It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed
Bhagavad-gita As It Is
BG Chapters 7 - 12
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Devotee: When we have Kṛṣṇa conscious (indistinct) struggling for(indistinct). It has to be a struggle.
Prabhupāda: What is struggle? Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, dance and take prasādam. (devotee cheers)
Prabhupāda: Is that struggle? You don't want to take it. Say that. Where is struggle? To take prasādam, nice prasādam, is struggle? (laughs)
Devotee: No. (laughter)
Prabhupāda: You simply take prasādam, you haven't got to struggle. (laughter) But don't take anything else. Then it will be (indistinct).
Devotee: He's not struggling, Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: At all.
Devotee: He's not struggling taking prasādam.
Prabhupāda: Su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam. Rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ pavitram paramam idam. Su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam. Find out this verse.
Devotee (3): Śrīla Prabhupāda, the only way back to Godhead is to to attain the causeless mercy of the spiritual master. So...
Prabhupāda: And he'll sleep. Just as your spiritual master will do for (indistinct) everything (indistinct). It is not magic. Kṛṣṇa, when He advised Arjuna, He never said that "Arjuna, I'm your friend, God, I shall do everything (indistinct). You don't fight." Did He say? "You have to fight!" That's Kṛṣṇa's mercy. Not that by spiritual master's mercy (indistinct). You have to struggle. You have to follow the rules and regulations. Yes, what does He say?
Devotee (3):
- rāja-vidyā rāja-guhyaṁ
- pavitram idam uttamam
- pratyakṣāvagamaṁ dharmyaṁ
- su-sukhaṁ kartum avyayam
- [Bg. 9.2]
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed."
Devotee (3): So by struggling to overcome our senses, we can please you and obtain your mercy?
Prabhupāda: Yes. (indistinct)Page Title: | It is everlasting, and it is joyfully performed |
Compiler: | Labangalatika |
Created: | 29 of Dec, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=2, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 3 |