Avoid Trouble For Preaching Work - Prabhupada 0902

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Prabhupāda: When we try to keep aloof from the envious, that is not our enviousness. That is just to avoid trouble for preaching work. Not that we hate them. But because . . . when you avoid a snake, it does not mean I hate the snake, but because he is harmful we have to take precaution. This is the statement of Bhāgavatam. And when you are in the mahā-bhāgavata stage, first grade, that time, paramahaṁsa, nobody's enemy, nobody's friend. Everyone . . . that we cannot imitate. It is not . . . preacher, even if he's mahā-bhāgavata, he comes to the second stage. Just like Guru Mahārāja, he's mahā-bhāgavata, but still he had to come to the second stage, he had to take precaution. That is natural.