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At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?

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"At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do"

Lectures

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

You follow the temple procedure. You can remain anywhere. It doesn't matter. What is temple? They are following some rules and regulation.
Lecture on BG 2.14 -- Mexico, February 14, 1975:

Man: (Spanish)

Hṛdayānanda: He wants to ask something which is not about you. (?)

Prabhupāda: What is that?

Girl Devotee: (translating) At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the āśrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?

Prabhupāda: You follow the temple procedure. You can remain anywhere. It doesn't matter. What is temple? They are following some rules and regulation. (break) If you are eating something and if you get a better thing, you'll give it up. So when one takes to bhakti means he understands the inferior quality of karma. So you take the superior quality activities and you forget inferior quality. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā nivartate (BG 9.59). This is the Vedic version. When one finds out superior engagement, he gives up inferior engagement.

Page Title:At the present, I can't live in the temple, can't live in the asrama, but I can still see the devotees. What else can I do?
Compiler:Visnu Murti, Rishab
Created:10 of Sep, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1