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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Prabhupāda, if Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of pleasure, then what does He need us for? If Kṛṣṇa is all blissful, then what... We're so, it seems, incapable of pleasing Kṛṣṇa. He is so magnanimous. What does He need us for?
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes, Prabhupāda, when they see your Bhagavad-gītā, they say, "Oh, it is too big for me to read." They don't know that the purport.... They've never read.
| | Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: If Kṛṣṇa is all blissful, then what . . . we're so, it seems, incapable of pleasing Kṛṣṇa. He's so magnanimous. What does He need us for? |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: Therefore I say that bring them, let them chant and dance and take prasādam. That, everyone will hear, agree.
| | Prabhupāda: He does, He does not ask for Himself. For you. If you |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Harikeśa: One who does that, he is preaching? One who arranges for chanting and dancing and taking prasādam, that is as good as preaching?
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: Yes. Śravaṇam, kīrtanam, arcanam—anything.
| | Prabhupāda: If you come to Kṛṣṇa and enjoy with Him, that is your good. He's self-sufficient. He doesn't require. |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Harikeśa: These festival programs are very important.
| | Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Sometimes, Prabhu when they see your, your ''Bhagavad-gītā'', they say: "Oh, it is too big for me to read." They don't know that the purport . . . they've never read it. |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: (pause) You have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is so difficult task.
| | Prabhupāda: Therefore I say that bring them, let them chant and dance and take ''prasādam''. That, everyone will hear, agree. |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cyavana: You have to spend?
| | Harikeśa: One who does that, he is preaching? One who arranges for chanting and dancing and taking ''prasādam'', that is as good as preaching? |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: Gallons of blood, waste.
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cyavana:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="highlight_terms" style="color: rgb(145, 86, 8);">In what way</span>?
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: By talking with him, with the rascal and foolish. You tax your brain and spoil your energy, blood.
| | Prabhupāda: (pause) You have to spend or waste gallons of blood before you can convert a person to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is so difficult task. |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Harikeśa: Spend so much food.
| | Cyavana: You have to spend . . .? |
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cyavana: So we should do that.
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Prabhupāda: Unless you are not a preacher. You should be prepared. Yes. They cuts, sacrifices life, what to speak of wasting blood. Wasting life. This is preacher. Then he is recognized by Kṛṣṇa: "He has done so much for Me."
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| <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa will give more and more energy.
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| | Prabhupāda: By talking with him, with the rascal and foolish. |
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| | Cyavana: No, yes, yes, you can just. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Your tax your brain and spoil your energy, blood. |
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| | Cyavana: So we should do that. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Unless you are not a preacher, preach. You should be prepared. |
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| | Cyavana: We have to do it. They have to do it. |
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| | Prabhupāda: Then . . . yes. They cuts, sacrifices life. |
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| | Cyavana: Yes. |
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| | Prabhupāda: What to speak of wasting blood. Wasting life . . . not sure who or what is spoken speaking . . . (indistinct) |
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| | Prabhupāda: This is preacher. Then he is recognized by Kṛṣṇa, "He has done so much for Me." |
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| | Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Krsna will give more and more energy. |
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| | Prabhupāda: He's going to die for Kṛṣṇa, and therefore he is recognized. ''Na ca tasmān manuṣyeṣu kaścin me priya-kṛttamaḥ'' ([[vanisource:BG 18.69 (1972)|BG 18.69]]). You become immediately very dear to Kṛṣṇa. Your business is how to become very intimate to Kṛṣṇa. That will be served by preaching. |
