to give them knowledge. You have to give them help. That is missionary activity.

Missionary activity is not laziness or sleeping. My Guru Mahārāja used to say that ''prāṇa āche yāra sei hetu pracāra'', that, "I have got some dozen of disciples, and I have got a temple, and people are contributing. Now I have got good arrangement for eating and sleeping. Now I am perfect. Because I am getting some food without any work, and honor, then I am perfect." This is not the mentality. ''Prāṇa āche yāra''. You must be engaged continually for these missionary activity.

The Gauḍīya Mission has failed in preaching work because they adopted this principle. As soon as they got a little shelter under the name of ''maṭha'', or temple, and a few dozen of . . . not few dozen, one dozen, then he is settled up there. Now he is ''bhajana'', "Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa," showing that he is very great chanter. And what is your preaching? Lord Caitanya ordered you, ''pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi.'' Why don't you go? How you are Indian?

Therefore my Guru Mahārāja condemned this policy. ''Mana tumi kisera vaiṣṇava'': "What kind of Vaiṣṇava you are?" ''Pratiṣṭhāra tare nirjanera ghare'': "And simply for cheap popularity, 'Oh, he is a Vaiṣṇava. He is chanting. All right.' " ''Pratiṣṭhāra tare nirjanera ghare tava hari'' . . . ''nirjanera ghare''. No botheration, because if there is no preaching, there is no botheration. You can sit down and show people, "I have now become a very liberated soul," and chant and meditate. That means sleeping. This sort of business is condemned by my Guru Mahārāja. ''Pratiṣṭhāra tare nirjanera ghare tava hari-nāma kevala''. This is simply cheating. He did not approve this kind of business. He did not approve.

He wanted to see that everyone is engaged in preaching work, some sort of preaching work, either indoor or outdoor. When you are indoor you have to be busy writing articles for a magazine and proofread and so many things indoors. And outdoor you have to go door to door, make them member, make them interested in this movement, collect money for expenses, outdoor. Preaching, you have to meet opposing elements. So many will criticize, so many will attack. Nityānanda Prabhu was hurt personally, but still, outdoor. This is missionary work, not that "Whenever I find some opportunity, go to some solitary place and sleep." This is not missionary life.

So we should adjust things, not that, "All right, it is going on. That's all." You have got very responsible business, this Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is genuine, it is authorized, and Lord Caitanya wants us to do it all over the world. The things should be adjusted and keep us always alive to our self-responsibility. That is missionary life, not to give away.

(aside) So it is working?

So I think we should now . . . six-thirty, yes? You can have ''kīrtana'', another ''kīrtana''? Our business is very responsible.