Acting in Krsna Consciousness (Lectures)

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Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Just act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness under Me.

Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968: I am the proprietor of this body. I have been allowed to utilize this body as I like. And the facility is given by the Supersoul.So if I like, I can utilize this body for higher grade of life. Kṛṣṇa will give us all facilities. And if I like, I can utilize this body for lower grade of life. Kṛṣṇa will give us facilities. So He's always friendly. And He gives us also friendly advice, that "Don't act independently. Just act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness under Me. Then you'll be happy." That is His actual instruction.

The best, safest way of acting is to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness or under the order of Kṛṣṇa.

Lecture on BG 2.20-25 -- Seattle, October 14, 1968: Whatever you do, or what... Not whatever you do. You have to do only for Kṛṣṇa. Yajñārthe karma. Whatever you act. Never mind. Whatever you do. But you have to act for Kṛṣṇa. Yajñārthe karma anyatra. Otherwise, karma-bandhanaḥ, you'll be bound up by the reaction.If we work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if there is something wrong... Because we can act two ways, wrongly or rightly. That's all. If we do rightly, it is all right. Even if we don't do it rightly, wrongly, still, it is right because the cause is the Supreme. Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko 'yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ [Bg. 3.9]. The best, safest way of acting is to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness or under the order of Kṛṣṇa.

Victory or defeat in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 2.27-38 -- Los Angeles, December 11, 1968:

Devotee: "...victory or defeat in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That everything should be performed for the sake of Kṛṣṇa is transcendental consciousness, so there is no reaction from material activities."

Prabhupāda: And if you do that, then there is no reaction. Yajñārthāt karmaṇo 'nyatra loko yam. And if you do on your account, there will be reaction. Either you do good work or bad work, there will be reaction.

The action of Kṛṣṇa conscious activities will never be lost.

Lecture on BG 2.40-45 -- Los Angeles, December 13, 1968: Dvija-bandhu means born in high family, but has no quality, higher qualities.So for these classes of men, Mahābhārata was composed by Vyāsadeva. In this way he compiled so many literatures, but he was not happy. So Nārada Muni, his spiritual master, advised him to describe the activities of the Lord. That is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In that connection he says that some way or other, if somebody becomes in connection with Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or God consciousness, and acts in that spirit, that is never lost. The action of Kṛṣṇa conscious activities will never be lost.

You act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 2.46-62 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1968: You take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you overcome the cycle of birth and death. And as soon as you overcome the cycle of birth and death, you overcome all miseries. Because birth and death means this material body. The living entity, spirit soul, has no birth and death. And anyone who possesses this material body has to undergo the threefold miseries of the material world.

You have to simply act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 2.46-62 -- Los Angeles, December 16, 1968: Kṛṣṇa consciousness means you have no more any personal activity. Because your person is also related to Kṛṣṇa. How you can act personally? You have to simply act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is dedication, that is surrender. But you can act individually because you are individual soul; you have got that independence. But that will not make him happy. If he acts individually then he will never be happy. But if you act Kṛṣṇa consciously, then you will be happy.

In the spiritual world there are activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 2.62-72 -- Los Angeles, December 19, 1968: There is no difference between the kingdom of God and the devotional service of the Lord. Since both of them are on the absolute plane, to be engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord is to have attained the spiritual kingdom. In the material world there are activities of sense gratification, whereas in the spiritual world there are activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Persons who are unable to engage themselves in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 3.1-5 -- Los Angeles, December 20, 1968: Sometimes it is thought that spiritual life means to retire from active life. That is general impression. People think that for cultivation of spiritual knowledge or self-realization they should go to some Himalayan caves or some secluded place. That is also recommended. But that sort of recommendation is meant for persons who are unable to engage themselves in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

simply engage yourself in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness

Lecture on BG 3.1-5 -- Los Angeles, December 20, 1968: Prabhupāda: Practically that is real silence. If you simply engage yourself in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then automatically your activities in māyā become silent. Just like the same example I have given. Here is a glass. If you want to fill up with milk, the water will go automatically. You have to throw away the water. You cannot put the water and the milk at the same time in this glass. Similarly, if you become active in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you automatically become silent in material activities.

Engage your senses in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 3.6-10 -- Los Angeles, December 23, 1968: Instead of artificially trying to meditate and control the senses, just engage your senses in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and gradually you will be happy. Your senses will be controlled.

You engage your senses in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.

Lecture on BG 3.31-43 -- Los Angeles, January 1, 1969: Senses, mind, intelligence—there is lust. So if you can understand, "Here is the enemy," and if you try to drive out the enemy, you take precaution.What is that precaution? You engage your senses in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities. The lust will have no more place to attack your senses or sit on your senses. You engage your mind in Kṛṣṇa. Immediately the lust from the mind will go away. Similarly, you apply your intelligence, how to work on Kṛṣṇa consciousness. These are the processes.

We shall be all prepared to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969: If I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa then what is my duty? My duty is to act what Kṛṣṇa says, that's all. That is my action. Without knowing this, whatever I do, that is perverted action. Just like in diseased condition this finger cannot act according to my order. "Oh, there is some pain. If I want to make it stand like that, oh, I feel pain," because there is diseased condition. Similarly, when we do not act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness that is our diseased condition of life. That is not normal condition. In normal condition we shall be all prepared to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

In the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness because everything is done for Kṛṣṇa he enjoys only transcendental happiness.

Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969: The impersonalist ceases fruitive activities out of fear so that the resultant action may not be a stumbling block on the path of self-realization whereas the personalist knows rightly his position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore he engages himself in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness because everything is done for Kṛṣṇa he enjoys only transcendental happiness in the discharge of his service.

Those who are not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.11-18 -- Los Angeles, January 8, 1969: Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Can you explain, Prabhupāda, once again what action in action and inaction in action?

Prabhupāda: Action, just like you are active. You are working, you all Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees, you are also working. You are not sitting idly, but it is inaction. Inaction in this sense that it is not producing any reaction. It has no reaction. But others, those who are not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are also busy but they are producing their reaction. So things which are not producing reaction, that is inaction.

In the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.13-14 -- New York, August 1, 1966: This material life is our diseased condition.So when we are in the healthy condition, that is called Brahman. That is called Brahman condition, healthy. So that Brahman condition can at once be regained as soon as we engaged ourself fully, cent percent, in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

If he's not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.14-19 -- New York, August 3, 1966: simply by seeing the movement of a person, that he is also acting, that is not final judgement. We have to see what sort of acting he is doing. If he's acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, if we can see a person is acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then we can understand that he's free from the reaction. And if he's not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but externally, from our material estimation, we can see that "Oh, he is doing very good work.However good may be that work, he's being bound up.

When we act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.19-22 -- New York, August 8, 1966: Just like a fire burns everything, similarly, when we act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, after attainment of full knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then just like fire burns everything, similarly, the reaction of our activities will be burned.

We have simply to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.19-22 -- New York, August 8, 1966: If we work on account of Kṛṣṇa, then I shall be able to give up the attachment for the result of the work.Either there is good result or there is bad result, it doesn't matter. I shall remain satisfied in the sense that I am working under the direction of Kṛṣṇa.So this is the process, that we, we have simply to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and by doing so, the reaction of such work will not affect me.

Boys and girls acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.19-25 -- Los Angeles, January 9, 1969: You will find that these boys and girls acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, what they are doing? They have rented a nice house which is called temple. They are cooking there, eating there, dancing and singing.

By engaging oneself into the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 4.39-42 -- Los Angeles, January 14, 1969: Simply by engaging oneself into the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness everything is completely done, this is called faith. Faith, strong faith, unflinching faith.

Real activities is Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.

Lecture on BG 4.39-42 -- Los Angeles, January 14, 1969: You cannot remain void because you are active. If you are forcibly made into voidness, how long you can remain in voidness? As soon as the so-called voidness is finished, you come to this activity again. So you have to be situated in your real activities. That is required. That real activities is Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.

Purify your sense in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on BG 5.26-29 -- Los Angeles, February 12, 1969: By force you cannot control the senses. That is not... This is... There are many instances. Even great yogis they have failed. This is artificial way of controlling the senses. The real sense control is that you purify your sense in the activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is transcendental.

Lecture on BG 6.2-5 -- Los Angeles, February 14, 1969: How you can act? You have to act with your senses. Therefore you have to spiritualize your senses. Meditation, stopping action means stopping nonsense but acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is transcendental. Just like you have to stop your senses acting nonsense but that is not perfection. You have to act nicely. Then it is perfection. Otherwise if you don't train your senses to act nicely it will again fall down to the nonsense activities. So we have to give engagement to the senses to act for Kṛṣṇa.

This devotional service of the Lord, to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is permanent.

Lecture on BG 8.28-9.2 -- New York, November 21, 1966: This body... I am thinking, "I am American." I am thinking, "I am Indian." These are all our designations. So designation will finish, and there is no certainty what sort of body I am going to have in my next life. There are... Any thing, any material acquisition, that is not permanent. But this knowledge, this devotional service of the Lord, to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is permanent, whatever you do. If you can do it perfectly, this is the..., in this very life you get entrance into the kingdom of God. But even if you are not able to make it perfection, still, whatever you do, that will go with you, because you are spirit soul.

To act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness,how happily it is done.

Lecture on BG 8.28-9.2 -- New York, November 21, 1966: Now, to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the devotional service, you can understand it, how happily it is done. Now, take for example what we are doing here. We are singing, we are dancing, we are taking nice prasādam offered to Kṛṣṇa and chanting and discussing Bhagavad-gītā philosophy.It is very easy and happily done.

Act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that is called rāja-vidyā.

Lecture on BG 9.2 -- New York, November 22, 1966: Simply by knowing that "I am not this material body," that is not sufficient. You must act accordingly, that you are not material; you are spiritual. That spiritual activity is called Kṛṣ..., act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that is called rāja-vidyā, the king of all education.

If we act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then it is just like fried seed.

Lecture on BG 9.2-5 -- New York, November 23, 1966: Knowingly or unknowingly, we are doing so many sinful activities. So they are in the seedling stage, then growing stage. Then, when we suffer, that is called prārabdha. Prārabdha means, "Now receive the result." So in this way we are creating, we are sowing, some seeds. That will take its reaction, either in this body or another body. It takes time to fructify. So... But if we act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then it is just like fried seed. Fried seed, if you sow in a land, it will not fructify, fried seed.

You act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for Kṛṣṇa, then there will be no reaction.

Lecture on BG 9.27-29 -- New York, December 19, 1966: Whatever we are doing, it has got some reaction. If we do pious acts, there is good reaction. If we do impious action, there is reaction also. So every action has got its reaction. That we can experience in this material world, that if we eat more, the reaction will be that for two days there will be indigestion. Similarly, this material world is so situated that every action has got its reaction. But Kṛṣṇa says that if you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for Kṛṣṇa, then there will be no reaction.

Act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you are liberated.

Lecture on BG 9.27-29 -- New York, December 19, 1966: You can become a highly educated scholar, or you can become a very beautiful. You have a very beautiful body. These things are the result of good activities, result. Now, suppose I get all these things. That is not my liberation. But we are for liberation. We want to get out of this material contamination. So good work or bad work, that will not lead me to liberation. The bondage is there. But if you act for Kṛṣṇa or you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you are liberated. And liberated means you are at once transferred to the spiritual world.

His only qualification is that he is acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness sincerely.

Lecture on BG 9.29-32 -- New York, December 20, 1966: A devotee is naturally developed, developing the twenty-six good qualities, but even if he does not develop those qualities... Of course, that very quality, that he is a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, that is sufficient. Still, although he is found that he is not to the standard, but his only qualification is that he is acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness sincerely.

You act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on SB 1.13.15 -- Geneva, June 4, 1974: Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, anyone who acts, he acts sinfully. There is no doubt of it. Because he is acting for sense gratification, and sense gratification means almost 99.9% all sinful activities. Duṣkṛtinaḥ. It is very risky job. Unless you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Engage your life in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on SB 3.25.21 -- Bombay, November 21, 1974: Human life is meant for how to become free from this process of repetition of birth and death.The bondage, conditioned life, more and more tightened.If you do not engage your life in activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Only Kṛṣṇa conscious activities is our life, real life.

Lecture on SB 5.5.34 -- Vrndavana, November 21, 1976: The crow or the hogs and the dogs, they are engaged the whole day, activities. But these activities have no value. The human form of life are not meant for these activities. Their purpose is to make these activities and the activities of the crows and cows and lower animals only Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, how to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is bona fide. That is our life, real life.

Act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you become the perfect yogi.

Lecture on SB 6.1.11 -- New York, July 25, 1971: In order to control your mind, in order to control your senses, if you simply divert your activities for Kṛṣṇa, or you act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then you become the perfect yogi, first-class, topmost yogi.

Kṛṣṇa conscious activities you take with you.

Lecture on SB 6.1.15 -- New York, August 1, 1971: The karmīs, whatever they have done in this life, whatever they have earned... Suppose by working very hard, you got millions of dollars. But you cannot take it away. It is left here and go. You cannot take. But Kṛṣṇa conscious activities you take with you and next life begin again.But Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so nice that whatever you have done in this life,that is your permanent asset. Next life you begin from that point.

These activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness appears to be ordinary activities, but that is liberated activity.

The Nectar of Devotion -- Bombay, December 27, 1972: These activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is, it appears to be ordinary activities, but that is liberated activity. Those who cannot understand the activities in liberation, nirviśeṣavādi, they think that in the conditioned state of life, there are activities; when one becomes liberated, he has no more activities, he becomes dumb. No. Actual activities begins in liberated.

Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.

The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972: We cannot manufacture anything as Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, but we must be ready always to carry out the order of spiritual master who is representative of Kṛṣṇa. Sākṣād dharitvena samasta-śāstrair . The spiritual master is recognized as the bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa.

To act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa.

The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972: To act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is nothing wonderful. Simply you have to divert the energy for Kṛṣṇa. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everyone has got energy, but when it is enacted for one's sense gratification, that is material. And when it is enacted for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, that is spiritual.

He's fully engaged in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, November 4, 1972: Everyone is being caught up by the action and reaction of karma, but a devotee is protected from the action and reaction of karma.So a devotee, a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, remains free always, provided he's fully engaged in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 20.125 -- New York, November 27, 1966: The understanding is that we are eternally related with Kṛṣṇa. Forgetting this relationship, we are now engaged in relationship with this material body, which I am not. Therefore I have to revive my activities which is directly in relationship with Kṛṣṇa. And that is called to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Those who are not attracted by the Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, there is every chance of falling down again.

Lecture on CC Madhya-lila 22.27-31 -- New York, January 15, 1967: Those who are falling down from Kṛṣṇa consciousness again to the material attraction, that means they are not serious about advancing in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is not ordinary thing. It is very easy. At the same time very, I mean, difficult also. Those who are not attracted by the Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, there is every chance of falling down again.

Anyone who is acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a sannyāsī.

Initiations and Lecture Sannyasa Initiation of Sudama dasa -- Tokyo, April 30, 1972: Anyone who is ready to act for Kṛṣṇa, not for his personal sake, he is a sannyāsī.So sannyāsa order is Vedic order. Lord Buddha also appeared in India, and he inaugurated the Buddha philosophy. That is also sannyāsa. Bhikṣu. They are called bhikṣu, Buddha-bhikkhu. So this is a spiritual order. Otherwise, anyone who is acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is a sannyāsī.

We act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture to Technology Students (M.I.T.) -- Boston, May 5, 1968: We act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If Kṛṣṇa says, if God says, "This is right," we accept it right. If God says it is wrong, we accept it wrong. Because we think, we have poor fund of knowledge. We do not know what is right and wrong.

Who is not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is diseased.

Lecture -- Montreal, June 26, 1968: Just like my hand, my leg, or my tongue, they are all servants of me and the whole, similarly everyone, every living entity, is the eternal servant of the Supreme, supreme controller. So the duty of everyone is to serve Him. That is natural duty. That is natural. Any other position is diseased condition. In other words, who is not acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is diseased.

Acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Lecture -- Seattle, October 2, 1968: When your senses are purified, and when that senses are engaged in the service of the master of the senses, that is called acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.