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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div class="heading">Hṛda means heart, and su means good, good heart. A devotee, a mahātmā, is good heart. How he is good heart? He sees everyone that "This living entity," especially human being, "he is engrossed in the clutches of māyā. He is suffering. Let me try to make him understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or his eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa." He tries everywhere. That is his business. He doesn't mind whether he is failure. Failure or success, he doesn't mind.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture -- London, September 14, 1969|Lecture -- London, September 14, 1969]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
We should know where to be angry. Not that for our personal interest we shall . . . generally, those who are devotees, they are not angry. Just like see the example of Arjuna. Arjuna was so much harassed, all the five brothers, by the opposite party, his cousin-brothers. They insulted their wife, Draupadī. They wanted to make naked Draupadī, because they lost Draupadī in the gambling. Therefore gambling is so sinful, you see. The ''kṣatriyas'' are allowed to gamble. So the bet was . . . they made a trick, "Now bet your wife." So if a ''kṣatriya'' is challenged to bet something, they cannot deny it. "Yes, I am betting my wife." And they lost in the game. So the wife became the property of the other party. So they wanted to retaliate only. 

So there, in the assembly they said: "Well, Draupadī has now become our property. Whatever we like, we can do. So we want to see her naked beauty." You see? This was the demand. So the one of the brothers of Duryodhana asked, "Make her naked. Let us see naked." So she became the property. The others, they did not protest. But Kṛṣṇa supplied clothing as much as required. You have seen the Draupadī's ''vastra-haraṇa''. 

So these Pāṇḍavas, they were so much harassed. They were by trick taken away their kingdom; they were put into a house which was set into fire; their . . . I mean wife was insulted; they were driven to the forest for twelve years. So many things harassed. But still, when there was fighting in front, when he saw his brothers are standing, and he said: "Oh, I will have to fight with my these cousin-brothers. Kṛṣṇa, I am not going to fight." Just see how much tolerant. Not at all angry. This is the position. Enough to make him angry, the whole ''Bhagavad-gītā'' was taught to him. Just see. 

This is the position, that for personal interest, a devotee or a ''mahātmā'' is never angry. Never angry. Just see the case of Arjuna. But when Kṛṣṇa . . . he understood that Kṛṣṇa wanted this fight, it is the Kṛṣṇa's desire, oh, he became immediately prepared, "Yes." ''Kariṣye vacanaṁ tava'' ([[Vanisource:BG 18.73 (1972)|BG 18.73]]), "Yes, I shall fight. That's all right. I shall fight." And he fought and killed everyone. So generally, the devotees are not cruel, angry. But they can be the foremost angry person for Kṛṣṇa's sake. So generally, we should not be angry. A ''mahātmā'' is never angered. So ''vimanyavaḥ''. 

''Vimanyavaḥ suhṛdaḥ''. ''Hṛda'' means heart, and su means good, good heart. A devotee, a ''mahātmā'', is good heart. How he is good heart? He sees everyone that "This living entity," especially human being, "he is engrossed in the clutches of ''māyā''. He is suffering. Let me try to make him understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or his eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa." He tries everywhere. That is his business. He doesn't mind whether he is failure. Failure or success, he doesn't mind. But he thinks, "Oh, this conditioned soul is suffering. Let me do something." 

Therefore Vaiṣṇava's prayer is ''vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca''. A Vaiṣṇava, he is just like the ocean of mercy. He always feels for the sufferings of the humanity. That is their business. People think that they have taken relief from all social work. But a Vaiṣṇava is giving the best social service, because he knows what is the cause of suffering, how people can be saved. Therefore he is ''suhṛdaḥ''. ''Suhṛdaḥ'' means well-wisher friend. A Vaiṣṇava or spiritual master or a saintly person is ''suhṛdaḥ''. ''Suhṛdaḥ'' means he is well-wisher friend. As Kṛṣṇa is ''suhṛdaḥ'', He is friend of all living entities . . . ''suhṛdaḥ sarva-bhūtānām'' ([[Vanisource:SB 3.25.21|SB 3.25.21]]). 

In the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' you'll find. Similarly, a Vaiṣṇava, Kṛṣṇa's devotee, is also ''suhṛdaḥ''. ''Suhṛdaḥ sarva''-''bhūtānām''. ''Suhṛdaḥ''. And ''sādhava''. And ''sādhava'' means well-behaved. ''Sādhavaḥ''. ''Sadācāra''. His character is firm, without any spot. So these are the qualification of ''sādhu'', ''mahātmā'' or spiritual master. ''Sama-cittāḥ'', ''praśāntā'', ''vimanyavaḥ'', ''suhṛdaḥ'' and ''sādhavaḥ''.
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